Posted on 07/18/2015 4:06:34 PM PDT by ReformationFan
July 16, 2015 (BreakPoint) -- The world is leaving us and our values behind. If we don't get with the times, we may soon find ourselves isolated and irrelevant. If you think I'm talking about Christians and the recent Supreme Court decision on same-sex “marriage,” think again.
Of course, if you don’t read international and Christian news sources, you probably didn’t know that last week the UN Human Rights Council passed The Protection of the Family resolution. Not surprisingly, the mainstream U. S. media ignored the story.
The resolution, approved by a vote of 27 to 14, urges member states to adopt laws and policies that support the family—yes, the family—definite article. It calls the family, “the natural environment for the growth and well-being of all its members and particularly children.”
It goes on to insist that while governments have a place in protecting the human rights of all, “the family has primary responsibility for the nurturing and protection of children.”
While our country was splashing rainbows on government buildings to celebrate our un-defining of marriage and family, the global community was reaffirming God's created definition. It's an important moment that shows why, in the long run, federal judges cannot change the truth.
Speaking with LifeSiteNews, Sharon Slater of Family Watch International called the vote an “unprecedented,” “tremendous victory for the family.” And not surprisingly, progressive and pro-LGBT organizations wasted no time in condemning it. One group known as the Sexual Rights Initiative bizarrely warned that recognizing the natural family would “perpetuate patriarchal oppression, traditions, and harmful practices...”
But sad to say it was the 14 dissenting nations—including most of Western Europe and the United States—that really pulled out the stops to defeat this resolution.
“[T]he United States lobbied [against it] with great energy,” says Slater, noting that pushing the LGBT agenda abroad has become a “primary objective of our nation's foreign policy.” She even reports that our delegation threatened to withhold foreign aid to developing nations if they affirmed the natural family.
Writing at “Touchstone,” Allan Carlson notes how under the Obama Administration, “threats, bribes, and extortion” aimed at “vulnerable lands in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe” have become regular strategies in our quest to export the sexual revolution.
Were it not for the enthusiastic support of China and Russia—major powers that spent the latter half of the last century trying to eradicate the natural family—this resolution may have failed. China and Russia learned the hard way how destructive anti-family policies are. And maybe it’s just a coincidence, but both countries have seen a rapid growth of Christianity in recent years.
Folks, if there's a wrong side of history, the United States of America is on it right now—at least when it comes to this issue. Thank God that despite bribery, bullying, and blackmail from the West, 27 nations voted to protect the family.
Even as I tremble for my country, it encourages me to realize that, as Allan Carlson writes, same-sex “marriage” is not only a recent problem—it's a regional one. Debates over sexuality and gender, he explains, are “merely the current enthusiasm of a relatively small number of deracinated, secularized, mostly childless, and largely white elites.”
It's easy to feel outnumbered and outgunned right now. I get it. But if we want to see God at work, taking a global perspective makes a world of difference.
Reprinted with permission from BreakPoint.
This needs to be bumped...
Thanks for posting!
Good post.
Of course, if you don’t read international and Christian news sources, you probably didn’t know that last week the UN Human Rights Council passed The Protection of the Family resolution. …So what? What kind of family are they protecting anyway, the Islamic polygamous “family”?
The family enjoys the protection of the state.The UN is based on a system just like that of the USSR, never mind being accommodating of Islamic socialist principles.
Marriage is based on the free consent of the woman and the man; the spouses are completely equal in their family relations.
The state helps the family by providing and developing a broad system of childcare institutions, by organizing and improving communal services and public catering, by paying grants on the birth of a child, by providing children’s allowances and benefits for large families, and other forms of family allowances and assistance.
— 1977 USSR constitution, Article 53
Must read!
The terrorist-in-chief will not like this. That’s why the american news media is silent about this.
Just for the record, that post (number 4) is not in defense of the actions of liberal rulers of the USA. But it is more than disingenuous to claim that the UN, after working for decades against the traditional family, suddenly wants to protect it.
Eric Metaxas is an inspiration. His book on Bonhoeffer is excellent.
I have a feeling we are going to start seeing in ten years the children of same sex couples taking there adoptive parents to court and suing them for damages done because they denied them the right to have a mother and a father, I also think that we will find out that a lot of adoption by same sex couples was cover for pedophilia and the scandal will be as big as the one that hit the catholic church in the 90s. with major activists in the gay rights organization being implicated as pediphiles or covering up the fact that there leadership was involved.
I have a feeling we are going to start seeing in ten years the children of same sex couples taking there adoptive parents to court and suing them for damages done because they denied them the right to have a mother and a father, I also think that we will find out that a lot of adoption by same sex couples was cover for pedophilia and the scandal will be as big as the one that hit the catholic church in the 90s. with major activists in the gay rights organization being implicated as pediphiles or covering up the fact that there leadership was involved.
Post of the year! You are exactly right.
Part of what makes this speech so good (one needs to be aware that he was speaking just before Obama)is how accurately he refutes multiple points made in Obama's speech. One could think that Metaxas had an advanced copy, he did not, but Obama is just so predictable.
We are a creepy country now. As a Christian, i’m embarrassed.
We are exactly what the Ayatollah called us in 1979: the Great Satan.
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