That's just so last century morality.... - Granite Grok

That’s just so last century morality….

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances

Now we see the promotion of sexual proclivities, now a form of “social religion” and an overt discrimination of religious belief:

It wasn’t so much a choice as it was a demand.Chaplain David Wells was told he could either sign a state-mandated document promising to never tell inmates that homosexuality is “sinful” or else the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice would revoke his credentials.  “We could not sign that paper,” Chaplain Wells told me in a telephone call from his home in Kentucky. “It broke my heart.”The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice revoked his volunteer credentials as an ordained minister– ending 13 years of ministry to underage inmates at the Warren County Regional Juvenile Detention Center.

“We sincerely appreciate your years of service and dedication to the youth served by this facility,” wrote Superintendent Gene Wade in a letter to Wells. “However, due to your decision, based on your religious convictions, that you cannot comply with the requirements outlined in DJJ Policy 912, Section IV, Paragraph H, regarding the treatment of LGBTQI youth, I must terminate your involvement as a religious volunteer.” Wells said that every volunteer in their church received the letter – as did a Baptist church in a nearby community.

In other words, Christians that actually live out their faith need not apply.  No, not the “back row Baptists” or the “Saturday night party hardy – on bended knee Sunday morning” hypocrites but those that read their Bibles and put that faith into their lives and personal morality.  And we should be surprised?  Out with what used to be regarded as a virtue and in with the fad of the day.  Shifting sands, indeed – some firm foundation it is not.

The Kentucky regulation clearly states that volunteers working with juveniles “shall not refer to juveniles by using derogatory language in a manner that conveys bias towards or hatred of the LGBTQI community. DJJ staff, volunteers, interns and contractors shall not imply or tell LGBTQI juveniles that they are abnormal, deviant, sinful or that they can or should change their sexual orientation or gender identity.”

Derogatory – that is exactly what Biblical faith, the effort and time put out to help others, has come to be seen by those in Government?  After all, we ALL are sinners: you, him, her, your family, your friends, your neighbors.  Being a sinner is not derogatory – it is a state of being (Romans 3:23: For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God).  But I guess it goes along with Government work – no one can be held accountable anymore for what they do or what they think.  And being a sinner is exactly that – accountable.

This Gene Wade seems to be all too willing that there is a flip side for being a sinner: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly (John 10:10).  No, not a message of condemnation, superintendent Wade, but one of redemption.  Yes, One who will hold us accountable one day, but also a message of redemption – and I bet that was the message that was being counseled.  The there is a God that loved these kids and that no matter the conditions they were in, this is hope far beyond the terrestrial Hope & Change that Man preaches:

For years, Wells and his team have conducted volunteer worship services and counseling to troubled young people – many of whom have been abused. “I sat across the table from a 16-year-old boy who was weeping and broken over the life he was in,” Wells said. “He had been abused as a child and turned to alcohol and drugs to cope. He wanted to know if there was any hope for him.”  Wells said he had been abused as a young child – so he knew he could answer this young man’s question. “I was able to look at him and tell him the saving power of Jesus Christ that delivered me – could deliver him,” he said.

…“They are defining hateful or derogatory as meaning what the Bible says about homosexuality,” he told me…said the policy “requires affirmation of homosexuality as a precondition for ministers providing spiritual guidance to troubled youth, and singles out a particular theological viewpoint as expressly disfavored by the State of Kentucky.”

In other words, you can preach a modified theology that has been blessed by The State – or not at all (in this case).  This is counter to what the First Amendment outlines.  The author ends with this:

Folks, I warned you this would happen. The Christian purge has begun – and it’s only a matter of time before all of us will be forced to make the same decision Chaplain Wells had to make.

(H/T: Fox News via Townhall)

>