In June the Supreme Court will render a critical decision
concerning the legality of gay marriage.
I’m convinced that the push for this court decision has implications far
greater than merely the legalization of gay marriage. I believe the real agenda is to begin to
legally muzzle the Christian voice in America.
The LGBTQ crowd has long made clear their hatred of, and
disdain for, Christians. The lawsuits
over cakes and wedding photographs are far more attempts to intimidate Christians
than they are legitimate concerns over discrimination. They know if they can quiet the voice of
Christians, they will have won the battle over basing law on Biblical morality
rather than cultural mores.
The whole brouhaha over legislation in Indiana and
Arkansas concerning the protection of religious freedoms has been distorted
beyond belief. As has been repeatedly
stated, and studiously ignored by the MSM, that legislation is not directed at
punishing or discriminating against gays or transgenders or any other variety
of sexual deviance. It is far more about
seeking to proactively protect Christian people from the inevitable onslaught of
attacks that will come if the Supreme Court ruling goes in favor of gay
rights. More than a few are seeing the
handwriting on the wall in this regard – and it is frightening.
Using courts that
have been stacked for decades now with liberal judges the LGBTQ bunch have
forced gay marriage down the throats of millions of Americans from the bench
rather than the ballot box. Contrary to
their claims, Americans are not turning in droves to support gay marriage, which
is why they are using the sympathetic courts to further their agenda. But their goals extend far beyond merely
forcing the legalization of gay marriages. Again, they want the power of the government
available to force the normalization and acceptance of their lifestyle. They can’t coerce with threats of prison and
fines. The government can, and will.
The whole “hate speech” canard has just begun to be
played. If LGBTQ proclivities are given
the same protections against discrimination as race and gender, the PC crowd
will undoubtedly redouble the push to characterize Biblical injunctions against
sexual immorality as hate speech. That
is already occurring in Canada and Great Britain, among other places, so it is
not some theoretical possibility, rather it is an inevitability. Merely reading the Biblical teaching on
sexual morality not only could be, but will be, “hate speech”. When that occurs, prepare for the jackboots
to enter our church buildings.
There are some who say the goal of the LGBTQ lobby is
merely to shut us up inside our buildings, to prevent us from saying what we
believe in public. (This, by the way, is how Christians are being treated right
now in many Muslim countries.) I
disagree. I believe their ultimate goal
is much more ambitious. It is to shut us
up – period.
Limiting
our expressions of religious belief in certain areas to the confines of a house
of worship would be, in and of itself, a heinous violation of both our right to
free speech and freedom of religion – a direct violation of the first amendment. However, the Constitution has been so
blithely ignored of late by the courts and the present administration that I
see little or no protection for Christians appealing on that basis. Consider this: How will “public” speech begin
to be defined? Is not a group of people gathering
for worship at a church building or even in a home also a public
gathering? If that be the case, then am
I being overly paranoid to think that shutting us up will involve not only
controlling our speech on the streets and in private conversation, but also in
our houses of worship? Will my standing before the congregation and merely
reading the words of Leviticus 18:22 be deemed publicly “hateful”? If not, why not?
I genuinely believe as Christians we have only seen the
tip of the iceberg in regards to what is to come. Secular courts, secular legislators, and a
secular majority are going to have little sympathy for speech based in what
they view as an ancient, outmoded, narrow-minded, bigoted point of view – the Biblical
point of view. Marginalizing Christians
as bigots and systematically criminalizing their views of sexual morality is
really what is going on here. If we don’t
pull together and fight this effort tooth and nail, a holocaust rests in our
future. May God help us to have the
courage to speak up and fight for what is right while we still have the freedom
to do so. I really don’t know how long
it will be before that freedom is but a cherished, but fading, memory.
Dan Rouse
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