Posted on 09/21/2010 5:04:12 AM PDT by scottfactor
World Net Daily's "Taking America Back" conference took place over the weekend in Miami. A number of passionate and powerfully informed conservatives were on hand, including Alan Keyes, Michele Bachmann, Joseph Farah, Tom Tancredo, Chuck Missler and many others. Dr. Michael Savage was reported to be in the lineup as well, but I have not yet seen any information about his speech, if he did attend. I wish I had been able to be there, but I'm going to have to settle for WND reports about the conference, and maybe some video, if any is released.
One of the highlights of the conference was the debate between WND's Joseph Farah and homosexual activist, Christopher Barron, who is the founder and chairman of the group GOProud, which purportedly is a "conservative" organization dedicated to advancing the homosexual agenda while ostensibly supporting certain conservative issues.
The reason the debate even occurred stems from WND's disinviting Ann Coulter from speaking at the conference after it was learned that she had agreed to speak for GOProud's Homocon event next Saturday in New York. This created a firestorm in the conservative world, with conservatives divided between those who support Ms. Coulter and the homosexuals and those who applauded Mr. Farah for his principled stand against the homosexual agenda's invasion of the conservative movement.
The topic of the debate was, “Is GOProud conservative?” I do not have a transcript of the entire debate between Mr. Farah and Mr. Barron, but I have the WND report on the event. In his opening comments, Mr. Farah said,
"Today I stand here in defense, quite literally, of God's law, the preservation of the institution of marriage as the union between one man and one woman, Western civilization, common sense, Judeo-Christian morality and the very definitions of the words 'conservative' and 'marriage' because both are under attack by my opponent. ... The conservative movement has been infiltrated by homosexual activists like Christopher Barron."
And according to WND,
"Barron presented a number of his group's stances on a variety of political issues to bolster his claim that GOProud is indeed conservative.
Some of them include support for cutting taxes, school choice, free-market health-care reform, the privatization of Social Security, fighting the spread of radical Islamic regimes, defense of Second Amendment rights, and opposing any effort to federalize marriage through a marriage amendment.
Regarding marriage, Barron asked, 'How many marriages have been damaged or destroyed by 'gay marriage?' My guess is not many. How many have been destroyed by divorce? A lot more.
'The real threat to marriage is divorce. I want to defend the institution of marriage because I believe in it,' Barron continued, 'Why aren't we pushing for amendments state by state repealing no-fault divorce? It's bad for women, and it's especially bad for children.'"
Since I don’t have the video or transcript of the debate, I’m not going to give an opinion on who “won” it. According to WND’s article, the opinions on who won were mixed, with some attendees saying Mr. Barron won and some siding with Mr. Farah—probably most sided with Mr. Farah.
Aside from the debate at the conference and GOProud’s very questionable conservatism (after all they support hate crimes legislation, open homosexuality in our military, and homosexual marriage—things antithetical to conservatism), what is happening within the conservative movement regarding the “mainstreaming” of homosexuality is a very disturbing trend. More and more so-called conservatives are buying into the homosexual activists’ propaganda. More are being taken in by some of the terminology like “marriage equality.” That term alone is completely bogus. There is no such thing as a marriage between two people of the same sex, and there never could be.
I realize some conservatives who support such things as homosexual “marriage” may not be Christians, but those conservatives who support it that are Christians, really need to take a hard look at what the Bible teaches about homosexuality. The Word of God could not be more clear on this. Homosexuality is a sin and an abomination to God, plain and simple.
Since God views homosexuality that way, how can anyone believe people are born as homosexuals? Why would God condemn a behavior if it’s an immutable characteristic like skin color or shoe size? It’s not an immutable characteristic; it’s a bad behavior choice! The Bible does make clear that the sins of our forefathers are passed down through several generations, so sin tendencies and the curse of sins can run in our blood, so to speak, but we’re not wild animals who have no control over our behavior. If homosexuality were not a chosen bad behavior, God would not have such strong words against it.
This issue is one on which conservatives must not be deceived. The homosexual agenda goes hand-in-hand with the leftist-socialist agenda, part of which is to destroy the building block of society, the family. Tear the family down as an institution, and replace it with the mother state. Many people don’t understand the importance of how dangerous the push to redefine marriage truly is.
Mr. Farah, writing in an opinion piece on September 4th, put it this way,
“If we lose the battle over marriage, I'm not sure there's much left to preserve. Marriage is literally the building block of our civilization. Destroy it and you destroy the foundation.
The enemy knows this.
Do our so-called allies?
I am ashamed of these people who should know better flirting with the destruction of a 6,000-year-old, God-created institution with no regard for the unforeseen and unimaginable consequences.
That's why I will not be silent. I will not go quietly into the night.
…There is no middle ground on this issue.
Either you believe the Bible or you don't.
If you don't, there are consequences. If you do, you are obligated to take a stand for righteousness. Of course, there are worldly consequences for that, too – for some apparently too great to accept.
Followers of Jesus have a choice: They can please God or please men. They can accept God's laws, which are not burdensome, and obey them, or they can reject them and try to tickle the ears of men. They can offend God or offend men.
But followers of Jesus cannot find some happy medium where they can please God and please the world. Nobody can.
I choose obedience.”
Well-said, Mr. Farah.
You're defending atheistic/Libertarian moral relativism.
There are SO MANY flaws to your line of thinking; here are the "Seven Fatal Flaws of Moral Relativism".
"Moral relativism is a type of subjectivism which holds that moral truths are preferences much like our tastes in ice-cream. Moral relativism teaches that when it comes to morals, that which is ethically right or wrong, people can and should do what ever feels right for them."
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