Posted on 09/08/2014 6:23:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
Note: It is for columns like this that I created a “Hate Mail” folder in Outlook.
None can deny the fast-rising popularity and approval of the “lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender” (LGBT) lifestyles. Most especially, perhaps, the “bisexual orientation,” which has become rather fashionable and, hence, more frequently practiced among today’s blindly “tolerant” millennial generation.
These are behavior choices that, for all of recorded history and until just the last few decades, have almost universally been recognized as immoral and unhealthy. The Bible, throughout both the old and new testaments, unequivocally and without exception, holds these behaviors to be sexually immoral – to be sin. God’s word never changes and never will. Neither will this objective reality.
So, with all of this cultural “progress” away from comprehensively fixed natural and moral laws, an inevitable question arises: How should Christian children and teens interact with peers who either identify with, or are believed to engage in, a lifestyle marked by homosexual or cross-dressing behaviors?
The answer, generally speaking, is fairly straightforward: They should interact as all Christians should interact with all fellow sinners, with all people – with prayer, humility, wisdom, justice, honor, mercy, love and truth.
To be sure, extremist sexual pressure groups have mastered the use of propaganda to push a selfish political agenda. They have been shameless in manipulating the specter of bullying as a Trojan Horse to silence Christian values. Yes, anti-bullying policies are appropriate and necessary, but the vast majority of bullying incidents do not involve a victim’s sexual lifestyle. Yet it is these sexual lifestyle choices that are nearly the exclusive focus of most anti-bullying policies. This betrays the true goal of many “anti-bullying” proponents: to gain, officially, widespread affirmation of the “LGBT” lifestyle at the expense of traditional values and, moreover, to disingenuously paint adherents to biblical sexual morality as bullies.
We need a broad, comprehensive anti-bullying strategy, not legislation rooted in segregation and discrimination that singles out one special-interest group for preferred treatment over others. Ironically, this unseemly political push actually amounts to “Bull Connor bullying” on the part of “progressive” activists.
Even still, and anecdotally speaking, self-defined “LGBT” children and teens are bullied from time to time, and this is never OK. It goes without saying that to bully anyone for any reason is anathema to Christ’s admonition to “love your neighbor as yourself.” Christian children should never take part in such activities.
I hold reality at a premium. As a boy I was, and yet remain, an insolent “gender-conformist.” As such, I learned to scrap from an early age. My father was, and I would later become, a professional boxer. He trained me, my three brothers and, yes, my two sisters, how to properly use our fists in defense of both self and others. In the sticks of central Oklahoma, such talents were not infrequently advantageous as, at that time and in that region of the country – before liberal ninnies took to feminizing them – “conflict resolution” between boys usually ended with eyes blackened, knees skinned, noses bloodied and shirts ruined.
Still, under threat of a brightly hued backside, we were likewise taught that to use the physical skills we developed and honed to either pick fights or to bully others was both intolerable and dishonorable (this was a bygone era when words like “tolerance” and “honor” still meant something – before “progressive” propagandists turned them inside-out).
I can’t abide bullies. Never could. Most decent folks can’t. This is how I was raised. It’s also how I’m raising our three children. As did my father before me, I am teaching and equipping them to stand up to bullies. Not just when, and if, they happen to be the target of bullying themselves, but also when, and if, others are targeted. I’m raising my children to be friend to the friendless and champion to the vulnerable. I’m proud to say that all three of them are naturally inclined to such. I credit both God and His word of truth for that.
My son, for example, is in the seventh grade. He is very big and very strong for his age. His grandfather and I are also teaching him to box. I have instructed him that if he sees one of his schoolmates being bullied by others, for any reason (to include for being “LGBT”), that he should intervene – up to and including using physical force, if reasonable and appropriate according to the law, to eliminate the threat of bodily injury.
Indeed, many schools today have mindless “zero tolerance” policies relative to physical violence. Some require that if a bully attacks, a child should drop to the ground and curl up in a ball until an adult arrives. These are schools with policies written by pseudo-utopian, Birkenstock-wearing urban liberals who decidedly did not grow up in central Oklahoma. I couldn’t give two flips what school policy says. I care what the circumstances demand, justice requires and the law allows.
To be sure, not all children can, or should, attempt to physically defend a schoolmate who’s being violently bullied. Some just don’t have the physical or emotional wherewithal to do so. That’s fine. The principle still stands. Where a Christian child sees a peer being bullied for any reason, to include when that child is perceived to be a homosexual, the Christian child, if so led, should do something, if only verbally, to intervene. It may not come without sacrifice, mind you (ridicule, bruises, bumps or bangs), but when did faithful Christianity ever come without sacrifice?
Still, one need not compromise on biblical truth to love another as himself. In fact, refusing to deviate from biblical truth and fearlessly sharing that truth, in love, with those in denial of it, is compassion defined. It is a central component of the Great Commission.
To claim to love someone and to lie to them is to hate them – especially when that lie invariably leads to a tragic and hopeless end.
If you have a loved one, blindfolded and running full speed toward cliff’s edge, do you not yell, stop! Would you not run after them, even tackling them if need be to prevent them from plummeting to certain death? What would we think of the person who said: “Keep running. All is well.”
The same goes for how Christ followers, whether children or adults, should respond to those deceived by “LGBT” identity politics, impulses, temptations or behavioral choices.
I’m not saying that kids need drag a soapbox to school, thump a Bible, as secularists like to accuse, and assume the persona of angry street preacher. I’m merely saying that, though it may be difficult, children, if asked, “What do you think about me being gay,” or some such, should respond truthfully and compassionately, “I believe what Christ taught: that sexual behavior is only appropriate in marriage between a husband and wife. Anything outside of that is wrong.”
Christian kids should let their “LGBT” peers know that adult activists, and even many of their friends, have lied to them. That we Christians do not hate them at all; that we love them intensely; that we love them because of who they are, not because of what they do or because of who they think they are. We love them enough to tell them the truth.
Christian kids should tell their “LGBT” peers that we love them, as does Christ, their Creator, because He first loved us.
Just treat them with all the dignity and respect you would give to any mentally ill patient.
Which means to avoid them like the plague - and request that trannies not use the ladies’ room.
He could have saved himself a lot of ink and just gone with that. There is no more vocal a band of intolerant, hateful people than the LFEORGDKSGMREWT lobby.
Very well written article. Too many times I see well meaning Christians and conservatives directing their (well-founded) anger at the lies the LGBT movement is telling our young people not at the lies and the Father of Lies, but at the young people who have fallen for the lies. Then they don’t see our love and concern for their souls - only the anger.
Mathew 7: 12
If entering debate explain God’s plan for us. That is about it because free will reigns in this temporal period (And I assume beyond this realm).
IMO, at least, "Tolerance for a lifestyle" does not equal "Let's put Caligula's Bedroom on display in our classrooms".
However for the LGBTQ crowd .... That's *exactly* what "Tolerance" means. And I'm a homophobic bigot for not agreeing with them.
This high minded advice can be a very bad idea, depending upon the nature of the friendless. It could get your child raped, drugged, or killed. They easily pick up bad habits via their empathy. Losers tend to cling like glue, taking up precious study time and inhibiting other relationships. One learns from fine examples as well as losers. Hence a certain amount of this is fine, but such a blanket pronouncement is a hazard, particularly to girls.
“no more vocal a band of intolerant, hateful people than the LFEORGDKSGMREWT lobby.”
LOL!
Or, GBLTs; “giblets”
;^)
Ya got that right.
I used to like people, until I started working with them regularly. Now, not so much anymore.
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What these walking freak shows crave worse than anything is attention. Don’t give them any.
The unspoken reality here is that in today’s environments, it is the Christians who are being bullied, not just by the perverts but institutionally by teachers and other authority figures.
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I’ve stopped trying to keep up with their everchanging acronyms, to figure out what all the letters stand for, or to pronounce each letter individually. When I come across GLBTHQ (or whatever it is on this particular day of the week) I just pronounce them all “pervert.” Saves time, and is more accurate than the crap they make up.
Caution your kids to avoid contact. Caution your kids about this disease-ridden lifestyle. Caution your kids about what the male homos still hide in the closets—let your kids know about their coprophagic behavior and what they do to each other in private. These perverts should be monitored and offered psychotherapy.
How about, “I don’t freaking care what you do in bed and whom you do it with. Why do you have to wear that on your sleeve?”
Feminists and homosexuals are "grooming" children.
And this isn't designed to "help the children become the adults they truly are", it's TOTALLY designed to subvert the society, "smash monogamy" and "smash the patriarchy".
The 68 Red Revolution still exists in their minds.
The sister of one of the founding members of NOW was present when they vocalized this explicitly as their intention and Bill Ayers made the claims that he and the other Weather Underground revolutionaries engaged in partner swapping and homosexual trysts for the same reasons. Now they've come for your children.
Marxist Feminism’s Ruined Lives (Frontpagemag.com ^ | 9-2-2014 | Mallory Millett)
It was 1969. Kate invited me to join her for a gathering at the home of her friend, Lila Karp. They called the assemblage a “consciousness-raising-group,” a typical communist exercise, something practiced in Maoist China. We gathered at a large table as the chairperson opened the meeting with a back-and-forth recitation, like a Litany, a type of prayer done in Catholic Church. But now it was Marxism, the Church of the Left, mimicking religious practice:“Why are we here today?” she asked.
“To make revolution,” they answered.
“What kind of revolution?” she replied.
“The Cultural Revolution,” they chanted.
“And how do we make Cultural Revolution?” she demanded.
“By destroying the American family!” they answered.
“How do we destroy the family?” she came back.
“By destroying the American Patriarch,” they cried exuberantly.
“And how do we destroy the American Patriarch?” she replied.
“By taking away his power!”
“How do we do that?”
“By destroying monogamy!” they shouted.
“How can we destroy monogamy?”Their answer left me dumbstruck, breathless, disbelieving my ears. Was I on planet earth? Who were these people?
“By promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution and homosexuality!” they resounded.
They proceeded with a long discussion on how to advance these goals by establishing The National Organization of Women. It was clear they desired nothing less than the utter deconstruction of Western society. The upshot was that the only way to do this was “to invade every American institution. Every one must be permeated with ‘The Revolution’”: The media, the educational system, universities, high schools, K-12, school boards, etc.; then, the judiciary, the legislatures, the executive branches and even the library system.
It fell on my ears as a ludicrous scheme, as if they were a band of highly imaginative children planning a Brinks robbery; a lark trumped up on a snowy night amongst a group of spoiled brats over booze and hashish...
No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen (By DINITIA SMITH Published: September 11, 2001)
He also writes about the Weathermen's sexual experimentation as they tried to ''smash monogamy.'' The Weathermen were ''an army of lovers,'' he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend.
Volley back the next time some liberal asks you how "same sex marriage hurts your marriage"? They are seeking to destroy the respect for the institution altogether. Over 1/3 of all people aged 21 in America were born to single mothers. So goes the nation.
They have firm goals established and "sexual freedom" is not their endgame. They are using people as tools to accomplish an evil goal.
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