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The 'Gay Marriage' Gauntlet: Time to Choose
http://www.gopusa.com ^ | August 18, 2015 | Matt Barber

Posted on 08/18/2015 6:56:54 AM PDT by NKP_Vet

It’s never fun to be proven right when warning of some impending wrong. Many in the pro-family movement have long stressed that the cultural Marxist left’s belligerent push for the judicial fiction that is “gay marriage” was never about gaining “equal access” to this biologically exclusive male-female institution, as they profess, but, rather, is, and has always been, about control.

While there are many layers to unfold, the almost instant explosion in government-sanctioned, anti-Christian extremism on display post Obergefell v. Hodges, confirms the poisonous three-fold agenda that underlies the “social justice” mob’s flowery “marriage equality” propaganda. That is: 1) the ultimate destruction of marriage, 2) forced affirmation of sexual deviancy under penalty of law, and 3) the eventual criminalization of Christianity.

The destruction of marriage

Here’s the bottom line: Homosexual activists don’t want the white picket fence; they want to burn down the white picket fence. The endgame is not to achieve so-called “marriage equality” but, rather, to render marriage reality meaningless.

Masha Gessen, a lesbian journalist, activist and author, expressly admitted this fact in a 2012 interview with ABC Radio: “It’s a no-brainer that [homosexuals] should have the right to marry,” she said. “But I also think equally that it’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist. … [F]ighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there – because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie.”

Homosexual activist and pornographer Clinton Fein echoes Gessen’s candid sentiments: “Demand the institution [of marriage] and then wreck it,” he once wrote. “James Dobson was right about our evil intentions,” he quipped. “We just plan to be quicker than he thought.”

The goal is to water down marriage until marriage is pointless. And as evidenced by the burgeoning legal push for polygamous and incestuous “marriages” – even for the “right” to “marry” a robot – sexual anarchists are well on their way to achieving this goal.

Forced affirmation of sexual deviancy.

Here’s what Christian America is already experiencing from coast to coast. On Wednesday, civil rights law firm Liberty Counsel filed a request for a stay and an appeal of U.S. District Judge David Bunning’s opinion ordering Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis to issue same-sex “marriage” licenses both in violation of her First Amendment right to religious free exercise and the biblical mandate that she must not participate in this explicitly sinful activity. Davis had been sued by the ACLU and two lesbian political activists.

“The plaintiffs in this case only sought licenses from Ms. Davis after learning of her religious objections to same-sex ‘marriage,’ and they refuse to obtain a license elsewhere,” said Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “Just as Justice Alito predicted in his dissent in Obergefell, secularists are trying to ‘stamp out every vestige of dissent’ by targeting people of faith who do not agree with same-sex ‘marriage.’”

Judge Bunning wrote, “Davis remains free to practice her Apostolic Christian beliefs. She may continue to attend church twice a week, participate in Bible study and minister to female inmates at the Rowan County Jail. She is even free to believe that marriage is a union between one man and one woman, as many Americans do. However, her religious convictions cannot excuse her from performing the duties that she took an oath to perform as Rowan County Clerk,” the ruling said.

“Judge Bunning’s decision equated Kim’s free exercise of religion to going to church. This is absurd!” responded Staver. “Christianity is not a robe you take off when you leave a sanctuary. The First Amendment guarantees Kim and every American the free exercise of religion, even when they are working for the government.

“Kim Davis did not sign up as a clerk to issue same-sex ‘marriage’ licenses. Her job duty was changed by five lawyers without any constitutional authority. At a minimum, her religious convictions should be accommodated,” concluded Staver.

Indeed, Davis’ oath as county clerk was to defend and protect the U.S. Constitution and the constitution of Kentucky. As Chief Justice John Roberts rightly observed in his Obergefell dissent, the activist majority’s opinion actually hijacks the democratic process and is in no way rooted in the Constitution: “[D]o not celebrate the Constitution,” he said. “It had nothing to do with it.”

The fact is that if Ms. Davis were to issue counterfeit same-sex “marriage” licenses, she would not only be disobeying God and directly participating in expressly sinful activity, she would be violating her constitutional oath.

The criminalization of Christianity

To her credit, Ms. Davis is standing her ground while the decision is appealed. Predictably, many leftists are now clamoring for her imprisonment. They want her held in contempt of court and thrown in jail for refusing to at once affirm homosexual sin and violate God’s commands. This is the new pagan orthodoxy. It’s “here, it’s queer, get used to it.”

Meanwhile, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) reports on “a Colorado Court of Appeals decision Thursday in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Craig, regarding a cake artist who declined to use his artistic abilities to promote and endorse their same-sex ceremony even though other cake artists were willing to do the job.”

“Americans are guaranteed the freedom to live and work consistent with their faith,” observed ADF attorney Jeremy Tedesco. “Government has a duty to protect people’s freedom to follow their beliefs personally and professionally rather than force them to adopt the government’s views. Jack simply exercised the long-cherished American freedom to decline to use his artistic talents to promote a message with which he disagrees. The court is wrong to deny Jack his fundamental freedoms.”

The court affirmed an earlier order wherein Phillips and his Christian staff were not only ordered to bake homosexual “wedding” cakes against their will, but were additionally forced into pro-homosexual “sensitivity” propaganda classes.

And if they refuse?

Then they go to jail.

That’s how it works. Christian free exercise isn’t outlawed all at once. Judges across our fruity plain simply order from the bench that millions of Christians, just like Kim Davis and Jack Phillips, must either deny recognition of God’s natural order and Christ’s admonition to “go and sin no more,” or face prison for “contempt of court.”

Welcome to America 2015, where evil is good, men are women, judges are tyrants, and Christians are persona non grata. There is no more in between. The anti-Christ left has thrown down the “gay marriage” gauntlet. It’s either God or man.

“But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve. … But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD” (Joshua 24:15).

Whom will you serve?


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The end goal has always been be the "forced affirmation of sexual deviancy", and the destruction of Christianity.
1 posted on 08/18/2015 6:56:54 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: NKP_Vet

Being a Christian in western civilization today is like being a Jew in Germany in 1933.

The signs and parallels are everywhere. We are in for a very interesting next few years. Hence my tag line.


2 posted on 08/18/2015 7:05:32 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cuban leaf

I’d amend your tagline:

“The US will not survive the electorate that could elect obama to the presidency. The world may not either.”

Without Obama, we still have this critical mass of parasites choosing our leaders.


3 posted on 08/18/2015 7:11:53 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Here’s a thought: change “marriage” to “reproduction”, something they can’t have.


4 posted on 08/18/2015 7:13:26 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: NKP_Vet

“But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve. … But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD” (Joshua 24:15).

Whom will you serve?

I recommend one and all listen to John MacArthur’s response to the cultural anarchists and Supreme Court in his bold sermon “We Will Not Bow.”

http://www.gty.org/resources/sermons/80-425/we-will-not-bow


5 posted on 08/18/2015 7:13:47 AM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: NKP_Vet

Irrational infatuation with the gay cult is rampant in this country. I have got good friends and family who refuse to see what’s happening. They treat me like a leper when I point out the evil that is as clear as daylight. How much more damage do we have to sustain before they finally admit I was right?


6 posted on 08/18/2015 7:15:56 AM PDT by mom of young patriots
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To: NKP_Vet
The end goal has always been be the "forced affirmation of sexual deviancy", and the destruction of Christianity.

Only part of the larger plan.

Time to dust off "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen, and pay particular attention to numbers 25 and 26 of the 45 goals of communists in the US.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy."

7 posted on 08/18/2015 7:18:40 AM PDT by Tigerized (Your Personal Safety is Yours, and Yours Alone. Aim Small, Miss Small.)
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To: NKP_Vet

The pendulum will swing, and due to the loathing which gays have induced upon themselves, it will be a very forceful swing.

I once supported them and their cause, but now don’t give a smelly Obama what happens to their loathsome lifestyle.


8 posted on 08/18/2015 7:26:23 AM PDT by Da Coyote (Di)
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To: mom of young patriots
...good friends?...
9 posted on 08/18/2015 7:29:24 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: mom of young patriots

They would not be my friends anymore. To quote Homer from the movie Hud, “little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we chose to admire.”

Your “friends” are contributing to the fall of this country. I have no friends that are not rock-ribbed conservative and speak to no family members who are not.


10 posted on 08/18/2015 8:02:26 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

“choose”


11 posted on 08/18/2015 8:11:22 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: NKP_Vet

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3023834/posts

First Published in Gay Community News, Feb. 15-21, 1987 and also put into the Congressional Record. Author - Michael Swift)

We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us.

Women, you cry for freedom. You say you are no longer satisfied with men; they make you unhappy. We, connoisseurs of the masculine face, the masculine physique, shall take your men from you then. We will amuse them; we will instruct them; we will embrace them when they weep. Women, you say you wish to live with each other instead of with men. Then go and be with each other. We shall give your men pleasures they have never known because we are foremost men too, and only one man knows how to truly please another man; only one man can understand the depth and feeling, the mind and body of another man.

All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. Instead, legislation shall be passed which engenders love between men.

All homosexuals must stand together as brothers; we must be united artistically, philosophically, socially, politically and financially. We will triumph only when we present a common face to the vicious heterosexual enemy.

If you dare to cry faggot, fairy, queer, at us, we will stab you in your cowardly hearts and defile your dead, puny bodies.

We shall write poems of the love between men; we shall stage plays in which man openly caresses man; we shall make films about the love between heroic men which will replace the cheap, superficial, sentimental, insipid, juvenile, heterosexual infatuations presently dominating your cinema screens. We shall sculpt statues of beautiful young men, of bold athletes which will be placed in your parks, your squares, your plazas. The museums of the world will be filled only with paintings of graceful, naked lads.

Our writers and artists will make love between men fashionable and de rigueur, and we will succeed because we are adept at setting styles. We will eliminate heterosexual liaisons through usage of the devices of wit and ridicule, devices which we are skilled in employing.

We will unmask the powerful homosexuals who masquerade as heterosexuals. You will be shocked and frightened when you find that your presidents and their sons, your industrialists, your senators, your mayors, your generals, your athletes, your film stars, your television personalities, your civic leaders, your priests are not the safe, familiar, bourgeois, heterosexual figures you assumed them to be. We are everywhere; we have infiltrated your ranks. Be careful when you speak of homosexuals because we are always among you; we may be sitting across the desk from you; we may be sleeping in the same bed with you.

There will be no compromises. We are not middle-class weaklings. Highly intelligent, we are the natural aristocrats of the human race, and steely-minded aristocrats never settle for less. Those who oppose us will be exiled.

We shall raise vast private armies, as Mishima did, to defeat you. We shall conquer the world because warriors inspired by and banded together by homosexual love and honor are invincible as were the ancient Greek soldiers.

The family unit-spawning ground of lies, betrayals, mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence—will be abolished. The family unit, which only dampens imagination and curbs free will, must be eliminated. Perfect boys will be conceived and grown in the genetic laboratory. They will be bonded together in communal setting, under the control and instruction of homosexual savants.

All churches who condemn us will be closed. Our only gods are handsome young men. We adhere to a cult of beauty, moral and esthetic. All that is ugly and vulgar and banal will be annihilated. Since we are alienated from middle-class heterosexual conventions, we are free to live our lives according to the dictates of the pure imagination. For us too much is not enough.

The exquisite society to emerge will be governed by an elite comprised of gay poets. One of the major requirements for a position of power in the new society of homoeroticism will be indulgence in the Greek passion. Any man contaminated with heterosexual lust will be automatically barred from a position of influence. All males who insist on remaining stupidly heterosexual will be tried in homosexual courts of justice and will become invisible men.

We shall rewrite history, history filled and debased with your heterosexual lies and distortions. We shall portray the homosexuality of the great leaders and thinkers who have shaped the world. We will demonstrate that homosexuality and intelligence and imagination are inextricably linked, and that homosexuality is a requirement for true nobility, true beauty in a man.

We shall be victorious because we are fueled with the ferocious bitterness of the oppressed who have been forced to play seemingly bit parts in your dumb, heterosexual shows throughout the ages. We too are capable of firing guns and manning the barricades of the ultimate revolution.

Tremble, hetero swine, when we appear before you without our masks.


12 posted on 08/18/2015 8:46:46 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: NKP_Vet

The undesirables must be identified and removed. They stink and are a blot on our progressive society. But, let’s do it legally. Then in the name of law, we can mark them, shut down their businesses, force them out of work, pack them up and ship them off to the camps so we don’t have to see them, and where work will set them free.

They don’t exist. What happens to them in the camps is irrelevant; as long as our progressive brave new world does not have to see them or acknowledge their existence or non-existence.


13 posted on 08/18/2015 8:56:33 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: NKP_Vet

Romans 1:..
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools.. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.

Note also that Romans 1:32 points out that those who approve of such conduct are just as guilty as those who engage in it.

Lev 18:22 “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination....

25‘For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants.”


14 posted on 08/18/2015 9:02:31 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: NKP_Vet

I don’t remember the exact number, but about 37 states passed amendments, legislation, whatever, that defined marriage as between one man and one woman. Even in California this was passed.

Our federal government is a creation of the states. When this creation gets out of control, then the states have the right to abolish it or change it.

Besides the three branches of federal government that we are aware of,
there exists a fourth branch which most people forget, it is the states. And actually, as mentioned above, this fourth branch has more power and authority than any of othe other three combined.

It is time for the fourth branch to assume it’s proper authority, and alter or abolish the other three.


15 posted on 08/18/2015 9:06:04 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: fwdude

That’s pretty funny. In November of 2008 I coined the phrase, “Obama is not the problem. The problem is the electorate - and they’ll still be here in four years. It’s actually one of the roots of the origin of my tag line.


16 posted on 08/18/2015 4:23:13 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Cutting my family and out of my life is not my style. That doesn’t make me any less of a conservative. It even gives me some satisfaction because they have to deal with me and my opinions.


17 posted on 08/18/2015 10:51:43 PM PDT by mom of young patriots
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To: onedoug

Yes, good friends and family that I care for. They desperately need persuading. Even though they are stubborn, I see value in the attempt. It is part of the reason that I spend a lot of hours doing research on topics like the dangers of the homosexual lifestyle and the suffering that children of those unnatural unions go through. I am also reading the Koran. I need fact based ammo to use in debates against people with wrongheaded, stylish opinions that they have pilfered from pop culture.


18 posted on 08/18/2015 11:10:40 PM PDT by mom of young patriots
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To: mom of young patriots

Commendable. Though I was struck by these “good friends” that would treat you as a “leper”. That’s all.


19 posted on 08/19/2015 7:01:56 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

Believe it or not, they are good friends and my husband and I have had many years of good times with them. It is two separate couples that we have occasional dinner dates with. They think conservatively in many ways, but fall short of my beliefs. It is frustrating. I feel sometimes that they’ve labeled me as “extreme” and I have certainly labeled them as “mainstream”. I have been able to talk them around on some issues and feel hopeful that I can get them to see the dangers of allowing the lavender mafia full run of our society. The topics have to be presented just so or the air can get a little frosty. I think the problem in both cases is that these friends haven’t spent as much time researching and contemplating the topics as my husband and I have so they are more susceptible to cultural influence.

Now, the family members are a different matter. Some are worth the effort, but others are lost causes. Several of them are outright Leftists who STILL adore Obama. They are contributing to the wanton destruction of our country and it makes me mad, but they will contribute to it whether I stay in touch with them or not. I am keeping the enemy close, so to speak. It is a case study of tangible stupidity.

In some ways it can be beneficial because my kids can get some experience debating the other side while we are still there to reinforce what’s right. My oldest enjoys taking on his liberal aunt in a gun grab discussion. I get too angry so I avoid it, but he remains cool and uses sound logic. He never changes her mind, but he doesn’t let it bother him. Good training for the nonsense he’ll put up with in college.


20 posted on 08/19/2015 12:57:33 PM PDT by mom of young patriots
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