Maybe you think everything that could be said about the outrage over Indiana’s law protecting religious freedom has been said.
There’s one important motivating force behind the angry jihad by the LGBT crowd and their supporters including the radical left and the “useful idiots” among recently programmed college graduates and low-information Democratic voters.
But before we get to that very important motivation, let’s review the facts:
- Indiana’s religious freedom law was just that before all hell rained down on it. It didn’t mention “gays.” It didn’t give an excuse to discriminate against anyone. It didn’t mention Christians. It didn’t mention “same-sex marriages.” It was a simple law offering protection for anyone and everyone against being coerced into violating their religious principles. It was modeled on a federal law passed in the 1990s and signed by Bill Clinton – who was lionized for doing so at the time by the same crowd that’s outraged about Indiana’s ill-fated but absolutely vital law. It was passed and signed in the spirit of the Constitution’s First Amendment, which certainly is clear on religious freedom.
- Many other states have similar laws in place, and many more were considering instituting them. That may be why a concerted effort inclusive of nearly the entire establishment media and the aforementioned LGBT activist bloc reacted with such venom and lies in denouncing it. Indiana was going to be their line in the sand.
- This was an important battle for the LGBT crowd. If it can subsume America’s historic commitment to religious freedom beneath the fad “non-discrimination” against certain lifestyle choices, the sky would be the limit for the sexual revolutionaries. In effect, the reigning ethos of the country would be shifted from individual liberty to special privileges for special-interest groups based on their sexual behavior.
Yet, there’s more to the motivation for the all-out war on Christianity this has become.
Here it is in simple, stark terms: Non-believers often react with hostility when they are confronted with the notion that they are doing something sinful. That’s not to say the law did it. It did not. But the law certainly would have provided Christians with the protection they desperately need so as not to be forced into participating in behavior they consider sinful.
How do I know this is a central motivation just under the surface of the agit-prop and death threats and boycotts against the Indiana law?
Because there were active efforts across the country to use “same-sex marriage” as a tool of entrapment against believers. Lawsuits were filed against florists, photographers, videographers, caterers and bakers who chose not to service “same-sex weddings,” as would be their absolute, God-given, constitutionally protected right in a society that recognizes individual religious freedom.
I also know it because I have as a Christian shared the good news of the Gospel with people over the years and found there are generally two reactions:
- openness to the idea that God has actually ordained some activity as sinful and that we are all in need of salvation through repentance for those acts; and
- rejection about being confronted with the notion of sin.
For decades now, a new false gospel of “tolerance” has been preached across the nation by the media, in our educational systems, in our popular culture and in our politics. It’s false because:
- It suggests there is widespread personal hostility against people based on their sexual choices;
- It suggests sexual choices are all inherently good;
- “Tolerance” is actually defined as approval or even celebration of all sexual choices (note the term “gay pride”);
- It resulted in redefining what marriage has always been through the course of history in every culture and every nation and every community for the last 6,000 years.
And the work of this new false gospel is not finished yet – not by a long shot. In order for that work to be finished, this new false gospel must be spread through all the world. It must be embraced by everyone – or else.
The evangelists of this new false gospel seek to punish those who don’t accept, tolerate and actively participate in this new ethos – punishment that has already has meant in a dozen instances being fined, facing lawsuits and even losing one’s livelihood.
That’s what’s really going on here.
In the face of those facts, tell me who the real haters are. Tell me who is being “intolerant.” Tell me who is discriminating. Tell me who is bullying. Tell me who is not practicing “diversity.” And tell me who the real targets of bias and prejudice are.
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