What are these rights and why are they potentially dangerous?
Please understand that I don't believe that every homosexual or transgender is actively fighting for these rights in our country. This is not primarily against them. The problem comes from activist groups such as the ACLU and others which are similar in their agendas.
Also, corporations such as Target, are taking a stand to support these 'groups'. These groups are not racial groups, but they are groups made up of people who are either homosexual, transgender, or feminist. But again, it is not individual homosexuals or transgenders who are these activists, even though many of them are gay. It is the activist groups that I am focusing on.
Why are they potentially dangerous? Because ultimately, they can take away the freedoms of the average person, especially the person who holds Biblical convictions.
Here is an example of how it happens: A lesbian mayor in Texas required every pastor in her area to turn in their sermon notes and those who preached what the Bible says about homosexuality would be penalized. Thank God she wasn't able to be successful in her desire.
A transgender, who serves in the military, wants a sex change operation. Who pays for it? The operation will be paid for by our taxes. (This hasn't happened yet, but it is coming).
Women (and men) who believe they have a 'right' to their own body (this idea certainly does not come from the Bible) believe they 'need' an abortion. They go to Planned Parenthood for advice. Planned Parenthood agrees that the woman needs an abortion. But she has no money. Who pays for it? The money to pay for it will, in part, come from our taxes. So, you and I are paying, even in a small part, for something that we don't believe in doing.
Did you know that in some states, a counselor is not allowed to share what the Bible says about homosexuality even with someone who comes for counseling to be free from homosexuality? The counselor will be penalized, by law, for sharing what the Bible says.
There is pressure on churches to force them to allow homosexuals to be able to be members of their churches. This is really hypocritical. If the church stands for the whole counsel of God as taught in Scriptures, then a homosexual should look for a church where he would fit in. If there is none, then he will have to find somewhere else to go or change his belief system. But to make a church change their belief system to accommodate homosexuality, then that would be taking away the freedom of the people who want to believe what the Bible says. Do you see how this is trying to work itself out in our country?
(I wonder what would happen if a homosexual activist visited a mosque and insisted that those who run the mosque change their minds about what they believe in, in order to accommodate the homosexual?)
Finally, a woman who is a florist in Washington State lost her business because she couldn't provide flowers with a personal touch to them for a Gay wedding. Somehow, the ACLU, as well as Washington State, found out what happened and jumped on her case. There was a court hearing on it trying to decide if 'expression' would be a consideration. Would she have to use 'expression' in her act of providing flowers for the wedding? She made it clear that the homosexual pair could buy flowers already premade for their wedding, but she could not personally provide the flower arrangements for the wedding because of her convictions. I think she lost the case though.
This is why this whole thing is so dangerous. The 'bigots' are the ones who have convictions of what the Bible says about life issues (according to these activists). When someone holds opposing views, then we are to submit to those views or else we are called bigots.
Again, this is not an article about homosexuals vs. straights. This is totally a situation where the Liberal Left is using these specialized groups to promote their cause. The goal, I believe, is to ultimately take away the freedom of religious belief for each person. I don't necessarily believe that everyone in the ACLU is Gay or Transgender. I believe the ACLU is creating a straw man, setting up people against each other, to ultimately remove the standards as laid out in the word of God. This is what we need to be praying about.
Did you know that homosexuals and transgenders actually make up only a small percentage of our population?*
May God help us to stand up for the truth, and to defend the freedoms that our country has right now, before they are lost.
Satan will do anything to eradicate the word of God in America, and to take away our freedom to believe and live out what the Bible says. He knows that the word of God is a weapon against his tactics. That's all the more reason we need to know it, and permeate our land with the Scriptures (seed sowing).
*https://heatst.com/life/what-percentage-of-people-are-gay/
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