How Did We Get Here? Desensitize, Normalize, Demonize, Idolize, Legalize, (Victimize)!

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For many decades the LGBT movement has worked tirelessly in effort to fundamentally transform America’s conscience with regards to sexuality and gender.  This has been achieved, in large part, with direct assistance from public education, the music industry, and Hollywood.  In a Hollywood Reporter article from 9/25/14 Natalie Jarvey wrote, "Gay couples? Gay kisses? Yawn. New sexual boundaries are being broken as Amazon’s 'Transparent' is the latest to tackle a once-taboo topic."  Long before Bruce Jenner decided to go public with his transgender decision the path had already been paved for him by Hollywood and friends.  A team effort strategy during a sweeping "moral revolution" is what helped advance the LGBT cause so rapidly.

Our LGBT friends need to remember that now beloved Liberal politicians, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barrick Obama, once campaigned in favor of traditional marriage.  The night before his election victory in 2008, then candidate Obama said, "Marriage is between and a woman." I do not support same sex same weddings though I do oppose California Proposition 8.  Much has changed in seven short years.

If I were to summarize the LGBT strategy I would use five simple words: Desensitize, Normalize, Demonize, Legalize, Idolize, (and for some, Victimize)!

Now before you dismiss this article outright as coming from one of those "angry Baptist preachers" I would encourage you to at least consider the real life examples that are listed below.  The goal of this post is not to call on Christians everywhere to boycott Hollywood.  Every Spirit-filled believer has to make their own Biblically informed decisions as to what they are going to watch, listen to, and read.  Unlike some pastors, I do not believe that Christian liberty should not be taken away from believers just because it is regularly abused (for more on what the Bible teaches concerning grey area decisions consider this, this, and this).

The LGBT Agenda: How To Fundamentally Transform America- One Mind at a Time.

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Contrary to what is often portrayed in the media America is still somewhat split on the issue of gay marriage.  I do not believe however that this will be the case ten to fifteen years from now.  Not when the LGBT movement is actively supported by most media outlets (national and local), by many corporations with massive checkbooks, by the majority of public schools/public universities, by the White House, by apostate pseudo Christians, and by Hollywood and the entertainment industry.  For more on this see my article,"How Did We Get Here? Desensitize, Normalize, Demonize, Idolize, Legalize, (Victimize)!"  Suffice it to say, when President Obama was first elected in 2008 he promised that "change was coming" to America and that he was going to "fundamentally transform" our country.  Both of these predictions have come true over the last seven years with assistance from the United States Supreme Court.

First came abortion rights for all in 1973 and now the legalization of gay marriage in 2015.   What do both of these egregious rulings have in common?  Americans do not want anything standing in the way of their lustful passions (see Romans 1:18-32).  In some regards both decisions were about sex, sex, and more sex (heterosexual and homosexual immorality alike).  Sexual freedom has become far more important than religious freedom to a growing number of people.  As I mentioned before, the gay rights movement that was ushered in on the coattails of the (im)Moral Revolution is here to stay.

An Evangelical Declaration of Marriage (Local Signatories)

"If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point."  

~ Martin Luther (1483-1546)


"HERE WE STAND:  An Evangelical Declaration of Marriage"

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