After previously claiming (lying) that
they’d never do anything to stop you from practicing your religion (in your
church … “where it belongs”) the ‘Left’ has openly declared war on God and
those who still believe what the Word of God has to say about moral matters,
and those who believe in the original intent of the U.S. Constitution’s right
to freely exercise religious conviction.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
announced they are withdrawing their support for a heinous piece of legislation
known as Employment Non-Discrimination
Act (ENDA). Why? Because
with a scant 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) opinion in favor
of Hobby Lobby (a 1st Amendment
decision) it’s obvious to them that ENDA
in its current form wasn’t heinous enough. ENDA
is the unholy grail of the moral depravity lobby. The immorality peddlers have been peddling
various versions of this bill for years.
The intent of this legislation is for the federal government to once and
for all make someone’s private sexual behavior a publicly protected class throughout
America, and thus silence once-and-for-all any moral or religious dissent to
their depravity.
The version coming out of the
Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate last year included so-called “religious
exemptions.” But these same people think
the federal government can order the “Little Sister of the Poor” to pay for abortifacients
and baby-murder.
The ACLU isn’t even going to pay lip service to ‘liberty’ anymore. They will no longer support any legislation
that doesn’t tell religious institutions they have to obey man and not God.
The ENDA says if you’re a Christian school with a teacher/administrator
living an immoral life that undermines your mission, you can’t fire them. Here is an example:
Last year, Azusa Pacific University (a Christian school)
asked a female theology professor to leave after she began to assume a
transgender identity. “Gender identity”
is protected under ENDA. If ENDA
were the law of the land with no religious exemptions, then it would have been
illegal for this Christian school to dismiss this professor. Under ENDA,
Azusa would have been in violation of federal law if they were to follow
Christianity’s teaching about gender.
The ‘Left’ have declared an all-out
culture war and will offer no accommodation to sincere religious dissenters. They are ready to use the coercive power of
the government to trample the religious consciences of their fellow countrymen.
If you’re a Democrat that takes your
faith seriously and you think this is a fringe element of your party, consider
the fact the Democrat majority in the U.S. Senate has “fast-tracked”
legislation that would seek to undo the Hobby
Lobby opinion. The bill would demand
a company pay for abortifacients and baby-murder as Obamacare originally
demanded.
The generation of Democrats who gave
us the Religious Freedom Restoration Act
20-years ago, which SCOTUS used as the basis for its ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby, is mostly gone now. It has been replaced by what David Horowitz
calls “the New Left.” This “New Left” is
not mere liberals; they are flat-out ‘Leftists.’ They don’t want to grow government as much as
they want to change it. They are Social
Reconstructionists, whose goal is to empower government to replace our
Judeo-Christian ideals of liberty and morality with what amounts to Cultural
Marxism. And they won’t stop until the
American Exceptionalism they either don’t understand or loathe is eradicated
once-and-for-all. That’s why their
ultimate goal is silencing the church … as all tyrants in history have tried to
do … because the church has always been the chief obstacle to ‘statism’ in a
culture. For the true church says that
God (alone) is God; and the government is not.
Once God is out of the way, so are your God-given rights … which makes
you a de facto ward of the state and not a free person. As G.K. Chesterton said, “Once abolish the God
and the government becomes the god.”
You can’t share a culture with
people who won’t share it with you. There
is no negotiating with these people. You
can only convert or defeat them.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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