We’re All Hoosiers Now
By now everyone has likely heard that Indiana has become a hotbed of anti-gay bigotry, and America’s cultural elites are not going to put up with it! The Indiana state legislature passed a religious restoration and freedom act and the governor signed it; then all hell broke loose. According to liberals and gay rights activists the law is “anti-gay” bigotry pure and simple. Of course it is nothing of the sort, but since truth never got in the way of any committed activist, that doesn’t much matter.
You can read an overview by Jonah Goldberg of what the law is not, but I want to point you to a piece by Red State’s Erick Erickson about the real agenda of secular liberals and gay rights activists:
Around the country, gay rights activists have attacked Christians for daring to put their faith ahead of the wants and desires of homosexual marriage advocates. The Christians must be silenced and punished. Their faith cannot be respected. Legislation designed to allow diversity of religion and the free exercise thereof must be stopped and must be decried as discrimination.
The move to put “free exercise” on the same footing with “free speech” must be opposed because most major faiths recognize homosexuality as outside normal behavior. The logical outcome of this will eventually be to reduce free speech. People and faiths are going to have to be shut up for homosexuals to have the veneer of normalcy.
But it won’t stop there. Over time, the gay rights movement will move to pushing churches to marry gays because normally people get married in churches. Over time, it will move to push religious schools to abandon standards on sexuality. Over time, it will mean religious institutions lose their tax exempt status. Over time, it will require Bible believing churches be labeled hate groups and orthodox Christianity be forced to the sidelines. Over time, it will mean that the state must intervene and protect children from parents who want to raise them as orthodox Bible believing Christians.
Essentially, replacing the prohibition on religious tests clause of the Constitution will become an enforcement of a secularism clause. People of faith need not apply for jobs, political appointments, or elected office. People of faith will be the new bigots because their God said “go and sin no more” and dared list homosexuality as one of those sins.
Ultimately, over time, two thousand years of Christianity will be forced to be treated as the deviant lifestyle. You will be forced to pick a side. If you remain true to your God, you will be outside the bounds of acceptable conduct. You will be made to care.
There you have it, Christians are now the deviants. This of course has been the goal all along, to normalize non-Christian (non-Jewish, non-biblical) sexual morality, and demonize anyone who dares embraces traditional sexual morality in the public square. Western cultural elites want people like me securely in the closet where I can believe or think whatever I want, but that’s where such thoughts must stay. This is what Christians get for abandoning the culture a hundred years ago, a mistake many believers understand now more than ever.
R.R. Reno at First Things offers this clear-headed insight into what’s in store for Christians:
Christian leaders in America need to be clear-minded. It’s very foolish to think we can settle into a modus vivendi with the coming gay rights regime. This regime is the political form of the sexual revolution, and like all revolutions, it’s committed to the destruction of the past.
I had to look up modus vivendi, given I’m a product of a public school education and my Latin is a little rusty: an arrangement or agreement allowing conflicting parties to coexist peacefully, either indefinitely or until a final settlement is reached. To the gay rights regime conservative Christians are bigots, and there can be no arrangement with bigots; they must be silenced at least, or as Erickson says, be made to care.
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