The intolerance of the homosexual agenda

In the past, homosexuals have always called for “tolerance” and “privacy,” but today they flaunt their perversion in public parades, “gay” television shows and Hollywood movies. Demanding laws for same-sex “marriages” and “hate crimes” legislation, they would require Christians and everyone else to recognize and never question their immoral lifestyle.

Now homosexual advocates are moving to mandate their agenda of calling evil good by court orders and government regulation. Two recent examples bear witness.

Last month in Scottsboro, Ala., two lesbian teenagers decided they wanted to attend the high school junior-senior prom as a couple. When the superintendent, Dr. Judith Berry, informed the students that they could not attend the prom together, the students’ parents hired a lawyer to intervene. Jackson County Circuit Court Judge John Graham issued a last-minute order prohibiting the Board from barring the girls from the prom. One girl, a 17-year-old senior, wore a dress while the other, a 16-year-old junior, dressed in a tuxedo.

Their attorney, Parker Edmiston, casually dismissed any concerns that school officials or parents had about the lesbian couple attending the prom by saying, “This is just a dance. Adults need not get involved.” Of course, the problem here is that adults – the attorney and judge – did get involved.

Attorney Edmiston not only exhibited hypocrisy but also helped set a precedent for mandating acceptance of homosexuality in the public school system. Pushing aside the right of elected school officials to regulate school functions, the court summarily disregarded the rights of parents and other students who depend on school officials to maintain moral standards. Intent on normalizing deviant behavior, the courts have once again imposed an immoral standard upon an unwilling community.

Just this past week, in another example of moral intolerance, Elane Photography, a family-owned photography business in Albuquerque, N.M., was ordered to pay $6,637.94 in attorney’s fees and costs to a lesbian for refusing to photograph her same-sex “commitment ceremony.” After a one-day trial in January, the New Mexico Human Rights Commission found co-owners Elaine and Jon Huguenin guilty of “sexual orientation” discrimination when they did not do business in a manner that would have violated their Christian beliefs, despite the fact that under the law in New Mexico same-sex “marriages” and civil unions are not legal. Under such an oppressive nondiscrimination policy, would Elane Photography be forced to photograph a “commitment ceremony” between a man and his son, or between two sisters, or between a man and his three brides?

New Mexico is in essence demanding that small-business owners be forced to work against their will. As the Huguenins’ attorney said, “The government cannot make people choose between their faith and their livelihood,” but that is exactly what the New Mexico Human Rights Commission is doing.

The role of government is to protect an individual in the enjoyment of those unalienable rights of life, liberty and property given by God. One’s liberty, therefore, cannot be taken without due process of law under the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution. Sir William Blackstone defined “natural liberty” in the law prior to the drafting of the Constitution as follows:

a power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature: being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of the gifts of God to man at his creation.

When the law of nature and the law of God are ignored and made inapplicable to man’s moral behavior, all limits on the concept of liberty are removed, resulting in mere license or licentiousness. James Wilson, an original Supreme Court Justice and signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, explained it this way:

Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

Where law is warped to require a distorted view of liberty, licentiousness becomes court-ordered, as it did at Scottsboro High School. Judges, legislators and civil officers who believe that they must be “fair” to immoral conduct do not understand that without moral boundaries in the law, there is no true liberty, as Elane Photography will tell you. Whether in Alabama or New Mexico, the radical homosexual agenda must not be allowed to put the force of law behind its oppressive intolerance of Christianity and the moral law.

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