Posted on 03/28/2016 8:35:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
mayor of San Francisco has banned all publicly-funded city employees from traveling to North Carolina.
The NFL is threatening to block Atlanta, Georgia from hosting a future Super Bowl.
The NBA is threatening to relocate next year’s All Star game from Charlotte, North Carolina to another city.
Corporate giants like American Airlines and Hollywood giants like Disney are threatening action against Georgia and North Carolina.
Why?
It is because North Carolina has passed a bill requiring people to use the public bathroom or locker room that corresponds to their birth certificate gender and because Georgia has enacted legislation (yet to be signed by the governor) that would protect pastors from having to perform same-sex “marriages.”
It is time for Christians and all people of conscience to say, “Enough is enough with your bullying. We are not going to bow down to your threats. We will do what is right, regardless of cost or consequence, and in the end, we will be vindicated for taking a stand.”
As for Ed Lee, the mayor of San Francisco, he’s acting more like a dictator than a mayor. Who gave him the right to tell city-funded employees where they could travel in their own country, once known as “the land of the free”?
Unfortunately, the pattern is all too familiar.
A state like Indiana passes a Religious Freedoms Act that mirrors national law, as a result of which gay bullies and their allies threaten to pull their businesses from the state – from Wal-Mart to Apple to Craig’s List to the NCAA – and within days, the governor and the legislation cave, passing a new law that makes things worse than ever. (This happened in March, 2015; the Indianan legislators and governor have since pushed back to some degree.)
We cannot let this happen in our states (I have lived in North Carolina since 2003), and as believers nationwide, we must stand together and reject these pressure tactics and call them out for what they are: unethical, strong-armed, bullying.
Never bow down to bullies!
Earlier this year, I helped draft an 8-page letter to the mayor and City Council of Charlotte, detailing the negative effects that their new, “anti-LGBT discrimination” bill could have. (Ironically, a gay man who was instrumental in helping to push this bill through was a convicted, child sex-offender who has since resigned as president of Charlotte’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce because of his past record.)
Among the negative effects of this bill outlined in my letter were:
· The door would be opened wide to heterosexual predators who would use transgender bathroom rights to spy on girls and women (for chilling video evidence of what these heterosexual predators have done, see here)
· The proposed changes could lead to widespread discrimination against Christians and other people of faith who, in good conscience, could not participate in same-sex “weddings” (such as photographers, bakers, florists, and others). The law would now be decidedly against them.
I also noted that, “National studies indicate that states which do not have non-discrimination laws including ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ are suffering no ill effects economically,” dispelling the myth that only “progressive” (= “pro-LGBT”) cities are prospering. The evidence is clearly against this.
This is yet another reason to stand up to the bullies: Good business practices and hard work lead to prosperity, not being politically correct. (For the truth about the North Carolina bill, which the secular media is largely failing to report, see here, and note that in North Carolina, some of the companies protesting the loudest already have policies to protect LGBT “rights” and those policies are completely unaffected by the new law.)
In Georgia, the main focus was preserving religious freedoms, such as protecting pastors from having to perform same-sex “wedding” ceremonies. (Religious freedoms were certainly an issue in North Carolina, but the central focus here was on the bathroom bill.)
Yet as Ryan Anderson pointed out, the bill passed by the Georgia legislature was quite narrow in its protections, contained language that could be used against people of faith, and was a significantly gutted version of a far from perfect original bill.
In other words, the current bill awaiting the governor’s signature is quite tame, simply providing the barest of protections of our religious liberties, and it is still creating an uproar of protest, as “More than 30 of Hollywood’s heaviest hitters sent a threatening letter to Gov. Nathan Deal, telling him in no uncertain terms that if he passes the religious-freedom bill the legislature handed him for consideration, they’ll never work in Georgia again.”
As I have warned for years (and repeated almost ad infinitum), the activists who came out of the closet want to put you and me in the closet, and they will not rest until that door is safely shut. It is time for us to say: That will never happen, and we will go to jail rather than compromise our convictions. Your bullying will backfire in the end.
When it comes to transgender issues, we are dealing with an unquantifiable, untestable condition which relies entirely on self-perception (and can switch by the day or the hour), as noted by Margaret A. Hagen, Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. Yet the mayor of Seattle recently used an executive order to allow biological males to use women’s bathrooms.
What kind of social madness is this?
In the days to come, I plan to lay out some specific calls to action, including a strategy for Christian athletes in the NFL and NBA. But for now, it’s time for us to get on our knees before God so we can stand tall before man, resolving in our hearts that, whatever it takes (in godly, not fleshly terms), we will do what is right. (For an excellent, strategic handbook, see here.)
For the moment, I encourage you to take a moment to send a note of appreciation to Gov. Pat McCrory in North Carolina for not caving in (he will be under heavy pressure in the days ahead) and a note strongly encouraging Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal to sign House Bill 757 into law. Will you stop and do that right now?
Billy Graham once said, “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”
Let courage spread from you to others – in your home, your school, your place of business, your congregation – beginning today.
We will not bow down to the bullies!
Anything you say or do will be considered hate speech and be labeled a bigot.
Nathan deal just bowed down but I can’t really blame him.Let’s face it the technocrats and gay elite run corporations now I think this battle is lost. People just want jobs otherwise it the discussion is all mute if we can’t get work
Why can’t you really blame Deal?
People can decide to boycott professional sports-no tickets or t-shirts etc. and “Go Galt” on major corporations who make these threats.
Another good reason to avoid San Fran: the city allows illegal felons to run free in the city and is responsible for the illegals murdering innocent vacationers. Beware — stay away!
I doubt we will be able to stop the persecution until after the final collapse of the nation.
It’s easy to boycott sports companies, but there are so many major corporations that have caved to the homosexual lobby, that you wouldn’t be able to buy food if you boycotted all of them. It’s horrible.
I wasted my vote on him. Its getting harder to convince myself to vote anymore.
If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.When I read that, I often think of what it says in Daniel 4:17.
Its a question of smart moves and well thought out actions.
Avoiding the Atlanta based Home Depot or Coke since their type of products are available from competitors would seem easy.
With food maybe its time to shop around at ‘other places’ than the big store with the low prices. The selection may be limited to more basic items, but the prices are still low.
Everyone’s belt could use some tightening and its worth asking ‘Do I really need all that junk in my gut that the big store sells’?
The NFL is threatening to block Atlanta, Georgia from hosting a future Super Bowl.
The NBA is threatening to relocate next year’s All Star game from Charlotte, North Carolina to another city.
Corporate giants like American Airlines and Hollywood giants like Disney are threatening action against Georgia and North Carolina.
And the Governor should have responded with ARREST WARRANTS FOR EXTORTION!
Extortion is the crime of obtaining money or property by threat to a victim’s property or loved ones, intimidation, or false claim of a right. - See more at: http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/extortion.html#sthash.wvfy6LSF.dpuf
See Rick Perry in Texas if you think it couldn’t be done. They may beat the charges, but the trial would be FUN!
You can still buy food and boycott all of those corporations.
Remember waaaay back to 2009 and the Manhattan Declaration? Remember how split the people who wanted to fight the rising tide of homospremecy back when there were less than 10 states with ‘gay marriage?’ You can see how contentious those threads were right here on FR, if you search, and how depressing.
Freegards
There are many families who have to find the best prices they can. Usually those are at the bigger stores.
"Death to America!"
Good OpEd article but someone should tell Mr. Brown that the bullies are intricately related to the “free sex, all the time” bully cabal.
An intricate but real relationship exists between LGBTQ bullies, the Lavendar Mafia (Gay Marriage) and NAMBLA bullies.
Who else? Any group that wants to be recognized according to their sexual acts, not according to their culturo-social definition.
It is coordinated and each “political” group is in conversation with the other.
Their ideology is: There is nothing more important than the gratification of my sexual organs”.
You can’t blame Deal for capitulating? That is defeatist BS and is as big a problem as the Gaystapo religion being forced on America.
In your gut and in your closet. Sooo much crap people buy.
23and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
24Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.
25For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,
27and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,
29being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,
30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant,
boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;
32and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
Romans 1:22-32
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