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TGC/LifeWay Lady-Preacher Says Christians Should Affirm Some Marxist Slogans to Truly Be Christian
Disntr ^ | July 24, 2023 | staff

Posted on 07/29/2023 12:00:23 AM PDT by Morgana

A prominent LGBTQ activist that TGC relentlessly promotes is Rebecca McLaughlin. McLaughlin, herself, openly admits that she is romantically attracted to other women. During this presentation at The Gospel Coalition, she states,

“I’ve been romantically attracted to women since childhood, and if I were not a Christian I’d likely be married to a woman, not a man.”

Now, many of you might say “well, since she’s not acting on her attraction, she isn’t a lesbian. But that notion is far from biblical and it is a rejection of the power of the Holy Spirit to change one’s evil desires. Like most in the “SSA Christian” movement, they have redefined homosexuality to only apply to those who physically act upon it. Per her own words, she still desires women romantically.

McLaughlin isn’t just an LGBTQ activist, she’s also a feminist who treats the Scriptures as a manifesto for Liberation Theology, feminism, and intersectionality. Of course, some have argued that she “describes herself as a complementarian,” and that’s good enough. Let us remind you that Beth Moore describes herself as a complementarian, too. It clearly isn’t true. Let’s look at what she teaches, instead.

As recently as the 2023 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, McLaughlin was on social media relentlessly defending another female evangelical LGBTQ activist, Rachel Gilson, who preached a sermon implying that someone whose lesbian parents came to Christ but were still in a “marriage” could stay because “God hates divorce.”

Now, more video has surfaced of McLaughlin preaching at a National Association of Evangelicals conference telling people that Christians should look at a sign that contains various Marxist slogans, and instead of throwing them all out, go through them line-by-line and affirm the ones that the Bible affirms. So that’s what I am going to do now.

McLaughlin held up an example of a sign containing Marxist slogans and asked the audience if they’ve seen signs like there in their neighborhoods. The slogans on the signs read:

Black Lives Matter

Love is Love

Women’s Rights are Human Rights

No Human is Illegal

Science is Real

Kindness is Everything

It’s here where McLaughlin says Christians should be nuanced, take a Sharpie, and affirm some of it. She starts with Black Lives Matter, and so I will too. I will break down what is meant by everything in each of these slogans, and then demonstrate how all of them are opposed to biblical teaching, and how those who throw them all out are the ones doing it right.

“Black Lives Matter” is at its core, a Marxist cry that promotes social division under the guise of fighting racial injustice. It strives to reframe society as a battleground of the oppressed and the oppressor, a fundamental concept of Marxism. This pits individuals against each other based on race, negating the biblical teaching of all humans being created equal in God’s image (Genesis 1:27), and the divine mandate for unity and love (Galatians 3:28). This slogan denies the conservative, biblically-rooted belief that the ultimate remedy for social issues is not political revolution, but personal transformation through Christ.

“Love is Love” is an insidious maxim that employs Marxist methodology of deconstruction and redefinition. It intends to dismantle traditional understandings of love and marriage, which are sacred institutions ordained by God between a man and a woman (Genesis 2:24). While Christ’s teachings advocate for love among all (Matthew 22:39), this slogan distorts love, attempting to legitimize all forms of relationships outside the God-ordained marriage covenant. It directly counters conservative teachings upholding the sanctity and design of marriage.

“Women’s Rights are Human Rights” appears innocent, but it is a Trojan Horse for radical, Marxist-informed feminism that seeks to blur the God-given distinction between genders and roles. The Bible teaches mutual respect and honor between genders (Galatians 3:28, Ephesians 5:21-33), and while it supports rights for all individuals, the slogan is often leveraged to advance agendas such as abortion rights, an affront to the biblical belief in the sanctity of life (Psalm 139:13-16).

“No Human is Illegal” is a slogan steeped in Marxist ideology that seeks to eliminate national boundaries and promote global socialism. While the Bible clearly teaches the humane treatment of foreigners and strangers (Leviticus 19:34), it also upholds the validity of laws and governments as ordained by God (Romans 13:1). Thus, this slogan’s implied endorsement of unrestricted immigration policies contradicts conservative principles of lawful governance and border security.

“Science is Real” is a slogan that, in its underlying context, seeks to undermine faith, using scientific theory as the supreme authority, an approach tied to the materialistic worldview of Marxism. Though the Bible encourages exploration and learning (Proverbs 25:2), it holds God’s truth as the ultimate reality. Therefore, when this slogan is used to discredit faith or promote theories such as evolution over biblical creation, it comes in direct opposition to conservative teachings that uphold the Bible as the inerrant Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16).

“Kindness is Everything” is a slogan that masquerades as a benign truth but often champions moral relativism and emotional subjectivity, principles akin to Marxist deconstruction of objective moral standards. While the Bible teaches kindness (Ephesians 4:32), it never elevates it above truth, justice, and righteousness (Psalm 89:14). This slogan’s broad interpretation can be used to dismiss sin under the guise of tolerance, challenging the conservative adherence to the biblical definition of sin and righteousness.


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1 posted on 07/29/2023 12:00:23 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

To GITMO’ she should go....


2 posted on 07/29/2023 12:02:42 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Morgana

No different than Jim Jones.


3 posted on 07/29/2023 12:03:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Morgana
evangelical LGBTQ

Isn’t that a classic example of an oxymoron?

4 posted on 07/29/2023 12:09:55 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Mark17

I was hoping you all could explain it to me


5 posted on 07/29/2023 12:13:56 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: Morgana

The Good Lord needs to do some ZOT’ting. Right about now.


6 posted on 07/29/2023 12:22:04 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: Morgana
I was hoping you all could explain it to me

I don’t know, the tares among the wheat, maybe? It’s possible, we have a generation of two, of strong believers, and later, succeeding generations become less dedicated to God, till it happens that many of them are not believers at all. I can’t think of anything else, though there might be other factors.

7 posted on 07/29/2023 12:26:51 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Morgana

ok....’science is real’. How else would we have an ISS in existence and operating?

How else woould we have pictures of a helicopter on Mars?

How else would we find and treat maladies within the humann body withouut ye old exploratory surgery?

How else would we now know that carbon fiber does not make a deep sea submerrsible good?

I , also, hold that individual faith, as defined by that individual, can be a valid thing, worthy of respect.

The woman at the crux of the article is cracked, period..

All scientific discoveries lead to more questions gthan answers, with an occasional ‘yeah,but’ thrown in.


8 posted on 07/29/2023 12:31:27 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Morgana

“But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived..” II Timothy 3:13

Get ready

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9 posted on 07/29/2023 12:36:15 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( See"War by🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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“Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism.”

“… Marxism cannot be conceived without atheism. We would add here that atheism without Marxism is incomplete and inconsistent.”

— Lenin, “Religion”, Introduction
Marxism is the enemy of religion. Always has been and always will be.
10 posted on 07/29/2023 1:19:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Morgana

There’s a reason God forbade women to be pastors.

It needs to stay that way.

I have not yet seen a church with a woman pastor that is not at best, outright liberal, or at worst, a total dumpster fire.


11 posted on 07/29/2023 1:21:16 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Morgana
"TGC/LifeWay Lady-Preacher Says Christians Should Affirm Some Marxist Slogans to Truly Be Christian"

The scriptures she preaches must have come from inscriptions carved into bathroom walls.
12 posted on 07/29/2023 1:46:22 AM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Terry L Smith

“Science is Real”

Only when done correctly and honestly. When it’s agenda driven it’s fake as a 3 dollar bill.


13 posted on 07/29/2023 2:23:43 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Morgana

Here are some slogans she neglected to add to her list:

1. Live Free or Die!
2. Don’t Tread On Me!
3. The best government is the least government.


14 posted on 07/29/2023 3:01:52 AM PDT by Blennos
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To: Brooklyn Attitude
“Science is Real”

Only when done correctly and honestly. When it’s agenda driven it’s fake as a 3 dollar bill.

Yes, that's a silly slogan. "Science," presumably meaning the writings or utterances of "scientists," like every other human endeavor, can be true or false, honest or corrupt, benign or malicious.

This woman is a fool, playing to the low-IQ crowd.

15 posted on 07/29/2023 3:21:48 AM PDT by Blennos
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To: Morgana; bitt
The wages of Marxism, mass executions of the deplorables as popularized by Stalin:

You can't put lipstick on a pig.

BUt new age American Bolsheviks , many who are decendants of the immigrant originals,think you can.

We must ridicule them, and fight these commies to their death if necessary for the sake of freedom.

16 posted on 07/29/2023 3:24:17 AM PDT by Candor7 (( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: Morgana; metmom; aMorePerfectUnion

No women pastors. As much as we men love women, they are not allowed to be pastors.


17 posted on 07/29/2023 3:45:13 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Mark17

Agree.


18 posted on 07/29/2023 3:46:21 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: Terry L Smith
“Science is real” is an argument to force or shame the other person into not arguing with the person who said it. Science is real but using it as an argument to authority is antiscience. We are not against science, we are against using it as a stick to shut people who disagree with you up. Pfizer used it through subsidiaries to shut up anyone who argued about taking an untested vaccine because “Science is Real”. They should have copyrighted that slogan.

And it isn't an occasional “yeah, but”. That sentence is more often than not the actual science being done.

19 posted on 07/29/2023 4:10:37 AM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: Morgana

Characters like this McLaughlin woman, Andy Stanley, Rick Warren, etc., are trying to do the evangelical churches in this century what was done to the mainline Protestant churches by the liberals like Bromley Oxnam, Harry Emerson Fosdick, etc., in the last century. The liberals subverted the 20th Century mainline Protestant churches, turning them into centers of leftist activism with a Christian veneer. Their spiritual heirs like McLaughlin, the younger Stanley, Warren, etc. want to destroy evangelicalism in the 21st Century.


20 posted on 07/29/2023 4:27:41 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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