JUDAS PRIESTS SELL OUT OUR CONSTITUTION, THE BILL OF RIGHTS & RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR EXPEDIENCY, IN FAVOR OF SODOMITE MINORITY
ABOVE: "FAIRNESS FOR ALL" PROPONENTS LEITH ANDERSON OF THE "NAE" & SHIRLEY HOOGSTRA OF THE "CCCU"
This past week, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE),
two of the nation’s foremost evangelical organizations, publicly
announced they now support adding “sexual orientation” and “gender
identity” as officially protected minority classifications to the ranks
of federal nondiscrimination law.
"ERLC"-BACKED EVANGELICAL GROUP SECRETLY SUPPORTS EXPANSION OF GAY RIGHTS
SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/01/04/erlc-backed-evangelical-group-secretly-supports-expansion-of-gay-rights/;
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Russell Moore with the National Association of Evangelicals, an organization that just
supported an expansion of LGBTQ “rights” in the name of religious liberty.
One wonders what the point of religious freedom is when you surrender your liberty of conscience at the first sign of hardship.
Acting quietly, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) have formally endorsed principles that would add sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) to federal nondiscrimination law. One of these groups, the NAE, is heavily endorsed by Russell Moore and partners with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Shirley Mullen, the president of Houghton College and a board member of both the CCCU and NAE, said, “As Christian higher educators, we are increasingly persuaded that the most viable political strategy is for comprehensive religious freedom protections to be combined with explicit support for basic human rights for members of the LGBT community.”
Political strategy.
And all of God’s people said…barf.
Of course, neither the CCCU nor the NAE have in any way denied “basic human rights for members of the LGBT community.” No homosexual has been denied human rights by these organizations.
Mullen and others representing the two boards are trying to make it seem that they’re just affirming broad human rights, but in fact they are capitulating on the sinfulness of sodomy. This is, in part, responsible for both groups keeping their decision to make LGBT-affirming statements quiet.
World Mag obtained the document agreed upon by the two organizations entitled, Fairness for All Motion. The document repudiates “unjust discrimination” towards those practicing sexual deviancy.
What is “unjust discrimination,” you might ask? Surely, that’s a loaded term, especially in a document designed to be waved like a white flag of surrender. The document goes on to explain, “These rights include basic legal and human rights related to housing, credit, jury duty and employment…”
This means that Christian homeowners would have to rent homes to Sodomites and Christian-owned businesses could not decline to hire a sodomite or crossdressser on the grounds that they’re sinful or gross. So in the name of “religious liberty,” the CCCU and NAE are surrendering their religious liberty to discriminate (yes, discriminating for religious reasons is a First Amendment right) wholesale.
With liberty like that, who needs slavery?
The document is candid about its purpose. It’s trading LGBT inclusion for religious liberty like 30 pieces of silver. The document says:
This proposed legislation seeks to secure basic human rights for the LGBT community at the national level in exchange for strong and perpetual protections for religious freedom.Judas Priests, they are.
The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) is highly endorsed by Russell Moore and partners with the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
You can see Russell Moore’s endorsement of NAE here and view it below.
The Fairness for All Motion is the epitome of everything wrong with today’s spineless, feckless, traitorous evangelicals. Born without courage and void of intestinal fortitude, these evanjellyfish have just offered to surrender our conscience for the right to have one.
They have surrendered their right to act upon their conviction for the right to simply state their conviction. Ultimately, that’s really no religious freedom at all.
For why we should never surrender our convictions in the name of “religious liberty,” listen to JD Hall’s sermon at the 2015 Reformation Montana Conference below. In the sermon, he spoke of Russell Moore and the ERLC’s allies who would ultimately give up their convictions in the name of liberty.
Listen here.
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SEE ALSO:
"FAIRNESS FOR ALL" DOCUMENT:
https://world.wng.org/sites/default/files/assets/NAEBoardResolution_0.pdf
AND:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/16/how-evangelical-capitulation-equals-the-loss-of-re/
https://thekcompany.co/news-release/the-christian-post-nae-and-cccu-boards-back-lgbt-compromise-for-religious-freedom-exemptions/
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/religious-liberty-fairness-for-all-sellout-politics-lgbt-gay-rights/
https://world.wng.org/2016/11/fairness_for_all_or_a_few
https://www.frc.org/updatearticle/20181214/fair-mess
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Compromise isn't always a bad idea. (Ask any married couple!) But when it comes to the black and white of Scripture, nothing is more dangerous than a group of Christians willing to negotiate on truth. Their motivations may not be bad -- but the consequences almost always are.
In a culture like ours, where a single cake could ruin your business, no one can blame Christians for being worried. With every headline, the war over religious liberty is hitting closer and closer to home. It's landed on the doorsteps of florist shops, adoption agencies, French classes, pro sports -- even pizza joints. And the threat is always the same: affirm or be punished. While so many Christians stand their ground, others are willing to do anything to spare themselves the fight -- even if it means surrendering their core convictions to do it.
Earlier this week, World magazine broke the story that two organizations -- the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) -- have decided that the only way to stop LGBT activists is to submit to them. In a quiet motion this fall, their boards reportedly voted to subjugate biblical teachings on gender and sexuality in exchange for a flimsy fence of protection around their organizations. They believe -- quite naively -- that if they give in to the Left's demands, it will leave them alone. But the stories from the last decade paint a much different story.
On the far-Left, there's no such thing as live and let live. Liberals may want tolerance, but that doesn't mean they'll give it. If the cases against florists, bakers, and other wedding vendors make anything clear, it's that the LGBT agenda isn't about meeting people halfway. So while "Fairness for All" is a noble pursuit, it can't be achieved when special rights or extra-fairness are extended to some based on subjective, self-defined characteristics. That's special fairness for some, and the persecution of the many.
"They're trying to find a way to encourage the federal government to adopt sexual orientation and gender identity protections that would not come at the violation of religious liberty," Al Mohler writes in a lengthy response everyone should read. "Now that sounds like the perfect deal politically, if it were possible... [But] it is not possible. You can state, as many will, that it is well intended. But a well-intended mistake is still a mistake. A well-intended wound to religious liberty is still a wound. And that's what we're looking at here."
Unfortunately, what we're also looking at is the complete abandonment of the Christian commission. In this day and age, everyone struggles to convey an exclusive gospel in an inclusive world. But the solution isn't abandoning or changing the message -- it's conforming to it. If these organizations give up their core beliefs, what's the point of carving out religious liberty protections? They won't stand for anything worth protecting! "For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness," 2 Corinthians 6 asks, "or what fellowship has light with darkness?"
It's human nature to avoid discomfort, but capitulations like this cause deeper pain later on. Look at the Boy Scouts. Five years after they expanded their ranks for inclusion's sake, they're packing up their tents and going home. Teetering on bankruptcy, unfocused, and unpopular, they're miles away from the organization that used to be one of America's proudest.
Even so, some Christians are willing to take the same path -- all to save a tiny patch of ground that won't mean anything when they're done. "It's a way of religious leaders saying we're going to protect our churches, our denominations, and [our] most closely-held ministries... but..."
Mohler warns, "[w]hen it comes to Christians in the marketplace, Christians in the workplace... and all the rest, we're going to say you'll simply have to defend yourself in court. We'll hope for the best." These groups would sell their identity for crumbs -- and offer up men and women who are willing to stand on truth as a sacrifice in the process.
Circling the wagons around religious institutions implies that we have an anemic First Amendment that falls short of guarantying that religious freedom to each and every American. Surely, we did not come this far in the defense of religious liberty to leave bakers, photographers, and thousands of other Christians twisting in the wind.
A partial gospel is no gospel at all. "How long will you go limping between two different opinions?" I Kings 18:21 says. "If the Lord is God, follow him." There will be a lot of pressure, in the coming days, to wheel and deal on truth. But whoever gives up truth for the sake of peace will almost certainly lose both.
Tony Perkins' Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.
