Would John Piper Use Target's Transgender Bathroom? The Theologian Answers

约翰派博会使用特设的变性浴室（厕所）吗？--来自神学家的解答

BY KEVIN PORTER , CHRISTIANPOST REPORTER

中文翻译：Ruth Wei

May16, 2016|2:35 pm

Theologian John Piper explains what it means to give Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.（Matthew 22：21）
神学家约翰派博解释“该撒的物当归给该撒，神的物当归给神”（马太福音22：21）

Theologian John Piper is weighing in on Target's controversial bathroom policy that allows customers to use restrooms and fitting rooms based on their gender identity rather than birth sex, saying he would avoid using a gender-open restroom even if it were marked for men.

神学家约翰派博在权衡关于一个同意顾客可以凭着自己的性别取向而不是出生时的性别来选择使用厕所和更衣室的政策时，说他将会避免使用性别开放的厕所即使那个厕所表明是男浴室。

In a podcast posted Monday on his website Desiring God.org, the pastor elaborated on his position,saying he would avoid gender neutral restrooms, if he could.

在“渴慕神”的网站上，周一约翰派博发表了一篇博客表明自己的立场，如果可以的话他会避免性中立的厕所。

"If I were there and if I had to [use a gender-open restroom], I would — just like I would stop on the highway if I had to," Piper said. "But I wouldn't if I didn't have to."The Bible scholar explained that he wouldn't use such a restroom in order to maintain a clear conscience, and to acknowledge God.

派博说：“如果不是迫不得已，我不会使用性别开放的厕所，正如在高速路上由于内急，我不得不停下来。”这位圣经学者说他不会用这样的厕所来保持问心无愧，也不会这样感谢上帝。

" … I want there to be a small act of protest and lifeconsistency that may have no impact at all on the powers that make such decisions, but that keep my conscience clear and acknowledge God in practical affairs and give a consistency to my life that does help overall in showing the way of Christ to the world."

“我希望可以有个小小的抗议和生命的统一性，也许这样的抗议对能够做出这样决定的力量并不能起到什么作用，但是这个可以让我自己问心无愧并且可以实质性的感谢上帝，同时也是我可以向世人展示基督徒行为的一贯做法。”

The theologian highlighted a 1992 quote from Supreme Court Chief Justice Anthony Kennedy in Planned Parenthood v. Casey that he felt embodied theflawed thinking of the concept of human autonomy, which is at the core of the transgender, gay marriage and pro-abortion movements.

这位神学家重点引用了1992年大法官安东尼·肯尼迪在宾州东南部计划生育组织诉凯西案中的表现，他感受到人类自主性思考的缺陷，也就是变性，同性恋和堕胎的原因。

Kennedy said, "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life."

肯尼迪说：“自由的核心是有权利去定义自己的关于存在，价值，世界和人类生命奥秘的概念。”

Piper asserted that the statement was " … probably the most destructive sentence that the court has ever spoken" in that it essentially gives voice and license to the moral corruption of the human heart.

派博宣称这种观点“有可能是法庭上所说过的最有破坏性的话语”，因为它说出了人心中的道德败坏。

The pastor took time to address the question of how parents will train their children to take unpopular or dangerous stands against sin in a culture where " … profound evil and deep corruption and God-ignoring perversion" are de-stigmatized, pervasive, accepted and defended.

这位牧师致力于帮助家长们教育自己的孩子在这样一个充满了罪恶，堕落，否认神的文化中如何抵挡罪。

Piper observed that individuals who grew up under different standards in a time when "external biblical patterns of life were normative" at least have a "built-in revulsion" for certain actions and behaviors.These days, however, are much different. The pastor noted, " … Our children are not growing up in that world, and they will not have the same instincts."

派博注意到那些在“规范的外在圣经生活模式”中长大的人至少都有一个对某种罪性动作行为厌恶的内心。可是，现在，非常的不同。牧师指出：“我们的孩子不是在那个时代长大的，他们也没有这样的直觉。”

Along the same lines, Piper sees gender identify and Target's bathroom policy as applications of Kennedy's statement, and said the younger generation must be fully prepared. " … The depths of the human heart's depravity must be built in profoundly to our children."

同样，派博牧师觉得性别取向及浴室政策都是肯尼迪声明的实施，而且年轻一代人都很热衷于这个，“人类灵性的堕落对于我们的孩子更是影响至深”。

Finally, the seminary chancellor decried the concept of gender identity. "Now there is the new term: 'gender identity' ... That is a new code word."

最后，约翰派博谴责了性别取向的概念。“现在有了个新名词：性别取向，这是一种新代码。”

"The word 'gender' is now used not for biological reality of maleness or femaleness, but for desired identity of so-called male or so-called female,even if the biological reality is the opposite of the desired identity. ...That is what gender identity means. And it is the most recent application, and perhaps the strangest, of justice Kennedy's principle: Liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence."
“性别”这个词现在不单指生理上的男性或是女性，也指根据自己的取向来定义的所谓男性或是女性，即使生理上的是相反的。这个就是性别取向的意思。这个也是最近才有的，也许这个就是肯尼迪法则中最奇怪的部分：自由就是可以定义自己存在的概念。