If you’ve been paying attention, you’re probably aware that Boston Children’s Hospital has been unashamedly advertising and boasting about the sexual mutilation procedures it performs on children. The hospital has released a series of videos bragging about and explaining these procedures and making outlandish claims including that some children know their “gender identity” as early as from the womb.

After backlash on social media, the Seattle Children’s Hospital released a statement via email to its staff that they stood in solidarity with Boston Hospital. The bottom line: it’s happening everywhere and it isn’t going away anytime soon.

I hesitate to even post these images, but after deliberation, I believe it is necessary for the “shock value” in order to wake people up. These images, which include the removal of tissue from a child’s forearm or thigh to create artificial non-functioning sex organs, are extremely disturbing.

That being said, where is the outcry? Particularly, where is the outcry from the Church? The vast majority of churches today are complacent in this new form of legalized child sexual abuse. Let’s get one thing clear, the only kind of people that would perform a procedure such as these on underage children are people who are sexually aroused by it.

Apparently, churches have bigger issues to fight. After all, the world, and even the Church, are full of racists and white supremacists who support racist cops who are out to kill Black people. Seriously, where are the conferences hosted by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) denouncing this child abuse? They’ve certainly held enough conferences denouncing “white supremacy” and have spent an inordinate amount of time lobbying for open borders.

Where are Jemar Tisby and Jarvis Williams, the Evangelical Church’s foremost Critical Race Theorists? Why don’t we hear anything from them on social media denouncing this abuse?

Dwight McKissic, a Southern Baptist Pastor who spends the majority of his life fighting for the rights of women to stand in the pulpit, advocating for abortion, and smearing anyone who doesn’t align with those beliefs as “racists.” When it comes to child mutilation for sexual pleasure? Crickets.

Where’s Beth Moore? She always has something to say about social issues plaguing society. She was the first one to denounce Nick Sandmann after racistly smiled at a Native American banging a drum in his face. Every time there’s a “misogynist” in the midst, you’ll find Beth Moore standing in the gap protecting the flock.

Where’s Matt Chandler? Where’s Danny Akin? Where are Adam Greenway, Bart Barber, Karen Swallow Prior, and all the rest of the Southern Baptist Convention figureheads who are supposed to be guiding the denomination and teaching us how to think biblically about social issues?

To spread that out further, where are PCA leaders? Where are the Lutherans? Where’s the pope, even? Should the world not be standing up against this evil? And especially those who proclaim Christ? Why are the little guys, the nobodies, the discernment bloggers the only ones in the Church speaking out?

Keep in mind that this is the same camp that loves to repeat the mantra, “silence is violence.”

I’ll submit to you that the majority of these people do not believe that God is who He says He is. God is a God who reveals His wrath from Heaven against all ungodliness (Romans 1), a righteous judge who feels indignation every day (Psalm 7:11), who strikes down nations with a sharp sword coming from His mouth (Revelation 19:15), who will repay everyone according to what he has done (Revelation 22:12), and whose judgment begins in the House of God (1 Peter 4:17).

These men do not fear God and are not concerned with the judgment to come. Yet, God calls on Christians to speak up, speak the truth, and call the nations to repent and turn to Christ. The complacency the Church has toward sin in this world is like a lukewarm taste in the mouth of God—He will spit you out (Revelation 3:15-16).

Instead, Southern Baptist Churches like First Baptist Church Orlando are openly baptizing and affirming homosexuals, transgenders, and other sexually aberrant behavior, normalizing it, and refusing to speak the truth about it. And, again, these same church leaders stand silent, wasting time on pet social issues that are largely nonexistent, and using them as cover to hide from the real problems. We’re not asking you to go out into the streets and do physical battle with these people, but if you’re going to be a church leader, shouldn’t you lead the Church? Shouldn’t you teach the Church how to think rightly about these issues rather than leave them in limbo?

Why is that too much to ask?

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. —1 John 2:3-5