Posted on 07/21/2017 7:28:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ken Ham, president of the Answers in Genesis Christian ministry that built the $100 million Ark Encounter biblical theme park in Williamstown, Kentucky, riled LGBT advocates Tuesday when he announced that they will be reclaiming the rainbow for God with permanent rainbow lights for their life-sized Noah's Ark replica.
"We now have new permanent rainbow lights at the Ark Encounter so all can see that it is God's rainbow and He determines its meaning in Genesis 6," Ham said in a statement on Facebook. "The rainbow is a reminder God will never again judge the wickedness of man with a global Flood — next time the world will be judged by fire.
"The Ark is lit permanently at night with a rainbow to remind the world that God owns it and He decreed it's a sign of His covenant with man after the Flood — Christians need to take back the rainbow as we do at the Ark Encounter," he added.
Ham first launched his effort to take back the rainbow from the gay community when he lit up the ark with rainbow lights last Christmas, six months after the park opened.
Chris Hartman, director of the Kentucky Fairness Campaign, told USA Today at the time that the rainbow is a symbol of love, acceptance, unity and inclusion, "None of which Mr. Ham or his operation embrace or embody."
Of the rainbow light on the ark, he said, "It makes the ark look incredibly gay."
Josh Wagoner, co-chairman of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network of Greater Cincinnati reacted with mockery to Ham's Christmas campaign while raising concern about how young people will receive the message.
"I think the rainbow is big enough for all of us," Wagoner said then.
A majority of Ham's audience on Facebook reacted positively to the campaign Tuesday with nearly 34,000 people liking the comment and more than 8,000 expressing love for the move. Just over 1,000 treated the effort as a joke as of Thursday morning.
"For crying out loud, no one took your rainbow! Please stop trying to pass this nonsense off as Christianity. There is nothing Christian about judging one another. Just think what this world could be if we spent just half this energy finding ways to show kindness and acceptance and understanding and love to people who aren't just like us instead," wrote Michele Bowen Woloszyk in a comment that drew nearly 3,000 reactions. "If you aren't sending love into the world, you're just doing damage. If your religion/church is teaching you otherwise, you need to find a better way to spend your time."
"I think the symbol has already been lost. Might have been a good idea decades ago when homosexuality started claiming the symbol for their own, but it's too late now. Christianity does not have the cultural power to reclaim it," Shakir Tal suggested in another popular reply to Ham's call.
Josh Tanguay, however, did not see it that way.
"That's like saying, 'The world's already lost. What's the point in preaching the gospel, anyway? People don't listen to preaching like they did a few decades ago.' This mindset is what makes small churches become even smaller as their members die off," he said.
"We have a hope that endures throughout all of eternity based solely off of the promises that God has made and kept. Should we not continue to share that hope with those who are hopeless? The Catholics have tainted what the cross stands for, but have we done away with that symbol? God gives us reminders of His promises, the rainbow being one of them. Or have we neglected remembering God's promises and become as Israel?"
I think this is good. Most people really don’t have a clue that a rainbow is a sign from God. The original homosexuals who stole it might have but hardly anyone does today.
No, No, We own Light and the Prism, said the gaze.
And of course their rainbow of 6 colors (number of man) is NOT the rainbow of God, 7 colors, number of completeness and perfection.
God’s rainbow has 7 colors and that’s what we learned in physics: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red. The queer one has 6.
Homosexuals have co-opted the rainbow.
Homosexuals have co-opted the word “gay”. This word is never used according to its dictionary definition anymore. The word gay doesn’t even have a double meaning. The word gay now means only homosexual.
Homosexuals have co-opted the word “pride”. The homosexual organizations in recent years have taken to calling their gay pride parades and events, just “pride” events. I recall seeing the news here in San Diego, for the recent gay pride parade, in which the news people on various channels, simply referred to it as “pride”, and talked of events happening on “pride weekend”, but never referenced that these events were related to homosexual pride.
I was taught 7 colors in Physics class.
ROYGBIV, Roy G. Biv, as a mnemonic.
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet
Looks great. My wife and I visited the Museum Ark last year soon after it opened. It was really is well done and we enjoyed it.
It’s time we reclaim the meaning of “gay” as well.
Didn't they just add brown, for... you know?
In Italy the rainbow flag stands for peace (pace).
I refuse to use the word “gay”. If ever I am discussing the issue of homosexuality, that’s the word I use.
I am surprised homosexuals haven’t asked for the Bible to be declared hate literature. The scriptures very clearly tell us that homosexuality is a sin.
Excellent.
>>I am surprised homosexuals haven’t asked for the Bible to be declared hate literature. The scriptures very clearly tell us that homosexuality is a sin.
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Didn’t they do that already in Canada and the U.K.? I am pretty sure Christians aren’t permitted to read aloud certain passages because the words are considered hate speech.
Unless Christians mount organized resistance, it will come here eventually.
:: “It makes the ark look incredibly gay.” ::
And, notice how they use the term as an insult. I thought being “gay” was beyond such criticism.
I don’t understand why some of the comments from the article are aimed at Christianity. The Ark was Noahs and he wasn’t Christian. Also,God made the rainbow way before Christianity came about....
“There is nothing Christian about judging one another.”
Actually, the entire Bible is a textbook on how to judge one another.”
We need to come up with another word for that faggot colored thing. Looked up words for six. I don’t like the idea of calling it a sextet-word for stripes. Hexadic-stripe?
Of course, if we used the prefix sex-, faggots would dump the word rainbow so fast.
Uh, hello to all you haters from yesterday’s really lame thread?
Does anyone want to admit to being wrong?
God bless Ken Hamm for being brave and letting God Almighty support the limb he is way out on!!!
Those verses in the Bible are now hate crimes in Canada.
God’s rainbow has 7 colors and that’s what we learned in physics: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red. The queer one has 6.
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Thanks...i didn’t know that!
I do know the spectrum order shortest to longest wavelength is ROY G BIV
red to violet.
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