A couple of weeks ago, in PART I, we introduced this series by looking at the apostasy that occurred in our National Cathedral when it was opened to the prayer of the Muslim faithful. It was a watershed moment hardly noticed by the mainstream press. And if it was noticed, it was generally celebrated as a needed expression of tolerance. (After all, we all worship the same God, don’t we?) Of course this was in reality nothing less than the blatant denial of the God of the Universe and the principles set down in Holy Scripture. The presiding imams and prayerful Muslims, faced their backsides to the Cross and in sermons and chants denied Jesus the very Son of God. And all of this occurred at the closest thing we have to a national house of prayer. But we have not reached this place with a sudden turn. In the last decade or so there has been an acceleration of evil; a growing blatant denial of the principles of godliness. Today we will look at one such area of moral failure.
EMBRACING SIN
The Scripture is clear. “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.” (1Corinthians 6:9-10) Notice the list. It is inclusive taking in sinners of all stripes. Thieves and extortioners and drunkards are mentioned. It lists heterosexual fornicators and adulterers – but also homosexuals and sodomites. The Bible is no respecter of certain sins. God’s Word is intolerant of all the sins that stand as the expressions and hallmarks of Mankind’s rebellion against His holy order. But God’s Word is no longer an acceptable position to hold in today’s America. Instead it is becoming increasingly apparent that the only ‘safe’ stance is one that embraces – and even celebrates the homosexual agenda in all its lurid forms. Let’s look at some examples.
It was in 2007 that a Massachusetts federal judge ruled that the promotion of the gay agenda was a duty of the public schools. He wrote: “There is an obligation for public schools to teach young children to accept and endorse homosexuality.”[i] This has resulted in a level of societal stupidity that can scarcely be grasped. Early in 2014, Maine’s High Court ordered school bathrooms across the state, opened to boys claiming to be ‘transgendered.’ Life Site News reports that a new California law allows “students in all grades through high school to use what Huffington Post called ‘expressed genders’ to decide on which bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams to play on.”[ii] And according to Todd Starnes, a directive from the Massachusetts Department of Education regarding a similar situation in that state directed that little girls who objected to sharing a bathroom with boys “could be punished.”[iii]
These expressions of moral insantiy are now becoming part of the official American position. In 2013, the Department of Justice sent out a directive to its managers on just how to ‘celebrate’ the upcoming “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month.” The DOJ document entitled: “LGBT Inclusion at Work: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Managers,” including some language, directing the thought-life of its workers – as well as an ominous warning. Some of these include:
- “DO use inclusive words like ‘partner,’ ‘significant other’ or ‘spouse’ rather than gender-specific terms like ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ (for example, in invitations to office parties or when asking a new employee about his/her home life).”
- DO “Attend LGBT events sponsored by DOJ Pride and/or the Department, and invite (but don’t require) others to join you.”
- DO “Display a symbol in your office (DOJ Pride sticker, copy of this brochure, etc.) indicating that it is a ‘safe space.’”
- “DON’T judge or remain silent. Silence will be interpreted as disapproval.”[iv]
Now that’s just the government policing its own. But it has gone much farther than that. In Denver a judge ruled that: “A baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex ceremony must serve gay couples despite his religious beliefs or face fines.”[v] In Oregon, a family-owned bakery was forced to shut down by harassment coming from the LGBT community that targeted themselves, their customers and vendors. This occurred after they refused to bake a wedding cake for a Lesbian ceremony. (They had however, on another occasion, baked a cake for one of the women involved. It was just the wedding to which they objected.) They were left with the possibility of facing up to $150,000 in damages when forced to shut their doors in the Summer of 2013.[vi] In New Jersey a Christian camp was punished for not permitting a gay civil union ceremony to be permitted on its property.[vii] And all of this is about changing minds. As Oregon’s head of the Labor and Industries explained: “The goal is to rehabilitate. For those who violate the law, we want them to learn from the experience.” One MSNBC contributor put it this way. “Tolerance, no, is not – it should not be a two-way street. It’s a one-way street. You cannot say to someone that who you are is wrong, an abomination…. and not be forced – not forced, but not be made to understand that what your saying and what you’re doing is wrong.”[viii]
All of this legal and educational indoctrination is beginning to have its affect. According to Pew Research’s numbers, the nation has now reached a tipping point. Over half, – actually 52% of Americans support gay marriage. That number is the highest in the East (61%) and lowest in the South (44%).[ix] There is more hard news for the Bible-believing Christian. 61% of young Republicans favor the practice.[x] One poll “found that 64% of self-identifying Evangelical millennials support same-sex marriage.” And a New York Times/CBS News survey taken in 2013 reported that 62% of American Catholics same sex unions.[xi]
If you look at the generational models the news doesn’t get any better. Those holding a biblical view of marriage are dying off. A Pew poll from 2013 shows that among the Silent Generation (born 1928 to 1945) only 35% favor the practice. For Baby Boomers (1946-1964) the number is 41%. Generation X (1965-1980) come in at 52% and Millenials, those born after 1981, show 66% in favor.[xii]
All of this has laid the background for the recent Supreme Court non-decision. In ealry October of 2014 the Supreme Court refused to review lower court rulings that set aside bans on same sex marriage. This non-ruling flipped the map. Before that action a minority of states were allowing the unions. Now it is the other way around. While this does not mean that homosexual marriage will necessarily be permitted everywhere – it has added to the momentum for such an occurrence. Messianic Rabbi and author of the New York Times best seller, The Harbinger, writes: “In the same blink of an eye, the number of states upholding the biblical and historic definition of marriage went from 31 to 18 – a distinct miniority.” He calls this “a momentous and unprecedented moral and spiritual transformation.” In Cahn’s view: “We are past the tipping point. We live in the days that parallel those of the prophets, the days fo Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Elijah.”[xiii] And thus the war against the ‘Faith of Our Fathers’ has taken on the approval and cooperation of the government itself. The official position of our nation has turned against the God of the Scriptures. We’ve elected as President who once declared: “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation – at least, not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”[xiv] In that he has stated a sad truth. We have moved away from the moorings of our founding. America is adrift on the sea of tolerance where we must not grasp hold of the TRUTH lest someone be offened. Abraham Lincoln had a different take on the matter. During the Civil War he was asked: “Mr. President, we trust during this time of trial in which the nation is engaged, God is on our side, and will give us victory.” He famously answered: “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.” It is necessary that we get on God’s side – and operate from there.
[i] Bob Unruh, Judge Orders ‘Gay’ Agenda Taught…., World Net Daily, February 24, 2007
[ii] Maine high court orders school to open girls’ restrooms to transgendered boys, Life Site News, February 3, 2014
[iii] Todd Starnes as quoted by: Tom Robinson in Government and the Gay Agenda, The Good News Magazine,
November-December 2014
[iv] Justice Department: Employees must affirm homosexuality, Life Site News, May 20, 2013
[v] Judge Orders Colorado Cake Maker To Serve Gay Couples, AP / CBS Channel 4 (Denver), December 6, 2014
[vi] Christian Couple Forced to Close Bakery Due to Gay Activism May Face Over $150K in Damages, Christian Post, October 2, 2014
[vii] Tom Robinson, Government and the Gay Agenda, Good News Magazine, November-December 2014
[viii] Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC, May 12, 2014 – as reported by: Tom Robinson, Government and the Gay Agenda,
Good News Magazine, November-December 2014
[ix] Gay marriage arrives in the South, PewResearch.Org, October 14, 2014
[x]61% of young Republicans favor same-sex marriage, PewResearch.Org, March 10, 2014
[xi] Polling Tracks Growing and Increasingly Diverse Support for the Freedom to Marry, Freedom to Marry, July 2, 2014
[xii] Gay Marriage: Key Data Points from Pew Research, PewResearch.Org, June 11, 2013
[xiii] Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, The Darkening Accelerates, Sapphires, entry for December 1, 2014
[xiv] http://www.factcheck.org/2008/08/obama-and-the-christian-nation-quote/
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