GAYS: Agenda runs even deeper
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a much longer letter, which you can read in full at cdapress.com.
Facts are Facts
So despite all the facts, there is a national effort to ignore the facts and legitimize homosexual behavior. The public deserves honest information about the sexual realities of the homosexual lifestyle, the serious health risks that come with it and the ramifications to a society that embraces such evil.
Do you realize that never in the history of mankind has a single society ever attempted to substitute homosexual relationships for traditional marriage? Marriage has always been universally viewed as a God-ordained arrangement to glorify God and pro-create in God’s image.
So the deluded homosexual activists bravely march on, threatening nasty and expensive lawsuits if the local ordinances are not passed. They have deep financial pockets and most cities aren’t interested in the huge cost of a perceived legal fight.
But when ordinances are passed, they force Christians to both lose rights and to have to sin to comply. For instance, a privately owned Christian bakery would be forced to bake a wedding cake with homosexual decorations.
A Christian wedding photographer would be forced to take pictures for a homosexual wedding.
You think that’s not going to happen? The New Mexico Court of Appeals recently upheld a ruling by the state’s Civil Rights Commission that a Christian photographer who refused to take pictures of a gay couple’s commitment ceremony violated the state’s discrimination law.
Elane Photography Studio is owned by a Christian husband and wife and declined to photograph the homosexual’s ceremony, citing their religious beliefs.
The homosexuals sued and the Christians were found guilty of “sexual orientation” discrimination. The court, in effect, is saying that Christians cannot be Christians. And then they fined the couple $7,000!
In New Jersey, a lesbian couple filed a complaint with the state attorney general’s office because a Methodist Camp would not allow the lesbians to have a same-sex wedding on the private property. New Jersey stripped the camp of it’s tax-exempt status because it said the camp was discriminating based on “sexual orientation.”
The “what if” examples are endless. Do you see where this is going? In Canada it’s illegal to read certain Bible verses in public. Imagine going to jail for reading scripture. They’ve threatened and won against the Boy Scouts.
But this is only the beginning. This homosexual agenda is not for equal rights or civil rights as homosexuals have never been denied constitutional rights as a class. It’s part of a larger agenda to compromise the last obstacles to a new world order.
The Council should vote to represent the citizens, regardless of the threats. It’s time we draw a line in the sand and deter the homosexual goal of forcing society to acquiesce to their agenda. Because if we allow what they are demanding, Christians will eventually have to give up being Christians. That’s worth engaging the fight.
If a national or local law is passed that does not protect my liberties and instead violates the constitution, it’s my right to fight.
“Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.”
If a law is passed that in effect says that Christians have to give up their religion (sin) in order for homosexuals to have rights, I am commanded to fight the good fight. And I will. And there are enough people in Kootenai County to recall the mayor and council and institute a new governing body who respect God and defend my rights.
It’s time to pray for our country and for wisdom in our responses to actions aimed directly at our Christian beliefs.
I pray God is giving us one last chance to awaken a national conviction and repentance.
I pray you decline to pass this ordinance.
BILL PERKINS
Coeur d’Alene