January 29, 2015
The
LGBTQ (for the uninitiated to the latest PC shorthand that is the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transsexual-Queer)
crowd have recently been celebrating their dismantling of laws limiting
marriage by definition to male-female relationships only. Increasingly emboldened by what they see as
having homophobics on the run, they continue to push for anti-discrimination
laws punishing those who disapprove of their lifestyle. As I, and many others, have previously
chronicled, lawsuits all over the country have resulted in Christians being
prosecuted for refusing services to gay couples on the basis of the Christian’s
moral convictions. A school district in
Maine was recently successfully sued by a transgender child’s family for
discrimination because the child was not allowed to use the bathroom that fit
his/her psychology but not biology. The
litany of what amounts to an assault on traditional Christian values when it
comes to marriage and sexuality continues unabated.
E.J.
Dionne, the darling of progressives, recently opined in a column that the
Culture Wars are dead. The LGBTQ bunch
has won in the court of public opinion and the state and federal courts. Pro-choice proponents have fought pro-lifers
to what amounts to a standstill on the topic of abortion. The battle between Christians and
Progressives over moral issues has been won by the Progressives. In his august opinion, the new battles to be
fought will be over ethnic issues related to immigration, not moral issues.
There
is no doubt the LGBTQ crowd has every intention of pushing conservative
Christians into being forced, not only to tolerate, but to be unable to
criticize in any way, a lifestyle they see as sinful and ungodly. They want to legally constrain and restrict
our freedom of both speech and religion under the guise of “tolerance” and a
repudiation of what they claim to be “hate speech.”
While
their campaign against what they consider Christian bigotry has been pursued
with gusto, there has been a telling silence when it comes to attacks on
Islam. Have you heard of a lesbian
couple demanding a Muslim bakery produce a wedding cake for them? Has there been a gay couple demanding a
Muslim cleric perform their marriage or face being sued for discrimination?
The
fact of the matter is Christians are a “soft target.” We fight fair. We battle with words and in the courts. LGBTQ advocates now control the media and
have filled the courts with judges sympathetic to their position. They possess few or no moral constraints in
regard to how they attack and characterize their foe. It is no wonder that Christians have recently
been subjected to defeat after defeat. Yet,
the Christian response to those defeats is simply to continue to stand for
their convictions, even in the face of increasing penalties and pressures for
doing so. Here’s the thing: Christians
are not going to bomb or behead their opposition. Gays can pursue their assault against
Christianity with almost full assurance there will be no retaliation,
especially none involving physical assaults.
I
believe it is quite possible that the LGBTQ’s attempt to change the culture and
rewrite moral laws has not seen, as yet, some of the consequences about to come
their way. Their cultural and legal
smackdown of Christians has given them a swaggering confidence that could well
become their undoing.
Laws
that would force religious entities to forsake their sacred beliefs or face
severe legal consequences will apply to all religions. That means Muslims will be subject to the
same laws as Christians. They, too, will
be forced to condone, or at least tolerate, behavior they find reprehensible or
face punishment and fines.
Progressives
framed the Charlie Hebdo massacre in France as an attack on free speech. It wasn’t.
It was clearly a response of Muslim extremists to what they saw as
blasphemy that could not be tolerated.
Those cartoonists and editors were murdered because they were
blasphemers. To those Muslims, freedom
of speech does not include freedom to blaspheme Allah or their Prophet.
Islamic
extremists clearly do not operate under the same constraints as
Christians. If you offend their belief
system: They will shoot you. They will
bomb you. They will cut your head off. They will not hesitate to resort to the most
heinous forms of violence to punish and quiet those whom they view as enemies
of their faith. The sad proof of that truth
is found too often on the nightly news these days.
So
what is going to happen when charges of hate speech are brought against Muslim
clerics who affirm the Koran’s teaching against homosexuality? What will be the response when gays in this
country choose to parody Islam’s treatment of women? How are Muslim extremists going to respond
when blatant transsexuals apply for jobs at Muslim businesses? History would
say the LGBTQ crowd is going to be in for a rude awakening. They will be stirring a snake that is known
to strike when it feels attacked.
I
certainly lay no claim to knowing what the future holds. But it seems to me that if gays keep on
trying to cram their agenda down the throats of those who find it morally and
spiritually repugnant, they are going to begin to encounter those whose
response will not be civil and non-violent in the Christian tradition. Instead, the Charlie Hebdo level of violence
may well be coming to these shores. If
so, life may not be so “gay” for the LGBTQ lifestyle advocates in days to come.
Dan Rouse
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