Albert Mohler: 'Verbicide' in New York
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Thursday, June 18, 2026
Both chambers of the New York state legislature have passed legislation replacing the word mother and father with ‘gestating parent’ and ‘non-gestating parent.
C.S. Lewis famously decried what he called “verbicide” or more technically, “the murder of a word.” We can only imagine what he would think of with this development in New York.
As the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal notes, the effort is part of legislation intended to “purge gendered language from state family law.”
Just ponder that for a moment.
The natural family is predicated upon the fundamental truth that God made human beings male and female, assigned marriage as the union of one man and one woman who would also be fruitful and multiply.
Hence, it’s easy, the male parent is the father and the female parent is the mother. This pattern has been assumed and unconfused throughout most of human history.
Until now. In New York.
The goal of this insanity is nothing less than the collapse of truth, creation order, marriage, morality, and civilization itself. That’s all.
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