The time has come, the walrus said, to speak regarding queens. As I'm sure you are all aware, this happened. I cite the infamously "fair and balanced" huffpost for a reason, namely that Phil Robertson's comments, which amount to nothing more than quoting the First epistle to the Corinthians, saying that sin is irrational (it is), that God hates it (He does), that all sin is sin (it is) and that homosexuality is sin (which it emphatically is, both the acts and the desire for them), are now "vulgar Anti-Gay comments". PLEASE NOTE the caps. In the same way in which I capitalize God, the left now capitalizes "anti-gay".
This comes on the heels of the decision on the part of our judicial system at the state level to "soften" our polygamy law. As James White said on his most recent podcast, (which can be found at aomin.org), "this is not a slippery slope, it is a cliff". Why on God's (whoops, redacted) why on green earth would we care who marries what, or who, now? I mean, for crying out loud, one can't say "women have more to offer men" anymore...how backwards and old-fashioned. Let alone "a woman's vagina is natural for sex". Let me be absolutely clear here. To everyone out there who believes a single word of the bible regarding sexuality. To everyone who believes that God's decree included male and female,(Mt. 19:4) and that his first ordinance for man was marriage. (Gen. 2:24) To everyone who is simply squicked out by man-on-man anal sex, (because that was the "vulgar opinion" expressed by Mr. Robertson): this is a declaration of war. Don't think your jobs are safe. Don't think your family won't experience discrimination. Don't think, for a second, that you won't hear "bigot", "hate-monger", "anti-gay", "extremist". Mr. Robertson has, as have I. And don't think for a second that all of it isn't worth it.
Matthew 10. A servant is not greater than his master. Jesus was hated, scorned, accused, maligned, slandered, driven from town, threatened, scourged, spit on, and beaten until his flesh peeled from his bones. Then, willingly, he carried the instrument he was to be nailed to until dead up a hill, to call, perfectly, a people to himself. Sheep aren't greater than the Shepherd. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of the household? We were baptized into the death of our shepherd. As his sheep, if we aren't hated, we aren't trying hard enough.
Get ready, America. Europe has seen jailed pastors, near-universal apostasy, evangelization deemed hate speech and churches rendered meek instruments of the state (examine the fate of Anglicanism). It has seen prison sentences for reading the Bible, reporters fired for wearing cross-shaped jewelry, and transformation of a holy institution of marriage into a twisted mockery and a spitting on the creative decree. And we're about to see it too. The legal precedent is set, and the civil servants are carrying it out. This is war.
Guess what? Jesus wins. This war, and all wars. The gospel reaches all the earth. Every knee bows. Every tongue confesses. That is what you should remember. You should remember that Jesus came to bring a sword (Mt. 10:34), that he will acknowledge those who acknowledge him before men (10:33), that you are worth more than many sparrows 10:31). And you should remember that Jesus' people are hated for his name's sake, that that is a mark of those who persevere to the end. But most of all, you should remember: Every knee bows. Every tongue confesses. Yours. Mine. Phil Robertson's. The owners of A and E. Hollywood. Straights and gays and fornicators and liars and married folks and single folks. Christians and apostates and Atheists.
Jesus wins.
~JS
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