Posted on 06/07/2021 10:32:26 AM PDT by DeweyCA
It was about 20 years ago that a conservative commentator stated that, because the homosexual movement could not grow by reproduction, it had to grow by seduction. Understandably, this incurred the ire of gay activists, as if their main agenda was the sexual seduction of others, including children. What this conservative commentator should have said was this: “The homosexual movement cannot grow by biological replication, so instead, it puts its emphasis on ideological indoctrination.” That would remain true to this day.
To be sure, this is not a subject I would prefer to address right now, nor is it a subject that I ever cared to address.
But what are we to do when the so-called Equality Act is staring us in the face, with the potential of gutting religious freedoms in favor of radical LGBTQ+ goals?
Or when, “A clip of a ‘Blue’s Clues’ song celebrating Masturbation and Genital Amputation Month went viral over the weekend heading into June”? (“Blue’s Clues” is a children’s cartoon.)
Or when the description to a recent Matt Walsh broadcast reads, “Today on the Matt Walsh Show, PBS has teamed up with the New York City Department of Education to bring drag queens and children together. We will discuss the never-ending efforts to groom and sexualize children today.” What are we to do?
Or when female Olympic athletes are complaining about the prospect of competing against biological men? (In the words of the Belgian weightlifter Anna Vanbellinghen, “I understand that for sports authorities nothing is as simple as following your common sense, and that there are a lot of impracticalities when studying such a rare phenomenon, but for athletes the whole thing feels like a bad joke.”)
What are we do to when a Jewish Temple in Chicago announces a June lecture by a rabbi titled, “Is God Transgender?” (For my response to this same rabbi back in 2016, see here.)
Or when Marvel comics celebrate the 80th anniversary of Captain America by introducing a brand new superhero, Aaron Fischer, who is gay? (Yes, this was timed for gay pride month as well, Fischer making his appearance on June 2. Also, for the record, there are already websites devoted to subjects like this: “Twenty-Five of my favorite lesbians and bisexual women in superhero comics. The characters cover the full range of heroes, anti-heroes, villains, and supporting cast.” And should I point out that lots of kids read comic books?)
What are we do to when someone you know goes from being a married heterosexual woman (and mother) to identifying as a lesbian to then getting into a relationship with another man, with each of them switching genders?
Or when, in one night, answering LGBTQ+ questions at a conservative Baptist church, a father asks how to maintain a good relationship with an adult son, who suddenly came out as gay, then just as suddenly, started to dress like a woman? And a couple asks for wisdom in dealing with their 19-year-old granddaughter, who just came out as lesbian and announced that she’s “marrying” her partner? And a middle-schooler asks what to do when her teachers promote gay activism but will not allow her Christian views in the class? And two high-school teachers ask what they should do if they’re required to use transgender pronouns for their students? And another woman asks about whether she should attend a same-sex wedding? What are we to do? (For the record, we were only able to answer a small number of the questions submitted. And this in just one night at one local church.)
On June 2, I received an email from Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association. He wanted all of us to know that Amazon Prime refused to carry the important, well-researched, compassionately-presented documentary In His Image: Delighting in God's Plan for Gender and Sexuality.
I know this documentary well, since I hosted it for AFA, and I can attest to what a fine production it is. As Wildmon wrote, “I am disgusted at the hypocrisy and callousness. Amazon Prime offers every kind of degrading material imaginable—including hardcore pornography and an entire LGBTQ movie collection—but refuses a fair-minded film that is well-researched, has world-class production values, and whose touchstones are truth and compassion for hurting people.” And Amazon allowed no appeal for the matter. Case closed!
The truth be told, the examples in this email could be multiplied by 100 (literally), and we would still not be scratching the surface of the aggressive agenda we are facing, from the schools to the courts and from the movies to social media.
And like it or not, it is coming to a church near you. (Keep your eyes out for a new propaganda movie based on some incredibly weak theological and linguistic arguments, called 1946. But the poor arguments won’t stop the propaganda from spreading. For my related video response, see here.)
All of this, then, brings me back to my initial statement, namely, that LGBTQ+ activism will not grow by biological replication, in other words, by having large families (which is a major factor in the worldwide growth of the more conservative branches of Islam, Judaism and Christianity). Instead, it will grow by ideological indoctrination, seeking to change hearts and minds, thereby encouraging more people to affirm, embrace, or explore non-heterosexual identities and practices.
That’s why it was reported by Gallup in February that, while only 1.3 percent of Americans born before 1946 identified as LGBT and just 2.0 percent of Americans born between 1946 and 1964 identified as LGBT, 15.9 percent (!) of those born between 1997-2002 identify as LGBT. The indoctrination is working.
More specifically, “The vast majority of Generation Z adults who identify as LGBT -- 72% -- say they are bisexual. Thus, 11.5% of all Gen Z adults in the U.S. say they are bisexual, with about 2% each identifying as gay, lesbian or transgender.”
So, the vast majority of these Gen Z adults who identify as LGBT say they are bisexual, which points more to experimentation or confusion or breaking the norms than it does to a deep, innate sense of being different. And this, in turn, points back to the fruits of the sexual revolution, in particular, the effects of LGBTQ+ indoctrination and activism.
And this leads back to my question, what are we do to? Do we sit by, passively and idly, or do we push back?
If we love God, if we love our families, if we love our country, if we love our freedoms, we only have one choice.
That means that, while we continue to reach out to LGBTQ+ individuals with compassion, we resist their agenda with courage. We have no other choice.
They are so so tolerant, and very understanding due to their sensitivity and analization of their both personal and collective experiences....
If you say the above is true you are a liberal liar.
Li (ber) ar. AS defined in the Conservative abridged dictionary!
If men become sensitive then the women become course.
The main thing about the LGBT political agenda is that it is dishonest. It is dishonest in the most basic intellectual sense. It asks that far too much of Christian scripture be discarded, to satisfy what is billed as “compassion” for the LGBT person.
That theme begins with all the ways that Yeshua was compassionate toward the sinner.
But it ignores that in all His compassion, Yeshua never preached, never said, to the sinner or in regard to sin - just be a nice person and continue to sin. In fact, even in his forgiveness, He said “go and sin no more”.
So Yeshua’s compassion, however much it acknowledged the sinner, it never acknowledge the sin as a good.
The LGBT activists aim could only be directed at a new religion, honestly. Directed at Christianity it is a fraud.
“What are we do to when a Jewish Temple in Chicago announces a June lecture by a rabbi titled, “Is God Transgender?””
One can decide to no longer attend that Temple.
How long before P for pedo gets added after the Q?
This is why the phrase, "I was born this way" is so important to the gay and lesbian Nazis.
You’re very right. The great danger is that LGBT acceptance destroys Christian faith.
Past cultural issues like evolution and divorce are scripturally uncertain. They can and do coexist with Christianity.
There is no such uncertainty in Bible on homosexuality. To accept gay rights you must reject the Bible. The ideology held by the majority of young Americans is one where the Bible is morally in the wrong on an important issue to them.
For later.
“There is no such uncertainty in Bible on homosexuality. To accept gay rights you must reject the Bible.”
The LGBT religious-political activists often rely on the lack of specific mention in scripture of “homosexual” issues by Yeshua, personally.
But (a) that is true of many areas of sin, and (b) yet there is no issue of Yeshua NOT supporting any traditional view on specific issues of sin. Forgiveness of the person, yes, but acceptance of the sin, no.
Why? They are the enemy.
It’s been my view for some time that the left realized it could use the LGBTQ issue to do an end-run around the 1st Amendment, and marginalize and eventually criminalize Christians for their religious beliefs. That is why the issue has assumed such a central role in Democrat politics and social engineering.
I thought the Qtards said that Q+ was actually Trump himself.
” LGBTQ+” ??
OUTRAGEOUS!
You’ve left off the rest of the Alphanumerics entirely!
To do such a thing just shows blatant, systemic and hurtful Anti-Alphanumericism!
as we are Non-Cisgender, non-binary Unique-ikins, we are so triggered we need a blanket and a HalfCaff Sustainable Hazelnut Organic grass-fed skim Latte.
“The LGBT religious-political activists often rely on the lack of specific mention in scripture of “homosexual” issues by Yeshua, personally.”
Good point. The liberal denominations have quietly embraced an entirely new form of Christianity. They discard everything in the Bible except the red letter words of Jesus himself.
The Bible is clear that 1) God created male and female and 2) homosexual sex is sinful. The calling for those with same-sex urges is to live a chaste life. This kind of moral teaching is in another universe from present-day society.
The LBGTQ+ are the media.
Jesus did say it indirectly when He said “Marriage is between one man and one woman”
Actually the Christ specified that what God joined together in marriage was male and female, thus rendering all other sexual relationships to be fornication, and which He condemned.
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. (Matthew 19:3-6)
Conversely, What therefore God hath not (sexually) joined together, let not man put together.
"But (a) that is true of many areas of sin, and (b) yet there is no issue of Yeshua NOT supporting any traditional view on specific issues of sin. Forgiveness of the person, yes, but acceptance of the sin, no.'"
Indeed: the Lord Yeshua did not mention wife-beating or bestiality either, but He clearly upheld the law of the OT. And by His Spirit inspired the writing of Romans 1 as well as all the texts which forbid homosexual relations. Beware of the "red-letter hermeneutic."
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