Homosexual Marriage and the Criminalization of Christianity
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| English: Writer and journalist Masha Gessen at the 6 Moscow Internacional Book Festival Español: La escritor (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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:
First, the ultimate destruction of marriage; second, forced affirmation of
sexual deviancy under penalty of law; and third, 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 (a) 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.
"If it is displeasing
to you to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve, if it
should be the gods your fathers served beyond the River or the gods of the
Amorites' land where you are now living. Yet as for me and my house, we will
serve the Lord" (Josh. 24:15).
Whom will you serve?
Matt Barber is
founder and editor-in chief of barbwire.com.
He is an author,
columnist, cultural analyst and an attorney concentrating in constitutional
law. Having retired as an undefeated heavyweight professional boxer,
Matt has taken his fight from the ring to the culture war. (Follow Matt on
Twitter: @jmattbarber).
