Have you witnessed this? People who elevate their dog or other pet to the same level of importance as someone else’s child, or any other person?
This has been evident for some time but was brought home to me recently by a social media exchange that started when someone commented on an alleged “service dog” that was brought into a restaurant in the owner’s arms. The owner proceeded to place the dog on the restaurant seat, and fed it from the table. The dog helpfully cleaned the table, of course, by licking it.
The responses to this comment were telling. Although a few bemoaned a world where people bring animals everywhere, a depressing number objected to the very idea that someone would post about this, arguing:
We don’t have any right to question someone claiming their chihuahua is a service dog, and restaurants have no choice. (FALSE. The ADA says restaurants are free to restrict seats and tables to human customers, and insist that real service dogs be on the floor on their leash).
Dogs are cleaner than humans — what are you complaining about? (FALSE. Dog eat things like cat poo. Their bacteria is different; it’s not better.)
I’d rather have a dog than a screaming child! (And here we begin to see the anti-child/anti-human mindset that informs the overemphasis on pets.)
I’ll take a dog over a human any day. (Ah, there is it, plainly put.)
The philosophy that any animal is better than — or equal to — any human being, is straight up satanic. Which is why it’s being embraced enthusiastically in the great state of Oregon. (Why is it that the most beautiful states are the most deranged?)
Pastor Jason Mills, on the front lines there in Oregon, reports here on an outrageous proposal that almost made the ballot, written by lost souls who do not understand that they and their fellow humans are made in the image of the one true God.
And as Pastor Mills astutely observes, this lunacy begins with a rejection of God’s Word — in this case, a failure to understand the meaning of Genesis. Click below for the whole story, well worth the read:
