Posted on 12/05/2019 6:55:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I feel like I lost a friend when Chick-fil-A apparently decided to throw Christians under the bus to curry favor with the LBGTQ crowd. Not that they could ever be “good” enough to please the radical gays because the goal is not really tolerance….it is forced acceptance and celebration.
But one thing that truly galled me in this whole scenario was the mislabeling of the Salvation Army. To think of the Salvation Army—which does so much good work for people of every race, creed, color, sexual-orientation, whatever—as somehow anti-gay is preposterous.
In a similar vein, a few weeks ago a singer from England initially refused to participate in a half-time show at a football game in Texas because it was to benefit the Salvation Army.
Singer Ellie Goulding, who later relented, said, “I am a committed philanthropist as you probably know, and my heart has always been in helping the homeless, but supporting an anti-LGBTQ charity is clearly not something I would ever intentionally do.”
By what criterion is the Salvation Army an anti-gay hate group? Because they do not let practicing, unrepentant homosexuals become leaders? Should GLAAD or other radical LGBTQ groups be forced, against their will, to have as leaders those who oppose their lifestyle?
What if someone tried to force one of these LBGTQ groups to hire as a leader someone like Omar Mateen, a true anti-gay (and anti-Christian) hater, who shot up and killed dozens of homosexuals and lesbians at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando?
* Is it hate when the Salvation Army houses the down-and-out, including many homosexuals and lesbians?
* Or provides food for same?
* Or job-training to help them find meaningful employment?
By what definition of “hate” is the Salvation Army in anybody’s dictionary a hate group?
This politically correct culture has lost any semblance of moral clarity to label a group like the Salvation Army as a hate group.
When a hurricane hits, the Salvation Army is among the first on the scene to offer help for the hapless victims. The Salvation Army doesn’t discriminate whom they help.
Why do they help anybody? I once had the privilege to interview for Christian television the worldwide head of the Salvation Army, General John Gowans, who has since graduated to glory, having died in 2012.
He told me, “There wouldn’t be a Salvation Army without a Savior....Without Christ, there would be no dynamo behind the Salvation Army; to push it forward and to even to bring it into existence. It depends upon a living Christ to exist.”
The dirty little secret of all this false-reporting of “hate” is that much of it comes from a self-proclaimed watchdog of “hate” in America—the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) out of Montgomery, Alabama.
They have been scaring Northeastern liberals for generations against “hate” in America. The problem is that when the KKK, neo-Nazis, and skinheads (genuine purveyors of hate) became largely marginalized in our culture, the SPLC still wanted to keep the money flowing into their coffers through their direct mail appeals. So they started labeling legitimate Christian ministries as “hate” groups.
A few years ago my own employer, D. James Kennedy Ministries (which, by way of full disclosure, is on the SPLC’s “hate map” as alleged haters), produced a television documentary exposé on the SPLC.
For that program, Dr. Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary, said, “The Southern Poverty Law Center has an aura of respectability because of its history. It came into being because of the civil rights struggle. And they were exposing white supremacist groups.”
“But,” continues Land, “they’ve now taken such a hard turn to the left, they’ve just fallen off the surface of the earth. And they just label people that disagree with any of the multicultural moral relativist views concerning transgenderism, homosexuality, etc., as being a hate group.”
Since the early-2019 resignation of Morris Dees, founding director of the SPLC, and the forced ouster of its president, Richard Cohen, a lot of disturbing revelations about the liberal group have been reported—even among liberal media sources, like an article by a former SPLC employee, Bob Moser, in the New Yorker.
Moser tells how employees would walk past the words from Amos, chapter 5, “… until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream,” used by Martin Luther King, Jr., etched in marble at the SPLC, and mockingly change them to “…until justice rolls down like dollars.” In short, for many the SPLC is all about money.
It is not hate when you show love, as the Salvation Army does. God bless them. Maybe Chick-fil-A will no longer give to them, but God will provide for this ministry through some other source. But shame on those who would slander the Salvation Army as a “hate group.” Talk about “fake news.”
The ATTACK on the republic continues, unchecked.
Well duh! They must be. I didn’t hate Chick-fail-A until Chick-fail-A cut them off!
What the heck? Even the liberals in my family think the Salvation Army does good work!
I remember reading one time that the president of the SA only makes around $24K per year.
That is the degree of affirmation required to achieve the bad housekeeping seal of approval from the LGBTQ movement. It essentially require saluting the flag of Sodom, and is a precursor to the mark of the Beast, which is akin to,
That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. (Daniel 3:5-6)
Should GLAAD or other radical LGBTQ groups be forced, against their will, to have as leaders those who oppose their lifestyle?
No, but double standards are par for the course in the LGBTQ world.
Yup, in upside down world.
Won’t be long before Walmart gives SA bell rings the boot. Thanks, CFA, for emboldening the America hating left.
Time was, for many years, that the SA was the ONLY charity I would donate to on both a regular and specific basis.
Then in 2017, they went political and joined the anti-Trump gaggle.
I now donate ONLY on an individual basis to those I deem worthwhile.
If Chick-fil-A wants to force me to choose between them and the Salvation Army, I will choose the Salvation Army, every time.
The radical activists have been trying to cancel the Salvation Army for a long time. They got a big assist from their friends at Chick-fil-A. That tells me everything I need to know about the radical activists and Chick-fil-A.
The problem started when people became convinced tolerance was a good thing. But tolerance isn’t a good thing. It’s a shorter word for “the only thing for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”
As long as good men continue to do nothing, evil will continue to triumph.
Well, despite not going so far as to affirm homosexual unions, they implicitly recognize them as they " provide the same benefits to opposite-sex and same-sex couples." And the Salvation Army states that it does not "discriminate against hiring gays and lesbians for the majority of its roughly 55,000 jobs," though it wants freedom to do so.
And it often caves in to pressure from LGBTQ criticism. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salvation_Army#Criticism_by_LGBT_activists
Meanwhile, in contrast to its founder, William Booth, and its pre-modern years, it is hardly a "salvation army in actual active evangelism, being instead usually just known as a social agency. And which once gave Cardinal Law the William Booth award
Until CFA publicly gives the Salvation Army a massive donation, CFA is to be boycotted.
I’m in. I really miss my spicy chicken deluxe, I really miss bantering with the crew. But I’m in.
In the inverted “morality” of Western decadence, I’m sure that makes some kind of sense to those afflicted.
Under their agreements the SA is only a hate group if the Christian Church is a hate group and the bible is hate speech. The SA merely believes in 2000 year old church teaching based on scripture. And its no doubt this is where the left is going - the Christian church is a hate group. This is a battle.
whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. (Daniel 3:5-6)
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But they wouldn’t bend, they wouldn’t bow, they wouldn’t burn.
Because of the “fourth man in the fire”.
The only people who think the Salvation Army is a hate group are hate groups.
True charity takes away from politicians who believe only government is the answer?
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group, just as much as the Nazis, the KKK, Antifa, or any of the others.
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