Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight
Isaiah 5:20-21
In the eight years of the Obama administration, those on the far left became emboldened and encouraged to advance, with the President’s acquiescence, their most draconian and anti-Christian agenda. The LGBTQ community, who had been for years fighting for rights as a minority group that needed special protection, pushed legalization of gay marriage. Despite the fact that Congress had previously passed “The Defense of Marriage Act” which stipulated that marriage is between a man and a woman, President Obama refused to support the law, clearly abrogating his duties as president and going against the oath of office which he had taken. With his tacit approval (as a candidate he had been against gay marriage but as president he had a “change of heart.”) a lawsuit was filed that eventually made it to the Supreme Court, which, packed with liberal justices, discovered in the Constitution a never before seen right to same-sex marriage. In that ruling, they set aside the traditions of thousands of year and declared the teachings of the Bible and the Torah to be invalid in this country. And in that ruling, they opened the flood gates of depravity that threatens to overwhelm morality in America.
Harsh words? The truth often is. The Bible clearly states that marriage is to be between a man and a woman. Homosexuality has always been around, but by Biblical standards, the practice of homosexuality is clearly a sin. The Bible also clearly states that God created Adam and then Eve to be his “helpmate.” The two, male and female, were designed both physically and emotionally to complement and complete one another, to become, as the Bible says, “one.”
Any consideration of homosexuality should address this simple, natural fact: Two men can not create offspring. Nor can two women. Children can only be created by the mating of a man with a woman as God intended. What does not conform to nature is by definition, unnatural, no matter how hard we try to say that is not so.
But the normalization of marriage between individuals of the same-sex was not enough for the liberal community. They must also now promote every kind of sexual deviation. Transgenders, those men who felt they were women trapped in a man’s body or women who felt they were really men, suddenly became the darlings of the mainstream media. Gender Dysphoria, the sensation of feeling uncomfortable with your gender, is a real thing, but it is a treatable mental condition that most, especially children, grow out of. Instead of treating those who suffer with this condition with counseling, activists are encouraging them to begin the taking of drugs and perhaps even undergo eventual surgery to try to turn them into the opposite sex. Schools were required by the Obama administration to allow children and adults to use the bathroom of the sex they “identified with” rather than the sex they actually were.
Feminist groups scolded men that they should be willing to date “women with penises.” Progressives created new pronouns by which we are to refer to individuals, xi rather that he or she. Parents began taking children as young as kindergarten, deciding that they really identified with the opposite sex, and starting them on drugs to “change” them. Schools began to discipline children who as first graders, called Tiffany “Billy” because in kindergarten “she” had been a “he” but according to his parents, no longer was. And in all of this sudden “in thing,” only a few pediatricians worry and warn about the long-term effect of these drugs on the children, or the fact that transgenders suffer more depression and commit suicide at a greater rate than the general public, or that since gender is determined by DNA to begin with, a change in the size of breasts or the genitalia through surgery and drugs is only going to produce a man who looks like a woman, but is still really a man. Are we trying to build the Tower of Babel here? Are we imagining that we can change what nature and God have created into something that they are not? Are some of us imagining ourselves to BE God?
Indeed, we have found the way to genetically improve corn, for example, to make it more resistant to disease, but we have not been able to genetically cause kernels of seed corn to produce apples on their stalks, have we!
But it does not stop here. A push is now being made to make pedophilia acceptable. After all, it is just about choices, is it not? Ronnie chooses to become Christy. Denise chooses to become Mark. Frank chooses to have sex with women. John prefers to have sex with men. Mary chooses men. Meg chooses women. Howard chooses children. Is there any difference? Shouldn’t everyone be free to “be themselves” without being ostracized by society? The author of an article in Salon magazine seems to think so. He wrote, “I’m a pedophile, but not a monster.”
Two lecturers on the widely watched TED talks have insisted that we should be sympathetic and understanding toward pedophiles since they can’t help how they feel and they are, after all, just people like the rest of us. Peter Tatchell, England’s most prominent gay activist, has lobbied to have the age of consent reduced to 14 years old. And as long ago as 1972, the Gay Rights Platform called for the “repeal of all laws governing the age of sexual consent.”
An article in the Huffington Post recently carried the headline: “Congressional Candidate in Virginia Admits He’s a Pedophile.” It turns out the man also created a website chat room for pedophiles and violent misogynists. He also admitted on posts about repeatedly raping his ex-wife and said there was “a grain of truth” in an essay he wrote about father-daughter incest.
If liberals have their way, no sexual aberration will be anything but normal. Everything will be legal and celebrated. Christians will continue to be mocked and decried as homophobes and haters for standing up for the truth of God’s Word. And, given the eight years of our last Democratic president and the extreme rush of the Democratic Party to the far left, a vote for Democrats, any Democrat, could put them back in power to further restrict the constitutional rights of all Americans, especially Christians, to practice their faith freely.
We must vote! And we must vote for conservatives. We must support any president who upholds conservative values and protects religious freedom, even if we don’t personally like the man. And as Christians, we must not be cowed into silence by the hatred of the left. We must, like the apostles, speak the truth openly and loudly. We do not hate those who sin. But we must not defend their sin. To be silent is to be complicit, and to be complacent is to watch our country slide further into the degradation of a Sodom or a Gomorrah and some Christians to become pillars of salt!