I tend to vary my news coverage. Some media outlets lean too much to the left and some too far to the right.(Though it seems the trend today is to lean left) I even check out BBC news to get an outsider's view on our nation.
So I was on Fox News website when I read one of their opinion pieces. a Christian bakery was closing because they refused to make a cake for a gay wedding(Fox News, Todd's American Dispatch, 9/3/2013) . Their shop was militantly boycotted afterwards by the LGBT community. Death threats were issued and vendors told not to do business with this bakery. All because the owners were practicing their faith. To make matters worse Oregon's Bureau of Labor and Industries are "looking" into the matter for "possible discrimination".(the Oregonian, 9/1/2013)
Todd Starnes goes on to make an excellent point...
Commissioner Brad Avakian told The Oregonian
that he was committed to a fair and thorough investigation to determine whether
the bakery discriminated against the lesbians.
“Everybody is entitled to their own beliefs, but that doesn’t mean that folks have the right to discriminate,” he told the newspaper. “The goal is to rehabilitate. For those who do violate the law, we want them to learn from that experience and have a good, successful business in Oregon.”
“Everybody is entitled to their own beliefs, but that doesn’t mean that folks have the right to discriminate,” he told the newspaper. “The goal is to rehabilitate. For those who do violate the law, we want them to learn from that experience and have a good, successful business in Oregon.”
In other words, Christians who live and work in Oregon must follow man’s law instead of God’s law. But in a show of benevolence, the state is willing to rehabilitate and reeducate Christian business owners like the Kleins.(Fox News, Todd's American Dispatch, 9/3/2013)
Todd goes on to mention several other similar cases. People who are being persecuted because they are following GOD's law rather than man's. We must realize we are in a war. Our rights to practice our faith are being eroded while we slumber. Somewhere the Christian community got fooled or lulled into the lie that tolerance meant surrendering our rights to practice what we believe and just accepting what the current culture chooses to foist upon us.
We must wake up from our daydreams of times past and witness this new reality. We must ask our LORD for HIS assistance in this for we do not just face these attacks here but in the Spiritual battlefield as well Then, in unison we must exert ourselves politically(an arena we are not fond of) and contact our elected officials. Persecution will come but for heaven's sake let's not make it easy on them.
Todd leaves us with quite the zinger, food for thought as it were.
The plight of the Klein family exposes the true nature of the left. Those who preach tolerance and diversity are the least tolerant and the least diverse of all.
