Homosexuals are cashing in on the laws
criminalizing “discrimination” against homosexuality in Western countries and
using it to target outspoken Christians and their businesses. The plot is
simple and straightforward: homosexuals walk into a well-known Christian bakery
and ask for special cake for homosexual marriage ceremony (as in the story of Randy and Trish
McGath ) or a Christian florist (such as Barronelle Stutzman to ask for flower for the
“wedding” or they may require the
services of a Christian photographer (such as Elaine Huguenin ) for the coverage of the ceremony, and so on, and so
forth.. Hawkish lawyers are usually
somewhere not far away to document evidences that would be used to prosecute
the case later, in anticipation that the business would decline to provide the
required services. That of course,
according to warped Western thinking is discrimination!
But Christians have insisted that refusing
to participate in a ceremony directly forbidden by one’s religious believe
cannot be taken as discrimination. After
all it is not as if homosexuals are not welcome to come do business on
location! .
The situation is even worse for
Christians who are in public service. One of the poster cases in the UK was
that of Theresa Davies, a Registrar with Islington Borough Council. For refusing to preside over civil
partnership ceremonies, based on her Christian faith, Theresa was demoted from her job.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ZiXeDli1Y) Similar stories can be told of Lilian Ladele and many more in
that country (see Book
2: Behold I come quickly for extensive compilation)
It is sad to see
the Christian worldview suffer such fate, even in the lands where the
traditional judeo-christian values were first developed. By contrast, how many would dare require a Moslem
restaurant, for instance, to serve pork or alcohol to customers? As a matter of fact, in Ohio prisons, bacons
and sausages must not at all be prepared or served in order not to offend
their pious Islamic sensibilities! In
one of the latest show of explosive Islamic influence in the UK, Moslems are now demanding that
an infidel (non-moslem) cannot be buried next to a moslem, even in public
cemeteries! Strangely, none of these
constitute discrimination of any sort. However,
when it comes to Christians demanding fidelity to the basics of their faith, in
consonance with common-sense and age-long moral codes, every Tom, Dick, and Harry
bring out the whip and sledgehammer, shouting PHOBIA!
Meanwhile, one
of the largest mainline Protestant denominations in the US, the Presbyterian
Church has
approved a change in the wording of its constitution to include same-sex
marriage. Appeasement at all costs?
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