Sex-Moralists Listed by Homosexuals on Site. Derision?
By J. Grant Swank Jr. (07/01/06)
The webmasters of the site meant to deride moralists by putting their names and addresses on the site for the world to know who is moral when it comes to the homosexual relations stance.
"’It's a gross invasion of people's privacy,’ John Stemberger, president of the Florida Family Policy Council, told Knight Ridder. He added that if pro-family groups published the names and addresses of homosexual activists, they would be criticized severely.
"’A lot of people would be outraged and say it's a hateful, un-Christian gesture,’ he said," per BP’s Michael Foust.
This surely is the time to make one’s Christian witness public. Therefore, when the pro-homosexual activity site plastered believers’ names and whereabouts on the site, they are simply adding to the conviction that a genuine believer makes his bold, in-the-open testimony known to the world.
In other words, Thank You, web site, for assisting the moralists in getting out the clean, gospel message.
"In what some view as intimidation, a liberal church in Florida that supports ‘gay marriage’ has launched a web site listing the names and addresses of every person who has signed a petition supporting that state's proposed constitutional marriage amendment.
"The effort by Christ Church of Peace out of Jacksonville is similar to an effort in Massachusetts, where homosexual activists also started a web site listing the names of people backing that state's amendment. The Massachusetts petition drive reached its goal.
"Thus far, more than 460,000 Floridians have signed the petition, and the web site supposedly lists the names of all of them, the Knight Ridder news service reported. The information is public, the news service said."
Every moralist who signed the petition would want neighbors to know of his basic ethic; therefore, one more time the homosexual activists don’t really get the import of the intelligent Christian witness in the public arena.
However, it is no doubt true that if it were the other way around, that is, homosexual enthusiasts’ names and addresses posted on a believers’ web site, what fury would hit the fan? How dare the Christians? Who do they think they are? How immoral could they become? How low could they stoop?
"Pro-family groups must collect 611,000 signatures if they are to place the amendment -- which would protect the traditional definition of marriage by banning gay marriage’ -- on the 2008 ballot.
"’For too long LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] people have been asked to be silent as they are relegated to the status of second class citizens,’ a statement on the web site says. ‘We have been intimidated and told we are not equal and don't deserve to have our rights respected.’"
There is the clue to the homosexual enthusiasts’ misinterpretation. They are uncertain of their ethical base. Therefore, they are unsettled regarding their identity being made known to the world. However, it is just the opposite relating to Christians. The more their testimony in support of the gospel gets out, the better.
Christians would not state on a web site that they "have been intimidated and told we are not equal and don’t deserve to have our rights respected."
For starters, Christians know that in a spiritually fallen world they are going to be intimidated and regarded as not equal with the worldling, their rights striped away if possible. Knowing that Christ forecast that for the Christ follower, believers take it as a given coming from those not Christian. However, they don’t whine about their lot in a world strange to their ethic. Instead, they buck up to the challenge, going forth all the more with the gospel tidings.
Homosexual enthusiasts however have an "intimidation complex" to live with. Sad. But when not living according to the Creator’s ethic, one would necessarily have a complex not all that healthy. Only when one comes into the God morality does one experience the health of soul and mind.
"Florida isn't alone in its effort to ban ‘gay marriage.’ Twenty other states have adopted marriage amendments, passing them with an average of 71 percent of the vote. Six additional states are scheduled to vote on them this year. The amendments prevent state courts from legalizing ‘gay marriage.’ Massachusetts has no such amendment, and its highest court issued a ruling in 2003 forcing the state to grant homosexuals marriage licenses."
Copyright © 2006 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.
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