Homosexuality is the perversion that the Left and alternate lifestyle advocates are trying to convince mainstream America is part of normal everyday life. In other words displaying sexual acts of perversion in public is normal as opposed to Christian morality that decries any sex act in public – homosexual or heterosexual.
In the homosexual agenda to normalize perverted sex, homosexuals have taken to the streets to perform lewd sex acts in public. If a heterosexual was caught doing such acts in public they would be jailed.
The homosexual agenda has eroded what the word “normal” is. In twisting the word “normal” decent morals in America have been eroded to make way for perverted alternate lifestyles. Thus the Left and alternate lifestyle advocates have been doing their best to proclaim that Christian ethics and morality are a chain and ball from archaic history. There is a total denial of a Creator or if there is an alternate lifestyle belief in a Creator (e.g. Christian homosexuals or Conservative homosexuals), the Creator’s Word is distorted or revised to fit the alternate lifestyle.
There is a grotesque annual parade that hits many of the major cities of America called the Folsom St. Fair Parade. These fairs and/or parades are a display of homosexual perversion in public that if legal statutes were enforced they would be illegal with jailing occurring. The name is derived from the original homosexual parade/fair in San Francisco (where else?).
I am not going into how many cities or which ones participate in this perversion and to allow occur; however an Internet friend has been keeping me update of the Folsom St. spin off in New York City. I have to admit that I have been hesitant to write on this because acts that occur in these are so horrifyingly perverted. My Internet friend (we will call him Solid Snake) has provided pictures and video that I have not been able to watch all the way through due to the disgusting nature of this street fair/parade. Amazingly, Solid Snake has pointed me toward a “mature” Youtube” posting that must have passed the censor’s mustard. If you can eschew the horrifying displays by homosexuals at this parade you can view an example of the recent New York City version of Folsom Street (oops I was going to say HERE, but I just discovered the censor caught up with Solid Snake – photo from that video courtesy of AFTAH. Well here is one more parenthetical update. Snake Dog has placed another YouTube video. If you need to see the evidence homosexual perversity, watch it. If you take my word for it, avoid watching it.).
This should be a big deal all across America. My New York City friend has been following this because the Democrats in the State of New York have been trying to validate same-sex marriage via legislation in that State. So the New York authorities have been looking the other way as these perversions occur. Imagine what will happen at these Folsom Street events in New York if same-sex marriage overtly becomes legal.
Now I have focused on New York because of where I have been getting my most recent information; however this kind of perversity occurs in nearly all kinds of homosexual parades of entertainment and activism in America. Horrifyingly it is even filtering down to America’s youth because of the erosion of morality in the nation.
One example is a gay pride “youth parade” in which teenagers simulate homosexual acts as they march down the street promoting hedonistic repulsive homosexuality. I am certain those parades are not as graphic as the Folsom Street variety, but to see near children in simulation of homosexual acts is alarming as well as disgusting.
Friends it is time to rise up against the money of homosexuals and the Secular Humanist Left. If you are a Christian, do (at least) two things. Pray in the name of Jesus for the morality of the United States of America. Then become active or support the organizations (political or citizen driven) that withstand the Homosexual Agenda and the Secular Humanist Agenda.
Apparently sexual deviancy has the big bucks in the Northeast. Already three Northeastern States have passed into existence same-sex marriage laws. It should be noted though those laws were not decided by voters as much as they were enacted by State Legislators.
State Legislators have been receiving campaign donations from the sexual deviant crowd. This is coupled with the unfortunate reality of the lack of a presence of any well financed of Biblical Morality organizations. The organizations that are in place have depleted their financial coffers fighting other issues. The Roman Catholic Church is the biggest financially endowed Christian organization and that group has failed to step up to the plate to battle the immorality of same-sex marriage.
If you want to see the moral degradation of what Northeastern legislators are supporting you should view this link to the sexually prurient group that that does a morally degrading homosexual block party in New York. Be forewarned though, IT IS NOT A PRETTY SITE TO READ OR VIEW: http://www.folsomstreeteast.org/
The big bucks represented by these sick immoral hedonistic sexually explicit homosexuals are what New York State legislators are paying attention to. According to the New York Times (of all rags) New York’s duly elected State legislators are imminently preparing to enact a law legalizing same-sex marriage in the State of New York.
If you encounter a homosexual who vainly attempts to disabuse the Bible of Biblical Morality by informing you that God’s Word does not condemn homosexuality as immoral, then you can laugh at his tongue in cheek face.
After reading the Biblical texts that address homosexuality you might wonder how anyone could call themselves a Christian homosexual or why some mainline denominations now give approval to homosexual behavior. The Scriptures have not changed, so how, you might wonder, do they justify the sin of homosexuality in light of what the Scriptures say?
There are several approaches homosexuals use to explain why the Scriptures don’t mean what they say. First is to say that the reason Sodom and Gomorrah were judged is that the men of Sodom were not practicing hospitality. This is a desperate interpretation that disappears into vapor when one reads what Jude has to say about the reason God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Jude, after explaining how God judged angels who did not keep their proper domain says in Jude 7, “just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.” Here Jude describes the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah as “indulging in gross immorality” and going after “strange flesh” or flesh of a different kind – the men of Sodom were homosexual and wanted to have homosexual relations with the angels.
A second way the Scriptures are twisted by homosexuals is by saying that the laws against homosexual activity in Lev. 18:22; 20:13 are only for the priests. It is argued that these texts appear in the holiness code for the priesthood (Lev. chs. 17–27) and therefore do not apply to those who are not priests.
The problem is that the holiness code also forbids other immoral acts such as incest, fornication, harlotry, adultery, and bestiality. You can quickly see the problem their argument creates. If homosexuality is acceptable because it is found in the holiness code that only applies to the priests then the other immoral acts mentioned only apply to the priests as well, which means incest, fornication, harlotry, adultery, and bestiality are acceptable, also.
A third way the Scriptures are twisted by those who argue that the Bible does not condemn homosexuality is by trying to argue that the Apostle Paul didn’t condemn all homosexual activity. He only condemned homosexual activity among those who were born to be heterosexual, for they would be contradicting their created nature. They argue that Paul assumed that some people would be born with a homosexual orientation and those people would be sinning if they had heterosexual relationships because they would be perverting the way God made them.
Of course the fallacy with this argument is that God doesn’t make anyone a homosexual. Homosexuality is not genetic, but a learned behavior, a sinful choice that people make. Granted, everyone is susceptible to some sins more than others, but a strong desire to commit a particular sin, doesn’t mean God made you to sin in that way. Some people like to lie, others like to steal, but this doesn’t mean God created them that way. It means they have a strong desire to sin in those areas but it does not exonerate their sinful behavior.
A fourth way the pro–homosexual advocates twist the Scriptures is by using the misogynist argument. The misogynist argument says that in biblical times women were treated cruelly and were oppressed. They say that men during that time felt it was important to show dominance over women in every area. They argue that the Apostle Paul was conforming to the cultural standard of the day so naturally he taught that heterosexual relationships were mandatory. Since we live in a different culture where women are not treated like cattle and oppressed, Paul’s teachings don’t apply.
The problem with this argument is that the Bible sets a very high standard for the respect and care of women and requires husbands to treat them as co–equals in salvation and equal in worth. There is no law, ancient or modern which honors women like the Bible. Husbands are commanded to love, cherish, nurture, honor, protect, provide for, love their wives as their own body, help their wives grow in the Lord and love their wives as Christ loved the church who gave himself up for her. Hardly a misogynist agenda, especially when you consider that the Apostle Paul, who was the most outspoken in condemning homosexuality, also was the most outspoken about how husbands are to love and honor their wives. Granted, men have sinned against God in every age by not loving and honoring their wives, but their wicked behavior towards their wives is not sanctioned in the Bible.
The reason homosexuals are so desperate to try and explain away the Bible’s universal condemnation of homosexual behavior is that men, in their selfish desire to satisfy their lusts, have always sought to justify their sin. God has placed within man an awareness that he exists, but men, wanting to sin with a clear conscience, either deny God, deny the Bible is the Word of God, or twist the Scriptures to conform to their own lusts. Yet, in doing this they open the door for every other sin. (You should read the article from start to finish – it is informative.)
The scientific community in its quest to validate a morally reprobate lifestyle such as homosexuality has been working feverishly to prove that homosexuality is biological-genetic as opposed to learned from the environment. The environment case would validate God’s Word and the genetic case would validate Secular humanism.
The irony of this scientific quest is that some homosexuals realized an emerging problem. That problem is that the discovery of a specific gay gene might prove to be a scientific way for normal parents to make sure that their child is genetically enhanced to wash away all inclinations toward homosexuality. Oops! The quest to genetically validate sexual deviancy might lead to genetically ending sexual deviancy.
Upon this realization the pro-homosexual scientists have attempted to connect genealogy to environment. This obscurant attempt to validate the homosexual gene stipulates that environment is the leading cause that activates that gene.
Thus it is not surprising that the American Psychology Association has publically acknowledged there is NO gay gene.
Still the well financed Homosexual agenda is succeeding in the Northeast in validating homosexuality via legalizing same-sex marriage. I wonder if there would be a greater outcry from normal heterosexuals if they and lawmakers were aware of the Homosexual agenda already implemented by many large businesses and corporations. Homosexual agenda influenced subservient businesses are actually persecuting Christians who take a stand not to participate in management mandated diversity seminars (i.e. code for forced homosexual acceptance).
Here are few examples:
Professor Janis Price of DePauw University, Indiana, placed issues of a magazine on a table in the back of her classroom. One of her students was offended by an article that was critical of how homosexuality was being handled in public schools and complained to the administration. Price was accused of providing her students with intolerant material. She was suspended and her salary cut by 25 percent.
Albert Buonanno, a Christian employee of AT&T Broadband, was fired in February 2004 for refusing to go along with a mandatory company policy demanding acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle.
Rolf Szabo lost his job at Eastman Kodak after he refused to go along with the company's "diversity" program, which required he give support to homosexuals in the work place who wanted to come out.
Motorola actively promotes a similar agenda through mandatory "homophobia" workshops and homosexual sex-ed courses. One employee told author David Limbaugh that "this push is causing a great deal of tension among employees and the 'quiet anger' of some who disapprove of the homosexual lifestyle because of their religious beliefs."
Episodes such as these are happening by the hundreds across America, every day of the week. According to medical, social science and especially legal experts, what is being called "diversity" is actually a dangerous new movement by a small group of activists to make the homosexual lifestyle appear as normal and healthy as the heterosexual lifestyle, even if that means deliberately hiding any information to the contrary.
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Fitzgibbons recently served as an expert witnesses in a case involving an Ann Arbor Michigan high school student whose Christian viewpoint was deliberately excluded from the schools "Diversity Week" celebration. Part of the week's festivities involved a panel of six clerics from different denominations who were assembled for a discussion about "Homosexuality and Religion." No one on the panel represented the Judeo-Christian view of homosexual relations.
Betsy Hanson, an 18-year-old Roman Catholic student, requested that a representative of the Catholic Church be part of the panel. Her request was denied by school officials who claimed her religious views would convey a negative message and would "water-down" the positive religious message that they wanted to convey.
Hanson and her mother decided to sue and Detroit Federal Judge Gerald Rosen ruled in their favor. "Isn't this cultural hegemony, where you're only going to present one view to the exclusion of others?" the judge demanded of the school's attorneys. "Don't you think that smacks of government and religious totalitarianism? Isn't that how we got to book-burning in Nazi Germany back in the 1930s?"
Fitzgibbons believes schools and school psychologists should be held liable when they actively promote the homosexual lifestyle while withholding vital information about mental and physical risks.
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Although doctors are obligated to provide informed consent to their patients, educators are not, he said.
However, in schools where a school psychologist is involved in these groups, then Fitzgibbons said they have the requirement to provide informed consent about the dangers of the lifestyle.
"If they don't, and a child experiences some of the medical illnesses that are so highly prevalent, particularly among men involved in same-sex relationships, that school psychologist is liable, the principal is liable and the school superintendent is liable. Just as when a doctor makes a mistake at a hospital, the hospital is also liable."
Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values, has been sending out letters to 2,500 schools across the country who are relying on the "safe-school" programs devised by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network warning them of potential legal liabilities for the tort of negligence "if it is proven that homosexual activist organizations were granted access to students under the school's responsibility and that students suffered physical or mental harm. Under the right circumstances, state authorities could also bring criminal proceedings," he writes, citing Ohio Revised Code 2907.04, 2919.22 and 2919.24. (Excerpted from intro of the Catholic Education Resource Center 6 Part essay entitled, "Homosexuality: The Untold Story — The phantom gene”)
Yeah, I am willing to bet this Roman Catholic study receives very little attention from the Mainstream Media. I also doubt that Northeastern (and now New York State) legislators have viewed this alternative yet mainstream view of homosexuality.
As anyone who reads here once in awhile is aware, I am a huge supporter of Biblical Morality through the filter of Christianity (I would include Judaism but frankly I have an incredible lack of knowledge of Jewish theology). An old post that I placed from AFTAH demonstrates my attitude toward homosexuality vis-à-vis Biblical Morality.
In simple terms homosexuality is the practice of either reprobate minds or deceived minds outside the box of Biblical Morality. Clearly no one is perfect; nonetheless one should strive to lead a Biblical moral life even if they miss the mark (one, two ok … many times).
Can you imagine THIS? A government managed public education forum that is often prohibited from even mentioning the name of Christ, Bible, God or Christianity is openly indoctrinating children to accept homosexuality as normal. This is occurring to kids who may not even be able to read and write let alone comprehend the right and wrong of homosexuality and gay marriage.
I am sure there are parents in California who could care less about this indoctrination. I am also certain there are a huge amount of parents that are horrified that the government is teaching their children concepts no matter if parents agree with it or not on a social or moral back drop. After all even Left coast California has consistently voted for the definition of a marriage as between a man and a woman. Homosexual activists have been bankrolled to spread their agenda to the Courts to overcome the will of the voting people.
California’s Proposition 22 (2000) was ratified by the voters to the tune of 61% to 38% defined marriage as between a man and woman. The State Supreme Court struck that down.
In spite of a well financed homosexual campaign to message voters into accepting homosexuality as normal, the people passed California Proposition 8 to rule out same-sex marriages. The percentage was less than 2000’s 61% but it still passed with 52% of California’s voters.
By indoctrinating the young, the homosexual agenda is attempting to plow the stage with future American voters brainwashed to vilify Christian Biblical Morality. This is a classic instance of the failure of morality in America of the proper interpretation of the First Amendment as relating to religion (i.e. primarily the Christian doctrines of the Founding Fathers) and government.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. (Bill of Rights)
The proper interpretation is that Congress is NOT able to make LAW establishing a STATE CHURCH nor can Congress prohibit the FREE EXERCISE of religion (again the Founding Fathers had in Christianity in mind). There is nothing in the First Amendment stipulating that religion (again the Founding Fathers’ thought is Christianity) should not be involved in government especially as religion pertains to moral foundations in a community.
One of the greatest foundations that the Left has melted away in America is the ability of schools to inculcate the religious morality of the local community. This melting has been the precursor to school violence like Columbine and teenage suicide.
You know what? The Left and the homosexual activists are aware of the old Christian proverb: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” In the case of the Left it is ‘Give me your children they will be God-hating moral relativists for life.’
This is the reasoning for indoctrinating children at such a young age concerning homosexuality. If the Courts does not pop into line with the homosexual agenda, then a generation of indoctrination will produce a future homosexual-friendly voter base.
I received a WallBuilders e-newsletter on March 23, 2009. Here is the first paragraph of that e-newsletter:
The aggressive push to redefine marriage has now moved to the literary arena, and the newest ally in the gay marriage movement is Merriam-Webster's Dictionary.
Christian Americans are being duped into letting their children receive relativist morality while anything that is Judea/Christian is frowned upon or downright forbidden in public education.
The result is children growing up with two choices in life: the few hours of the example of their parents or the many hours of educational authority figures and indoctrinated peers.
The Supreme Court decided prayer in schools was a violation of the government First Amendment edict of not allowing Congress to establish religion and forgetting that Congress can make NO law prohibiting the free exercise of religion. Thus the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ex nihilo created an ingrained twentieth century concept – The separation of Church and State.
I challenge anyone to find the words “separation of Church and State” in the U.S. Constitution. You can believe me and save some time: There ain’t no such thing.
The First Amendment does not separate Christianity from government; the Amendment merely states the government cannot establish a particular religion as a State religion. And HELLO! The religion the Founding Fathers were talking about was not Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, various and numerous other religions nor the false religion Secular Humanism (which to the extreme is the religion of atheism in the sense of ideology). Nay good citizen, the religion spoken of was Christianity.
Even if a majority of the Founding Fathers were Deists, they were Christian Deists. The moral foundation of Christian principles was to be the rule of law in America. The government simply could not favor a Christian religious doctrine over another in endorsement.
Friends this is not separation of Church and State. (Incidentally the word “Church” implies Christianity as well.) The more the Left in the 20th and 21st century utilize the Judicial System to override American heritage, the more America fulfills the dreams of Secular Humanism and increases the viability to make Christianity slowly illegal. Why? The reason is the mere practice of Christianity will violate the rule of law which an otherwise free speech or free religion would be perceived to incite violence, discrimination or a civil offense against a religion other than Christianity, an atheist, ungodly homosexual practices or whatever Secular Humanism defines as normal relative to the age.
It is old news but it is the first time I have read it. The article I read it from is an online magazine called The Voice.
For some reason the article isn’t dated; however a quick perusal of the comments suggests The Voice published the story on or before September 24, 2008.
Boltz out himself publicly to a Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender rag called the Washington Blade.
Boltz says he turned to Christianity to try to overcome homosexual tendencies when he was a young teenager. He eventually married as a Christian heterosexual and produced four kids which are adults now.
Apparently he outed himself to his family which obviously has led to a divorce for Boltz claimed he was living a happy normal homosexual life.
Sadly and Certainly Boltz has provided more ammunition for homosexual activists to attack Biblical Morality which is definitely anti-homosexual lifestyle.
JRH 3/23/09 ***************************************** Christian Songwriter Ray Boltz Embraces Homosexuality
A contemporary Christian songwriter Ray Boltz has embraced the homosexual lifestyle during his coming out journey. His songs were inspiring, patriotic, and encouraged many. Boltz authored 16 albums and enjoyed a nearly 20-year recording career. However, in a lengthy interview with the Washington Blade - a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender newspaper – Boltz exposed his true lifestyle.
Boltz is a household name for many evangelical Christians, particularly for hits like “Thank You,” “Watch the Lamb,” “The Anchor Holds,” and “I Pledge Allegiance to the Lamb.”
Boltz garnered a handful of Recording Industry Association of America Gold-certified albums, three Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association and 12 number one hits on Christian radio. Boltz is regarded as one of the better-known singer/songwriters in contemporary Christian music. But after the release of his last album in 2002, and his last tour in 2004, he retired from the music industry and moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
On December 26, 2004, Boltz disclosed to his wife of 33 years and his four adult children that he was gay. According to Boltz’s own words in The Washington Blade, “It’s hard to say I came out because I didn’t have all the answers. I just admitted what I was struggling with and what I was feeling. It’s hard to go, ‘This is the point where I accepted my sexuality and who I was,’ but I came out to them and shared with them what I’d been going through.”
Boltz’s marriage to his ex-wife was, as he says, largely a happy one. It produced four children — three daughters and a son who are now between 22 and 32 — but family life and going through the motions of being heterosexual wearied Boltz. He describes himself as entering a serious state of depression. He was in therapy for years, taking Prozac and other anti-depressants, and was oftentimes suicidal.
Boltz told The Blade, “I’d denied it ever since I was a kid. I became a Christian, I thought that was the way to deal with this and I prayed hard and tried for 30-some years and then at the end, I was just going, ‘I’m still gay. I know I am.’ And I just got to the place where I couldn’t take it anymore … when I was going through all this darkness, I thought, ‘Just end this.’”
This month the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) announced Boltz would be giving two concerts at MCC venues in Indianapolis and Washington, D.C., with proceeds to benefit the new direction of Boltz’s musical career. MCC sees its mission being social as well as spiritual by standing up for the rights of minorities, particularly those of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people (LGBT). Though he’s open to performing, Boltz says he doesn’t plan to let this issue take over his life.
“I don’t want to be a spokesperson, I don’t want to be a poster boy for gay Christians, I don’t want to be in a little box on TV with three other people in little boxes screaming about what the Bible says, I don’t want to be some kind of teacher or theologian — I’m just an artist and I’m just going to sing about what I feel and write about what I feel and see where it goes,” he told the Washington Blade.
Boltz declined to go into specifics about the first time he was with a man, but says he has been dating and lives “a normal gay life” now. He went on to tell the Washington Blade, “This is what it really comes down to: If this is the way God made me, then this is the way I’m going to live. It’s not like God made me this way and he’ll send me to hell if I am who he created me to be … I really feel closer to God because I no longer hate myself.” _______________________
The Official Brand and Website of The Voice®. The Voice® is a Christian magazine published by Jonas Clark Communications.
The “Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Prevention Act” of 2007 was designed to prevent hate crimes against homosexuals. The reality of the Act would have infringed on First Amendment Free Speech rights by making it a crime to communicate Biblical Morality. The reason being Biblical Morality denounces homosexuality; ergo it would be a hate crime.
The Act sailed through the House and the Senate. The Senate made the fortunate mistake of attaching its version to an omnibus DoD spending Bill. A veto threat by G.W. caused the Act attachment to be withdrawn from the DoD Bill effectively killing the infringement of Free Speech Act in late 2007.
Of course I was very much against this Bill in the first place. You can one of the most comprehensive posts for rejecting this Act HERE.
You can guess that homosexual rights/agenda organizations went medievally gay because this tool to silence Christians became unavailable to them.
Here we are now and it is 2009. Now there is Bill with the appellation of David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act (H.R. 256). This so-called ‘Hate Crime’ legislation expands beyond enabling homosexuality as a government protected debauchery. This Bill if passed will affect Free Speech concerning opinions also dealing with illegal immigration issues and religion (meaning if a Christian Biblically tells or writes his opinion in the negative of another religion – it would be a hate crime). If passed written and/or verbal opinions publicly aired concerning illegal immigrants, religions and homosexual (let’s include transgender issues as well) could get one thrown in the slammer. Considering the money behind the homosexual agenda and Wahhabist Muslim agenda in America, you can count on Christianity to be a target.
Incredulously pro-Christian Ministries, Churches and organization that promote Biblical morality have become the target of those that would support David Ray Hate Crimes Act.
One of those organizations is called the Southern Poverty Law Center. One of the goals of the SPLC is to label Hate Groups. It is shocking that many organizations that stand for walking the Word of God of Christ Jesus a placed in a ‘Hate Group’ category.
The SPLC and the likes of the Hate Crimes legislation being forced on America are similar to the filtered Freedom of Speech in Europe and Canada.
One Christian organization has an awesome article defending their Christian beliefs (and by association then other such organizations) in the face of the SPLC including them as a hate organization. Read what the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC) has to say about being labeled a hate group as well as the pending Hate Crimes legislation.
I missed it but apparently the periodical Newsweek came out with an article that essentially validates the homosexual lifestyle. Now that is not surprising since most of Mainstream Media (MSM) is Leftist in nature and the Left tends to support Secular Humanism and Secular Humanism is in a same-sex marriage with the Homosexual Agenda.
I found an excellent rebuttal to the author of the Newsweek article – Lisa Miller – who uses journalism to suggest that Biblical Scripture does not condemn homosexuality because the Bible is a “living document.” “Living document” is Left-speak for Constitutional Law and Judeo-Christian Scripture should be interpreted relative the values of the present rather than the letter of the original meaning.
California’s Proposition 8 defined marriage as between a male and a female; ergo Adam and Steve or Eve and Anna cannot engage in holy matrimony. Of course I doubt that Proposition 8 was worded that yet it is true nonetheless.
I am a strong believer in Biblical Morality as opposed to Secular Humanist morality. The former utilizes the Judeo-Christian authority of the Bible as the foundation for morality and the latter uses – well uses moral relativity as a foundation for morality.
Biblical Morality defines right and wrong based on the revealed character of God. Moral relativity defines right and wrong based on human perceptions of acceptability, thus altruistically a large group of humans that have evolved a belief system is right and should be tolerated on an egalitarian level by all humans.
Significant amount of Afro-American Christians, Evangelical Christians, Roman Catholics and followers of Mormonism turned out to tip morality in California closer to the Biblical version rather than the relativist version.
Just as a sidebar I am not exactly a fan of Mormonism. Mormons call themselves Christians when in fact they are way off the way of Christ; nonetheless even Mormons recognize the Creator created a male and a female for matrimony. Even though Mormonism is not Christian there is no doubt that old Joseph Smith created his cult from the image of Christianity thus there is an existence of a Judeo-Christian moral foundation in Mormonism.
Just as the voters have spoken when Barack Hussein Obama was elected, so also have Californian voters (and over 20 other States) spoken on the definition of Marriage. Homosexuals thrive on calling those that understand Biblically that homosexuality is a deviant lifestyle as bigots.
Many have written of a clash of civilizations between the West and Islam. The current battle within the borders of America is a clash between Biblical ethics and morality versus the ethics and morality of the relativity of Secular Humanism.
It is time for these groups (and the voters in the middle or indifferent) to take a political stand. Allow the democratic process to settle these issues State by State. Also the Federal and State Judiciary needs to examine if the democratic process is Democratic and NOT legislate and create law from an activist bench.
JudgeRight has an excellent post concerning persecution on traditional Western Values by the deviant alternate lifestyle known as homosexuality.
You will see three YouTube videos that flow along with his post. Be sure to the view them for oft times seeing and hearing is to view the truth.
HumanEvents.com became the vehicle for a paid ad representing the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and written by Rick Santorum former Republican Senator from Pennsylvania. The ad references the May 15, 2008 California State Supreme Court validating homosexual marriage over turning Proposition 22 from the year 2000. That Proposition in 2000 passed with 68% electorate voting to define marriage as between a man and a woman.
Santorum’s ad is simply to mobilize the will of the majority of Americans against wealthy homosexuals who are an extremely low percentage of Americans utilizing their wealth to transform America into a Secular Humanist anti-religious nation that accepts homosexuality and transgenders as normal rather than deviant as defined by most of globes Faiths. (And my readers know I am no fan of the Muslim religion; however at least Muslims recognize that which is deviant and that which normal.)
YOU CAN READ SANTORUM’S MOBILING AD HERE.
JRH 7/18/08 ***************************** A Special Message from Rick Santorum
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Dear Friend of Marriage,
My friend, I've never come to you with a more urgent message: Unless we act today, we will lose the battle for marriage--not a decade from now, not "someday," but quite possibly in the next few months.
How? Just weeks ago, a handful of out-of-touch judges overturned the will of the people in California by repealing Proposition 22, which defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman and was overwhelmingly approved by the voters in 2000.
Four California judges endorsed two big, very bad ideas. First, they extended the internationally recognized human right to marry to include same-sex marriage. Not even in Massachusetts or in New Jersey could the courts stomach the idea that same-sex marriage is deeply rooted in our foundational American traditions of human rights.
The second big idea endorsed by the California court is even less promising: sexual orientation should be treated just like race under the California equal protection amendment, subject to "strict scrutiny." This is a ruling which, if left undisturbed, means that Protestants, Catholics, Jews and Muslims who see marriage as the union of husband and wife, and view sexual activity as best confined to marriage so defined, are in the exact position as racists under California law.
Hollywood, academia and some in the medical profession launched a huge offensive over the past decade to change the attitude of Americans about the homosexual community.
They have succeeded in shaping the minds of young people against traditional marriage and intimidating and punishing anyone who offers a defense of marriage. A sophisticated network of wealthy gay activists are now trying to exploit this change in attitudes by spending millions on stealth campaigns to defeat pro-family state legislators and pass gay marriage laws.
They are pushing the battle first where the secular left is the strongest: deep in "blue states" including New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Maryland and now even in my home commonwealth, Pennsylvania.
If we don't fight back, our children and grandchildren will get harmful and confusing messages about marriage, including this one: there's no difference between same-sex and opposite-sex unions and anyone who defends marriage is a bigot.
Make no mistake, gay marriage is not about letting Adam visit Steve in the hospital or letting them do what they want in private. Gay marriage is about using the power of government to propagate a new faith: Individuals who oppose gay marriage are hateful bigots and they and their faith community should be punished.
Why are they pushing so hard to push gay marriage laws through state legislatures?
Because, they want to drive a nail into the coffin of any possibility of a federal marriage amendment.
Because, once it is "normalized" in this way, they are counting on the courts and the culture to then spread gay marriage throughout the country.
Because they know that once they get government committed to the idea that traditional marriage is bigotry, like racism, they can use the power of big government to marginalize, stigmatize and repress people of faith in American life.
And because they believe people of faith like you and me have no way to fight back.
Their strategy is simple: Use the big money power of high-tech billionaires to get politicians to ignore the values and voices of regular Americans.
That means, folks like you and me who:
• Know marriage is the union of husband and wife;
• Don't want their hard-earned tax dollars used to subsidize novel family forms, and;
• Certainly do not wish their public schools to teach captive children that their parents and grandparents are evil discriminators for opposing gay marriage.
That's right, while we are tending to our jobs, going to church, and raising our families, a handful of wealthy gay men are plotting ways to use their giant fortunes to reshape the entire American political landscape in their own image.
Sound a little hard to believe? I thought so too, until I read the March 1, 2007 Atlantic Monthly article that documents the detailed plans and huge influence these men are having, led by one gay billionaire activist named Tim Gill.
The article is called "They Won't Know What Hit Them," and the subtitle pretty much says it all:
"Tim Gill has a mission: stop the Rick Santorums of tomorrow before they get started. How a network of gay political donors is stealthily ... reshaping American politics."
These gay marriage activists know the marriage battle will be won or lost in state legislatures. And because they know that state legislatures are our farm team for the next generation of passionate pro-family leaders that's who the gay donors are targeting.
"[I]t's often just a handful of people, two or three, who introduce the most outrageous legislation and force the rest of their colleagues to vote on it," says Gill. "If you could reach these few people or neutralize them by flipping the chamber to leaders who would block bad legislation, you'd have a dramatic effect."
Their goal? "[P]unish the wicked," as Gill puts it. Or, "snuff out rising politicians who were building their careers on antigay policies, before they . . . achieve national influence."
Their chief cautionary example of such a villain is . . . --Yes, there I am again!-- "Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania."
Let's be clear here: by "punish the wicked" Gill means people like you and me who adhere to God's vision of what marriage is and what it is for.
By "outrageous legislation" he means laws that protect marriage as the union of husband and wife, and incidentally also protect faith groups from persecution by the government for our views of marriage.
In the last election cycle Gill pumped $15 million into defeating the good guys. According to the Atlantic Monthly he succeeded seventy percent of the time.
"In 2000, he gave $300,000 in political donations, which grew to $800,000 in 2002, $5 million in 2004, and a staggering $15 million last year, almost all of it to state and local campaigns."
Danny Carroll, for example, used to be speaker pro tem of the Iowa House, a rising pro-family star who had guided a state marriage amendment to passage in the Iowa House (the first step to putting it on the ballot).
Then he was targeted by rich gay activists for his leadership on marriage.
Carroll never even knew why he lost, until the Atlantic Monthly reporter pointed out to him all the $1,000 out of state checks:
"I'll be darned," said Carroll. "Denver ... Dallas ... Los Angeles ... Malibu ... there's New York again ... San Francisco! I can't--I just cannot believe this," he said, finally. "Who is this guy again?"
When the gay marriage money comes in and "flips" a state legislature, they flip it on ALL the values issues that concern families like ours; Abortion, religion in the public square, abstinence education--not to mention a whole lot of tax and spending issues too.
In Pennsylvania, Gill money helped the Democrats gain control of the House by only one vote.
What happens if we permit this tiny minority to reshape marriage? The next step is to use the new law to suppress the liberties of Christians.
Already:
• A Christian adoption agency--Catholic Charities!--has been shut down by the government because it will not do adoptions for gay married couples.
• A volunteer fireman, who risked his life to rescue friends and neighbors in need, was told his services were no longer wanted--because he signed a petition supporting marriage as the union of husband and wife.
• A father was arrested for trying to prevent a public school from teaching his son that gay marriage is normal.
• In New Jersey, a Methodist organization just lost part of its state tax exemption because it refused to permit civil union ceremonies on church-owned property.
How can this happen in the United States of America?
One thing I've learned to trust after 15 years on the front lines: When things look the darkest, God raises up new reasons to hope.
For those of us who are Christians, despair is a vice, and for us hope is not only a natural emotion, it's a theological virtue.
We are each called to "faith, hope and love." It is the fuel for our battles with the forces of hate who seek (in the name of tolerance!) to silence God's own truth.
This is the start of something really big and new--and not only on the marriage issue. It's a whole new model for getting politicians to do the right thing on traditional values.
I know politicians--believe me!--and nothing gets their attention like the possibility of a competent, well-funded campaign to let voters know how they really vote! Listen to Maggie Gallagher, NOM's new president, talk about the real disconnect between the polls--which show 60 percent of Americans oppose gay marriage--and the politicians:
"Politicians think they can get away with ignoring what voters think on marriage. Unless that changes, gay marriage activists are going to push blue state legislators to pass gay marriage, whether the people in their state want it or not."
So she and some other folks have pulled together a brilliant team to head up NOM's 2008 State Action Plan to take on the coming marriage and religious liberty battles in the states where it will be fought.
Think about the success of the gay marriage movement: If 2 percent of the population funded by a handful of rich men can work a revolution in culture, what could 60 percent of the population--or the most committed quarter--do with the right tools and strategy?
We can take Gill's strategy and flip it against him: use it to protect marriage by creating the real possibility of political risk--that politicians SHOULD feel when they vote against their own constituents' voices and values.
The National Organization's mission is to "protect marriage and the faith communities that sustain it." The team they've brought together to accomplish this mission is extraordinary. Princeton Professor Robert George, Chairman of the Board, is a national treasure, a consistent and powerful intellectual defender of life, marriage and the natural law. Maggie Gallagher, NOM's president, is one of the most powerful, consistent voices for marriage in the country.
I got to know Maggie well during the battles over the Federal Marriage Amendment; Maggie helped me equip senators to speak on marriage. You may know her from her syndicated column that appears in the New York Post and many Pennsylvania papers as well.
Brian Brown, the dynamic young executive director (the father of five kids under the age of eight!) spent five years reviving and running the successful Family Institute of Connecticut, so he knows what it is like to fight for marriage deep in blue-state territory.
But don't take my word for it alone: Dr. James Dobson personally donated $25,000 to the National Organization for Marriage. Why?, "It's not just marriage that is at stake, it's absolutely everything," Dr. Dobson said on a recent Focus on the Family broadcast in which he invited Maggie Gallagher and Prof. George to speak about the National Organization for Marriage.
On the October 10 Focus on the Family radio broadcast, Dr. James C. Dobson urged pro-family Americans to do something about it.
"This has been an ongoing struggle that burns in our hearts," Dr. Dobson says. "And now, marriage is really on the brink, and I don't know how to emphasize that more."
Let's get the good fight going!
Gay marriage activists have to depend on a handful of very wealthy men, because they cannot count on the broad support of the American people. They know politicians who listen to your views and values will vote for marriage as the union of husband and wife.
Together, with God's help, there is no limit on what we can accomplish.
We need your help to put NOM's 2008 State Action Plan to work for your values, including:
• To launch a billboard campaign targeting state legislators who promised to vote for marriage and then broke their word. (For an example, click here.)
• To develop radio and TV ads and launch a sophisticated new media campaign to let the American people know the real consequences of gay marriage.
• To create a national grassroots email database of voters (segmented by state) who care about marriage and its related religious liberty issues, for state as well as national campaigns.
• To provide protection--legal, moral and media--to individuals targeted by the gay lobby for their courageous stands for marriage.
Our goal? Passionate, pro-family advocacy--with real muscle to back it up so the politicians can ignore our values no longer.
But there is one big problem. The gay millionaires are writing big checks. But most Republican donors are afraid to take on this issue, afraid their businesses and their pocketbooks will suffer if they take on the gay lobby. All this, at a time when citizens and legislators in California, Florida, Rhode Island and other linchpin states are facing their most important opportunity to defend marriage, right now!
So we are going to have to do it without the millionaires. It's just us this time, fighting against the latest legislation from the bench in California and other acute challenges to marriage in America.
And don't forget: we need your prayers, too. To thank you, I'd like to give you a gift in return: Everyone who pledges a monthly gift to NOM's 2008 State Action Plan, no matter how large or small, will get a free CD of the Focus on the Family October 10 broadcast on gay marriage and what it will mean for churches and other Christian organizations throughout this country. One-time donations of $100 or more, or monthly donations of $10 a month, will receive a free copy of my book, It Takes a Family.
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On May 15, 2008 the California Supreme Court in a 4-3 decision struck down a people’s initiative in 2000 that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. Mystically four State Supreme Justices found that California’s State Constitution made the people’s initiative unconstitutional in 2008.
I am betting Proposition 8 on November 4, 2008 will pass thus overturning the California Supreme Court’s 4-3 decision in May. And the homosexual activists KNOW IT.
In Bennett v. Bowen, No. S164520 the homosexual activists that had big buck homosexual organizations on the legal team (including the ACLU of course) went down in flaming defeat with the unanimous decision.
The California Supreme Court has ruled that the marriage protection amendment will remain on the state's November ballot.
Following the California's Supreme Court ruling that legalized homosexual "marriage" in that state, activists sued to keep the marriage protection amendment off the November ballot. However, they failed in their attempt on Wednesday when the court ruled in favor of Proposition 8's inclusion on the ballot.
Glen Lavy with the Alliance Defense Fund says the homosexual activists trying to keep the amendment off the ballot showed their contempt for the will of the people and the democratic process by filing such a baseless lawsuit. "I would have been shocked if the court had prevented this amendment from going on the ballot," he comments. "The lawsuit was frivolous. There was no basis for the arguments. It would have been ridiculous for the court to rule in their favor," Lavy contends. Matt Staver of Liberty Counsel represented the Campaign for California Families and argued in defense of the amendment. "[We] really didn't know which way the court was going [on this particular issue]," he says. "But the good news is they've rejected the argument by same-sex advocates to remove the marriage amendment from the ballot.
"Now the secretary of state is free to print all the information to notify the voters and, in fact, the voters will speak in November," the Liberty Counsel founder continues. "And when they speak, I believe they'll pass these 14 words. These 14 words will overrule the 4-to-3 decision of the California Supreme Court and restore marriage as the union of one man and one woman." Those 14 words are: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." According to Staver, passage of Prop. 8 would invalidate all same-sex marriages performed in California prior to the enactment of the amendment.
The legal Christian perspective is confident Proposition 8 is something the California Supreme Court can’t touch if passed.
The California Supreme Court, which approved same-sex marriage in a landmark ruling in May, has refused to remove a proposed ban on same-sex marriage from the state's November ballot.
The state's highest court cleared the way on June 16 for state voters to weigh in on a ballot initiative, Proposition 8, which would outlaw same-sex marriage under the state constitution.
On June 20, LGBT-rights advocates asked the state supreme court to block the vote and pull the measure from the ballot, saying it would destroy fundamental rights that can't be curtailed by popular initiative. Bennett v. Bowen, No. S164520.
Under the supreme court's May 15 ruling, the court relied on state constitutional rights of privacy and equal protection to allow equal marriage rights to same-sex couples. The suit argues that repeal of those rights requires revision of the state constitution, which can only be done by a two-thirds vote of the state Legislature, before going to voters.
Same-sex marriages have been taking place throughout the state since June 16, when the original decision became final. If Proposition 8 is approved by voters and same-sex marriage is outlawed, the California Supreme Court is likely to be faced with the legal question of whether the existing same-sex marriages are valid and a renewed challenge to the constitutionality of Proposition 8.
The one-page order signed by Chief Justice Ron George, denies, without explanation, the request to pull the measure from the ballot. The order was unanimous. (The National Law Journal Legal Pad LA)
The author of this article (Pamela A. Maclean) speculates that the California Supreme Court will again enter the legal fray of difficulties with a passage of Proposition 8. So it might still be the will of the voters versus the will of judicial system.
Today is Independence Day. Independence Day in America has become a time of outdoor and/or family get-togethers and enjoying fireworks displays.
This is all good because it is a rare time that most Americans put aside political differences for a day of fun and entertainment.
Unfortunately I suspect it is a day that most Americans do not comprehend the blood, sweat and personal sacrifice that American Revolutionaries experienced in gaining the freedom of self-governance from a then one of the most powerful nations in the world – Great Britain.
The Brits certainly looked upon the upstart Revolutionaries as political gnats daring to with stand British sovereignty and a threat to the colonial system of economics that benefited the British Empire.
Ergo the Brits of the day decided to squash the pipsqueak American colonials by any means necessary to preserve British honor and economics (certainly an overstated simplification on my part but you get the idea).
What the Brits did not understand is that American colonialism developed under two premises: Individuals and groups seeking a better economic life unattainable in the Mother England AND religious refugees that honored God but not necessarily accepted by the State Church of England.
The first marked the embracement of individualism the later laid the foundation for Christian morality in colonial America.
Secular Humanism and its spawn such as homosexual activist are attempting to negate the Christian heritage that America was founded upon.
And now Secular Humanist offshoot activists like the homosexual rights groups are doing everything in their power to convince Americans and the rule of law that homosexuality is a normal lifestyle that deserves validated equal protection under the American rule of law. In doing this agenda homosexuals have also done everything in their power to discredit Biblical Christianity as an archaic group of bigots who are prejudiced against their gender-bending deviancy.
That is the key by the way: Biblically homosexuality is deviant behavior that should be abhorred in the same category as pornography, pedophilia, prostitution and other sexual deviancy that has manipulated the First Amendment beyond its intent with concurrence of a Leftist Judiciary and NOT the American voters.
With this in mind I compelled to support (and ask others to support) the American Family Associations (AFA) war of exposing billion dollar corporations who actually pump money into the coffers of deviant homosexual activist organizations who goal is to transform American perceptions of right and wrong or what is moral or immoral based on Secular Humanisms concept of moral relativity.
The unabashed support of the Homosexual Agenda by the McDonalds Corporation is the latest task of the AFA. Read about it HERE.
I have no idea who Peter M. Bradley of Britain is, but the singular minded anti-homosexual rights group known as the Americans for Truth about Homosexuality (AFTAH) seem to have raised the attention of Mr. Bradley. Come to think of it, it is probably a good thing I do not know who Mr. Bradley is.
Bradley recently sent an email showing his Gay Rights feelings on his shoulder and his Christophobic thinking in his writing.
You are very lucky that you live in the United States as we have laws in the United Kingdom about inciting hatred based on sexual orientation… here you would be imprisoned; and justly so. I have never seen such a diatribe of prejudiced rubbish in my entire life. Also the fact that your life’s work is dedicated (every day) to furthering your cause of hatred astounds me. Do you have nothing better to do with your time? I thought that Christians were meant to be out building wells in Africa where help is needed, not dressing up in smart suits waging campaigns against marginalised groups of people. I wonder what God thinks of you making decisions for him? Maybe if America had a more united culture like we do in the UK it may be more tolerant of all groups - we over here in Europe see you as a very disparate country made up of groups that know nothing about each other, and who have very little respect for diversity. You should take some lessons from the old world… it seems we have advanced much more than you have.
This is pretty much a summary I often get from angry homosexuals who vehemently dislike my stand that homosexuality equals immorality to the Christian faith. Homosexuals love to pour on the hatorade on Christians by calling them bigots or betrayers of the Christian love or Brotherhood. In other words rather than face up to the Biblical immorality of homosexuality, homosexual activists attempt to use the primary tools of Satan: deception and shame.
I don’t know how many times I have a homosexual apologist say Scripture does not mean what it says before the readers eyes. Often time followed by a warped interpretation of the New Testament or the brutality of the Old Testament (even in the O.T. sometimes I have read the claim Scripture does not mean what it says). Usually the criticism on Scriptural interpretation is closely followed by the tactic that homosexuals are just people like anyone else and the love of the Christian God would not stigmatize normal people like homosexuals. If homosexuals are not considered aberrant in their lifestyle then Biblical Christians are prejudiced bigots who be ashamed of some sort of racism.
PLEASE! That is just twisted thinking attempting to bully Biblical Christians into being quiet.
Interesting AFTAH has been responding to Mr. Bradley on the AFTAH blog. The two I found of interest was the response from Ron Loree and Laurie Higgins. YOU SHOULD READ THEM (or any other responses that may have come in since this post).
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