You’re sitting in your place of worship on a Sunday morning, surrounded by family and friends. As the pastor delivers a prayer, you sit with eyes closed and your mind tuned into the pastor’s words… and God. The prayer is abruptly interrupted by a loud commotion. You quickly open your eyes only to see your pastor being forcibly restrained by police officers.
Some around you in the congregation sit wide-eyed, paralyzed by fear, while others sprint for the exits, only to be blocked by other police officers. After the pastor is marched out in handcuffs and those who attempted to leave are escorted back to their seats, a man takes the pulpit and announces that your pastor has been arrested and will be formally charged and tried as a terrorist.
As you sit in complete trepidation, you hear that a passage from the Bible in the message your pastor delivered a few weeks prior, “Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” - 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (New International Version), is now officially deemed “hate speech” and is a “human rights” violation...
Though this hasn’t happened here yet, it may become a possibility much sooner than you think as the homosexual lobby has now got its way in getting “hate crimes” legislation passed. Yes, while we were sleeping, whether caught up in the busyness of life today or simply victims of complacency thinking someone else will take care of it, the traditional family and traditional marriage have now taken a severe blow.
The Senate voted on a dangerous hate crimes bill that Senator Harry Reid attached as an amendment to a National Defense bill. The homosexual movement and its cronies in the Senate were so concerned about having their bill debated on its own merit, as individual legislation, that they attached it to a much needed Defense Authorization bill. As we now move forward, religious freedom, as we’ve known it from the conception of this nation, will likely have to give way to constitutional law as same-sex “marriages” are legalized.
It’s already happening around the globe. In Canada, where these laws are already in place, a newspaper ad quoting from the Bible on homosexuality was deemed a “human rights offense” and the newspaper and the man who placed the ad were both forced to pay three homosexuals $1,500 each, merely because they objected to it. Also in Canada, a high-school teacher was suspended without pay simply because he’d written a letter to the editor sharing his belief that no one is born gay. (U.S. News & World Report, 4/11/04)
There have been cases in England, Sweden, Belgium, and Spain where pastors and other Christian leaders have been arrested for speaking out against homosexuality and, sadly enough, we’ve already seen cases here as well. I wrote a few years ago about a group of 11 Christians (including a couple of grandmothers) arrested in Philadelphia under “hate crimes” legislation, while merely conducting an evangelistic outreach during a gay pride event there. Each faced 47 years in prison and $90,000 in fines.
As I wrote last week, this is not about hate. It’s about truth and carries with it far-reaching moral, health, and economic implications into our schools, workplaces, churches, and our homes. My intent is to educate and inform you as to just how so, however, as this legislation has passed I may not be able to do so.
Homosexual activists have often referred to Bible-believing, Christian activists, who won’t succumb to all the shades of gray in society today, as the only thing standing between them and society fully embracing their agenda. Of course homosexual activists and their human secularist allies want God and His infallible Word removed from this debate altogether, for without God we have no moral compass and will be apt to accept nearly anything.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
It’s NOT About Hate
It’s not about hate. It’s not about being bigoted. It’s not about being intolerant. It’s not even about fear or a host of other things that the anti-traditional marriage movement would have you believe. What it’s really about, for those of us who stand in opposition to redefining marriage here in the United States of America, is truth.
Contrary to what homosexual activists, organizers, and their supporters would have you believe, the vast majority of us who stand in opposition to their movement are not a venomous brood of vipers filled with nothing but contempt for them or their “cause.” Just as I know that there are many caring and well-meaning men and women in the homosexual lifestyle who do not have contempt for us.
Though there are those on our side of this debate that have gone overboard with the rhetoric, there are many more in the same-sex “marriage” camp who are practicing real hate, absolute intolerance, and full-blown deceit.
I had a “live and let live” mentality toward the gay community until I realized that wasn’t enough for them. What they really want, as I’ve seen firsthand, is to force public acceptance and approval by any means necessary and if you have the audacity to stand in their way you’d better look out! Once the gay “rights” movement began forcing their way into my home and my way of life, as well as thrusting their ideals upon our children through our public education system, that’s when I drew my line in the sand.
Here’s some truth for you pertaining to the hate you’ve been told we’re spewing, if we oppose their lifestyle in any form. Homosexual activists very methodically and purposefully use words describing us as ignorant homophobes, racists, bigots, right-wing nuts, and more. I do not have an ounce of hate for any living the homosexual lifestyle, nor do I use derogatory terms to describe them.
Homosexual activists, however, have a very calculated plan to prop up homosexuality, while denigrating their enemies, with the aid of the mainstream media and Hollywood. They really have no desire to persuade people theirs’ is a legitimate cause, but only wish to tear down their opponents by linking them with the abovementioned. The real hate is being propagated by this anti-traditional marriage movement.
Here’s an example of a few of their tactics as outlined in “The Overhauling of Straight America”, by Marshall Kirk and Erastes Pill in Guide Magazine: 1. Talk about and gayness as loudly and often as possible (almost any behavior looks normal if you’re exposed to it enough); 2. Portray gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers (gays must be cast as victims in need of protection); 3. Give protectors a just cause (encouraging straights to be their protectors by using the media to cast gays as victims); 4. Make gays look good (by painting gays as pillars of society); 5. Make the victimizers look bad (make anti-gays look so nasty the average Americans will dissociate themselves from them); 6. Solicit funds (an unprecedented fundraising drive). (View the entire 11-page document here http://www.abidingtruth.com/_docs/resources/8142838.pdf)
There are many things going on in our nation today that I take issue with and I’ll get to them eventually, however, this issue, same-sex “marriage”, is by far one of the most detrimental to our future. Over the course of the next few weeks I will enlighten you as to how this movement will affect you and your family or as it already has.
Contrary to what homosexual activists, organizers, and their supporters would have you believe, the vast majority of us who stand in opposition to their movement are not a venomous brood of vipers filled with nothing but contempt for them or their “cause.” Just as I know that there are many caring and well-meaning men and women in the homosexual lifestyle who do not have contempt for us.
Though there are those on our side of this debate that have gone overboard with the rhetoric, there are many more in the same-sex “marriage” camp who are practicing real hate, absolute intolerance, and full-blown deceit.
I had a “live and let live” mentality toward the gay community until I realized that wasn’t enough for them. What they really want, as I’ve seen firsthand, is to force public acceptance and approval by any means necessary and if you have the audacity to stand in their way you’d better look out! Once the gay “rights” movement began forcing their way into my home and my way of life, as well as thrusting their ideals upon our children through our public education system, that’s when I drew my line in the sand.
Here’s some truth for you pertaining to the hate you’ve been told we’re spewing, if we oppose their lifestyle in any form. Homosexual activists very methodically and purposefully use words describing us as ignorant homophobes, racists, bigots, right-wing nuts, and more. I do not have an ounce of hate for any living the homosexual lifestyle, nor do I use derogatory terms to describe them.
Homosexual activists, however, have a very calculated plan to prop up homosexuality, while denigrating their enemies, with the aid of the mainstream media and Hollywood. They really have no desire to persuade people theirs’ is a legitimate cause, but only wish to tear down their opponents by linking them with the abovementioned. The real hate is being propagated by this anti-traditional marriage movement.
Here’s an example of a few of their tactics as outlined in “The Overhauling of Straight America”, by Marshall Kirk and Erastes Pill in Guide Magazine: 1. Talk about and gayness as loudly and often as possible (almost any behavior looks normal if you’re exposed to it enough); 2. Portray gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers (gays must be cast as victims in need of protection); 3. Give protectors a just cause (encouraging straights to be their protectors by using the media to cast gays as victims); 4. Make gays look good (by painting gays as pillars of society); 5. Make the victimizers look bad (make anti-gays look so nasty the average Americans will dissociate themselves from them); 6. Solicit funds (an unprecedented fundraising drive). (View the entire 11-page document here http://www.abidingtruth.com/_docs/resources/8142838.pdf)
There are many things going on in our nation today that I take issue with and I’ll get to them eventually, however, this issue, same-sex “marriage”, is by far one of the most detrimental to our future. Over the course of the next few weeks I will enlighten you as to how this movement will affect you and your family or as it already has.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Marriage Re-defined
Do you know Marsha Ternus, Mark Cady, Michael Streit, David Wiggins, Daryl Hecht, Brent Appel, and David Baker? Probably not, but you should, as these are the seven unelected officials who chose to legislate from the bench and be YOUR voice on the matter of marriage here in Iowa.
Marriage in Iowa has now been formally defined, or redefined, by the Iowa Supreme Court, not our legislature and not we the people. Sorry, but this is not their intended place in the grand scheme of things. For those of us who remember anything about the very basics of how our government was designed and laid out, it is the legislature that writes law. The fact is that the job of the judiciary is merely to interpret the law, as it was written. We seem to have more and more judges across this nation today who are only more than eager to legislate from the bench, whether it be for political gain, “political correctness”, or merely political ignorance.
I often hear our nation referred to as a “democracy”. For those who are unsure, the definition of a democracy is: 1. Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. 2. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power. 3. Majority rule. (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language)
However, what we really are is a “republic”, though the terms democracy and republic are virtually identical today. The definition of a republic is: A state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them. (The Random House Dictionary)
I find it odd that none of the definitions I found included; a government of “the squeaky wheel gets the oil” or where the courts are the supreme power. They both do state, however, the power of the people “through” their elected representatives. So, I guess if we feel that those we’ve elected to represent us are not hearing us, acknowledging us, or truly representing us, at both the state and federal levels, then it’s time to replace them with those who will. This goes for our judges as well.
Though we do not actually elect our judges, we do have the opportunity to vote on their retention. Do we, as taxpayers, wish to continue paying the six-figure incomes of judges who contradict our ideology and impose their own? I will vote NO on every judge until they see fit to tell us where they actually stand ideologically and would recommend that you do the same. By the way, three of the seven Iowa Supreme Court justices who ruled against traditional marriage are up for retention in 2010 and will be on our ballots.
Many of our elected officials serving in Des Moines today have received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the anti-traditional family movement and are now beholden to them with their votes, or lack of, in the State House. Campaign funds have been strategically targeted here in our state from activists in Hollywood, CA; New York, NY; Denver, CO; Harvard, MA; and Miami, FL, to name but a few. Right here in our backyard, Andrew Wenthe, of the Iowa House, received over $13,000 from homosexual activists for his last campaign and the powerful Senate Majority Leader, Mike Gronstal, who repeatedly shot down any effort to raise a marriage amendment, received over $11,000, to name only a couple. The Iowa Democratic Party received over $51,000. (www.LetUsVoteIowa.org)
Based on the current state of our State Legislature, the amount of money being poured out by same-sex marriage proponents, the manipulation of public opinion by the media and Hollywood, and the very loud and offensive condemnation of any and all critics of same-sex marriage, I doubt much will be accomplished legislatively to protect the traditional family here in Iowa short of a Constitutional Convention held by “we the people” in 2010.
Iowa was specifically targeted by the anti-traditional family movement, as they knew just how difficult a process it is to make any constitutional changes here and believe that the people of our state who oppose their agenda being forced upon us lack the fortitude to see it through. Guess it’s time to roll up our sleeves and get to work…
Marriage in Iowa has now been formally defined, or redefined, by the Iowa Supreme Court, not our legislature and not we the people. Sorry, but this is not their intended place in the grand scheme of things. For those of us who remember anything about the very basics of how our government was designed and laid out, it is the legislature that writes law. The fact is that the job of the judiciary is merely to interpret the law, as it was written. We seem to have more and more judges across this nation today who are only more than eager to legislate from the bench, whether it be for political gain, “political correctness”, or merely political ignorance.
I often hear our nation referred to as a “democracy”. For those who are unsure, the definition of a democracy is: 1. Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. 2. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power. 3. Majority rule. (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language)
However, what we really are is a “republic”, though the terms democracy and republic are virtually identical today. The definition of a republic is: A state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them. (The Random House Dictionary)
I find it odd that none of the definitions I found included; a government of “the squeaky wheel gets the oil” or where the courts are the supreme power. They both do state, however, the power of the people “through” their elected representatives. So, I guess if we feel that those we’ve elected to represent us are not hearing us, acknowledging us, or truly representing us, at both the state and federal levels, then it’s time to replace them with those who will. This goes for our judges as well.
Though we do not actually elect our judges, we do have the opportunity to vote on their retention. Do we, as taxpayers, wish to continue paying the six-figure incomes of judges who contradict our ideology and impose their own? I will vote NO on every judge until they see fit to tell us where they actually stand ideologically and would recommend that you do the same. By the way, three of the seven Iowa Supreme Court justices who ruled against traditional marriage are up for retention in 2010 and will be on our ballots.
Many of our elected officials serving in Des Moines today have received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the anti-traditional family movement and are now beholden to them with their votes, or lack of, in the State House. Campaign funds have been strategically targeted here in our state from activists in Hollywood, CA; New York, NY; Denver, CO; Harvard, MA; and Miami, FL, to name but a few. Right here in our backyard, Andrew Wenthe, of the Iowa House, received over $13,000 from homosexual activists for his last campaign and the powerful Senate Majority Leader, Mike Gronstal, who repeatedly shot down any effort to raise a marriage amendment, received over $11,000, to name only a couple. The Iowa Democratic Party received over $51,000. (www.LetUsVoteIowa.org)
Based on the current state of our State Legislature, the amount of money being poured out by same-sex marriage proponents, the manipulation of public opinion by the media and Hollywood, and the very loud and offensive condemnation of any and all critics of same-sex marriage, I doubt much will be accomplished legislatively to protect the traditional family here in Iowa short of a Constitutional Convention held by “we the people” in 2010.
Iowa was specifically targeted by the anti-traditional family movement, as they knew just how difficult a process it is to make any constitutional changes here and believe that the people of our state who oppose their agenda being forced upon us lack the fortitude to see it through. Guess it’s time to roll up our sleeves and get to work…
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