Right side of history, Wrong side of God.

Well President Obama has finally come out...in favour of so-called 'Gay Marriage.' What this dynamic will do for this political year is any one's guess but it is clearly like throwing a hand-grenade into the apple orchard.

Some will and have said it's brave. It is anything BUT. It is, rather, a craven caving-in to the gay lobby and a complete reversal of his previously stated objection to so-called gay marriage and smack of political expediency.

His Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, now encourages people to be 'on the right side of history.' They may be but it is on the WRONG SIDE OF GOD.

I won't enunciate the many passages of Scripture which speak of the sin of homosexuality. Those on the liberal left will either ignore them or say they are irrelevant, while those on the Conservative Right already know them.

Already the troops of the LGBT lobby are massing. The typical knee-jerk responses of 'hate' are already prepared for anyone that will stand up to these social revolutionaries and their supporters. On the right, the Christian army is also gearing up for a battle that, unfortunately, may be lost. Why? Because Christians, who love Jesus, are not always mentally capable of saying 'we believe homosexuality is wrong because the Bible says it' and leave it at that.

Frankly I don't know a better defence. But the counter argument is that America is a secular society and does not need 'interference' by a group of people (Christians) who, sadly, are now or will soon be, a minority. But marriage is not mere a 'secular' concept. It was and is a religious idea of two people, a man and a woman, being bound before God, to live as one flesh.

Homosexuals can't; the parts just don't fit. They have the desire and they have ways of satisfying their carnal and baser urges, just like an alcoholic or a drug user can satisfy theirs. Beyond that they are WILLING and HAPPY to satisfy their desires, as much as anyone else living in a free society can.

But what does it say about a society that now tries to celebrate this by turning the sacred union before God into a license to pervert the very institution of marriage that He created? Sure, governments CAN legalize so-called gay marriage, the way they can also legalize drugs, pornography, or even sex with children. We can go further and legalize beating our wives if they dishonour us (as they do in some Middle Eastern cultures), or killing our children if they marry someone we think is beneath them in social standing, because these are also 'norms' in some places or another.

The Bible says that "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:   And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.   And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;   Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,    Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:    Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them." (Romans 1:26-32)

Is this really the society we want to hand down to our posterity? America, like Canada, was founded on Judeo-Christian ideals. Among them are liberty and the right to worship or not worship God as we please. Now that foundation has been slowly warping into such a society that has turned those rights into a license to commit acts against the very foundations of this country.

We have taken God out of the classroom and banned any talk of Jesus lest it 'offend' someone. A week or two ago, a school in Canada even suspended a student because he had the temerity to wear a T-shirt that said 'Life without Jesus is Wasted,' while allowing others to wear shirts like 'hail satan' on them.

That decision was only reversed when the weight of public outcry at this blatant caving in to political correctness proved too much for normally quiet people to sit silent on. The problem is that that, too, is an indication of where things are headed.

Freedom to speak has now been replaced by the right of others to suppress that speak, when it doesn't suit the political whim of the moment. It reminds me of Vladimir Lenin's quote regarding freedom of speech: " When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the freedom of the press goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism."

Now I'm not saying that allowing so-called gay marriage into our society is tantamount to a head-long rush to Communism. But the elements of Communism, the crushing of contrary opinions, tribunals for 'hate crimes' and perhaps even 'thought crimes,' are already in place. The LGBT groups have merely found a sympathetic ear to help them push forward their agenda.

That 'ear' is now President Obama and Hillary Clinton, leaders of arguably the most free society on Earth. If and when elected to power, it will only be a matter of time before they reach for a constitutional amendment that will compel the States of the Union to comply with so-called 'gay marriage.' After that, the door swings wide open for anyone who, on moral grounds, still stands opposed to this perversion of God's word...and then depravity will be fully underway.

In her blog post, Carol Boltz, the former wife of ex Christian singer, Ray Boltz, who 'came out' a few years ago as a homosexual, said she supports Obama and Clinton, and their desire to legalize so-called gay marriage. According to Mrs. Boltz, "Even when you have to defy friends you have known all you life, it's worth it to make a stand for LGBT people.  If you have to adjust what you believe about church teachings, make those changes. What you choose to believe is a choice, but it is NOT a choice on whether to be gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgender." (http://myheartgoesout-carol.blogspot.ca/2012/01/standing-on-right-side-of-history.html)

To me, this is tantamount to encouraging heresy. Whether being gay or straight is a choice or not, the Bible is clear that it is a sin. That is the bottom line with God and you must struggle against it, whether it is homosexuality, lust, lying, stealing or even doing drugs or being an alcoholic.

Mr. Boltz, who I still respect as a singer, chose to give in. In several interviews he has said he gave up fighting against his 'identity' as a gay person, after 30 years of marriage. Likewise, it seems, the President has given up and is now for the very thing he once so opposed.

Yes, he is on the right side of history. So-called gay marriage will, eventually, be the norm, sadly, after many more political battles yet to come.

Christians, too, real Christians, will also continue to be marginalized, eventually to become outcasts in the-now totally secular society that our values of liberty gave birth too. Eventually all those things which we cherish will be washed away by this flood that is now sweeping forth from the people who are elected, in part, to defend them.

We can and must fight back, even still, until every resource is exhausted. All it takes is courage, like in the early days of the church.

Like Peter and John before the crowds we have to say "...unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.   For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard." (Acts 4:19-20)

It might be a losing battle. It might be on the 'wrong side of history.' But it is on the RIGHT SIDE OF GOD.

Sincerely,
I.M. Ulysses.