My last post on Duck Dynasty was posted only one day before the big Phil Robertson GQ article fall out. And please believe me, I had no clue of the storm that was brewing. If you are not sure of what I'm referring, and you too are a Duck Dynasty fan-- I encourage you to Bing or Google. Whatever your search engine pleasure.My boys are receiving a more confused view of the world around them than ever before. We recently walked away from nearly a decade of working with the Boy Scouts of America. It was over their decision to finally cave in and allow boys that wish to engage in homosexual behavior to join after years of pressure from the folks of GLAAD and other Pro-Homosexual groups. This decision devastated my family in that we left an organization founded in a hundred years of heritage, and that we still dearly love. Our family does not wish to deprive any young man the right to join a boys organization. We simply had to stand for the rights of private conservative groups or businesses like BSA to state that homosexuality is wrong. If only BSA had continued to be firm in that fight that they had pursued all the way to the supreme court only years before, we would be working on my son's Eagle rank over this next year.
Talking this over with the older young men in our family, they made the admirable decision to step away from specific goals and special friends to vote with their feet. They wanted a message to go out to the main stream media that the homosexual agenda could not bully them. They still have the right in America to state that homosexuality is a sin. If the BSA was going to stifle that right, then hopefully the world would see a fall-out by loss in the group's membership.
Now, my sons' favorite show's Phil Robertson from the A&E Network's popular Duck Dynasty is the next victim of, what my husband saw coined last night on CNN's Twitter chatter, the "homosexual mafia bullies." Phil was suspended from the show for his comments to GQ magazine that homosexuality is a sin. I do encourage you to find and read the whole article. We do not want to make uninformed judgments. I did read it, and Phil is blunt and sometimes crude in his discussion. But I do agree with his views of God's Word on homosexual behavior.
The media and Hollywood are now having a hay-day. Gay and Lesbian spokespeople are enjoying the limelight shining on a topic that is near and dear to them, that homosexuality should be considered normal and those that will not except it are hateful. They have constructed a clever bandwagon campaign. The rhetoric offers a red herring that redirects the true focus by regenerating a new form of the civil rights movement of the 60's. They have been successful in leading Americans to believe that anyone stating that their sexual choices are wrong are really hateful bigots and suppressing their equal rights. I am in unbelief that African Americans are not outraged to be equated with the homosexual crowd. In my mind sexual behavior and skin color are completely different issues. The civil rights movement of the 60's was peacefully led by profound men like Martin Luther King Jr., and the protests were much needed here in the south that was sadly still promoting inhumane practices such as segregation by skin color alone, to say the least.
I am currently reading Ronald Reagan's Autobiography An American Life. He is actually one of my heroes. A popular actor in Hollywood during the 1940s and 50s before becoming our 40th president. He, against much opposition among his acting peers, fought against communism in Hollywood after World War II. He was an informant for the government and actually helped exonerate many celebrities that were labeled "Red." He saw the future detriment of Marxist propaganda penetrating show business. He wanted to stop what he had fought against in Hitler's regime.
Again in 1950-1956 Senator Joseph McCarthy brought a new communism scare to the U.S. Many Hollywood a-listers were unfairly black listed and called before congress to deny their affiliation with the communist party. Most Americans wanted to vet out these risks to the very freedoms that made our country different than any other. I am not supporting nor negating those proceedings. Definitely not a lover of Communism, but I also do not propose to go about labeling folks as Ruskies.
Arthur Miller, famous Broadway playwright, penned his play The Crucible in response to this phenomenon of widespread cold war panic listing any questionable person as an espionage leading communist. Miller's play takes the audience back to Salem, Massachusetts- 1692 in which it portrays with historical accuracy many innocent God fearing town folk labeled by a group of young girls as "witches", tried, and then unjustly executed.
In those times the conservatives were the majority and the current world view. Major communications were quick to call out anything that seemed evil. Funny that I can be referring to either the 1950's or the 1600's in that previous statement. Although, I do believe that much hypocrisy was being lived out in the average day to day goings on of both times. Let's not fool ourselves as conservatives of today. It is sometimes those in the name of Christ that do the most harm to his name. So we do have to give an answer for those moments in history in which Christian's were reading the same Bible that I currently have on my bedside table, but we understood it from 2 completely different points of view (to paraphrase a quote I read recently by Lincoln). But now the tables have turned, and it is the Christian of today that is labeled in the witch hunt of the current media Hollywood frenzied environment. According to mainstream news I should be wearing a big letter "C" and stand in the square for all to shame. I am judged and therefore condemned a...dum dum dum...Christian! Gasp!!!!
I agree with Sarah Palin (not sure I dreamed I would ever say that LOL) that "free speech is an endangered species." It is really freedom to have religion that is what is at stake here. I have a degree from a Forbes list top private college, and I seem to be labeled backwards and not evolved in my thinking. In a time that churches seem the most accepting and loving of everyone, It is the homosexual movement that frankly is pushy and unaccepting of other's beliefs. The First Amendment provides the right and freedom for my family to practice religion. I choose to practice Christianity and follow the Bible, which man has practiced from creation (that's been around awhile, huh?). It is no secret Christians believe homosexuality is sin.
Christians, I encourage you to join me in this war against the opinion of negativity towards Christianity. The progression logically leads to liberals labeling a mom like me a Bible radical, told by today's "Biblical scholars" at the universities that I must not understand It's more practical modern meaning. I'm tired of being touted as a hate mongering cult extremist like fanatical Muslims that misinterpret the Koran brain washed to terrorism. It is not right for me to ever fear being brought up on charges of bullying. So, I will not be cowardly about interpreting the Bible as written, and I will continue to exercise my right to be an educated Christian that contributes to the GOOD of this country. Where have we gone in America when it is the Christian, the ones that still teach morals, that are labeled "the bad guys?"
I am not in dismay. From the beginning sin has found its way to propagate the world. But I have a blessed hope. For Christ said that He has overcome the world. I know who get's it in the end, the author of sin. And truthfully, it would totally be me with him, for I am a great sinner. But along with Phil, I believe my hope is my trust in Jesus Christ. He is the only pure Holy One. We all would do better to be gracious to one another. For Jesus came to save the sick. The religious men of His time wondered why He was spending His time with the tax gatherers and the sinners. He came to His own and they did not accept Him. If I can love you? Can you love me?
Please write BSA and or A&E and let them hear the voice of Christians. There are several petitions to sign in support for Phil Robertson online. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. They are sadly squeaking louder than we are. We can not sit on the sidelines and wonder why it is not acceptable to be a Christian in America anymore.
