There's something curiously and disturbingly symbolic about one-time American Olympic star Bruce Jenner's exploitive romance with the idea of surgically transforming himself from a man to a woman.
The 1976 gold medal winner in the decathlon at the Montreal Summer Games, Jenner's life has been in the public eye ever since.
He starred in several made-for-TV movies and was Erik Estrada's replacement briefly on the top-rated TV series "CHiPs." In 1991, he married the former Kris Kardashian. In 2007 when circus-like "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" debuted as a reality series on cable television, he was seen as the stepfather of the dysfunctional Kardashian siblings.
The American athletic hero had already become something of a national clown.
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Where does one go from there as a celebrity junkie addicted to fame and fortune?
Evidently, in the 21st century, you get a sex-change operation.
It's being called America's "transgender moment."
It may also be a signature moment in the rise and fall of a nation, a culture and our definition of the American Dream.
I hesitate to make too much of this tragic carnival sideshow, but someone needs to state the obvious: This poor, tortured soul's life journey seems to be mimicking the nation's over the last 30 years.
In 1976, after years of scandal in Washington, Americans voted for a "born-again Christian" to lead them out of the wilderness and back to the Promised Land of ethics and morality. They didn't get one, but they voted for one. What they got instead was a preview of what they would get over the last six years from White House – the "fundamental transformation of America."
But things changed in the 1980s, when a cowboy actor and former California governor named Ronald Reagan was elected president in a landslide. It seemed America was back on track. There was prosperity, peace, freedom – it was "morning in America."
The celebration was short-lived. Reagan's successor never really shared his values or his view of the free-enterprise system and the importance of low taxes and limited regulation. In fact, George H.W. Bush called it "voodoo economics." He knew better. He was going to introduce us to "compassionate conservatism." He ensured he would be a one-term president by breaking his promise not to raise taxes.
That left us with Bill and Hillary Clinton – the first co-presidency. No matter how much you shielded your children's eyes and ears from the bacchanalia that followed, it was another defining moment in defining deviancy down.
Today that process is on overdrive. Same-sex marriage, a concept never before considered in 6,000 years of human history, is on its way to becoming the law of the land. We keep adding letters to the new protected classes of honored sexual proclivities. Who knows what comes after LGBT?
I was there at the dawn of the sexual revolution. I wildly cheered it on. It's an appropriate time for me to repent and say publicly I wish it had never happened. Is there a way to put this genie back in the bottle? I long for the days of innocence.
Now they are creating camps for children who have sexual identity confusion to help them along to transition to the sexual people they "were meant to be."
It's a nightmare world we are creating for ourselves in our rebellion against God. It's so plain to see, yet the world eagerly embraces the darkness and the confusion. Dare I say it's judgment?
Yes, this former radical longs for the days when men were men and women were women. I know that's politically incorrect, but I don't care.
I'm sorry for Bruce Jenner. He's suffering from some terrible mental disorder or succumbing to compulsions much worse. By the way, men can't become women and women can't become men. There's more to it than plumbing, don't you know?
Jenner needs help, but not the surgical mutilation kind.
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