Many Christians are faced with a critical choice: do I use an individual's preferred pronouns or suffer the consequences? So, how might Christians think about this matter?
How should Christians respond to government-mandated use of ‘preferred pronouns’?In this Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016 photo, buttons advertising part of the University of Kansas Libraries’ "You Belong Here" campaign are displayed in Lawrence, Kansas. The campaign is aimed at making undergraduates, including those who are transgender, feel welcome. A …concerning harassment in the workplace.
First, it is important to underscore the fact that Christians will often suffer for our convictions. Governmental policy is not our final authority. To the extent that the governing authorities exercise their God-given duties in alignment with God’s order, the friction between the Church and society can often seem quite minimal.
Second, our rights are not our primary consideration. Though it is lamentable that the government is enforcing speech that does not conform with reality and thus, doing damage to free speech in the United States, standing up for our rights is a secondary matter for Christians. As I note in “The advancement of the gospel is the task in which all other tasks are immersed. We cannot argue that we are imitating Christ when we allow other agendas to overshadow proclaiming the gospel.
How might we rethink our speech so that we convey a theological reality without using pronouns? What would it look like if we referred not to “him” or “her” but to, for instance, “my neighbor”?
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