PRESSING THE GATES OF THE RADICAL HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA

"…They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie." 2 Thessalonians 2:10-11.

Dr. James Dobson, D. James Kennedy, Gary Bauer, and several other saints have come under severe media attack in recent days because they sponsored full-page ads in USA TODAY exposing the sin of homosexuality and bringing hope to those enslaved in this sin. Welcome to the club, brothers! We, in Operation Rescue, understand your plight well. When one moves from the safety of the church house and allows theology to become biography at the gates of hell -- watch out! These precious men of God dared to love enough, those who are dying in their sin, to tell them the truth. Unfortunately, telling the truth is considered a "hate crime" in a society that has turned its back on God.

A powerful delusion is causing us to believe a lie. It seems today that everyone must be allowed to "do his own thing" while we spend billions of dollars trying to remedy the consequences of everyone "doing his own thing". AIDS research, condom handouts, clean needle distribution, bank bail outs, ad nauseam are all tell tale signs of a nation that has moved from the possibility of a cure to "harm reduction".

Our nation is moving from the truth to a lie. Instead of helping our kids to say no to sex before marriage, we give them condoms. Instead of enabling drug addicts to be set free from drugs, we give them clean needles. Instead of liberating the homosexual from a lifestyle that brings death, we try to appear kind and tolerant of his sin. "… but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel." Pr 12:10. We have thrown up our hands in moral surrender and invented programs in a vain attempt to reduce the harm of living life without God. We are trying to minimize the consequences of breaking God’s absolute law. This is not kind. It is the ultimate cruelty! Jeremiah the prophet called these programs "broken cisterns that cannot hold water" (Jer 2:13).

When one determines to expose this lie with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, all the fury of hell is unleashed. This is exactly what has happened to Dr. Dobson, Dr. Kennedy, and Gary Bauer. The recent murder of an openly homosexual college student, Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, provided just the right platform for the enemy to unleash his furious assault. Newspaper editorials, radio and TV talk shows, and news commentators, almost with one voice, castigated anyone who dared to say that homosexuality is a sin. The national media claimed that it was the hate-filled language of Dobson, Kennedy, and Bauer that caused Mr. Shepard’s tragic death.

But why all the national media outrage now? What was it about Matthew Shepard's death that caused such an incredible media condemnation of these Christian ministers? These were the questions asked by Brooks Egerton of the Dallas Morning News. Certainly there have been individuals murdered right here in Texas who were openly homosexual. They were murdered in far more heinous ways by those who hated homosexuals and said so. According to Egerton, Paul Boussard was mauled and killed on a city street by two teenagers with nail-studded boards. Two members of a neo-Nazi group lured Fred Mangione from a tavern and stabbed him 35 times. Three men ambushed Thanh Nguyen as he snacked in a park. They yelled slurs, beat, robbed, stripped and finally shot him. These victims were all slain in recent years in the Dallas and Houston areas. They were homosexuals out in public with homosexual friends. Their convicted killers, authorities say, were driven by a hatred of homosexuals. So why wasn 't there massive media outrage at these tragedies?

Mr. Egerton did not have any answers. But for the born again Christian, whose eyes have been opened to the cosmic battle that is presently savaging our land, the answer is quite simple. This enemy hates to be exposed for the liar he is. The truth is devastating to his nasty kingdom. Homosexuality and child killing have proved to be unique ways in which he can rob, kill, and destroy with virtual impunity. He doesn't want anyone messing them up by exposing his schemes.

How does he kill with impunity with barely a whimper from God's church? He makes sin legal. "He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy." Pr 28:13. One of the ways we in America have concealed our sin is to make it legal. We have done it with abortion, and we are in the process of doing it with homosexuality. If one dares to question this lie, all of the ravenous fury from hell will come upon him.

Dr. Dobson, Dr. Kennedy, Gary Bauer, and the folks of Exodus International have had the courage to stand up to the lie of homosexuality and shine the light of truth on its perverseness. They have taken the battle outside the beltway of Washington, D.C., and brought it to the very gates of hell. They have exposed the lie of homosexuality. They have confronted our nation with the absolute fact that homosexuality is a sin that only Jesus can remedy. There is no compromise, no apology, and no exception.

This unyielding stand upon God's Word and His principle fills the enemy with fury. The truth slays the lie and he knows it. He desires the compromise found in D.C. because he always wins when we bend God's Word. Dr. Dobson, et al., have become objects of his wrath because they have unflinchingly exposed him and liars hate being exposed.

It will do us well to note his fury on a different venue. Kenneth Starr and the Rutherford Institute (representing Paula Jones) have come under the enemy's vehement attack. He is foaming with rage, and it is most visibly expressed through the shell of one William Jefferson Clinton. This enemy hates Mr. Starr and the attorneys of the Rutherford Institute because the truth they are revealing is destroying the power of his lie on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Little does the media know that it has been the most willing dupe in the hands of an enemy who has a spin for everything and a hatred for those who speak the truth of God's Word. The media is being used to shame Godly men back into the church house. May it never be! Press on to the gates Dr. Dobson. Despise the shame as Jesus did before you and we will follow you as you follow Christ

Flip Benham
Director