“...homophobic comments...”
He who controls the meaning of words gets to control the outcome of the discussion. Since Jesus tells us directly in Revelation 22:15 that people who practice sexual immorality cannot qualify for eternal life in His kingdom, then by this usage Jesus was a homophobe, and anyone who accepts what He says is also a homophobe.
We are thus being coerced to choose between the beliefs and values that are acceptable to the popular culture and those acceptable to the Savior. There was a time in the history of this country when the popular culture was not at war with the values of Jesus.
What upsets the folks at GLAAAAD more, that God has been telling humanity for thousands of years that homosexual behavior is a sin, or that Phil Robertson was so uninhibited
about to fully quote from one of the passages that declared it to be sin? I think they seek to invert the sin: that making reference to God’s opinion about the sin is itself the “sin” of “homophobia”.
In the Gospel of Matthew, in chapter 15 verse 6, there was an incident where people had “voided the commandment of God by your tradition”, that is another way of saying what is socially correct behavior. But this has been the effort of liberals (er, “progressives”) for many years. We are beyond the stage in the 1960’s where liberals (er, “progressives”) were demanding free speech. Liberals have now gotten sufficiently in power in government, media and entertainment that they can control what speech is allow and what is forbidden. We find that the “free speech” they demanded was only free as long as it conformed to liberal ideology. Now it is conservatives who must demand free speech.
The twist is that liberals always wanted to go beyond speech that was free. They wanted speech that changed society. Notice how much liberal energy is going into destroying social norms especially for sexuality. There is now severe sanction against “other-ism” as well. Liberals are yearning for any society, social structure and social norms except those based on the Judeo-Christian ethic and values. That is to say, based on values that people find in the Bible.
What values do the folks at GLAAAD uphold and put forth as something I should adopt, teach my children and work to advance? Their values are sexual chaos. In their value system, sex is about anything and everything except conceiving children and raising them to be responsible and productive human beings. Their values would lead to the death of humanity.
Indeed, it has already started:
Deaths will outnumber births in Spain by 2017, experts say
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/deaths-will-outnumber-births-in-spain-by-2017-experts-say
If today’s liberals are anything, they are above all the most selfish people in many generations, for they are paying for their busy work by massive borrowing from the children who they are busy making sure will never be born. That is not “sustainable”.
Deaths will outnumber births in Spain by 2017, experts say
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/deaths-will-outnumber-births-in-spain-by-2017-experts-say
Odd that you posted that today.
Illinois’ Natural Decrease: Census data show more deaths than births in more than half of state’s counties
Read more: http://www.sj-r.com/article/20131221/NEWS/131229971/10283/NEWS#ixzz2oDY7AMbO
In 2012, deaths exceeded births in 36 percent of counties in the United States, according to census data released in March.
“The growing incidence of natural decrease in America has gone largely unnoticed,” demographer Kenneth Johnson wrote in a report on the findings, “but new data released on March 14 demonstrate that natural decrease is no longer an isolated phenomenon.”
I wonder, do they count abortions?