Intolerance, Hate, and the Christian

Nearly everyone has heard about how the United States Supreme Court legalized homosexual marriage, a victory for the LGBT community, and a defeat for Christians. However, most true believing Christians were not surprised by what occurred. In fact, my new book, Proclaiming Truth to a World in Love with Lies, predicted this would happen. Furthermore, I predict things are only going to get worse for those who follow Jesus Christ and proclaim His Word. Christians will lose ground, slowly at first, then, they will lose ground with great speed, like a runner sprinting the last ten meters to the finish line.

American Christians are just joining the club that a lot of Christians around the world already belong to. A club Jesus himself predicted when He said the world will hate you because of Me (Matthew 10:22, Mark 13:13, and John 15:18-25). Welcome to a world that is rejecting God.

I am weary of all the smoke and mirrors used by the LGBT community and those who support sin, but let us look at a typical argument they use. The quote below is from Sally Kohn, from The Daily Beast (ironically, we find the Beast in Revelation killing the saints of God).

Will anti-gay Christians be politically and socially ostracized? I sure hope so. Just as those orthodox Christians who still believe in strict, traditional gender roles have been increasingly mocked as absurd. Once upon a time, marriage constituted property—the wife was the literal property of the husband, and could not legally let alone culturally [ sic ] own anything of her own. The governing cultural norm was that women should be barefoot, pregnant and subservient.

We will discuss the first part of what she said later, but let us first look at this statement she made, “Once upon a time, marriage constituted property”.  First off, you need to understand what the writer here is doing. It is called a “non sequitur argument”. In Latin, non sequitur means “does not follow”, and occurs when a statement and conclusion have nothing to do with each other. It is a tactic considered very poor in philosophical discussions. Do Homosexual marriage and a woman being property of her husband have anything in common? No! Furthermore, she “baits” you into think that the Bible and Christianity is the cause of women being property, expected to be “barefoot, pregnant, and subservient.”  The Bible tells us the truth. Sometimes, it tells us how things were even though it was wrong to do so. King David had a harem. His son Solomon had a bigger harem. That does not mean God condoned it. Jesus said as much, one man, one woman, united in marriage. Women were often property in Bible times, but nowhere in the Bible does it say women are to be the property of their husband. Nowhere! Comparing women’s rights to homosexual marriage, is a non sequitur argument. Many have tried the same non sequitur argument equating race (the color of your skin) to homosexual marriage. Again, non sequitur!  Nowhere in scripture does it state it is a sin to have dark skin. Nowhere! On the flip side, it does say homosexuality is an abomination to God (Romans 1).

Comparing cultural issues to moral issues is the tactic writers supporting homosexual marriage love to use. They hope you do not know your Bible. Does the Bible say, “thou shalt pay a woman half what a man is paid for the same job?” No! Does it happen? Yes. Therefore, it is a cultural issue. Does the Bible say, “The darker your skin, the less rights and freedoms thou shalt have?” No! Does the Bible say you should be treated different if your skin is dark? No! Does racism still exist? Yes! Martin Luther King did not go against God or the Bible fighting for the rights of black men and women. He had every right to fight against the culture of the day.

Homosexual marriage is very different. It is a moral war. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Isaiah 5:20. Unlike racism or women’s rights, the LGBT demand that their evil be accepted as normal, be called good. This forces a Christian to choose whether to obey God and His Word, or disobey. Unlike racism and women’s rights, the LGBT will fight against God and His people. Having said that, let’s go back to the article from Sally Kohn.

“Will anti-gay Christians be politically and socially ostracized? I sure hope so.”

Ostracized is only the first step. I will tell you this; what comes next, is much more sinister. Funny though, how people like Sally show themselves to be exactly what they are trying to portray Christians to be. Look what she says later on in The Daily Beast article.

“As for everyone else, including florists and county clerks, yes, you will now have to provide the same services to straight couples that you provide to gay couples. Don’t like it? Find a new job.”

 “Intolerance and hate have lost.”

Ironic, is it not, that she says Christians have lost (Intolerance and hate are code words for Bible believing Christians), yet tells them to “find a new job” and hopes Christians will be “politically and socially ostracized”! This sounds like pure intolerance to me, with a taste of hate, aimed at Biblical Christians.

There will always be light filled Christians who will show love to the homosexual, transvestites, adulterers, swingers, and every other sinner under the sun, even though those like Sally will show us hate. Why? Because we are sinners, saved by Grace, but still sinners. God loved us while we were sinners, so we to should love while others are in sin. I will tell you this though. To say homosexuality is good, transvestites are fine with God, and swinging is adult fun, is showing your absolute hate toward these poor people. Without Jesus saving them from their sin, there fate will be eternity in hell. We must, and I mean must, show our love to the sinner, by letting them know what sin is, and how Jesus saves us from those sins.