My motherhood will never be expunged.

No law can erase me.

February 22nd, 2025, I stared in shock at a Fox News article trending on my news app. “Wisconsin Democratic governor proposes replacing ‘mother’ with ‘inseminated person’ in state law.”

In that moment, I knew a day would come when I would have to defend and fight for my right to say I am a mother in conversation.

“So God created humans in his image. In the image of God he created them. He created them male and female.” Genesis 1:27

By His design and proclamation, we are created in His image, two genders equal but different. Both masterfully created to bring life into this world together, each holding a significant role. As women, we are honored to live unique experiences that only we can understand and be an equal counterpart in conception.

My gender is not a trend to be picked out of a magic hat one morning and tried on, insulted or worse exterminated because our very existence is a threat that needs to be eradicated by those who wish to live in my reality. To offer up our existence as a sacrifice for your immoral purpose is a dehumanizing propaganda stain that I truly do not understand.

To quote Brené Brown, “Dehumanizing always starts with language, often followed by images. We see this throughout history. During the Holocaust, Nazis described Jews as Untermenschen — subhuman. They called Jews rats and depicted them as disease-carrying rodents in everything from military pamphlets to children’s books. Hutus involved in the Rwanda genocide called Tutsis cockroaches. Indigenous people are often referred to as savages. Serbs called Bosnians aliens. Slave owners throughout history considered slaves subhuman animals.”

I call out to the religious who stand beside the crisis our nation is spiraling through and support the dehumanization of both genders and wish to strip away my motherhood. Your religion is not Christianity, it is time to relinquish the use of that word to those of us who truly follow Jesus and the Word of God.

In your quest for inclusion and indulgence, my gender is being expunged and the Bible is being trashed and rewritten before my eyes. It is torn apart page by page, and verse by verse because of it. Pride is now the word of the day that hangs negligently from your lips. You may think you are making wonderful progress, but you don’t look behind you and see the carnage in your wake. The soul you are destroying, your own.

Christians are instructed to be separate from this world for a reason.

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Romans 12:2

You are seduced by this world and blind to God’s word, only wanting your own because you are fat with slothful hearts. You are a destroyer of Christianity, twisting Scripture for your means. “Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” Matthew 16:24.

You religious are not capable of denying what is going on in this nation because you would then have to deny yourself of your worldly labels, those badges you wear in pretend honor.

Your religion excels at propaganda and forced labels, you create new ones each day and often leave the rest of us slack-jawed at the new definitions, redefinitions, and word rearrangements you come up with each week. But my faith does not require any redefinition and is not a PR stunt to steal from.

The Bible does not need New Age dissection or inclusive interpretations. You’ve bloodied the waters long enough, let those of us who believe in God be separated from your religion. You are of this world, not God’s kingdom.

I do not deny or hinder your free will to believe as you wish, identify as you want, or force my beliefs on you, yet you steal from my Bible. You claim to want inclusiveness but I see, you only want that as long as you can take our free will, force us to identify, change our faith, and strip our genders.

Do you see it yet? For as long as you keep trying to appropriate Christianity and the Bible, you are always going to get pushback from those of us who hold fast to it, understand it, and follow it. You have no right to claim you are of the Christian faith, any Christian faith.

It is time you release my faith from your lips because it’s not in your heart. But then I see the dilemma you have created for yourself. You truly believe you can rewrite science to change chromosomes, fix genders with a swipe of ink, and think away my motherhood as though I don’t exist.

That’s when I see the root problem you created for yourselves and why you still defiantly try to convince us you are a Christian. In your blurred realities, you can identify as anything you want; therefore, it becomes fact.

You still want heaven.

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ judgment time. Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!” Matthew 7:21–23

“You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.” Psalms 139:1–4

No matter how hard you try to convince yourself of your lie, it is still, by definition, a lie.

© Jane Isley

First published in Biblical Christian Worldview.

Revision published in Christian Wisconsin News, vol 25; issue 10.

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