Religious Exemption: How Homosexuality Is Transforming U.S. Christianity into a Ghetto
U.S.
conservatives have hailed the victory of Jack Phillips, a Christian baker who
exercised his right not to make a wedding cake to a homosexual couple, because
a homosexual “wedding” is an affront to God, biological sex and natural family.
He was sued by the insolent predatory homosexual couple, but he won in a long
legal battle.
Homosexual activists began their campaign
against traditional family and biological sexuality decades ago. They were on
the defensive, but eventually they turned the tables. A radical minority put
the non-radical majority on the defensive, and today their assault against the
non-radical majority has been so atrocious that even when Christians have a
success stand on a petty issue as a cake, it is hailed as a big victory — while
they lost the major battle: marriage.
In the 1980s, U.S. conservative
evangelicals fought against sodomy. Next, against gay “marriage” in the late
1990s and 2000s. Now they just fight for religious exemption. Next, will they
be living in a ghetto or in jail? Is this what do they interpret as “victory”?
Free speech or religious freedom has
become the last stand of the non-radical majority suffering systematic assault
from the radical minority. And what is such strategy producing? Reduction of
U.S. Christianity. Protestants, who were 98% of the U.S. population in the
foundation of the U.S. Republic, now comprise less than 50%.
The fight for free speech is not helping
U.S. Christianity. In fact, it is creating a hybrid Christian creature, as I
have showed in my article “’Free
Speech,’ The Ultimate False Gospel in America.”
While the suffering Christianity, which
had no religious exemption and freedom, kept expanding in the Roman Empire and
the Soviet Union, in the U.S. is happening just the contrary. It is being
constricted by the radical minority.
The fact is, as recognized by U.S.
conservatives, “acceptance
of homosexuality is growing even among ‘conservatives.’”
When “conservatives” accept homosexuality
or even embrace the impossible — “conservative” homosexuals —, the end is near.
Last year, pedophilia
advocacy knocked down the most prominent “conservative” gay in the U.S.
More to come among “conservatives”? Yes, more has come. This year, CPAC,
the top U.S. conservative conference, banned a pro-family Christian group and
approved homosexualist group.
Yet, the signs were already coming and
conservatives did not protest. In the Republican National Convention endorsing
Donald Trump in 2016, PayPal
founder Peter Thiel, who was one of the main speakers at this convention,
shamelessly announced, “I’m a proud gay man.” Instead of being
repudiated for his proud and impudent homosexuality, Thiel was hailed. Trump
was also hailed for holding a homosexual flag during his campaign.
More
recently, State Department Secretary Mike
Pompeo recognized June as LGBTI Pride Month. Pompeo, who is one of the most
important officials of Trump, is considered a very devout evangelical
Christian. While conservatives are celebrating a slice of the cake — the Jack
Phillips case —, homosexual activists are celebrating homosexual “marriage” as
the law of the land and a very devout evangelical Christian leading the State
Department in the celebration of sodomy. Most of the cake belongs to them. There is no doubt that homosexual
activists are achieving the biggest victories and celebrations.
While homosexual activists will keep
fighting for big game, conservatives will be fighting for cookies and crumbs.
They will be fighting for exemptions — the right to enter and stay in the
closet. Homosexual activists went out, and conservatives are going in.
Homosexual
activists demand — and are granted — more and more rights to impose on
everything and everyone, including the indoctrination of children. Conservative
Christians are fighting just for the right to remain “protected” in their
Christian closets.
The worse is the bad example. If America
is, with her power and her State Department, leading nations around the world
to celebrate homosexuality, what kind of example U.S. conservative evangelicals
are giving to conservative evangelicals around the world regarding
homosexuality? Compromise and shameful concession.
So U.S. Christians won on a cake issue,
but they are losing all other major battles involving homosexuality. And
because evangelicals
were Trump’s main voting block in 2016, if evangelical numbers keep
being reduced, genuine conservative candidates will not be elected anymore, and
“conservative” candidates will have to look like more like liberals, including
by supporting homosexuality. This is already happening. Trump has taken no
measure against homosexual “marriage” and similar advances made by Obama.
Probably, no American conservative has
seen this issue better than Matthew Trewhella, in his article “Religious
Liberty and the Ghettoization of Christianity in America.” He said,
Most
of the conservative, pro-family, and Christian groups have made ‘religious
liberty’ their rallying cry over the last two years. The matter comes to an
apex [with] the case about a Colorado baker, Jack Phillips…
I
do not share the enthusiasm of many over this matter of ‘religious liberty,’
however. Let us step back and look at the larger picture.
The
cry for religious liberty began after the Supreme Court issued their depraved
opinion on homosexual marriage in 2015. Religious liberty became the latest retreat of the GOP and the conservatives. Religious
liberty became the latest retreat of the pro-family and Christian groups.
First
they stood against sodomy itself. Then they accommodated themselves to sodomy
and retreated to opposing homosexual marriage. Now they have accommodated
themselves to homosexual marriage and have retreated to defending religious
liberty.
But
here is the rub — If the Supreme Court rules in Jack Phillips favor, the result
will be Christians do not have to participate in homosexual marriages, but
homosexual marriage remains entrenched in the land.
And
this is what religious liberty accomplishes in this matter – it assures the
evil will continue in the land and it accommodates the continued ghettoization
of Christianity in America.
Evil
should be stopped, not accommodated. When the government enacts evil in the
land, but they make an accommodation for Christians to not participate in it,
they are marginalizing Christianity in the land; they are putting Christianity
in the ghetto.
Christians
love religious liberty not because it acts as a bulwark against evil in the
land, but because it allows them to continue to sit and sip their lattes while
there is evil in the land.
It
allows Christians to continue to be “Christians,” while they continue to remain
indifferent towards the evil in the land.
It
also prevents them from suffering for their faith.
For
decades now, when certain immoral laws have been passed, there is a religious
exemption added. These laws seem good to the average self-absorbed, Pietistic
Christian, but in reality they serve to belittle and depreciate Christianity
and Christians within the culture. And this is what the pro-family and
Christian groups are appealing to SCOTUS to do.
With
hat in hand, they are pleading with the tyrant — the Supreme Court which has
trampled state laws outlawing sodomy and trampled state constitutions declaring
marriage between only a man and a woman — and asking the tyrant for a
dispensation. This is whoredom.
Laws
or policies that protect Christians from being personally affected by evil laws
– but which allow the evil to continue in the nation – are themselves evil laws
or policies.
Why
should Christians be allowed to bypass the evil while the rest of the culture
has to imbibe upon it and become further debauched? If you allow the evil of
sodomy to fester in the land, the effects of such filth will be felt by all –
believer and unbeliever.
Let
me make clear: Jack Phillips is one of those rare Christians that actually
loves Christ and neighbor. The vast majority of Christians in America wouldn’t
give a passing thought to standing true to Christ if it meant missing out on
making a buck (or saving a buck). So for his sake, I hope he wins…
Christians
need to understand that they must demonstrate vigilance against tyranny. They
must give up what most Americans pursue — wealth and ease. They must give some
time and effort to good governance, and not continue to ignore the magistrates.
Portuguese
version of this article: Isenção religiosa: como o homossexualismo está
transformando o Cristianismo dos EUA num gueto
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