“Remember
what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If
they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my
teaching, they will obey yours also.”
John 15:20
Christians,
pastors, take heed. In case you haven’t noticed, times are
a-changin’. Whether at home or abroad, if you follow God’s
command to speak biblical truth in all things, most especially, it
seems, on matters of sex and sexuality, you will be persecuted.
“A servant is
not greater than his master.”
I don’t
presume to compare Pastor Scott Lively of Abiding
Truth Ministries to Jesus Christ. None of us can compare, even
remotely, to the one and only God-man to the Lord of the universe
and exclusive path to eternal salvation. That said, Pastor Lively is
one of the most “Christ-like” people I’ve had the honor to
know.
As did Christ,
Scott Lively speaks absolute truth, in absolute love, with absolutely
no fear of personal destruction or even death. He loves everyone,
whether friend or foe, Christian or pagan, straight or “gay.”
For example,
Scott and his family took
into their home and nursed, both physically and spiritually, the
late Sonny Weaver, a former homosexual who died, as so many have,
from AIDS a natural consequence of unnatural behavior. Sonny
became homosexual after being raped at 7 years old by a “gay” man
in a local YMCA. He became a former homosexual after accepting Jesus
as Lord of his life.
Lively loves
those who seek to defend him just as he loves those who seek to
destroy him and, make no mistake about it, precisely because
Pastor Scott Lively has chosen to both obey and emulate Jesus Christ,
there are people, very powerful people, who seek to destroy him.
These people, unless and until they come to know, accept and
surrender to the Lord Jesus, are, and will remain, enemies of God.
And so Scott
Lively prays for them.
Remember those
pastors in Houston who were told
to turn over their sermons to radical lesbian-activist mayor
Annise Parker? Remember the national outrage over this blatantly
unconstitutional act of governmental abuse?
Pastor Lively,
you see, has, in the spirit of Saul Alinsky, been “Hitlerized” by
a left-wing extremist group ironically calling itself the “Center
for Constitutional Rights” (CCR). CCR is a George
Soros-funded organization with, I kid you not, the beastly street
address of 666 Broadway, New York, NY.
Because Lively
exercised his God-given First Amendment rights, as well as his
free-speech rights afforded by the laws of Uganda, and spoke biblical
truth about homosexual sin after having been invited there by a
number of Ugandan pro-family groups, homosexual activists set-out to
make an example of him.
In March of 2012
CCR sued Lively in a Massachusetts federal court for “crimes
against humanity” the same charge filed against Nazis who stood
trial in Nuremberg on behalf of another moonbat organization
called “Sexual Minorities Uganda,” which, and again, you can’t
make this stuff up, prefers the moniker “SMUG.”
And so Lively
enlisted the pro-bono legal services of Liberty Counsel, one of
America’s fastest-growing civil rights organizations.
Lively explains:
“With full knowledge that these are bald-faced lies, SMUG asserts
that
1) I masterminded the 2009 Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda,
which they call the ‘Kill the Gays Bill’ [in fact, Lively
publicly
opposed the bill, which has since been struck
down by Ugandan courts].
2) Inflamed passions against homosexuals
in Uganda by characterizing all homosexuals as irredeemable genocidal
child molesters.
3) Introduced to Uganda the heretofore unknown
strategy of criminalizing public promotion of homosexuality as a
means of opposing the rise of a homosexual movement in Uganda. The
proof that these are lies is found in the very same documents they
misuse against me.”
CCR and SMUG
also tried to blame Lively for the murder of Ugandan homosexual David
Kato, a murder he also publicly condemned, making it the centerpiece
of their lawsuit until, and as was noted in Liberty Counsel’s
Motion to Dismiss, it was
revealed that, as Lively predicted...
Kato was actually murdered by his “gay” lover who confessed to
the crime, was convicted and is now in prison.
But all of this
is incidental. It’s a smokescreen. Keep in mind; we’re talking
about protected speech here. Lively is being tried for “crimes
against humanity” for merely uttering, publicly, millennia-old
biblical orthodoxy relative to sexual morality.
So, how could
such an Orwellian lawsuit clearly designed as a weapon to both
harass and intimidate Lively and anyone else who might dare challenge
the global homosexual activist political agenda even make its way
into a U. S. federal court?
Well, CCR and
SMUG’s angle was to circumvent that pesky ol’ First Amendment, as
well as Ugandan free-speech laws, through a gross misapplication of
the Alien Tort Statute. Normally, this would have been laughed out of
court and, in fact, just last year, even as this case was ongoing,
the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally
ruled this very tactic to be unlawful.
There’s
nothing normal about this case.
Meet federal
Judge Michael Ponsor. Ponsor, who thumbed his nose at the Supreme
Court and denied Liberty Counsel’s slam dunk Motion
to Dismiss, is the textbook example of a judicial activist. He
has admitted
as much, once saying in another context that, “At some point I
realized that judges are the unappointed legislators of mankind, and
what we do is just as creative.”
But for this
judicial activist, the case would seem personal. At his inauguration
to the federal bench he crowed, for instance, “We have a proud,
vibrant gay and lesbian community.” Presumably he knows this
because one of his ex-wives reportedly later “married” another
woman, while his daughter once revealed publicly on social media that
she, too, was a lesbian.
And so, to keep
afloat the demonization of Scott Lively (of all Christians, really)
despite the Supreme Court’s torpedo, and to keep alive this
judicial abuse, harassment and intimidation Ponsor, as promised,
got “creative.”
Now, because the Court denied Mr. Lively’s Motion to Dismiss, we are
now forced to go through many months and years of expensive and
protracted discovery on two continents. Literally thousands of pages
of documents are changing hands, and dozens of depositions will be
taken. This makes the subpoenas to Houston pastors look like small
potatoes.”
“SMUG’s and
CCR’s end game is clear: Make war criminals out of anyone who
encourages any legislative body to pass any legislation upholding the
traditional family. If Scott Lively is guilty of the Crime Against
Humanity of Persecution, then so are the Houston pastors and anyone
who has ever tried to influence legislation against the homosexual
juggernaut.
The Court process
is all about punishment.
This was never
about winning or losing.
It was always
about intimidation.
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