Published July 16, 2026
We’re gonna need more millstones.
The Presbyterian Church (USA) has now endorsed child mutilation, and it’s done so by official action. Given mainline Protestantism’s surrender to moral revolution, no one should have expected anything else from the liberal branch of American Presbyterianism. Like the rest of the old mainline, the PCUSA is in terminal decline, but it’s not quite dead yet—it lives on as the spiritual equivalent of a decrepit Hugh Heffner, always looking for one more orgy as the Playboy mansion crumbled around him.
The PCUSA’s aging congregants are also obsessed with sexual liberation, though in their case it often seems more ideological than personal. Regardless, the denomination has acceded to all the sexual revolution’s demands, as illustrated by James Talarico, PCUSA seminarian and Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, who proclaims God to be an enthusiast for abortion, sodomy, and gender transition.
The secret to this, of course, is that Talarico, and his denomination, do not really believe in God—at least the God of the Bible. And they exemplify the adage that when men stop believing in God, it is not that they believe in nothing but that they’ll believe in anything. In this case they believe that men can become (or in some mystical sense, already are) women, that children can be born into a body of the wrong sex, and that the solution is to chemically and surgically remake people into facsimiles of the other sex.
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Nathanael Blake, Ph.D. is a Fellow in the Life and Family Initiative at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His first book, Victims of the Revolution: How Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All, was published by Ignatius Press in Spring 2025. As a cultural commentator, Dr. Blake has published hundreds of articles at outlets including Public Discourse, World Opinions, The Federalist, Catholic World Report, and the University Bookman.
