There are a lot of damaging agendas in the United States these days, from promoting the industry that destroys unborn babies to the failed agenda of Joe Biden to bring in millions of illegal immigrants and the LGBT extremism of transgenderism, in which children are given chemicals, even body-mutilating surgeries to try to make them into something they’re not – the opposite sex.
And at least part of the fault for those ideologies can be traced directly to “Christian” leaders who are using their own agendas to present “a distorted gospel message.”
The comments come from Gary Bauer, who served in the Reagan administration as under secretary of education and head of the Office of Policy Development.
He was president of the Family Research Council, senior vice president of Focus on the Family, and was appointed by President Trump to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
He has written online at the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute, founded by the late James Dobson, explaining that among Dobson’s top priorities was boosting Christian participation in the “privileges and responsibilities of citizenship.”
Christian involvement, he believed, is needed to bring about solutions for America’s problems.
“But what if some Christian leaders get involved in the public debate only to throw the Bible away and instead side with some of the most radical forces in America? Two groups claiming to speak for Christians recently issued statements that are deeply disturbing,” Bauer explained.
The first involves illegal immigration, which was addressed in a recent “special pastor message’ from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
“It essentially took the side of open borders and opposed the enforcement of our immigration laws. The bishops’ statement presented a distorted gospel message,” he charged.
He noted the “compassion” for illegal aliens. “But there was no compassion for taxpayers, including Christians who are footing the bill. Yes, Christ loves immigrants, but He loves taxpayers, too,” Bauer wrote.
“There was no compassion for the victims of criminal illegal aliens. During the Biden years, not only did the bishops not say anything about victims of criminal illegal aliens, but most of America’s media also downplayed those stories. What about poor minority communities that are most at risk from illegal alien crime?”
He cited the leftist campaign now that calls police “fascists” and leaves officers compared to Nazi “storm troopers.”
“Where is the bishops’ concern for the men and women of our federal immigration enforcement agencies? They are following the laws of the United States, securing our border, and attempting to remove illegal migrants from the country. … There is a massive increase in assaults on law enforcement personnel enforcing our immigration laws, including attempted murder. Their families have been threatened, and the police have been ‘doxed,'” he noted.
“Jesus does not love chaos and disorder. I can find nothing in the Bible suggesting that the teachings of Christ call for millions of people to walk into our country without obeying the duly passed laws of our nation. That would turn Jesus into globalist George Soros or Marxist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. It is a distortion of the gospel,” he said, pointing out that many religious leaders in Europe also are adopting the agenda.
Vice President JD Vance has raised similar concerns, explaining at one point, “I believe the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, if they’re worried about the humanitarian costs of immigration enforcement, let them talk about the children who have been sex trafficked because of the wide open border of Joe Biden.”
The second distortion comes in society’s promotions of transgenderism.
“Some leaders of so-called ‘mainline’ Protestant denominations and some Jewish groups issued a statement that tries to portray Christ as a supporter of the entire transgender agenda. They claim that transgender individuals are being oppressed and that Jesus certainly would not support their oppression,” he explained.
“In fact, there is no ‘oppression’ of trans people. Instead, there is growing opposition to the policy demands of the transgender movement. Jesus would not want boys who ‘identify’ as girls being allowed to violate the privacy of girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. The American people do not want that either. They reject allowing boys to compete in girls’ sports. They don’t want their children indoctrinated with transgender ideology in kindergarten or any other adult sexual concepts in elementary school. Jesus would want our children’s innocence to be protected,” he wrote.
That particular belief system is based on “lies about God’s creation.”
“The Bible is clear that God created only two sexes—male and female,” he said.
The “religious” leaders he cited include the leader of the Unitarian Universalist Association, a self-described “queer, multiracial, AfroLatine first-generation daughter of immigrants,” as well as leaders of several other well-known denominations.
“These two examples of misguided leaders using the gospel of Christ to promote radical, destructive policies are reminders that Christians must be wise and discerning, because we live in an age of deception,” he wrote.
