outing the same-sex agENDA, part three

Taking Back the Rainbow

For whom the church bells toll

We continue our series about how the same-sex agenda is already being carried out by activists and by government agencies and the activist judges. This is occurring even though in most parts of the country. sexual orientation is not officially a class of discrimination as are race, age, gender or disability, nor should it be!

In part one of this series we discussed an individual, a black woman, who was fired from her job for freely expressing her faith conviction in regard to same-sex unions or same-sex ‘marriage’ in writing her response to an editorial opinion in her local newspaper. In part two we discussed a case in New Mexico where a business was sued by a same-sex couple for not agreeing to photograph their so-called “commitment” ceremony. The small business was a photography shop. The owner refused, because of her beliefs and convictions, to take the job. The same-sex couple sued the business and won in a ruling by the state human rights commission. Today, in part three, we will discuss a not-for-profit, CHURCH-related organization legal battle with the same matter of alleged so-called sexual orientation discrimination.
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NO SANCTUARY EVEN IN A CHURCH

It seems like every time the church or the Christian people in the church venture outside our stained glass fortresses on Monday morning and dare to bring our faith to the public arena, the marketplace or the school campus the PC patrol trolls take note. The same-sex activists are one key component of the PC police. Such is the case in Ocean Grove, New Jersey where a same-sex couple wanted to rent from the local Methodist Church its facilities to conduct an ungodly same-sex ceremony. The church rightfully said, “No.” The lesbian couple cried foul and discrimination. The human rights commission again listened to and sided with the powerful, politically correct, and influential same-sex activists.


In the Ocean Grove case, the same-sex couple wanted to rent a Pavilion on the boardwalk which was owned and operated by the Methodist Church for many, many years. The “couple” apparently wanted to hold their civil union ceremony in the church-owned facility. If the church would have gone against its principles and beliefs and allowed the ceremony to take place, they would have desecrated their mission and their property, because same-sex unions or “marriage” is an abomination to the God of the Judeo-Christian Bible and to all true Christian believers.

THE RESULT

How is the Ocean Grove case similar to the New Mexico case? Both “offending” parties and defendants in their respective cases are represented by the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorneys. Both of the defendants in both cases are sued for discrimination. Both defendants initially lost their cases. In addition, the Ocean Grove church also lost its TAX-EXEMPT status for one of their parcels of land. Both cases are in the process of being appealed.

According to an ADF Fact Sheet for the New Jersey case (Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association (OCCMA) versus Vespa-Papaleoon), ADF attorneys filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on August 11, 2007 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in response to the state of New Jersey’s investigation of a complaint form a same-sex couple that demanded to use OCCMA's private worship facility for a “civil union” ceremony.

THE RAMIFICATIONS

On the May 7th WallBuilders Live Radio Show, where I most recently heard about this case, ADF attorney Jordan Lorence said, “I think that churches (being) drawn into this is a likely scenario. I think the TAX-EXEMPT status is probably going to be the weapon of choice (against) the churches.”

Laws like the intolerable Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) along with so-called needless “hate crimes’ legislation on both the state and federal levels will have the effect of silencing Christians and churches and will take away freedom of speech and freedom to express one’s faith.

If a pastor is asked to perform a same-sex ceremony and refuses, will he be fined, jailed or risk losing his church’s tax-exempt status? Absolutely, if both ENDA and hate crimes are enacted individuals, businesses, pastors, Christians and churches will be facing the same accusations of discrimination as Crystal Dixon, the Huguenins and the Methodist church organization in New Jersey are facing. America, beware, this is already happening to a great extent in Western Europe and in our neighbors to the north, Canada.

TAKE ACTION

This election find out who supports same-sex civil unions or “marriage” and who favors legislation that codifies sexual orientation discrimination and who supports “hate crime” laws and vote AGAINST them on all levels – national, state and local.