Justice and True Sexual Nature: Day 34
Author: Andrew Comiskey
November 16, 2020
‘Justice is the virtue
which enables man to give to each one his due.’
(The Four Cardinal Virtues,
Josef Pieper, p. 44)
‘We cannot state the basis
of a right…unless we have a concept of man, of human nature.
But what if it
is claimed that there is, absolutely speaking, no human nature?’ (The Four
Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper, p. 49)
‘Man, however, is a person--a
spiritual being, a whole unto himself, a being that exists for itself and of
itself, that wills its own proper perfection. Therefore, and for that very
reason, something is due to man in the fullest sense, for that very reason he
does inalienably have a right… which he can plead against everyone else, a
right which imposes upon one of his partners the obligation at least not to
violate it...
If on the contrary, man’s personality is not acknowledged to be
something wholly and entirely real, then right and justice cannot possibly be
established.’ (The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper, p. 50)
We are in a muddle. When SCOTUS
incorporated LGBT+ ‘natures’ into a status to be protected alongside ethnicity
and biological sex (June 2020; Bostock versus Clayton County), we as a nation
served injustice to confused persons today and generations-to-come. Justice means
we recognize each person’s inalienable right to their essential nature which
must be recognized and treated with dignity. Therefore,
we commit a grave
injustice to codify any person’s dehumanizing construct of self that violates
prudence, ‘the truth of real things.’
Now, from the highest
court, we defend destructive identities that violate human nature and a
person’s own best shot at happiness. LGBT+ constructed selves are man-made--neither
inborn nor impermeable--and are at core nothing like ethnicity or biological
sex. We cultivate compassion for persons whose damage tempts them to find
completion in their own gender or to seek to become the other. For this we
offer healing, not confirmation of a perilous solution. Yet we now champion and
guard that solution--an unravelling, ever-fracturing standard of identity that dehumanizes
all involved. Further,
we have deceived generations-to-come who will be that
much more inclined to catch the contagion of ‘gender-is-whoever-I -want-to be.’
Justice--giving persons
what is due them, for their own good, hinges upon prudence--Reality. Whether or
not a person embraces the Father through Jesus isn’t the point. Someone
designed us and we are at peace with ourselves only when we recognize His true
design in us. Pope Emeritus Benedict writes:
“Man has a nature that he must
respect and that he cannot manipulate at will. Man is not merely self-created
freedom. Man does not create himself. He is intellect and will, but he is
also nature, and his will is righty ordered if he respects nature, listens to
it and accepts himself for who he is, as one who did not create himself.
In
this way and in no other, is true human freedom fulfilled.”
To forego our natures for
confusing inclinations and destructive solutions is imprudent and unjust. J.
Budziszewski writes: “A natural inclination is not whatever I desire…the point
of the adjective ‘natural’ is precisely to call attention to design. It is
natural for me to be attracted to the opposite sex, even if I am attracted to
my own…
The mere fact that I want something means little by itself…What
matters is how we naturally incline--by design, according to the Designer.”
We must not allow bad
legal precedents to sway us. We can and must embrace Reality as it is so that
we can invite persons into the Designer’s best for them. We serve justice to
the vulnerable precisely when we do.
We love people most sacrificially when
we refuse to agree with their self-imposed prisons. And we do our communities and
our nations a favor by opposing decidedly unnatural precedents. Upholding human
nature, we serve justice for all.
‘Jesus, have mercy on us.
“Justice is driven back, righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled
in the streets…whoever shuns evil becomes a prey” (Is. 59:14). Grant us clarity
and courage to behold humanity as it is and to champion Your image and dignity
in each one.
Make us agents of Your justice today and for
generations-to-come.’
‘Jesus, thank You that we
are first and foremost citizens of Your Kingdom. Your saving purposes, the
plans of Your heart, endure forever (Ps. 33: 11). Patriotism and its partisan
interests must bow before “Thy will be done.” “The eyes of the Lord are on
those who fear Him, who hope in His unfailing love” (Ps. 33: 18).’
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