Max Lucado: Where Was God When Hurricane Sandy Hit?

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A man, who asked not to be identified, stands with Lucille Dwyer on among the wreckage of their homes devastated by fire and the effects of Hurricane Sandy in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York October 31, 2012. The U.S. Northeast began crawling back to normal on Wednesday after monster storm Sandy crippled transportation, knocked out power for millions and killed at least 45 people in nine states with a massive storm surge and rain that caused epic flooding.

As Americans throughout the East Coast reel from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, the question many victims and viewers are asking is “Where was God?”

It’s what many people ask in their hearts following a tragedy. Best-selling author Max Lucado sought to answer the question Tuesday as some 8 million people were left without power and at least 50 people were found dead.

“What we have seen off America’s eastern coast, the disciples saw on the Galilean Sea,” Lucado stated on his website.

An account in the Gospel of Matthew tells of Jesus‘ disciples facing a storm while on a boat in the middle of the sea. Jesus had told them to get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side while he went up on a mountainside to pray.

Where was Jesus? “Praying,” Lucado wrote.

“Jesus made intercession His priority. Did He know about the storm? Could He feel the winds? And see the thunder? No doubt. When He sensed the danger, He chose to pray.

“He still does. He offers unending intercession on our behalf.”

Lucado quoted Romans 8:34 (in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us), saying, “He prays us through the storm.”

Also, just as Jesus walked on water to meet the disciples, Jesus also “meets us in the storm” at the right moment, said Lucado.

“He is doing the same at this very moment. Through the steady hands of first responders. The compassion of physicians. The kindness of neighbors. The generosity of people like you. We see only a small portion of His activity. But we know this: He still steps into the super-storms of life,” he wrote.

Sandy struck the East Coast Monday night, battering the Northeast with strong winds and flooding.

“We are in a state of crisis all across this state,” Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker told CNN on Wednesday. “It’s going to be a challenging time.”

Sandy is estimated to cost at least $20 billion in damage, though some place the estimate much higher.

President Obama approved major disaster declarations for New Jersey and New York, making additional federal support for state and local efforts available, as well as direct federal assistance to affected individuals in declared counties.

“All of us have been shocked by the force of mother nature,” said President Barack Obama on Wednesday.

“It is not going to be easy for these communities to recover.”

http://www.christianpost.com/news/max-lucado-where-was-god-when-hurricane-sandy-hit-84204/

Praise You in This Storm

What do the biggest storm to hit New York on record and an intense and dramatic national election have in common?

Aside from all the wind, the garbage being thrown around,  the folks on the east coast  just sitting in their homes waiting for it to be over, there is a keener similarity between the two that is important to keep in mind. That is that God is in control.

The super storm formerly known as Hurricane Sandy has taken the lives of 38 people and done millions of dollars of damage along the coast. 8.2 million homes were cut off from power. The skyline of New York City, one of the greatest cities on earth, is black, and the subway tunnels are flooded. Winds ripped through the cities on the coast at 80 mph as waves crashed over sea walls to flood the streets. Pieces of the iconic boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ now reportedly float down the flooded streets.

The Christian band “Casting Crowns” sing in “Praise You in this Storm,”

“As the thunder rolls I barely hear Your whisper through the rain ‘I’m with you’ And as Your mercy falls I raise my hands and praise the God who gives And takes away
And I’ll praise You in this storm And I will lift my hands For You are who You are No matter where I am And every tear I’ve cried You hold in Your hand You never left my side And though my heart is torn I will praise You in this storm”

We’re going to hear a lot about more in the future about the carnage this storm has caused along the east coast. Now, I’m going to resist the urge to compare that carnage to the last four years, but I will point out that the same God who controls the awesome power of the storm  controls the outcome of the election, and just as he is working through the storm that pounds our states right now, he will work through that election – no matter which way it goes.

Our prayers go out to those who have lost loved ones in this storm and those who are still in danger. Many lives will not be going back to normal for a very long time and they deserve our prayers and any help we can give them.

Have you taken time in the midst of the storms of the day to praise God?

http://www.americandecency.org/full_article.php?article_no=1563

Making A Difference

Elizabeth’s story was moving, to say the least. Following a terribly humiliating experience in Massachusetts, she caught a bus to New Jersey to escape her embarrassment. Weeping uncontrollably, she hardly noticed that the bus had made a stop along the way. A passenger sitting behind her, a total stranger, began making his way off the bus when he suddenly stopped, turned, and walked back to Elizabeth. He saw her tears and handed her his Bible, saying that he thought she might need it. He was right. But not only did she need the Bible, she needed the Christ it speaks of. Elizabeth received Him as a result of this simple act of compassion by a stranger who gave a gift.

Jesus is our example of compassion. In Matthew 9, we read, “When He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd” (v.36). Not only did our Lord notice the pain and hurt of broken people, He responded to it by challenging His followers to pray for the Father to send out workers to respond to the hurts and needs of this dying world (v.38).

As we follow Christ’s example, a heart of compassion for shepherdless people can compel us to make a difference in the lives of others.

Father, open my eyes to see the hurts and struggles of others. Then open my heart to respond to them, so that through me they may see You and Your love. Amen.

A world in despair needs Christians who care.

http://odb.org/2012/10/29/making-a-difference/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+odb%2Ffeed+%28Our+Daily+Bread%29

Watch What You Lean On

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6

During a ministry trip to the islands of the Caribbean, I happened to sit next to an unfamiliar attorney on a charter boat excursion. As we chatted, we discovered that we attended the same high school in New Jersey at the same time, with many old-time friends in common. I had told him that my name was Stowell. In the course of our unbelievable “we-have-so-much-in-common” conversation, he said to me, “Did you say your name was Stillwell?” I repeated my name, and he said, “Oh, because I have a client whose name is Stillwell.” I asked, “It wouldn’t be Art Stillwell would it?” He told me that it was.

It turns out that this man’s client was a man I grew up with in church. My dad was his pastor. Art Stillwell owned several major car dealerships in New Jersey, and this attorney represented him. That was the topper for so much in common, but for as long as I live I’ll never forget what he said next.

Reflectively, he told me, “I have no other client like Art Stillwell.” When I asked why, he went on to say, “When my other clients get in a jam, they ask me to do whatever it takes to get them out of their bind—regardless of what it takes. But not Art. Whenever I ask him that same question, he replies, ‘Just do what’s right.’ ”

That’s exactly what God meant when he told us: “Lean not on your own understanding.” It means don’t trust yourself. Don’t even trust your instinct. You might have an MBA or be the top performer in your field, or you might feel like you got a really bad deal. But unless you’ve actually taken the time to shut down your agenda and go with God’s, you’re on shaky ground. If you’re thinking of making a tough call or big-time decision without finding out “what is right” from God’s point of view, what you’re leaning on might just give way and send you tumbling.

Don’t go there. Watch what you lean on.

When you’re deciding how to respond to your supervisor’s latest directive or your financial advisor’s hottest tip or your boyfriend’s passionate invitation—do what’s right by doing what God says. Every time. Not only will it get you on track but someone might just notice how wonderfully different you are!

YOUR JOURNEY…

• In what ways do you regularly bring God’s thoughts and guidance into the loop in decision-making? In what areas of your life do you usually go with your gut-level instincts?
• How can you begin to acknowledge the Lord in your everyday decisions?
• Take some time to read through Proverbs 3:1-35. What is the role of God’s wisdom in our lives? According to this chapter, what is the net gain of seeking God’s wisdom rather than relying on our own?
• Pray specifically about an issue where you need God’s clear direction. Make your request for wisdom as specific as possible, and then wait for His response.

http://getmorestrength.org/daily/watch-what-you-lean-on/

Abortion and Rape

The criticisms of the recent absurd comments by Missouri Republican Congressman Todd Akin, who at this writing is his party’s nominee to take on incumbent Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in November in a contest he had been expected to win, have focused on his clearly erroneous understanding of the human female anatomy. In a now infamous statement, in which he used the bizarre and unheard-of phrase “legitimate rape,” the congressman gave the impression that some rapes of women are not mentally or seriously resisted. This is an antediluvian and misogynistic myth for which there is no basis in fact and which has been soundly and justly condemned.

Akin also stated that the female anatomy can resist unwanted impregnation. This, too, is absurd, offensive and incorrect. Medical science has established conclusively that women cannot internally block an unwanted union of egg and sperm, no matter the relationship between male and female. I think even schoolchildren understand that.

What has gone unmentioned, however, in the cacophony of condemnation by Republicans and Democrats, is the implication in Akin’s comments that rape is not a moral justification for abortion. In that, he is correct: It is not.

Abortion takes the life of innocent human beings who are the most vulnerable in our society. Abortion is today the most frequently performed medical procedure in the United States. American physicians perform about two abortions every minute of every hour of every day: about 1 million a year since 1973. In my home state of New Jersey, abortion is permitted up to the moment of birth, and the state will even pay for it if the mother meets certain financial criteria.

How low have we sunk? What are the consequences of this mass slaughter? How did we get here?

We got here because of the most reprehensible and unconstitutional Supreme Court opinion in the modern era. In a throwback to its infamous Dred Scott decision — in which a pre-Civil War Supreme Court declared that blacks are not persons and hence cannot claim the protections of the Constitution — the court essentially said in Roe vs. Wade the same of fetuses in the womb.

Roe vs. Wade has spawned more slaughter than all 20th-century tyrants combined. The consequences of this slaughter are vast lost generations of human beings who were denied by the law the right to live. The economic consequences from which we all suffer today — entitlements too costly to afford and too few wage earners to pay for them — are directly attributable to the absence of population growth.

I am not arguing in favor of entitlements. The Constitution does not authorize the federal government to provide them. But when FDR and LBJ concocted their entitlement schemes in order to build permanent dependence on the Democratic Party, they understood population growth. Their understanding, too, was slaughtered by abortion. A society that prefers death to life not only cannot prosper; it cannot survive. Soon 40 percent of federal tax revenues will be dedicated to interest on the federal debt, and most of that borrowing has been to pay for entitlements. We are headed for a cliff.

So are the babies in the womb. But isn’t the baby in a womb a person? Of course the baby in a womb is a person. The baby is produced by the physical interaction of two human parents, and every unborn baby possesses a fully actualizable human genome: all the material necessary to grow to adulthood and to exist independently outside the womb.

What about rape? Rape is among the more horrific violations of human dignity imaginable. But it is a crime committed by the male, not the female — and certainly not by the child it might produce. When rape results in pregnancy, the baby has the same right to life as any child born by mutually loving parents. Only the Nazis would punish a child for the crimes of his or her father.

Every abortion ends the life of an innocent unborn human being. When politicians in both parties claim to be pro-life but favor abortions because of the criminal behavior of the father, as in rape or incest, they are politically rejecting that hard truth. What other violations of the natural law will they condone for political expedience?

Judge Andrew Napolitano

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the State of New Jersey. He sat on the bench from 1987 to 1995, during which time he presided over 150 jury trials and thousands of motions, sentencings and hearings. He taught constitutional law at Seton Hall Law School for 11 years, and he returned to private practice in 1995. Judge Napolitano began television work in the same year.

http://townhall.com/columnists/judgeandrewnapolitano/2012/08/23/abortion_and_rape/page/full/

Indecency at the checkout counters. Ho hum? Apparently not!

What we place before our eyes DOES IMPACT!   So little thought – so little care seems to be exerted to this end in these days of the easy flow of “whatever.”

I used to say quite often if you can’t win the battle against indecency at the checkout counter where can you win it?

There was a day when we spent a lot of time addressing this very issue.  We sent letters to hundreds of major grocery store chains on a monthly basis urging them to at the very least place blinders over magazines with indecent/pornographic images and titles.

We urged these chains to let the magazine publishers know that they weren’t going to display magazines that were explicit.

In addition, we placed a full page ad in the New York Times expressing outrage and concern over the filth customers are captive to – at the eye level of children – as they wait in checkout lines.  In the ad we asked people to fill out a little response box and return it to us (with a donation of any size) so that we could run the ad in other newspapers.  Shoppers shouldn’t have to have their moral sensibilities compromised by insensitive, greedy grocery stores that are more concerned about profiting than the hearts and minds of impressionable shoppers both young and old.

After a couple of months of applying such pressure, I actually received a telephone call from a national journalist (Inside.com) reporting that a survey was showing that Glamour circulation was down 10.9% and Cosmo circulation down 9.3% for the last half of 2000.

 

The writer for Inside.com stated their analysis showed that these magazines have done some toning down (noting, however, that ADA probably wouldn’t be satisfied with the changes.)

 

The writer’s observation was that Cosmo and Glamour “are impulse buy” magazines and with the slight alterations in sexually hot verbiage on the covers, buyers who might otherwise buy, did not.

 

The writer noted that these declining circulation figures are significant for such mainstream magazines.   ….. [Taken from ADA’s April 2001 newsletter]

Much more could be said regarding this important battlefront.  I’ll suffice it to say that

things have only continually gotten worse on that front.

I hardly ever hear any one speak a word about trash at the checkout any longer but I did receive a call from a mother of a six year old out of New Jersey just the other day.  How refreshing. How encouraging to hear a young mother talk about the importance of guarding the eyes and heart of her child.

Does anybody care?  Perhaps one of you reading this does.

I might add, my wife Jan does.  She still discusses and stands up for morality, decency, purity at our local stores including Wal-Mart and year after year there is fruit in her labors!

It is in this light and with this background that I report the following:  World Net Daily reports that “the granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst is scorching her own family’s magazine for publishing what she calls ‘pornographic’ material kids can buy.”

 

If you are one that still cares about indecency at your checkout, you’ll be encouraged by this article. Maybe you’ll be encouraged enough to speak up like the women mentioned above!  I hope so.  One person can make a difference.

And let us hear from you.  I’d like to hear your story or your thoughts and let others know what others are thinking about this concerning issue that quietly but surely effects all of us.

 

Click here for the World Net Daily article entitled: Media giant’s own family attacks Cosmo ‘porn’

http://www.americandecency.org/archives/indecency-at-the-checkout-counters-ho-hum-apparently-not/#more-6879

Dressing to Attract

I saw a powerful email from a ministry called:  “Raising Godly Children”.   I commend it to you.

[Editor’s note:  a correction at the bottom regarding yesterday’s email.]

Every day they cover one concerning and important subject or another.

One of today’s topics was “Dressing to Attract.”

 

It has to do with the subject of modesty.  We are hit from so many sides on this front.

One lady from northern Michigan sent me advertisements she received in the mail that were clearly indecent and asked me for help.  I returned the ads so she could take them to her local post office and told her to go to the post office and ask for an SOA form (Sexually oriented advertisement).  Fill out the form and follow the post office’s direction.  The ads will be sent back to the company with the form notifying them not to send this material to the addressee.  If they do again, they are liable.

Another called from New Jersey expressing concern regarding Cosmopolitan at the checkout counter (along with other indecent/pornographic magazines.)

Sadly, sometimes there are those who dress immodestly in the church.

 

As Christian author Nancy Leigh DeMoss writes:  It’s important to remember that modesty is not first an issue of what we wear.  It’s essentially a heart issue.  If our hearts are right with God, if we’re walking in purity and humility before Him – the inevitable result will be a modest external appearance.

A heart of modesty affects every aspect of a woman’s life – not just the way she looks, but her attitudes and the way she talk and acts, as well.

For a more in depth look at this issue, I highly recommend the insightful booklet and CD “Does God Really Care What I Wear?” by Nancy Leigh DeMoss.  To order these helpful resources go to americandecency.org and click on our store.  That’s http://secure4.afo.net/ada/store2/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=28

In closing, I don’t want to neglect to share with you the excellent indepth article from “Raising Godly Children”.

Quoting:

Modesty is a topic I don’t like to talk about.  The reason being?  It’s akward.  It’s akward because there are such conflicting views on the issue and because I’m extremely fearful of saying the wrong thing and hurting people’s feelings or having them feel judged. But, this post,  got me thinking.

 

In many ways the word ‘modesty’ ranks with the likes of ancient concepts like, oh, chivalry.  I mean, it’s 2011.  Does any one REALLY worry about modesty anymore? We’ve been liberated.  It’s not about what we wear.  As women, we can do what we want, be who we want, and parade around in any attire we so choose.  We need not have any regard for how it makes other people feel. That’s their problem, it’s about US.  We faught for this ‘freedom’, dangitt.

 

Hmph.

 

And yet, we’re cheering on lingerie football and cities are hosting Slut Walks.   Celebrities strut in their skivies and it’s on the news at noon.  We’re more sexually objectified and opressed than we’ve ever been, all in the name of liberty.  And modesty – where is modesty?   Many women want to know.  It’s a topic of deep concern and contemplation.  What are we to do with culture when it comes to what we wear? …

[The article continues below -]

http://www.raisinggodlychildren.org/2011/12/dressing-to-attract.html

http://www.americandecency.org/archives/dressing-to-attract/#more-6825

Why No State, Including Colorado, Should Accept “Civil Unions”

Note:  This testimony was provided to the Colorado House Judiciary Committee on May 3, 2012 concerning Colorado S.B. 002, a proposed “civil unions” bill.

Well-meaning folks, including legislators, who oppose redefining marriage, yet support civil unions and domestic partnerships for same-sex couples, do so with the mistaken belief that both sides of the marriage debate will be satisfied with this apparent compromise. In practice, however, neither side is happy. And more importantly, as a legal matter, civil union laws absolutely undermine the case for marriage.

Make no mistake about it; a vote for this bill is a vote for same-sex “marriage.” In every U.S. jurisdiction where civil unions or domestic partnerships have been enacted, those who advocated for their passage subsequently rejected them as inadequate and demanded that marriage be redefined. (That dynamic has occurred in California, Washington state, New Jersey, Vermont, the District of Columbia, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut, Hawai’i, Illinois, and Nevada, where civil unions provided the legal rights and privileges of marriage; the celebration of those new legal rights were immediate followed with demands for a new definition of marriage.)

For example, the proponents of a civil union bill in New Jersey hailed it as “a wonderful moment—and a step toward equality.” Now, those who wanted civil unions characterize the law as “a failed experiment.” Why is that? It’s because achieving civil unions is a calculated step to achieving court-ordered same-sex “marriage.”

Here’s how the strategy works. Civil union and same-sex “marriage” proponents push for civil unions, claiming that it’s only fair to give some formal government recognition to same-sex relationships. Once passed or judicially imposed, they sue arguing that the laws are discriminatory because they are really marriages deprived of the name.

In New Jersey, the proponents of the civil union bill claimed to have played “a key role” in drafting it. But they are now attacking the very law that they helped pass, claiming that it is discriminatory because it allegedly creates a “separate and unequal” status.

In Connecticut, proponents of civil unions bragged that they “took the lead” in supporting civil union legislation but later brought suit arguing—without even a hint of irony—that the civil unions law violated equal protection. The Connecticut Supreme Court agreed and ruled that the civil union law effectively undermined the state’s interest in marriage as an opposite-sex union.

That same strategy worked in California, where the Ninth Circuit held in Perry v. Brown that the state’s domestic partnership scheme (which gave all the rights and benefits of marriage to same-sex couples) undermined the state’s interests in marriage as a union of a man and a woman. As UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh noted about Perry, “if the decision is upheld, this means that the arguments that civil unions are a ‘slippery slope’ to same-sex marriage were absolutely right.”

So far, this tactic has worked well. So it’s not surprising that recently proponents of same-sex “marriage” in Hawaii and Nevada filed suit in federal court claiming that, as a result of their respective civil union laws, their states’ laws defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman now violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Federal Constitution.

It should be clear by now that opposing same-sex “marriage” while supporting civil unions and domestic partnerships is akin to the Trojans dragging a wooden horse into the middle of Troy. This committee should be well aware that any civil union scheme that they chose to wheel through the front gate will unravel the institution of marriage, which the people of this state continue to cherish.

Byron Babione

Byron Babione is senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund (www.telladf.org), a legal alliance employing a unique combination of strategy, training, funding, and litigation to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family.

http://townhall.com/columnists/byronbabione/2012/05/06/why_no_state_including_colorado_should_accept_civil_unions/page/full/

‘You Should Be Called Out, Fired, Fined and Shamed’

For years I have been saying that those who came out of the closet one generation ago (speaking of gay activists) want to put us in the closet today. For making that statement, I have been derisively scorned and ridiculed: “No one is trying to put you in the closet!” But as the tide continues to turn in favor of the gay activist agenda, I’m noticing a shift. People are now saying to me, “Bigots like you belong in the closet!”

Last Wednesday (January 25th), Dr. Frank Turek and I engaged in a radio dialogue-debate with gay activist Mitchell Gold, founder of Faith in America, which is devoted to “ending the harm of religion-based bigotry.”

Speaking at a reception on Capitol Hill December 2, 2011, Gold made reference to this alleged “religion-based bigotry,” saying, “I know those . . . three words might seem harsh or incendiary to some, but unfortunately those are the words that best describe the disease that has and is dividing our country and too many families.”

In other words, if you have any moral or religious or social objection to homosexual practice you are suffering from a divisive and destructive “disease.” In fact, if you simply affirm that marriage is the union of a man and a woman, not the union of two people, you are suffering from the “disease” of “religion based-bigotry.”  And bigots, of course, should not be tolerated.

In the midst of our very spirited debate (the three of us are from New Jersey or New York), I repeatedly told listeners they needed to read the book Mitchell edited, Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America. In keeping with the sub-title, I reiterated that it was important that those of us who opposed gay activism understood the personal dimensions involved. In fact, I started the show by asking Mitchell to tell his own story, wanting others to know the pain he suffered growing up with same-sex attractions.

I also made clear that rampant, no-fault divorce among heterosexuals (including all too many Christians) had done more to destroy marriage than all gay activists combined.

Still, when I asked Mitchell what he thought I should do with my deeply held spiritual and moral convictions, the fruit of 40 years of study, prayer, and reflection, he basically said that I needed to keep studying until I abandoned my opposition to homosexual practice. So much for tolerance, diversity, and religious freedom.

The emails I received from those in Mitchell’s camp were even more enlightening (I have not corrected the typos).

From Rosemarie: “You are the one that is blinded by bigotry.  Read how the churches handled slavery, mixed marriages, etc. . . .  You and others like you will have a lot to answer for at the judgement.  You might make it in the gates and you will most likely be surprised who is there and who is not there.”

From John: “I just finished listening to your program featuring Mitchell Gold, and I feel like crying. . . . It’s such a bold, unquestioned arrogance. . . .  I’m a very loving, open-minded athiest as an adult.  I whole-heartedly wish that all of humanity would abandon belief in god(s) and truly learn what it is to be kind, and loving and gentle to each other.  In all likelihood, it will never happen, but I sincerely believe it’s the only way we will avoid extinction.  Upon hearing the message of your show… (devicive, bigotted, self-righteousness) wrapped in the guise of love, I am far-from-assured in my hope for humanity.”

From Cindy: “As a Christian, I was deeply offended by your comments as well as Frank Turek’s comments. . . . Your arguments are outdated and preposterous. You and Mr Turek reminded me of my grandmother when she would rant on and on about black folk.  She was fearful.”

From Jeana: “More than 60% of the congregation in my church are divorced.  Don’t blame that on the gays.  There are 4 pregnant unwed teenagers in my church.  Don’t blame that on the gays.  Porn addiction is an epidemic among the married men in my church.  Don’t blame that on the gays.  In other words stop blaming the world’s problems on the gays just so you can justify your hate.  You can deny your hate all you want but if you listened to yesterday’s broadcast, your disgust and hate comes through loud and clear.” (My emphasis.)

From Jess: “I couldn’t believe how obnoxious you and Mr. Turek were to Mitchell Gold.  You two acted like immature teenage boys…bullying someone who’s diiferent than you.” (But of course. Bullying!)

And clearest of all, from Pablo: “Free speech espousing hate even disguised as pseudo or real religious speech is still hate speech. Hate speech in any and all circumstances is not protected by US law. If you use religion to disguise your hatred of other groups you should be called out, fired, fined and shamed.”

Now, go back and re-read the opening paragraph and tell me if it sounds far-fetched to you.

Tags:                 Christianity            ,                                    Gay Rights            ,                                    Homosexuality

Michael Brown

Michael Brown holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York University and is the author of 20 books. He has served as a professor at a number of seminaries and hosts the nationally syndicated, daily talk radio show, the Line of Fire.

http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2012/01/30/you_should_be_called_out_fired_fined_and_shamed/page/full/