Gender Ideology: The Final Triumph of the Sexual Revolution or Just Another Distraction?

A post by Rod Dreher at the American Conservative cites the fall of Christianity and its caving in to the sexual revolution as the beginning of the death of American culture, 

"To be modern, as we have seen, is to believe in one’s individual desires as the locus of authority and self- definition. As philosopher Charles Taylor writes, “The entire ethical stance of moderns supposes and follows on from the death of God (and of course, of the meaningful cosmos).”
"Gay marriage and gender ideology signify the final triumph of the Sexual Revolution and the dethroning of Christianity because they deny Christian anthropology at its core and shatter the authority of the Bible. Rightly ordered sexuality is not at the core of Christianity, but as Rieff saw, it’s so near to the center that to lose the Bible’s clear teaching on this matter is to risk losing the fundamental integrity of the faith. This is why Christians who begin by rejecting sexual orthodoxy end either by rejecting Christianity themselves or by laying the groundwork for their children to do so."
“The death of a culture begins when its normative institutions fail to communicate ideals in ways that remain inwardly compelling,” Rieff writes. By that standard, Christianity in America is in mortal danger. "The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation Paperback – April 3, 2018by Rod Dreher.

Why is it that we are not communicating the ideals handed down to us in the Gospel in a way that is inwardly compelling? It is simply the most amazing event in human history. I guess shows like "American Idol" are more appealing to the masses. Or perhaps it is as I have described on these pages before that we have moved from being a culture in which a few well known stories are passed along from generation to generation to become a culture in which we must be presented with a new story every few seconds, or a new 30 minute television show, a new 120 minute film story, or a new trilogy of films every few years, with the end result being that we lose the ability to focus, to see, to retain what is really important, and to pass it along to the next generation. The present age has been rightly named "The Age of Distraction" or more aptly, "Distractions", and the spirit of this age has a firm grip on us all. The Gospel, when it falls prey to this spirit, becomes a spring board for novel interpretations all designed to keep us entertained with new and potentially heretical ideas. In the hopes of capturing the attention of an ever distracted audience, revisionist preachers come up with endless streams of false teaching that contribute to the confusion of stories with which the modern mind must sort and filter.

Jesus tells us,

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment." Matthew 22:37-38

The current fad of gender ideology is a sign that we are not loving God with our entire being. Instead we are distracted, our attention is drawn to the new, the bizarre, and the shocking by the attention grabbing pull of the zeitgeist, the spirit of the age.