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employed, anything that looks remotely like genderstereotyping will run afoul of this law.” Further, shepoints out the reality that growing up as boys andgirls is difficult enough without such “thinly-disguisedthought-control laws” adding another layerof confusion from feminism and gay/transgenderrights advocates.Most young people have questions abouthow to express their gender. What doesit mean to be a man? What should agood woman do? <strong>The</strong>se are questionswith which all young people must grapple,and they are entitled to have somesubstantial guidance from adults. For fartoo long, we’ve been avoiding these questionsout of fear of offending sensibilities.With this new law, California schoolteachers and school boards will have tofear the gay lobby, as well as the feministestablishment.Indeed, all young people do grapple with theappropriate ways to express and understand theirgender and stand in need of substantial guidance.However, they are not going to find it in a cultureentranced by postmodernity’s siren song of genderand sexual obfuscation.Young people, indeed all people, will findsuch knowledge—what Francis Schaeffer famouslycalled “true truth”— only in the Word of God, thestorehouse of wisdom, wisdom that brings claritysuch as “God created them male and female,” wisdomthat demands that the only legitimate unionbetween a man and a woman is a covenant unionsealed by a holy God for a lifetime.Scripture knows no such ambiguous languagewith regard to issues of gender and sexuality andagain, God’s Word proves that its wisdom brings tonothing the so-called “knowledge” of the philosopherof this age.– Jeff RobinsonJBMW | Spring 2008 7