Posted by
Bert Chapman on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 7:19:35 PM
Recent legal, political, and cultural developments have brought the issue of anti-Christian bigotry to public attention. This is a long overdue development. Today, a three judge panel of the notoriously imbecilic and immoral 9th Circuit Court ruled that California voters express desire in 2008 to limit marriage to a man and a woman through their passage of Proposition 8 was unconstitutional. The law remains in effect for now but it will now stop the purveyors of sexual perversity from continuing their battle to impose their consciously chosen lifestyles on the country through the courts given their repeated failure to achieve their immoral objectives at the ballot box. This case will likely be decided by the Supreme Court in the next year or two.
Anti-Christian animus also occurs in many sectors of academe. Just over two years ago, I had the audacity to point out that widespread societal acceptance of homosexuality would have unpleasant economic and public health consequences. While my university employer defended my First Amendment rights, I was targeted by militant "gay" rights activists who urged that I be fired and/or lose my tenure because I refused to support their efforts to ideologically indoctrinate other students and faculty. Vanderbilt University is currently experiencing another example of untrammeled anti-Christian indoctrination. The university's President has decided that Christian student organizations such as the Christian Legal Society must be disbanded because their core beliefs include prohibiting individuals who do not adhere to Christian beliefs and lifestyle practices from holding leadership positions in their groups. If Congress wants to get this moron to cease and desist, they should threaten to cut off federal student aid funding and research funding from Vanderbilt or any university that seeks to discriminate against Christian students or other groups antagonistic to militant secularism.
The latest example of this anti-Christian bigotry, which has gotten well-deserved coverage during the GOP presidential primary campaign, is the Obama Administration's attempts to require Catholic educational institutions to provide contraceptives to employees as part of their health insurance coverage. No institution, regardless of their sectarian beliefs, should be forced to submit to the federal government's desire to impose secular abortionist morality upon them. This proposed policy, lead by Obama and the Wicked Abortionist Witch of Kansas HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, is blatantly unconstitutional and should be resisted at all cost. I'm pleased so many Catholic clergy have denounced this move after so many of them have tacitly and openly endorsed Democratic political figures for many decades. Hopefully, truly committed Catholics will see this as a sign that they should place their voting behavior in alignment with their religious beliefs and not vote for Obama and his Democratic allies. The Obama Administration's vociferous support for abortion and homosexuality should cause other moral traditionalists, whether Christian or non-Christian, to recognize the dangerous consequences of promoting immoral behavior and lifestyles on their personal religious freedom and societal well-being.
Nearly every day we see news stories demonstrating the tragic consequences of tolerating immoral and sexually perverse behavior. The Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University toppled that university's legendary football coach Joe Paterno and the university's administration destroying the lives of many innocent boys. Today's news tells the story of how two teachers were removed from a predominately Hispanic Los Angeles elementary school after engaging in repeated acts of lewd behavior and photographing such behavior with children at this school. Elites in the media, judiciary, and many educational sectors (described by Thomas Sowell in The Vision of the Anointed) falsely tell us that we must enable all forms of diversity even if they produce moral perversion, that God does not exist, that there are no absolute standards of right or wrong, and that we can make up our moral code as we go along. Another recent news story told of how a Utah adolescent sought to reenact the 1999 Columbine school shooting massacre in his hometown school and even went so far in his preparations as to interview the Columbine principal before he was caught. The chickens of secularism and moral relativism are coming home to roost and have their biggest ally in the Obama Adminstration. Despite his proclaimed adherence to an admittedly liberal form of Christianity, Barack Obama and his leftist administration are the most powerful and dangerous allies militant secularism has ever had in this country. That's why it's so important that Obama and his cohorts are removed from power during this year's election. The moral consequences of allowing this administration to remain in this power are an apocalyptic vision best depicted in prophetic biblical books such as Daniel and Revelation. Public policy consequences of a continuing Obama Administration include continued economic stagnation and decline, greater family breakdown and societal dependence on government, and a government to enfeebled to respond to the strategic challenges imposed by Islamist Terrorism and a growing and emboldened China. Increasing anti-Christian mob action is also an increasingly prevalent phenomenon in Islamic countries as a recent Newsweek at the Daily Beast.com
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali demonstrates.