I’ve said it many, many times. Gay ‘marriage’ was never about gaining “equal
access” to this biologically exclusive male-female institution (as the
homosexuals profess); but, rather, it’s always been about control.
While there are many layers to yet unfold, the
almost instant explosion in government-sanctioned, anti-Christian extremism on
display following the Obergefell v.
Hodges U.S. Supreme Court decision favoring same-sex ‘marriage,’ confirms
the three-fold agenda that underlies the “social justice” mob’s flowery
“marriage equality” propaganda:
1) the ultimate destruction of marriage,
2) forced affirmation of sexual deviancy under penalty of law, and
3) the eventual criminalization of Christianity.
Matt Barber, founder and editor-in-chief of BarbWire.com, goes on to clarify his
points:
The Destruction of Marriage
The desired end-state is not to achieve
so-called “marriage equality” but, rather, to render marriage reality
meaningless. Masha Gessen, a lesbian
journalist, activist and author, expressly admitted this fact in a 2012 interview
with ABC Radio: “It’s a no-brainer
that [homosexuals] should have the right to marry,” she said. “But I also think equally that it’s a
no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist. … [F]ighting for
gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with
marriage when we get there – because we lie that the institution of marriage is
not going to change, and that is a lie.”
Homosexual activist and pornographer Clinton Fein echoes Gessen’s candid
sentiments: “Demand the institution [of marriage] and then wreck it,” he once
wrote. “James Dobson was right about our
evil intentions,” he quipped. “We just
plan to be quicker than he thought.” The
goal is to water down marriage until marriage is pointless. And as evidenced by the burgeoning legal push
for polygamous and incestuous ‘marriages’ – even for the “right” to ‘marry’ a
robot – sexual anarchists are well on their way to achieving this goal.
Forced Affirmation of Sexual
Deviancy
I’ve previously posted about Rowan County Clerk
Kim Davis [read blog August 17, 2015 – “A Christian Sues KY Gov for Religious
Discrimination”]. Liberty Counsel has filed
a request for a stay and an appeal of U.S. District Judge David Bunning’s
opinion ordering Davis to issue same-sex ‘marriage’ licenses both in violation
of her 1st Amendment right to the free exercise of religion and her Christian faith
conviction that she must not participate in this explicitly sinful activity. [Davis had been sued by the American Civil
Liberties Union and two lesbian political activists.] “The plaintiffs in this case only sought
licenses from Ms. Davis after learning of her religious objections to same-sex
‘marriage,’ and they refuse to obtain a license elsewhere,” said Mat Staver,
founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “Just as Justice Alito predicted in his dissent
in Obergefell, secularists are trying to ‘stamp out every vestige of dissent’
by targeting people of faith who do not agree with same-sex ‘marriage.’ ” Judge Bunning wrote, “Davis remains free to
practice her Apostolic Christian beliefs. She may continue to attend church twice a
week, participate in Bible study and minister to female inmates at the Rowan
County Jail. She is even free to believe
that marriage is a union between one man and one woman, as many Americans do. However, her religious convictions cannot
excuse her from performing the duties that she took an oath to perform as Rowan
County Clerk,” the ruling said. Staver
responded, “Judge Bunning’s decision equated Kim’s free exercise of religion to
going to church. This is absurd! Christianity is not a robe you take off when
you leave a sanctuary. The First
Amendment guarantees Kim and every American the free exercise of religion, even
when they are working for the government.
Kim Davis did not sign up as a clerk to issue same-sex ‘marriage’ licenses.
Her job duty was changed by five lawyers
without any constitutional authority. At
a minimum, her religious convictions should be accommodated,” concluded Staver. Indeed, Davis’ oath as county clerk was to
defend and protect the U.S. Constitution and the Constitution of Kentucky. As Chief Justice John Roberts rightly observed
in his Obergefell dissent, the activist majority’s opinion actually hijacks the
democratic process and is in no way rooted in the Constitution: “[D]o not
celebrate the Constitution,” he said, “It had nothing to do with it.” The fact is that if Ms. Davis were to issue counterfeit
same-sex ‘marriage’ licenses, she would not only be disobeying God and directly
participating in expressly sinful activity; she would be violating her constitutional
oath.
The Criminalization of
Christianity
To her credit, Ms. Davis is
standing her ground while the decision is appealed. Predictably, many leftists are now clamoring
for her imprisonment. They want her held
in contempt of court and thrown in jail for refusing to at once affirm
homosexual sin and violate God’s commands. This is the new pagan orthodoxy. Meanwhile, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)
reports on “a Colorado Court of Appeals decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v.
Craig, regarding a cake artist [Jack Phillips] who declined to use his artistic
abilities to promote and endorse their same-sex ceremony even though other cake
artists were willing to do the job.” ADF
attorney Jeremy Tedesco observed, “Americans are guaranteed the freedom to live
and work consistent with their faith. Government
has a duty to protect people’s freedom to follow their beliefs personally and
professionally rather than force them to adopt the government’s views. Jack simply exercised the long-cherished
American freedom to decline to use his artistic talents to promote a message
with which he disagrees. The court is
wrong to deny Jack his fundamental freedoms.”
The court affirmed an earlier order wherein Phillips and his Christian
staff were not only ordered to bake homosexual “wedding” cakes against their
will, but were additionally forced into pro-homosexual “sensitivity” propaganda
classes. And if they refuse? … then they
go to jail. That’s how it works. Christian free exercise isn’t out-lawed all at
once. Judges across America are simply
ordering from the bench that millions of Christians, just like Kim Davis and
Jack Phillips, must either deny recognition of God’s natural order and Christ’s
admonition to “go and sin no more,” or face prison for “contempt of court.”
What has become of America? … where evil is
good, men are women, judges are tyrants, and Christians are persona non grata. There is no more in between. It’s either God or man. The anti-Christ left has thrown down the ‘gay
marriage’ gauntlet.
Listen: “But
if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this
day whom you will serve. … But as for me and my household, we will serve the
LORD.” (Joshua 24:15)
The question remains: Whom will you serve? The Lord God waits your answer!
Rev. Dr.
Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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