| "And
when he had made a scourge of small cords, he
drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep,
and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money,
and overthrew the tables." (John
2:15) Iowa
Family Policy Center is associated with Focus on
the Family. In its Fall 2006 issue it gave this
report of its "Salt & Light" awards
to area pastors who condemn Fred Phelps and his
church.
As
leaders of the Christian community in the Des
Moines area, we explicitly denounce Fred Phelps
and his protestors currently in the Des Moines
area. Although we are concerned about the
misinformation presented in the" Laramie
Project," we believe the truth of the Bible
in its entirety and understand we are to express
those truths with love and grace. Mr. Phelps
ignores this portion of the Bible, and while he
is vocal, he does not represent us. In fact many
in our Christian community are also targets of
his picketing this weekend. As a community of
believers, we humbly ask for forgiveness from
those struggling with their sexuality that has
been treated unkindly by someone claiming to
represent Christ. While we do believe the
scriptural teachings that homosexual conduct is
one among many sins, the struggle with sin is
common to us all, and only through our
relationship with Christ do any of us have the
power to overcome it. As a Christian community,
we open our arms to anyone desiring to be set
free from the sins in his or her life.
This
is the typical 21st Century American "Christian"
response to the grave threat of the sodomite
agenda. Ignorant Christians suppose that the
majority of sodomites and baby-killers are the
"walking wounded" and the church is
supposed to be the spiritual hospital.
The
church should not be a hospital for sinners, it
should be a mortuary for sinners.
The
church at Corinth molly-coddled an unrepentant
sexually immoral person, the Apostle Paul gave
them this admonition:
It
is reported commonly that there is fornication
among you, and such fornication as is not so much
as named among the Gentiles, that one should have
his father's wife. And ye are puffed up, and have
not rather mourned, that he that hath done this
deed might be taken away from among you. For I
verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit,
have judged already, as though I were present,
concerning him that hath so done this deed, In
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are
gathered together, and my spirit, with the power
of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one
unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that
the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord
Jesus. (1 Corinthians 5: 1-5)
The
modern "nicer than Jesus" church has
got it backwards when they condemn those who
condemn the public sins of sodomy and invite
sodomites into the church!
Jesus
drove the money changers out of the temple, He
didn’t invite them in; He didn’t treat
them as "walking wounded," He didn’t
treat them as someone who is "struggling"
with avarice; He made a whip of cords and drove
them out!
Iowa
Family Policy Center is using the same failed
strategy to resist sodomy as Right to Life to
fight abortion. Because IFPC’s focus is on
abolishing same-sex marriage it seeks to regulate
rather than outlaw sodomy.
The
"Laramie Project" is an attempt by the
sodomites to win sympathy for hate crimes
legislation. The sodomite agenda has found its
way into theater, schools, churches, and our
legal and political systems. There is little or
no resistance from "salt & light"
pastors.
To
our shame, Fred Phelps has provided Iowa with the
only manly resistance to the sodomite agenda.
I
have my disagreements with Fred, I am not a
Calvinist. I do not believe that God chooses
people to be sodomites and therefore eternally
condemns them to hell. That is probably why Fred
does not attempt to win them to Christ. His
confrontations with sodomites are not winsome. I
do agree with Fred’s sign "God Hates
Fags!" It is biblically correct though it
might be better stated (Leviticus 18:22; 20:13).
Picketing
military funerals of non-sodomite combatants is a
poor forum for confronting the military’s
"don’t ask, don’t tell"
policy. When I was in the army we took care of
the sodomite problem ourselves. That was before
sodomite bashing became unpopular.
The
fact that God hates is a foreign concept to most
evangelical Christians. It is arguably a greater
doctrinal error than Calvinism. To suppose that
God does not hate is perhaps the greatest
doctrinal error of our times. It certainly has
had a devastating affect on our ability to resist
evil.
I
challenge any and all to do a biblical word study
on the word "hate" and its adjectives,
before you tell me that God does not hate. Let me
get you started with a few verses: Psalm 5:5-6; 7:11-13;
9:17; 11:4-6; 97: 10; 139:21-22; Proverbs. 6:16;
8:13; John 7: 7; and Luke 19:27.
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