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A Lesbian’s Eyes Opened: ‘You Don't Hate Us!’
Townhall.com ^ | September 28, 2014 | Matt Barber

Posted on 09/28/2014 6:45:14 AM PDT by Kaslin

This jaw-dropping revelation is based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest assessment of the homosexual lifestyle. The WSJ report further warns: “Gay and bisexual men represent an estimated 2 percent of the U.S. population but more than half of all people living with HIV and 66 percent of new HIV infections. They are the only population group in the United States for which HIV infections are rising.”

What do you say of an adult or adults who, for selfish political reasons, encourage sexually confused children to adopt a sex-centric identity and lifestyle laced with a 50-50 chance of HIV infection? I’d say they’re guilty of child abuse. Adults are supposed to protect children from touching the red-hot stove, not push their face down on it.

This is true hate.

Scripture admonishes, “The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). Unnatural behaviors beget natural consequences. It is hateful to promote a sin-centered lifestyle to children, to anyone for that matter, which leads to disease, death and, unless repented of, eternal separation from God.

It bears repeating: “[H]alf of all gay and bisexual men will be HIV-positive by age 50.”

The wages of sin is death.

Yet in today’s upside-down world it is we who are disingenuously accused of “hate” – those of us who remain compassionate and bold enough to warn our fellow fallen human beings of the spiritual, emotional and, yes, even the physical death that comes as a natural consequence of unnatural behaviors. A toxic cloud of political correctness distorts reality, choking off any honest appraisal of these self-destructive sexual behaviors. We truly live in a dark age that calls evil good and good evil.

Homosexual conduct is always sin. It always has been. It always will be. It is never good, healthy, normal or natural.

The wages of sin is death.

I’m honored to say that I’m one of those “haters” called by God to sound the alarm. While folks do send me positive and encouraging notes on a regular basis, I likewise receive a steady stream of hate mail – chiefly when I write (or speak) on the issues of marriage, God’s moral law and His natural order for human sexuality.

While the positive correspondence is always heartening, it is, believe it or not, the nasty stuff – the uglier the better – that especially lifts my spirits. Christ’s promises are true: “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake” (Matthew 5:11).

When God calls you to be an instrument of His truth, the biblical harmonies you play will often strike sour with those in rebellion against Him, sending them into blind rage and deep denial. This is a spiritual battle old as time itself. It is between good and evil. It is sublimely humbling to be used of God in this way. All we, all you, as faithful Christians can do is to speak truth in love and pray that those truths plant a seed that bears fruit in the hardened hearts of lost souls.

I have seen this happen many times.

One example occurred in October of 2009. I was keynoting a fundraiser for the pro-family group “Americans for Truth About Homosexuality” (AFTAH) in suburban Chicago.

Outside the event, and watched closely by police, was a mob of angry “LGBT” protesters. A young woman who claimed to be with the press was present at the banquet. It was quickly discovered that she was actually with the mob outside and had somehow managed to sneak in. Rather than kick her out, Peter LaBarbera, founder of Americans for Truth, asked her to stay and join us for the banquet. He requested only that she put away her video camera, which she did.

This young woman, who identified as a lesbian, sat at a table with some of the most loving and godly women I know. They showed her the love of Christ. Among them was Sandy Rios, my dear friend, Fox News contributor and AFR talk radio host.

After I gave my remarks, this young lady – we’ll call her Marie to protect her from being hanged for high treason by the “equality” crowd – rushed over to me with tears in her eyes. “They lied!” she exclaimed of the protest organizers outside. “You don’t hate us. You don’t hate me. You really do care. And you’re funny!” she added of some of the humor I typically, though not always successfully, weave into my writing and speaking.

“I’ll admit it,” she continued. “What you said was hard to hear. But they lied to me. You don’t hate anyone.”

A number of us then prayed for this priceless daughter of God the Father. She stayed around and visited with us until well after the event ended. Sandy Rios and I then walked her out, where we were greeted with scowls and profanity-laden taunts by the activists outside.

“What are you doing with them!” demanded one of the protesters of our new friend. To even my surprise, she ignored them, reached over and gave me a big hug.

She saw that we loved her. She saw that Christ, in us, loved her. He died for our sins, her sins, and for the sins of each of her fellow protesters.

We learned that her friends, her ride home, had abandoned her and, as I recall, Sandy drove her home that night, continuing to minister to her along the way and for some time thereafter.

Yes, they lied. We don’t hate you.

This is the true face of the vast majority of so-called “anti-gay” Christians. This story is but a microcosm for the larger movement.

It is truth.

And it is love.

But sadly, truth is hate to those who hate truth.

To you homosexual activists, I say this: We will not be daunted. We will not be intimidated. We will never quit.

We do this in obedience to the Holy Spirit.

Like He did before us, we are going to love you.

But, as did He, we are also going to tell you the truth.

And we’re going to do it whether you like it or not.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: christianity; faith; faithandfamily; homosexualagenda; lgbt
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1 posted on 09/28/2014 6:45:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

It is not only about pushing this life style is part of much bigger plan to destroy this country.


2 posted on 09/28/2014 6:49:43 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: riverrunner

Bingo. That’s it in a nutshell.


3 posted on 09/28/2014 6:51:52 AM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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To: Kaslin

My daughter told me a kid in her high school, a girl, now ids as a boy


4 posted on 09/28/2014 6:52:15 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Kaslin

Very uplifting post. Thank you.


5 posted on 09/28/2014 6:54:02 AM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Kaslin
Call it God's judgment or call it a return to natural law, the reset is going to be cataclysmic.

And we will have front row seats, at least until the power goes out.

Click the pic to the full-text Free Republic thread.

6 posted on 09/28/2014 6:54:08 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kaslin

Nice, but most of the “L” part of LGBT hate normal people.


7 posted on 09/28/2014 7:05:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: yldstrk

If (s)he is able to naturally impregnate “his” wife without any help whatsoever then I believe she has become a he. But that will never happen


8 posted on 09/28/2014 7:06:00 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

And yet the push is on to permit homosexuals to give to the general blood supply AND to repeal “disclosure” laws that require AIDS victims from having to inform sexual partners.


9 posted on 09/28/2014 7:09:26 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: Kaslin

We wouldn’t want them to be saved if we hated them.


10 posted on 09/28/2014 7:12:14 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: yldstrk

One of my neices says she “feels like a boy” inside. It is ridiculous. Are schools pushing kids to “feel” like this?


11 posted on 09/28/2014 7:13:15 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: a fool in paradise

Yeah, that’s absurd as is the story that millions are dying for lack of donations by homosexuals.


12 posted on 09/28/2014 7:14:27 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Kaslin

Thanks for posting! This (truth is hate to those who hate truth) will be my new signature line.


13 posted on 09/28/2014 7:17:06 AM PDT by Twotone (Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
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To: Kaslin

More hate: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2013/january-february/my-train-wreck-conversion.html


14 posted on 09/28/2014 7:19:25 AM PDT by stylin_geek (Never underestimate the power of government to distort markets)
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To: riverrunner

Don’t fool yourself; they want to destroy much more than just “this country”.


15 posted on 09/28/2014 7:21:07 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Kaslin

I have a lesbian story that is a little bit different than this one, I have told it here on FR before.

I was in New Orleans at the Museum of Fine Arts waiting in line for the ticket office to open. A woman in line next to me was talking on her cell phone like she would have if she were alone.

She was telling someone that her choice (yes she said choice) of the lesbian lifestyle had been a mistake. She wished she could go back and ignore those who had lured her into it.

So at least for some of them, it was a choice.


16 posted on 09/28/2014 7:23:09 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: riverrunner

they have been pushing their anti Christian, anti family , anti American agenda for decades, and they will never stop until someone on our side with a public voice in the white house can tell them no and then take the media on


17 posted on 09/28/2014 7:23:11 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Kaslin
Thanks for posting this well written piece. This is a great line:

When God calls you to be an instrument of His truth, the biblical harmonies you play will often strike sour with those in rebellion against Him, sending them into blind rage and deep denial.

Amen. He's right about the hate, but there's no hatred here for the people themselves, just for their goals and methods.

I don't hate people who are damaged, only the damage that damaged people do.

Damaged people need compassion and they need the Truth, for in Truth there is healing and using our compassion, God can work miracles.

18 posted on 09/28/2014 7:31:36 AM PDT by GBA (The melting pot has been overturned.)
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To: Kaslin

“For I say unto you that he who would lead a child into sin better that he tie a millstone around his neck and drown himself in the sea.’’


19 posted on 09/28/2014 7:37:08 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: GeronL

You better believe they are. I’ve heard the same crap from nieces when they were in elementary school.


20 posted on 09/28/2014 7:39:12 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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