When Christians Become a 'Hated Minority'

When Peter Sprigg speaks publicly about his opposition to homosexuality, something odd often happens.

During his speeches, people raise their hands to challenge his assertions that the Bible condemns homosexuality, but no Christians speak out to defend him.

“But after it is over, they will come over to talk to me and whisper in my ear, ‘I agree with everything you said,’" says Sprigg, a spokesman for The Family Research Council, a powerful, conservative Christian lobbying group.

We’ve heard of the “down-low” gay person who keeps his or her sexual identity secret for fear of public scorn. But Sprigg and other evangelicals say changing attitudes toward homosexuality have created a new victim: closeted Christians who believe the Bible condemns homosexuality but will not say so publicly for fear of being labeled a hateful bigot.

As proof, Sprigg points to the backlash that ESPN commentator Chris Broussard sparked recently. Broussard was called a bigot and a purveyor of hate speech when he said an NBA player who had come out as gay was living in “open rebellion to God.” Broussard said the player, Jason Collins, was “living in unrepentant sin” because the Bible condemns homosexuality.

“In the current culture, it takes more courage for someone like Chris Broussard to speak out than for someone like Jason Collins to come out,” says Sprigg, a former pastor. “The media will hail someone who comes out of the closet as gay, but someone who simply expresses their personal religious views about homosexual conduct is attacked.”

Bryan Litfin, a theology professor at Moody Bible Institute in Illinois, says Christians should be able to publicly say that God designed sex to take place within a marriage between a man and a woman.

The world is being prepped for Antichrist.

Exactly. The election, and moreso the re-election, of Obama shows just how easily a majority of people can be deceived into supporting such a person. At first, until it's too late.
And the brazen celebration of evil is steadily on the rise. Now that the sodomites have effectively marginalised Christians, with our own government seeking to suppress us, and their agenda is almost complete,there will need to be a new evil issue to hammer the public with. Pedophilia? Incest? Who knows which is next? They will all be openly accepted and celebrated, along with the most heinous violence being shown on public media (witness the push to have open profanity and sex on broadcast teevee) by the time the Antichrist is in power.

I thank God for His mercy on His own, to remove us before the very worst is here. But how bad it will get before that event?

Notice that only Christians, amongst the religions, are being vilified. Most especially notice how Muslims, whose prescriptions for sodomy are much harsher than those of Christianity, are not being even mentioned. Christians worry about your eternity, which is out of our hands. Muslims want to kill you right here and now.

The problem is that the true haters here, the homosexual lobby, is so thin skinned. Does the Bible condemn homosexual acts? I don't think that anyone could possibly say "no." It's right there, in the text.

The problem is that they don't like anyone telling them that, because it hurts their feelings. So they ramp up hatred towards those who speak the simple truth. I think that a big part of the problem is the guilt they have, because deep down, they know what they're doing is wrong.

It's no different from some Jews I know, primarily leftist Jews, who get their panties in a wad whenever a Christian says something like "you're going to hell," or when Ann Coulter said something along the lines that Jews can be completed by becoming Christian. When someone tells me that I'm going to hell, I just tell them that they're wrong, that's not where I'm going, and I give it no other thought. Sometimes they get angry, but more often sad, because they believe that I really am going to hell, and they're just trying to "save me." But far too many Jews (never Orthodox Jews, as far as I've seen) get upset, but the reason is that their faith isn't strong. That's their problem, not the person talking to them.

Mark

This sounds vaguely familiar. Weren't there a couple of towns filled with decent people who were decimated by God because they refused to do anything to reverse the increasing perversion of the populace? Sodom or Gomorrah sound right? Probably just a coincidence...

I love the bias in this article. The Family Research Council is labeled as “a powerful, conservative Christian lobbying group.” While the Southern Poverty Law Center “ is a nonprofit civil rights group that combats and monitors hate groups.”

Wow......the SPLC fights for truth, justice and the American way, while the FRC merely fights for religious bigots? Crazy. The SPLC is an extreme, left wing, operation that admittedly only investigates conservative groups. Such conservative groups catholic apologists and evangelical Christians.

Candidly, by using the SPLC in this manner, the author severely undermines his credibility.

The country cannot thrive without Christianity, which founded it. It will become secular and listless as is already well underway through the one who calls himself Obama. And it will be ripe for the Machiavellian machinations of this...man, or some other charlatan to come.

Dear Lord deliver us.

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