Judie Brown
Can you spell insane?
By Judie Brown
It seems that nearly every day we are bombarded with stories that show a blatant disregard for morality, for human life, or for religion. Those who believe in these truths are made to feel outcast and are often looked down upon. It's almost as if the whole nation has gone crazy. Today's commentary examines this insanity and reminds us that we should never give in to this mentality.
The United States Department of Education (DOE) is investigating a junior ROTC instructor who is reported to have said that the Bible condemns homosexuality. An excerpt from the report states: "On Nov. 21 the DOE sent a letter to James Robinson, director of GLBT Advocacy and Youth Services, which says the department will be investigating whether or not students were 'subjected to a hostile environment on the basis of sex or harassment based on failing to conform to gender stereotypes.' They will also seek to find out if the school district 'retaliated against the student . . . by failing to respond and take action reasonably calculated to stop the peer bullying.'"
If this sounds like a further extension of the Obama administration's ongoing effort to quash religious freedom, not to mention freedom of speech, then you are correct. When this report first came to my attention, it occurred to me that it was a spoof, a joke, or perhaps somebody's idea of humor. It is none of those things; the DOE is dead serious.
LifeSiteNews updated the story clarifying that the DOE's Office of Civil Rights will be conducting the investigation. But there is something rather odd about this, don't you think?
I mean, it's similar to the threats leveled against students who wear pro-life T-shirts to school during National Pro-Life T-Shirt Week. Ridicule and humiliation are apparently acceptable if someone speaks out in favor of morality, even if only by way of a T-shirt message.
In other words, only specified forms of speech and liberal interpretations of Scripture are to be tolerated.
The fine line that links these two scenarios with the ongoing attempt by the Obama administration to deny religious freedom for the sake of contraceptive access is clear. The natural law must be driven out of public policy and education at all costs. And when someone dares to do otherwise, punishment will at least be attempted.
How long will it be before the protections guaranteed by the Constitution come crashing down under the pressure of such hedonistic attitudes? It's hard to say, but here is something to consider.
In the first case, the Bible clearly condemns unnatural lusts such as homosexuality. In Leviticus 18:22 we read: "Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, because it is an abomination." The Bible does not say that individuals who are homosexual are being condemned, but rather that the acts themselves are wrong and offensive to God.
In the second case, both natural law and the Bible condemn the act of abortion. Exodus 20:13 states as one of God's commandments, "Thou shalt not kill." And though one of the cultural heresies is that abortion is not an act of killing because the preborn child is not a human being, anyone with an ounce of common sense and a desire to understand fundamental scientific fact knows that such an argument is bogus.
In the third and final case, the government, as hard as it may try, is not going to be able to rewrite the freedoms enumerated by the Founding Fathers, nor is it going to be successful in drumming believers out of the public square and back into their prayer closets.
It just isn't going to work. The lies, the public ridicule, and the attempts to replace fact with fiction are all part of the design that is being pursued by those who hate God.
Frankly it's so obvious that one has to wonder why it is taking so long for the Church to stand up and stop this insanity.
© Judie Brown
December 12, 2012
It seems that nearly every day we are bombarded with stories that show a blatant disregard for morality, for human life, or for religion. Those who believe in these truths are made to feel outcast and are often looked down upon. It's almost as if the whole nation has gone crazy. Today's commentary examines this insanity and reminds us that we should never give in to this mentality.
The United States Department of Education (DOE) is investigating a junior ROTC instructor who is reported to have said that the Bible condemns homosexuality. An excerpt from the report states: "On Nov. 21 the DOE sent a letter to James Robinson, director of GLBT Advocacy and Youth Services, which says the department will be investigating whether or not students were 'subjected to a hostile environment on the basis of sex or harassment based on failing to conform to gender stereotypes.' They will also seek to find out if the school district 'retaliated against the student . . . by failing to respond and take action reasonably calculated to stop the peer bullying.'"
If this sounds like a further extension of the Obama administration's ongoing effort to quash religious freedom, not to mention freedom of speech, then you are correct. When this report first came to my attention, it occurred to me that it was a spoof, a joke, or perhaps somebody's idea of humor. It is none of those things; the DOE is dead serious.
LifeSiteNews updated the story clarifying that the DOE's Office of Civil Rights will be conducting the investigation. But there is something rather odd about this, don't you think?
I mean, it's similar to the threats leveled against students who wear pro-life T-shirts to school during National Pro-Life T-Shirt Week. Ridicule and humiliation are apparently acceptable if someone speaks out in favor of morality, even if only by way of a T-shirt message.
In other words, only specified forms of speech and liberal interpretations of Scripture are to be tolerated.
The fine line that links these two scenarios with the ongoing attempt by the Obama administration to deny religious freedom for the sake of contraceptive access is clear. The natural law must be driven out of public policy and education at all costs. And when someone dares to do otherwise, punishment will at least be attempted.
How long will it be before the protections guaranteed by the Constitution come crashing down under the pressure of such hedonistic attitudes? It's hard to say, but here is something to consider.
In the first case, the Bible clearly condemns unnatural lusts such as homosexuality. In Leviticus 18:22 we read: "Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, because it is an abomination." The Bible does not say that individuals who are homosexual are being condemned, but rather that the acts themselves are wrong and offensive to God.
In the second case, both natural law and the Bible condemn the act of abortion. Exodus 20:13 states as one of God's commandments, "Thou shalt not kill." And though one of the cultural heresies is that abortion is not an act of killing because the preborn child is not a human being, anyone with an ounce of common sense and a desire to understand fundamental scientific fact knows that such an argument is bogus.
In the third and final case, the government, as hard as it may try, is not going to be able to rewrite the freedoms enumerated by the Founding Fathers, nor is it going to be successful in drumming believers out of the public square and back into their prayer closets.
It just isn't going to work. The lies, the public ridicule, and the attempts to replace fact with fiction are all part of the design that is being pursued by those who hate God.
Frankly it's so obvious that one has to wonder why it is taking so long for the Church to stand up and stop this insanity.
© Judie Brown
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