Why are people so interested in the Gabby Petito case?

Gabby was a petite, relatively attractive as all fit youth are, woman who incidentally was white and who was living the feminist dream. (I mention her ethnicity because it is true that were she of one of the minority ethnicities, say a black or brown one, it would have merited no more than a column inch or two in the local paper. It is sad that the only women valued in our over-sexed culture are young, petite, and white, but that’s just a fact.) Her death, (probably) at the hands of her lover, makes a lie of the myth that a woman can do anything a man can do, and do it safely and without regard or regret. My Body, My Rules only works when you have the muscle to back it up.

The big lie that has infected American women and all others who live in the so-called West, i.e., those nations that are heir to the democratic philosophy that was birthed by Christianity, is that there is no reason to honor and respect the biological and psychological distinctions of the sexes. The idea that God created our race male and female, and endowed these two sexes with distinctives that make their mutual support essential to the survival of the race is treated as an anachronism from the age of dinosaurs. The full weight of opinion makers and government is dedicated to erasing the thought that women are not men’s physical equal, and that they are such to ensure they are available to birth and nurture the next generation as their husbands provide protection from the elements, enemies, and want. Mr. Biden’s social infrastructure trillions are dedicated to making the family unnecessary and to further the idea that men and women do not need each other for the race to survive. Women were not intended by God to be competitors with men but their complement. Women complete men and men complete women in marriage and in community.

So Gabby was out there on the road living the dream. Marriage and family? Who needs it? She was a free spirit spreading her wings. And she was with a man who had the same disdain for this most essential of human relationships that has been passed down to us from the Garden. I don’t know why he (probably) killed her; most likely in a fit of anger over some minor matter. But regardless their mental and emotional state at the moment of her death, what is absolutely true is neither of them honored their created purpose in their relationship. They had built their life together on shifting sand when they needed a life built on the Rock, and in that tempestuous moment her feminist ideals were no match for his brute strength.

I have great sympathy for these now dead young people. They believed the lie. They believed there was no higher authority than their own dreams and desires. Rejecting the family that God had established in Eden, they rejected both his authority and his grace to guide and direct their lives. And they paid the price for that rejection. Theirs, thankfully, is a relatively rare outcome of kicking God to the curb, but no one can do so without cost. Think of all the children slaughtered in the womb. Think of all the children born into fatherless homes. Think of the senseless violence in our communities as feral youth roam our streets raised without the stability of a marriage and without purpose and without hope. Think of women battered by men who need not do better. My list could go on ad nauseam, but the picture is clear: a life lived outside the boundaries established by an all-wise Creator is a life destined to failure, pain, and death – not always in the here, but assuredly in the hereafter.

But back to the initial question: why are people so involved with Gabby’s death? Why are there protesters waving signs outside the home of Brian’s parents? My answer is this: feminist women (mostly) and others with a there-is-no-god-but-me attitude have been hit with the reality that no amount of human laws and institutions can protect a person from the consequences of rejecting God. Laws “protecting” women from the consequences of their lifestyle choices do no such thing and it is illusory to think otherwise.