Posted on 07/29/2016 7:17:06 AM PDT by fwdude
It was with disappointment but not surprise that I read the news about the standing ovation that openly homosexual Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel received at the Republican national convention. It’s being spun by some conservatives as merely appreciation for Thiel breaking ranks with the Trump bashers of Silicon Valley, but in fact there’s a serious problem of moral compromise on the homosexual issue in the GOP and we need to face it for what it is.
Ronald Reagan was not a perfect man, but he was a great man and an outstanding leader whose presidency marked the high point of conservatism in the latter half in the 20th century. In 1983 President Reagan did two things that exemplify the battle of left and right ideologies that still define the culture war: On February 3rd of that year, in a message to the National Prayer Breakfast, he declared 1983 to be “The Year of the Bible,” and one month later in a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, he declared the Communist Soviet Union to be an “Evil Empire.” In that latter address he contrasted America’s Judeo-Christian heritage with the Atheism of the Soviets, explaining that this contrast was at the heart of the conflict between the US and USSR.
In 1980 Candidate Reagan rode a wave of populist conservatism into the White House, in defiance of the GOP establishment, which was forced to settle for getting their man George Herbert Walker “read my lips” Bush in the VP slot. They bided their time and once Reagan was termed out they went back to steering the ship of state toward the New World Order with Mr. Bush, the former CIA spymaster, at the helm.
But President Reagan had been so effective at articulating conservative values, and so courageous in pushing back against his Cultural Marxist opponents in media, academia and government, that America experienced a massive spiritual, cultural and patriotic revival during the 1980s whose influence lingers even today.
So powerful was Reagan’s impact on the GOP, that the hands of elitists Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain and Romney were publicly tied on the homosexual issue, though the GOP brass kept advancing the “gay” cause behind the scenes. And so powerful was the revival of moral values of the Reagan Revolution on the culture at large, that it’s taken more than a quarter century, millions of hours of pop-culture propaganda, the complete takeover of the US public education system, and the blatant hijacking of the federal judiciary for the Cultural Marxists to undo it.
Reagan’s power did not come from the Party, it came from his Biblical values. And his conservatism was not measured by how many feet it walked behind liberalism on the path to globalism. What he fought to “conserve” was the authentic Christian worldview of the Founding Fathers as embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. He did not accept the Marxist “Tide of History” lie, but pushed boldly in the opposite direction, advancing the Kingdom of God in world affairs and reclaiming lost territory in the domestic culture war. Under Reagan, “American Exceptionalism” was real, and not just a neo-con euphemism for bullying the world.
Ronald Reagan would never have allowed Peter Thiel to use the GOP stage to legitimize homosexuality, nor would the populist conservatives of the Reagan Revolution have ever applauded it.
Reagan knew that true conservatism is absolutely incompatible with the “gay” agenda. The two are as contradictory in principle and practice as marital fidelity and adultery. Every plank of its platform rests on the foundation of the Bible, from private property, to national identity and security, to personal freedom, to law and order: Conservatism stands for the truth of God or it stands for nothing. And the truth of God is clearer on the danger of legitimizing sexual deviance, especially homosexuality, than on any other social policy. It was the Reagan-era Supreme Court that affirmed the right of states to criminalize homosexual sodomy in Bowers v Hardwick (1986) a decision vigorously defended by Reagan appointee Antonin Scalia, his closest ideological ally on the court.
Ronald Reagan reminded America that our enemy was Marxism, that the root of its evil was godlessness, and that its goal was the total elimination of Judeo-Christian civilization. To quote The Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engles directly, “Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.”
The primary tactic of Marxists is syncretism, meaning the blending of two opposing views into a compromised view that’s always one step closer to Marxist goals. It’s called the Marxist Dialectic, and was taught to Soviet schoolchildren with a little dance: “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back — Net Gain One Step.” In other words: Demand a radical leftward change of policy and then compromise with the conservatives so that you get only part of what you demanded, but still move forward toward your goal. That strategy is detailed in astonishingly forthright terms in the must-read LGBT Manifesto, “The Overhauling of Straight America.” http://library.gayhomeland.org/0018/EN/EN_Overhauling_Straight.htm
Sadly post-Reagan Republicans have proven to be endlessly gullible and susceptible to this strategy.
Nowhere has this been more obvious than at Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Network. In 1996 Fox designated itself as the guardian of the conservative hen house and heir to the Reagan legacy, launching what began as a genuinely conservative news network. Over time, however, Fox became merely an arm of the GOP. As Republican elites increasingly capitulated to the Marxist “Tide of History,” especially on LGBT issues, Fox continuously adjusted its personnel and programming to reflect the compromises and make them palatable to the masses.
On behalf of the GOP establishment Fox has led the way in normalizing the myth of the “gay conservative,” and other “conservative” media outlets have followed suit, such as Breitbart with it’s openly “gay,” spotlight-hungry representative “Milo.” But like the truth of the Bible, true conservatism doesn’t “change with the times.” If it abandons its logical presuppositions, such as the resolve to protect civilization from the cancer of sexual degeneracy, then it loses all moral authority. True conservatism must agree with God that “A man must not lie with a man as with a woman. It is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22).
President Reagan once said in a speech to his conservative supporters “Without God, there is no virtue, because there’s no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we’re mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”
By Reagan’s standard we’re going under. It’s time for conservatives to reject the Marxist-invented myth of the “gay conservative” and get back to Biblical truth.
“You have a dirty mind, don’t you?
Slither back into your bathhouse. “
You arent even trying, are you?
You know that isn’t what I was talking about. Apparently your mind went there.
That’s the big thing where the alt right loses me. As a Christian, I can never accept sodomy, and I can never not support Israel. If God said that Jewish people are His chosen people, then that’s the last word on it. God said He will bless those who bless them, and curse those who curse them.
Evidently the homosexual part of the SJW agenda doesn't bother you too much.
If Jesus kicks my ass for it, then so be it.
Long before J*sus was ever born, homosexuality was declared to be a capital offense by A-mighty G-d. J*sus did not invent morality. J*sus did not write the Book of Leviticus. G-d, the Bible, and the universe actually got along quite well for the three thousand years before chrstianity began.
In addition to your lack of moral principle and your pro-perversion attitude, your patronizing chrstian attitude is also objectionable.
Start a ‘All Sinners Out Of GOP’ group.
Homosexuals, fornicators, adulterers, liars, theives, all sinners, then there will be a pure party of zero!
Neither gays nor the gay agenda was being cheered at convention, they were cheering the all gays must vote Democrat bs.
It is a political party not a church....BTW churches are full of sinners too!
We are more aware of the Democrat strategy of DIVIDE AND
CONQUER. VOTE SPLITTERS, I call them.
I do not believe in being a queer. I believe the Holy Bible
teaches against it.
As long as a person does not wag queer in my face, America is a free country of free people.
Until Christ returns to perfectly govern this planet, NO
GOVERNMENT OF MAN will ever be able to govern perfectly.
I am NOT NOT, I REPEAT, NOT voting for Hillary Clinton.
I WILL also NOT sulk at home on Election Day. I will walk
barefooted over rough gravel to get to the polls and cast
my vote for DONALD JOHN TRUMP for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES!!!!
““Since Feb 9, 2016.”
So what?
It’s nice to hear all opinions-—we were all new once.
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So what is this fight all about then? Free enterprise? Guns? Social Darwinism? Is that all you're in this for? And if Ted Cruz is a hypocrite, then what are people like you?
No. It's called not thinking ahistorically. Don't try to impute something to him unless you can presume to think for him at this time. You're welcome to do it but if you think that's a "conservative" methodology you're wrong.
"Thinking ahistorically" means taking account of A-mighty G-d and His will. If you dismiss Him you're just a time-bound little materialist who belongs in eighteenth century France.
Yes, considering that they own the MSM, they are able to control the narrative and redefine issues by using weasel words instead of plain English. They’ve done a similar thing with political correctness.
Amen! Preach it!
“Long before J*sus was ever born, homosexuality was declared to be a capital offense by A-mighty G-d. J*sus did not invent morality. J*sus did not write the Book of Leviticus. G-d, the Bible, and the universe actually got along quite well for the three thousand years before chrstianity began. “
Wonderful!
Now back to right now.
“In addition to your lack of moral principle and your pro-perversion attitude, your patronizing chrstian attitude is also objectionable.”
Dont lecture me, preacher. I’ll stand with 10,000 people that you pray for God to smite if they are going to help fight the authoritarian left over some bohunks that are waiting for Jesus to clean up the mess they are too good to lift a finger to do. Your attitude is as retarded as some solider in WW2 that didn’t want to fight the Nazis along side blacks.
Some of us are too busy fighting the left to check papers right now. If you can pray to make the left go away tomorrow, then you ought to really demonstrate this because you guys seem to not be getting through.
Until then the rest of us (impure in the eyes of God that you think you have the power to deem) will keep fighting here on Earth.
Hey, you're the one who just wants numbers and don't care what they believe!
Did Peter Thiel lead parades celebrating homosexuality? That’s what the article was about, a gay man giving a speech at the GOP convention, not what sinners unrelated to the GOP do.
That is an excellent point. Christianity truly doesn’t have a home with either political party, it seems. Our country has turned it’s back on God in favor of a secular world view. The main thrust of the article seems to be that Reagan understood that political battles are at the root spiritual wars ( the dissonance between communism and democracy) He rightly pointed out that communism isn’t just a different economic system but is truly evil, and by evil he meant a demonic scheme to separate men from God. Furthermore, the point is that until you call out true evil for what it is and rally against it, you cannot and will not win. The Republican Party has not learned this lesson. Reagan understood political battles to be spiritual battles. How many self professed political conservatives truly believe in the existence of evil and believe America to be “One nation under God?”
Sof davar hakol nishma`; ‘et-ha’Eloqim yera’ ve’et-mitzvotayv shemor, ki-zeh kol-ha’adam.
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Will you share with us what that means?
That confess and repent of heir sin and help each other to sin no more (at a true Christain church).
When people refused to repent after Jesus confronted them on their willful sin, he didn't dismiss it and say, "oh, well. Let's go hang out together anyway." He let the rich young ruler wallow, alone, in his dilemma, moving on to others willing to meet his conditions. His encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well leaves no impression that she continued to be promiscuous and adulterous. It is evidenced that anyone whom Jesus contacted and continued in fellowship with was changed. It was the unrepentant, unchanged ones that broke fellowship with Him. "...what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?"
No, Christ was NOT an ongoing friend with the unrepentant.
You’re delusional
Jesus preached to the sinners, he didn’t promote, accept, and condone their sin. Big difference.
Since you don't object to homosexuality, they can't be fighting against you very hard.
I don’t care what or who they are.
Thank you for the implicit admission that you would gladly accept anti-Semites and neo-Nazis as allies.
I hope G-d gives us victory in the election despite the provocations of people like you.
I don't sign my name on an agreement and then renege on it. Is that laudable to you?
"Thinking ahistorically" means taking account of A-mighty G-d and His will. If you dismiss Him you're just a time-bound little materialist who belongs in eighteenth century France.
Speaking for God now? First it was Reagan and now God? Boy you don't waste time do you?
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