Will the Sleeping Giant Sleep or Awake?

From the American Family Association:

America's most basic freedoms of speech, conscience and the free exercise of religion are under attack and the time to act is now. If President Obama succeeds with his priority of passing the Hate Crimes law, H.R. 1913 - the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, it could lead to the criminalization of the Biblical view of homosexuality in sermons and elsewhere. An offended homosexual could accuse a pastor, Sunday School teacher or broadcaster of causing emotional injury simply by expressing the Biblical view that homosexuality is sinful.

H.R. 1913 is one more step in the campaign to legitimize homosexuality in our culture by treating it as a protected class along with race, gender, and religion. The long term goal is to create one more platform from which to eradicate wrong thinking about homosexuality. H.R. 1913 will undoubtedly pave the way to legislation that will make thinking Biblically about homosexuality a "hate crime."

We believe prosecutors and anti-Christian groups will use loop holes in the proposed legislation to muzzle the church from speaking out on Biblical standards of morality which are shared by most Americans. Unnecessary lawsuits will bring a chilling effect to the free speech and religious liberty of our churches and of our members.

Laws already exist in all 50 states to punish violent crime, making this legislation unnecessary, unfair, indefinable, un-American and constitutionally suspect.

Laws in civilized nations have always been designed to punish conduct, not thought. H.R. 1913 is not designed to aid in crime fighting. Punishing wrong beliefs about homosexuality is the sole aim of H.R. 1913 - the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

Just some quick thoughts...

1) I have always said and believed that Christian persecution in America would start with the Homosexual community. The reason for this is that most of the homosexual community is very proud of their liberty in sin and perversion and detests the law of the Word of God. Always, when you see Jesus approach a proud arrogant self-righteous person with the gospel, He gave law before grace. Always. With the law He broke the hard heart, with the gospel He healed the broken heart. Why did He do that? Because He always did those things that were pleasing in the Father’s sight. God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble.

2) If H.R. 1913 goes through, public articles or messages such as this will some day be breaking the law and yours truly could be criminalized. If that happens, I predict the devil will wake up the sleeping giant in America known as the church. Why do I believe that? Because the jails won't be able to hold the Christian preachers and laity in America that will awake and preach even more against the abomination of homosexuality. If he's smart, he will keep rocking her gently and let her sleep which is what I think will happen. And not so much because he is smart but more because he has made this mistake many times before throughout church history and remembers that he loses and God wins every time. So, we will see.

-Pastor Randy