{"id":17167,"date":"2017-07-22T18:02:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T18:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/?p=17167"},"modified":"2017-07-28T21:49:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T21:49:41","slug":"punishing-the-wicked-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/?p=17167","title":{"rendered":"Punishing The “Wicked Christians”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Call me paranoid if you like, but I\u2019m simply quoting what Tim Gill, the foremost LGBT political donor says in his own words<\/span><\/a> \u201cWe’re going into the hardest states in the country,\u201d he declares. \u201cWe’re going to punish the wicked,\u201d by which he means Christian conservatives. In short, if you will not comply with LGBT activism, be it as a minister or as a businessperson, you will be punished. That is Gill\u2019s goal, and to deny it is to be in denial.<\/p>\n

According to Rolling Stone <\/em>magazine, which interviewed Gill last month, he is the \u201cMegadonor Behind the LGBTQ Rights Movement\u201d who \u201cturned a $500 million fortune into the nation’s most powerful force for LGBTQ rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

His accomplishments are impressive indeed: \u201cToday, Gill’s sprawling network of LGBTQ advocacy groups rivals any big-money operation in the country. The Gill Foundation, which he started in 1994, underwrites academic research, polling, litigation, data analytics and field organizing. Gill Action, a political group launched a decade later, has helped elect hundreds of pro-equality lawmakers at the local, state and federal levels.<\/p>\n

OutGiving, his donor club, coaches the country’s richest pro-LGBTQ funders on how best to spend their money. Gill’s fingerprints are on nearly every major victory in the march to marriage, from the 2003\u00a0Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health<\/em>case, which made Massachusetts the first state to allow same-sex marriage, to the Supreme Court’s\u00a0Obergefell v. Hodges<\/em>\u00a0decision two decades later that legalized it in all 50. \u2018Without a doubt,\u2019 says Mary Bonauto, the attorney who argued the Obergefell case, \u2018we would not be where we are without Tim Gill and the Gill Foundation.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

So, when Tim Gill says he wants to \u201cpunish\u201d Christian conservatives who do not affirm LGBT activism, you can take him seriously.<\/p>\n

I understand, of course, that for him this is a matter of equality, and in his mind, he is fighting against discriminatory practices and laws. For him, this is a matter of fairness and justice, and so we who oppose LGBT activism are \u201cwicked\u201d people who should be \u201cpunished.\u201d When your worldview is upside down, that is a logical conclusion.<\/p>\n

Those who believe a child should have a mother and father are the KKK. Those who cannot participate in a same-sex \u201cwedding\u201d are Nazis. Those who don\u2019t want a biological boy sharing a locker room with their daughter are transphobic bigots. And obviously, the KKK and Nazis and bigots are wicked people, and wicked people deserve to be punished. Such is the logic of LGBT activism.<\/p>\n

I just returned from Ontario, where a child can be taken <\/span><\/a>from his or her parents and raised by others if the parents do not affirm the child\u2019s perceived gender. And throughout Canada, you can be penalized<\/span> <\/a>for not using a person\u2019s preferred gender pronoun.<\/p>\n

Here in the States, CBN News reports<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n

California is on its way to passing a new law that makes it illegal to call transgender senior citizens a pronoun they don’t like. For example, if an elderly person who was born male and lives in a long-term care facility wishes to be called \u2018her\u2019 or \u2018she,\u2019 the workers there had better do it or face the consequences. The proposed law would even apply to Christian facilities.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But again, none of this should surprise us, just as we should not be surprised with the latest LGBT attempts to indoctrinate our children<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I\u2019ve said for years that those who came out of the closet want to put us in the closet, referring, of course, to LGBT activists. And as much as critics scorned my words more than a decade ago, mocking me as paranoid and crazy, it\u2019s hard to scorn those words now.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we must be all the more determined to stand up for what is right, regardless of cost or consequence, and we must do this while still loving our neighbor as ourselves. That means that we can be kind and loving to our LGBT co-workers, family member, and friends without celebrating their relationships or affirming their causes. As Christian conservatives, this is how we live.<\/p>\n

You might say to me, \u201cWho cares about being punished? If gay activists come after us for doing what is right, so be it. Our brothers and sisters in other countries are being slaughtered for their faith, so the least we can do in America is take a righteous stand. Gay activists are hardly beheading us or throwing us to the lions.\u201d<\/p>\n

In principle, I agree with you, and I\u2019m quite happy to take a stand, come what may. But there\u2019s something else I think about. What about our kids and grandkids and great-grandkids? What kind of world are we leaving to them?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we must push back against those who want to punish us for our faith. Liberty is not something to be surrendered without a godly fight.<\/p>\n

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Copyright 2017, originally published at AskDrBrown.org<\/span>–<\/a>All rights reserved<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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