November 27, 2018: A fact is a fact * Letters to the Editor * OPINION * Del Rio News-Herald



Letter to the Editor,
A fact is a fact

No matter who says it; no matter how long they say it.
They can scream; shout at the top of their lungs.
They can throw toddler-like temper-tantrums, hold their breaths until they faint; so we’ll give in to their bullying threats and say what they want us to say.
They can give it their stamp of approval on all the decrees, declarations they so desire.
But the fact is; the fact will always be; a baby’s a baby before he or she is even born; the whole human race is divided into two sexes, each one distinctively different: male and female. Both totally and completely equal in dignity and respect but created distinct for the purpose of the procreative aspect of the marital unity.
No matter how much they say it isn’t so; how much they don’t want to believe it, it doesn’t make it so, because the fact is staring them right in their face. We’re all alive in our mother’s womb; we’re all formed to live our life as male or female.
There’s a baby in his or her mother’s womb; that baby is either a boy or a girl. It’s as simple as that. Everyone instinctually and intrinsically knows those are the facts-of-life, even a toddler recognizes it. Ask a toddler, “What’s in mommy’s tummy?” The reply will always be, “A baby!”
Ask a toddler, “What are you a boy or a girl?” The toddler will look at you curiously. Of course, he knows he’s a boy; she knows she’s a girl. There’s no doubt in a toddler’s mind. Out of the mouth of babes come the innocent and honest answers.
To all the women who refute it, “That’s just the facts ma’am”; to all the men who reject it, “That’s a fact Jack!”
Throughout human history it was so, it continues to be so, it will forever be so.
A fact is not a falsehood, not a fabrication of the imagination or a fictitious invention.
Vive la vie! Vive la différence! 

Marian Casillas, Ed.D.
Del Rio, Texas