Posted on 12/07/2010 6:10:09 AM PST by scottfactor
The world is wickedly insane, and America is not far behind. I have watched for years as inch by inch our country has marched steadily toward immorality that would shock the Americans of only 60 years ago. Things that would never have been accepted in the mainstream then are ho-hum routine today, and the rallying cry of the immoral left is, “We must move into the 21st century like the rest of the world!” I’ll never buy that tripe, because I know that the foundation of truth and morality will never change, no matter what all the forces of hell proclaim.
The militant campaign to force the mainstreaming of homosexuality is one glaring example of America’s race to the bottomless pit. Right now, we’re witnessing the aggressive, concerted effort by the left to force blatant homosexuality on our armed forces. This is very bad, regardless of what the in-the-homosexual-tank media and leftist enemies within the high ranks of the military and government would have you believe. There are many compelling reasons why this is a terrible idea, and Air Force veteran, Bob Ellis, of Dakota Voice has repeatedly outlined those reasons in clear terms.
For years we’ve been seeing “test cases” of homosexuals pushing the legal envelope to force their degenerate lifestyle choice on the rest of us. Periodically we read about homosexuals suing small business owners—often Christian small business owners—for not bowing to the homosexuals’ demands, whatever they may be. These test cases are getting more and more outrageous, and now we have one of the most over-the-top examples yet of homosexuality gone wild, and it’s certainly no surprise that it comes out of San Francisco.
The case is of a man who had himself surgically mutilated in the delusional desire to “become a woman,” and who proceeded to sue the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) for not allowing him to compete in their tournaments. He claims that under California law, his “civil rights” are being violated by not being allowed to play with the women. Before the lawsuit is even done, the LPGA, rather than fight this insanity with the voice of reason and truth, has instead chosen to cave in and join the delusion by voting to allow so-called “transgendered” men to join the LPGA. The lawsuit, which was filed in October in San Francisco by a former police officer and SWAT team member who now calls himself Lana Lawless, is still ongoing, but LPGA members voted preemptively to strike from their constitution the requirement that members be female at birth.
This is wrong on so many levels that it’s hard to choose where to begin. When reading articles about this topic—of men and women who insanely and vainly try to change their gender, I see that the media is so overboard in their fawning support of this spiritual and mental illness, that pretty much without exception, the stories are written from an accepting viewpoint, even going so far as to refer to a man as a “she” and a woman as a “he.” Such is the case with this man who is suing the LPGA.
It’s not just the media that have signed on to this mass delusion, but the courts have also stepped right up to “validate” what could never actually be. You may recall back about a year and a half ago, Sonny Bono and Cher’s daughter Chastity Bono had a so-called “sex change” operation. Afterward, this past May, she proceeded to go to court to legally change her name and her gender. That’s preposterous enough, but the so-called judge didn’t blink an eye in declaring that the woman Chastity Bono is now officially and legally the “man” Chaz Bono. As I said, this world is truly insane, but I for one will not sign on to that insanity.
Back to this man who has busted his way into the Ladies PGA; beyond the sheer madness of it, it is patently unfair in the athletic sense. Despite years and years of the left trying desperately to erase the truth of the inherent differences between men and women, women will always be the weaker of the sexes; that’s just the way it is and has been since God made mankind male and female. With rare exceptions, women cannot successfully compete against men in sports where physical strength is involved. Golf does require physical strength. A man will almost always have the strength to out-drive a woman when they start from the same tee box.
When you turn it around with women demanding to be let in to the PGA, well, it’s not the same thing. Although I firmly believe that sports should remain segregated by sex, if the PGA says it’s alright for a woman to try to join their ranks (which they have), there’s no harm to the tour, because most likely, she would not necessarily even make the cut. It’s not the same when you turn it around with men invading the ladies’ tour.
The man suing the LPGA is also suing the Long Drive Association (LDA) for re-writing its rules to adopt the LPGA’s stance of allowing only women to compete in the women’s competitions. The LDA did this after he won the 2008 Women’s Long Drive Championship. Well, who could’ve seen that coming?! Who would ever imagine that a man would out-drive a bunch of women?! Of course, the LDA read the writing on the wall and rewrote their rules. Otherwise, it’s quite possible that no woman would win the Women’s Long Drive championship ever again.
Thus far, the LDA has not caved in and changed their rules, but the lawsuit was filed in San Francisco, so I would say the legal cards are stacked against them.
This disgusting story is just a snapshot of what’s wrong with our country and our world. Rational people know that a man could never become a woman! It’s impossible—no matter what is chopped off or sewn on a person’s body or how many hormones are pumped in, the DNA is unchanged; your gender will never change. All the people who enable and encourage this kind of behavior, from the “doctors” who would perform such a needless and barbaric procedure, to the lawyers who file these ridiculous lawsuits, to the judges who proclaim by fiat that a sex change has legally occurred, to the media people who blindly affirm the lie in their coverage—none of those people are helping the person who suffers from the spiritual and mental illness of homosexuality, which covers a range of various manifestations up to and including the demented desire to attempt to change one’s gender.
Instead of helping people who suffer from such delusions, all those enablers only help further cement that delusion, and we end up with ones like this man suing the LPGA and the LDA as he proclaims,
“I have traveled a long road to get to where I am now, a place where I always belonged as a strong, proud, capable woman. I am, in all respects, legally, and physically female. The State of California recognizes me as such and the LPGA should not be permitted to come into California and blatantly violate my rights. I just want to have the same opportunity to play professional golf as any other woman."
This man and ones like him need help, not false validation. There are plenty of resources to rescue people who are trapped in the iron clutches of homosexuality. Exodus International is one resource ministry, and Love Won Out is another. And there are others that are always ready and waiting to offer the love, freedom and the power of Christ to help people escape homosexuality. Of course it’s not easy, but with God on your side, all things are possible, according to His will.
Which begs the question.....what’s par for that hole?
“would shock the Americans of only 60 years ago”
Or 20.
I always thought that a lot of the gals on tour were lesbians. If that’s true, then this isn’t much of stretch. But it is a regrettable stretch.
Dykes on spikes was the term even 20 years ago.
Where are we going? And why are we in this handbasket?
You are so right. My son is disgusted with what is happening to our country. Even when he was a boy he could freely play outside until dark without some pervert trying to grab him. That may be a small thing in the bigger scheme of things but it says loads about our society today. I pray for America. I pray that Americans continue to fight against the unseen dark forces that would strip away any moral and ethical fiber we have and push us to world wide despicable socialism/progressiveism/marxism or whatever word you want to describe this abomination.
If it’s allowed in golf, what’s next? Track and Field? There’s no way an actual woman could compete against a surgically created woman in the 100m dash, high jump, etc. This is just insanity.
“Nice tee shot, Large Marge!”
My son has a homosexual for over ten years. I take great comfort from the following article:
Ministering to Homosexuals in San Francisco
Charles A. McIlhenny
Extracted from Ordained Servant vol. 6, no. 1 (January 1997)
A mother tearfully confided in me as pastor that her son poignantly declared himself “gay.” She had always “known” that he was different. He didn’t play sports, he wasn’t vicious or brutal, he liked music and interior decorating, he had a slight swagger to his gait, he spoke with a faint hair-lisp, and always hung around Uncle Harry at family gatherings. His declaration, however, seemed to be the “coup de grace” on their relationship - his relationship to his mother. I momentarily reflected on her sobbing, and then replied that it seemed like she was grieving over the discovery that her son was a from another planet—a Martian! That his supposed “coming out”—his confessing a newly discovered faith-sex-condition—put him beyond the pale of her fundamentalist retrieval and that she’d better get used to him being an alien, i. e., gay!
The homosexual propaganda machine has been cranking out overtime, to an unbelieving secular media, convincing people that “gay” is equivalent to any other already legitimate genetic race-like group. And amazingly many naive Christians have been seduced by such propaganda.
News Flash, Madam! Your son is NOT a Martian. He’s a sinner that needs the grace of God—JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER SINNER.
When people ask me if we have any special counseling for homosexuals I say yes: the counsel of the Word of God, the counsel of the preaching of the Gospel, the counsel of God’s call of repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, the counsel of God’s corporate covenant community in worship. Contrary to the gimmicks of the world, you’d better believe we have something special.
Is the modern homosexual a special case with unique and complex psychoses which the primitive Scriptures never knew? Have we imbibed the pseudo-medical conclusion which places the 20th century homophile beyond the reach of the naive, hysterical dictates of the Word of God? Does the Word of God fail to recognize newly discovered genetic and biological factors to which, had they been known, would have made a difference in whether to condemn or accept homosexuals as just different? Does the Bible fail to appropriately distinguish between orientation and praxis? Does the Bible really condemn homosexuals or does it condemn heterosexuals acting contrary to their natures? Is it inversion or perversion which is forbidden by the Scriptures? The answer to all these questions is a resounding NO! Homosexuals have no place to hide from the scrutiny of God’s Law—no more than any other sinner who tries to invent excuses for his sin. That’s why the homosexual paradigm is so crucial for the church today. If this sin can be justified, then ANY sin can be excused; but the only justification recognized by the Word is that of sinners who repent and believe in the cross of Christ, instead of making excuses.
No, homosexuals are to be recieve no special method or message different from other sinners that need Jesus. If that were the case every sinner would have a special excuse for his peculiar type sin. The Bible is clear that sin, of whatever make and model, can only be forgiven by grace and overcome by the power of the gospel.
News flash! The opposite of a homosexual IS NOT a heterosexual. The idea that a homosexual is of another human kind is as foolish as saying the opposite of a paedophile is a heterosexual, or the opposite of an adulterer is a heterosexual. The true opposite of fornication is regeneration; the biblical opposite of paedophilia is justification; the cleansed opposite of homosexuality is sanctification. They ARE all heterosexuals! They haven’t stopped BEING heterosexuals. They have all broken God’s moral law. They all need to be converted -” to be washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.” [1 Cor. 6: 11]
In a sense every sinner is different in his sin but there is only ONE common faith-message: repent and believe the gospel. Paul told the Philippian jailer: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved, you and your household.” [Acts 16: 31] This was not tailor-made for Philippian government workers or European white/ male or Greek mid-life crises jailers with families. Paul would have said this to anyone no matter what his background or circumstance of sin would be.
Many of the homosexuality-plagued seekers think that they must be a special case. It’s supposedly too hard to give up this sin; ergo, maybe it’s not sin after all! These people must see that it is no more difficult to abandon this sin than any other sin. That this sin has the same cleansing promise as every other sin—no more and no less than the work of Christ.
Paul does say that, compared to other sins, sexual sin denigrates the human body; but he doesn’t give them a different message of the gospel, nor promise a separate healing. [1 Cor. 6: 18]
One size fits all.
As for the homosexual’s recovery the Apostle gives him the one common holy institution for all sinners: the divinely appointed redemptive agency of the Church of Jesus Christ. I say that as a pastor who knows from the Word of God that this is the covenant institution—the family of God—which best cares for sinners and saints. She cares for sinners in warning them to flee from the wrath to come forbidding them entrance into the Kingdom of God while unrepentant; and for saints, in that it provides the comfort of the gospel of the forgiveness of sins and protection against the enemy. This institution sets the overall context for counseling those struggling with homosexuality.
San Francisco culture has a uniqueness when it comes to ministering to homosexuals. In the first place, there is such a strong support system legally organized to reinforce homosexual way of life that part of the biblical therapy process many times demands fleeing this City altogether. There is such a bombardment of homosexuality—at every level of government, education, medical/health, scientific, media, entertainment and legislation—that in order to forsake wickedness as the Apostle exhorts, one must actually flee the City like Lot of old—not because of an impending brimstone shower but because the seduction is so wickedly powerful.
Every imaginable agency, institution, and ombudsman provides for the most perplexed and questioning homosexual and lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and transvestite, and transgenerational person. Even worse, virtually every mainline church—loosely defined—supports gay/ lesbian causes along with same-sex marital unions.
Just recently the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, along with the endorsement of the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors, hosted a televised hearing for “Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Transgender, and Questioning Youth Summit.” Over four hours of testimony was taken from self-proclaimed homosexual teens by these agencies in order to see if added legislation was necessary to support “our gay youth” in the City. New health & medical services were demanded, free condom distribution, free needle for exchanges, gay/lesbian counseling services at the junior high and high school level.
In ministering to the homosexual inquirer, we’ve found that he must cut off all relations with his old “community”; he must reconstitute by faith into the family of God. He needs a whole new set of spiritual brothers and sisters, moms and dads, found in the Church of Christ. He needs a remodeled family in which to pattern new life and conduct; a place where God’s man is a man and God’s woman is really woman; husbands acting like husbands and wives acting like wives. It’s not simply a matter of a “role model” reversal; it’s not replacing one “role” with another “role” as if play acting. A godly structured atmosphere is found only in the church of Jesus Christ that offers real hope and remedy for the enslaved sex addict.
In ministering to the homosexual inquirer not only must the Law of God be pressed upon the conscience but God’s one forgiveness in Christ alone must be also offered. Unless homosexuality be understood fundamentally as sin—transgression of God’s one and only moral Law—no further deliverance and recovery ought to be expected.
Here are fundamental givens based exclusively on the Word of God. Do NOT compromise on the biblical message of sin and grace. That is the repentant homosexual’s only hope. Do NOT compromise for the sake of winning the sympathetic hearing. His eternal security is in the uncompromised message of the Scriptures which every sinner needs.
He needs:
re-enforcement from the Word on what God says about homosexuality: grace, forgiveness and judgment,
regular monitored accountability meetings with the elders; one of the elders should covenant to pray for him daily, (part of that accountability is in regular weekly prayer and Bible study gatherings with the congregation at large),
reminding that the continual faith-struggle with temptation is part of the sanctification process—it’s when he stops struggling that he’s got problems,
reassurance that he’s not alone in this battle for victory; other members—every member—also struggles like he does,
to be careful about putting himself in temptation’s way,
to avoid being introduced to someone else who struggles with the same sexual sin—that’s too much temptation. Many of these Christians live alone and temptation in such cases is much more difficult to resist,
to know that in Christ he/ she is no longer a homosexual or lesbian just like converted murders and liars are no longer such despite temptations and feelings! “Such WERE some of you. . .” [1 Cor. 6: 11]
The Apostle Paul exhorts Timothy to “flee youthful lusts. . . with those calling upon the Lord. . .” [2 Tim. 2: 22] In other words, the exhortation to flee lust is ALONG WITH others struggling against sin in the context of the covenant community. The agency of the church has no hope for unrepentant homosexual only God’s sure wrath. The church has no authority from her Lord and Head to offer any hope apart from the grace of conversion; but for any repentant sinners, all the resources of the eternal God—“. . . my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” [Phil 4: 19]
As pastor I have the sure “medicine” for sin and relief in the preaching of the gospel. The ultimate counseling session must be done in the corporate worship service not merely private sessions; the full extent of the divinely appointed-ordinances of the Lord are necessary to combat and destroy every high thing and thought exalted against the Lord. Families in the church must be made aware of their needed role in ministering to individuals struggling with sin. Yet at the same time a person’s sexual past is really nobody else’s business. A group gathering of like minded repentant homosexuals must not congregate to talk out their mutual trials. Such sessions subtly foster rather than battle temptations. The mixed—heterogeneous—congregation common ground for all is God’s safest sanctuary for biblical “group-therapy.”
Thank God there is this: the one size-fits-all gospel which alone guarantees to all sinners deliverance through our one common Savior, Jesus Christ. As I counsel struggling Christians, if the Christian faith does NOT save you from YOUR sin, then I’ll renounce the faith and join you. If it won’t work equally for you, it won’t work for me either. Whatever peculiar providences may have “caused” one’s moral adversity, unless he begins where Scripture begins, he will not end where Scripture promises—an end to sin.
November 13, 1996
The Rev. Dr. Charles A. McIlhenny is pastor of First Orthodox Presbyterian Church of San Francisco, California.
That minister’s article makes sense in a reality-based world. But unfortunately, we live in an insane unreality based world. We’ve now reached a point in which saying that homosexuality is a sin is on the verge of being criminalized. A time will come when that minister who tries to reach homosexuals will be in jail for hate crimes.
A time will come when that minister who tries to reach homosexuals will be in jail for hate crimes.
It’s very difficult to get good information on how many homosexuals get disgusted with their lives and leave sodomy.
Can you recall a single article addressing hurting parents or the anguish a homosexual child brings on the entire family?
I’m an nobody. Just an old lady, but I try to do my best to speak out with every oppportunity. I get some heart rending responses from people looking for hope and encouragement.
If you read Pastor McIlhenny’s book you would see that he is not concerned for his own safety. The message is too urgent.
I ask myself a question that is really too big for me, “Do I believe anything worth dying for?”
The LPGA is slowly whithering anyway.
Good point.
If there is a competition among trannies, you should participate, but you are not a woman, men know real women and you are not one.
{This post is not directed to Scott, just happened to be the one I replied to}.
Somewhat off topic, but does anyone recall what happened tot he PGA golfer, who, a few years ago sued the tour under the disabilities act because he was not allowed to use a golf cart. As I recall he had some physical infirmity which made the extended walkign hard for him.
He is allowed to use a cart.
It was Casey something..I think..is he winning anything?
Actually, why couldn’t a woman who has been surgically altered to become a male, become better than the men? Think about it this way, since they cannot be a “man” without certain hormones, they can then use a testosterone/steroid supplement legally, along with of course bent rules, because what ruling body is to say HOW MUCH a “man” this female is by her blood count. So find a woman like Jackie Joyner, supplement her with the right cocktail of drugs, voila...a heckuva man. As an aside, who is to say that a man or a woman has to have surgery to become what they are? Why not a woman with a penis and a “mangina” and enlarged breasts? Who are we to tell them no?
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