The news was flying thick and fast last week. So much so that I ended up with a superabundance of clipping from the week and had a hard time deciding what to cover. Then I thought, well, why not cover ‘em all. Or at least as many as I can. So here we go.
Queering America One Vote at a Time
Largely lost in all the mid-term election day news is that America achieved a first on November 8th with the election of not one, but two openly lesbian governors. CBS News reports that Maura Healey of Massachusetts and Tina Kotek of Oregon were elected as governors of their respective states. Not only have these states delighted to impose the Monstrous Regiment on themselves, but to make matters worse, they have elected to impose a lesbian version of it.
Worth noting is the close logical and practical relationship between feminism and lesbianism. Feminism is usually defined as the belief in social, economic, and political equality of the sexes. It seems to me that the logical endpoint for this philosophy is the complete erasure of all distinctions between men and women. And if there are no distinctions between men and women, then this lack of distinction logically extends not only to matters of politics and careers but to marriage. Hence the calls for legalizing same-sex marriage. It is not an accident that the homosexual movement, which traces its beginning to 1969, followed the rise of second-wave feminism, which began with the publication of Betty Friedan’s 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique.
One article on Second Wave Feminism summarized Friedan’s book by saying it, “criticized the postwar belief that a woman’s role was to marry and bear children.” Now any Christian worth his salt knows full well that the idea that a woman’s role is to marry and bear children is not some strange and exceptional “postwar” belief but is the consistent message of the Scriptures themselves. “And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man…Nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control,” “that they [older women] admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.”
There is perhaps nothing that will get feminists riled up faster than to quote these and other verses from the Bible. But they express God’s mind on the subject and cannot be dismissed by Christians without pain of contradiction. If we believe the Bible is the infallible and inerrant Word of God, we must accept this teaching, however much it may conflict with the prevailing ideas of the world.
The U.S. Senate has been hard at work to ensure that the Biblical definition of marriage as between one man and one woman will be buried as deeply as possible. According to the Politico article “Same-sex marriage protections clear critical Senate hurdle,” 12 Republicans voted along with all Senate Democrats to advance this legislation. Unsurprisingly, the 12 Republicans included Ohio Senator Rob Portman, who seems determined to do as much damage to America as he can before he retires in January.
Per the article, the bill is to include protections for religious liberty. “The bipartisan amendment clarifies that the bill would leave intact protections from a 1993 religious freedom law, which outlaws placing a substantial burden on people’s ability to exercise their religion. In addition, it states that nonprofit religious groups would not have to perform marriage services and that the bill would not impact their tax treatment.”
It’ll be interesting to see how long these legal protections last. My view is that the LGBTQ lobby will not be satisfied until it has queered every last corner of society, including Christians and Christian institutions that have the temerity to refuse to bow before the almighty LGBTQ agenda. This likely will come in the form of legislation attempting to force churches, regardless of their theological convictions, to perform same-sex marriages or face having their tax exemption removed or something far worse. It also could encompass a prohibition of freely teaching what the Bible says about homosexuality by making it a hate crime.
Lux Lucet 