SHAMING INTO SILENCE
ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO PUSH THE SODOMITE AGENDA
by: Allen Domelle
The headline of April 29, 2013, was that NBA veteran, Jason Collins, was setting aside years of worry and silence to announce that he was gay. He is the first active player of the four major professional sports leagues to make his gay lifestyle public. He announced it through an article in Sports Illustrated where he wrote, “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.”
The news media was in a frenzy about this news. All over ESPN analysts were praising Collins for his “courage” to come out. Even former President Bill Clinton had to give his input when he called Collins’ announcement “an important moment for professional sports and in the history of the LGBT community.”
Friend, make no mistake about this announcement. For months the news media has been trying to shame us into accepting the gay lifestyle and gay marriage. They know that Collins is at the end of his career and that his current contract is up. So, if he doesn’t get another contract, which is likely because he is at the end of his career, they will certainly try to use this as leverage to continue their push for gay marriage and acceptance of the sodomite lifestyle. They are aware that in July the Supreme Court will make a decision as to whether gay marriage should be considered constitutionally acceptable. For two weeks ESPN has been reporting that four NFL players are going to come out and proclaim they are gay. The liberal media is only using this to try to shame you into accepting this lifestyle as normal.
However, it is interesting that ESPN’s own wording explains that the gay lifestyle is not normal. ESPN wrote in an article that Collins “realized he needed to make his sexual orientation public when his former roommate at Stanford, Massachusetts congressman Joe Kennedy, who is straight, marched in Boston’s Gay Pride Parade last year.” Hold on! If Kennedy is straight, then that would mean Collins’ lifestyle is not straight. That would mean that Collins’ lifestyle is crooked, or should we say sinful.
ESPN analyst, Christ Broussard, commented on a segment of Outside the Lines, “Personally I don’t believe that you can live an openly homosexual lifestyle or an openly premarital sex between heterosexuals,” Broussard said. “If you’re openly living that type of lifestyle, the Bible says you know them by their fruits, it says that’s a sin. If you’re openly living in unrepentant sin, whatever it may be, not just homosexuality, adultery, fornication, premarital sex between heterosexuals, whatever it may be. I think that’s walking in open rebellion to God and to Jesus Christ. I would not characterize that person as a Christian because I don’t think the Bible would characterize them as a Christian.” Since he made this statement, he retracted a bit by releasing a statement, “I believe Jason Collins displayed bravery with his announcement today…” One wonders how much pressure ESPN put on him to say this.
Friend, God’s Word is still true, and sodomy is still an abomination against God. Leviticus 18:22 says, “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” It doesn’t matter who proclaims they are gay, the lifestyle is still a sin against God. Just like adultery, fornication and any type of sex outside of marriage is a sin, sodomy is also a sin against God.
Don’t just accept that this is an isolated incident that is going to go away. The liberal media will continue to bombard us with these stories to shame us into accepting this lifestyle. It is not an alternative lifestyle, it is a sinful lifestyle. People are not born sodomites; they choose to be sodomites. They want us to stay silent so they can pressure the justices of the Supreme Court into ruling that gay marriage is recognized in the United States.
What should we do? Jude 1:3 says that we should “earnestly contend for the faith.” If you stay silent, then we will have to deal with sodomite marriages the same way we have to deal with abortion. Let your beliefs be known! Don’t cower to the pressure of the liberal media. Preachers should not be silent on this issue. For a preacher to be silent on this issue is simply compromise. I’m tired of preachers saying they don’t want to be political. This has nothing to do with politics, this has to do with the Word of God. If you’re a preacher who won’t strongly take a stand on this issue, then hand in your ordination papers and go get another job. These are not times to be silent, these are times when we need to take a strong and vocal stand. If we are silent, then proponents of gay marriage and the gay lifestyle will win. By the way, it is not a matter of winning or losing, it is a matter of right or wrong, having God’s blessings or His judgment.
As a Christian you should write your political representatives and let them know you believe they should stand behind marriage as only between a man and woman. You should commit this to prayer on a daily basis and ask God to intervene in the heart of the Justices of the Supreme Court to make a decision against gay marriage that would support what God’s Word teaches. Finally, you should pray that those who practice this wicked lifestyle would get saved and have their life changed. Only God can change a person who lives this lifestyle. Violence is not the answer, but neither is silence. Make your belief known and stand strong. Don’t let your voice be shamed to silence.