Beware the 'evil seducers' and their filth

In the news hear or read about the disintegration of the long-standing model of marriage between one man and one woman. Interspersed throughout the conversations we read and hear about the legalized murder of the unborn - totaling 1.2 million children last year. As a reference point, this is one child every 26 seconds. The abortion holocaust is complemented by the horrifying fact that the United States of America is the world's fourth largest producer and promoter of pornography - most of which involves lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and pedophiliac activity. Noteworthy also is the fact that this industry is a $3,000 PER SECOND enterprise.

These things occur while 1.2 million children are being sold into the sex industry - a 12 billion dollar a year profit to the wicked who sell them. This is second in profit only to illegal drug sales. These things occur while nearly 1 trillion dollars per year is being spent by our Government on "Education." What is it they are learning? Or should I ask, "What are they trying to teach us?" Somebody please tell me what we are learning, and for crying out loud, why do we allow all this to happen on our watch?

Is the present administration "learning" how to destabilize, demoralize, and make defenseless the remaining conservative thinking Americans who are sick and tired of the way things are going? Are they "learning" how to further indoctrinate our college and university students - and for that matter our younger students - with the same pathetic arguments against absolute truth we once called foundational? Are they looking at methods on how to tell us not just what to think, but how to think? Are they working on conditioning techniques designed to allow us to let them do all the thinking for us? Slowly and carefully they erode our compass - and far too many Americans not only allow it, but seem to like it.

I, for one, am sick of the political correctness of the day that disallows us to have an opinion. I am sick and tired of the fact that it is only the opinion of men like me who will gather the scorn of the "politically correct." It seems that for those who have been seduced to sleep by the agenda it's OK to blaspheme, criticize, critique, and condemn a voice that cries out for some rational and reasonable awareness of this evil day.

Please join me as I suggest we become intolerant of the "intolerant." I believe we should speak up about the signs of the times! We need to speak up and tell the truth! We need to sound an alarm against the seduction to sleep while the enemy of all that is right is raging!

I will not shut up or sit down while the very lives of the people we are called to protect are being molested by the evil seducers who continue their agenda. I will not look the other way while the dark forces of the world press against the light that gives truth and hope to all mankind. I will not lie down in the withering fields of dying grass while green pastures still remain.

Here is my call to you,

* Speak Up! When someone says something that is in error - at the risk of seeming judgmental - by all means speak up and bring correction.

* Speak Out! When you have opportunity to say something - even when not given the open door - tell it like it is and warn others of the times and seasons in which we live.

* Stand Up! Don't be passive and just let this continue. Find ways in which you can serve. Get involved.

* Hold fast! Know what you believe and why you believe it. Then guard yourself against compromise and indifference.

My aim is not to generate hate for our friends and neighbors. It is to stir up our love for the truth and hate for that which harms.

Example:

According to recent statistics, only 5 percent of Gay unions last more than 20 years - most dissolve far sooner. This is compared to the fact that 50 percent of heterosexual marriages last until death. If we legalize homosexual marriage will our court systems load be lightened? Will a greater number of children be affected by divorce? Will people's lives be benefited or will there be an increasing number of broken relationships? Will America become a more wholesome land increased by the birth of children into stable families who know and embrace our traditional values? Do we understand that homosexual relationships have proven not only to be unhealthy, but costly to society, the family, and even to the medical industry?

Please somebody, tell me! Is this really what the majority of Americans want?

Please hear my heart on this. I am by no means being insensitive or unsympathetic to the struggle many have over this issue. I am not intolerant of the people whose lives are plagued with pain and anguish over their unhealthy propensities. In fact, I have served and continue to love people who struggle. Over the years I have helped people with the issue of sexual disorientation, (you name it - I have seen it all), as well as every other unhealthy propensity without discrimination. This is not a call to hate the people who struggle; it is a call to love people enough to tell them the truth without creating an easier road to their own destruction.

Speak up my friends; heed my cry, and follow my lead.

Paul D. Van Noy is pastor of Candlelight Christian Fellowship in Coeur d'Alene.