When you don’t have solid answers, arguments and facts to make your case, then simply demonising and shouting down opposing voices is always a neat way to proceed. And this is the normal operating procedure for the homosexual activists and their supporters.
They have become experts at screaming at opponents, throwing mud and abuse, and treating with utter contempt those who dare to hold to a differing point of view. This is always so much easier than actually dealing with the arguments and the evidence.
Katy Faust for example was attacked by a Labor Party politician on “our” ABC that she is a hater for being concerned about the well-being of children. And to stick the knife in even further, he accused Katy of mouthing “evangelical claptrap”. I am not sure what that even means, but it must be pretty bad indeed. As Brendan O’Neil wrote about another critic:
Sinclair Davidson seems to think my main beef with gay marriage is that the people who campaign for it use unpleasant tactics. But this is merely an observation. And it’s the one I made on Q&A last Monday because I had just witnessed the doublespeak of Sam Dastyari, who said, in response to traditional marriage campaigner Katy Faust, that “people are entitled to have different views” (how generous of him) “but this American evangelical claptrap is the last thing we need in the debate”. For me, this summed up the illiberal liberalism of the gay-marriage campaign. “You’re entitled to your view; just don’t express it.”
And the ABC did a “fact check” (giggle, chuckle) on her comments. In this lame rebuttal was the amazing admission that the one doing the fact checking was actually an author of a pro-homosexual parenting study. Mind-boggling. Gotta love all the objectivity there!
So, I can just relax now, knowing how unbiased and fully neutral this fact check was. This is about as helpful as someone employed by the tobacco industry writing a fact check on someone who dares to critique the tobacco industry!
Also last week, one of America’s leading lights on marriage and family spoke to a packed house in Melbourne – and elsewhere – on the importance of marriage and why homosexual marriage is no such thing. He too received plenty of flak for daring to offer facts and evidence.
But as he well knows, we just keep on calmly speaking the truth, and ignore all the haters and trolls. So thank you so much for coming down under Ryan. Your input was invaluable. As but one example of how well he performed under fire, see this short interview with another ABC belligerent: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/leading-anti-same-sex-marriage-campaigner-ryan-t/6710298
While she offered all the usual lame criticisms, Ryan did a terrific job answering her. For those wanting more of his expert thinking on this, I highly recommend you get his new book which I recently reviewed here: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2015/08/21/a-review-of-truth-overruled-the-future-of-marriage-and-religious-freedom-by-ryan-anderson/
As always, for daring to speak some truth on my own website about such matters, I received even more sweetness and light from the love and tolerance brigade. The very first comment under my website review was this (obviously unpublished) winner: “Take your gay-bashing Bible, stick it down your bigot throat sideways and choke on it and then wash it down with Jesus Freak Kool-Aid.”
Sweet. But it was only to be followed up by more sweetness and light: “F**k you and the bigoted donkey you rode in on.” And these love bombs were from a female – Sarah! As usual, we can pray for folks like Sarah. So much hatred, bitterness and ugliness is at root a reflection of the demonic hold so many of these folks are under.
When I posted my review on amazon, the very first “comment” to arrive was this: “Mr. Muehlenberg is a professional anti-gay bigot. When he uses the word ‘homosexual,’ the sneer is present in his usage. This is a person who has no concept of gay human beings beyond using them as scapegoats for his bigotry.”
Hmm, a “professional anti-gay bigot”! Wow, I didn’t even know such a job description existed. So I guess I must be a fully paid-up, card-carrying member of a professional society dedicated to such bigotry! As I say, if you can’t deal with the evidence, just throw out more sneers, jeers and abuse.
And when I dared to come on to a site of a pro-homosexual “Christian” asking for thoughts on persecution of Christians by homosexuals, I was howled down mercilessly by his groupies, most of whom also claim to be “Christians”.
When I simply suggested that my books fully document all this, they started foaming at the mouth. One guy made it clear he had no intention of reading my stuff, but demanded I supply one Australian example of this. I called his bluff and offered one. He then changed tack and said it may have been persecution of Christians, but they deserved it!
Another gal said this:
Your book is full of lies. The same old strawman arguements are presented in the summary such as SSM will cause families/ parenthood/ family definition will suffer. It will lead to polygamy etc.Christians will be persecuted. This is not based on any facts but fear. I would recommend that anyone considering reading it to give it a miss and read something more factual eg. Anthony Venn Browns’s A life of Unlearning.
Um, OK. Of course this gal has obviously never even read my books. I have hundreds of quotes from homosexuals themselves and others saying these very things. So are they all lying too? And then she wants us to enthuse over a book written by a guy who dumped his wife and kids to take up the homosexual lifestyle. I don’t think so.
But telling lies for the cause is a never ending affair with these folks. One horrifically bad article appeared recently claiming that “Christian Australia is ready for marriage equality”. Yeah right. The only good thing about this article was that a reply was allowed by a real Christian, who quickly set the record straight. Murray Campbell opens his rebuttal as follows:
Rev Dr Peter Catt and Dr Stuart Edser have offered a strange and misleading picture of the Christian faith. Despite claiming an allegiance to Christianity, their thesis has more in common with a late night ‘reality’ television show than with the teaching and work of Jesus Christ.
First of all, Catt and Edser would have us believe that the majority of Australian Christians now support homosexuality and same-sex marriage. However, it doesn’t take much to realise that they have been selective in their presentation of the evidence.
They were able to cite two polls, by Crosby-Textor and Galaxy. The former was commissioned by Australian Marriage Equality (AME), and both failed to make the crucial differentiation between nominal Christians and practising Christians, which is a normal sociological and theological distinction. It is odd that two ‘Christian’ ministers should so glibly assume as Christian any person who identifies with the name in a survey. Even Jesus saw through such superficial clap-trap, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven” (Matt 7:21).
He concludes:
It is clear that Catt and Edser are trying to present to the Australian public a new and progressive face to Christianity, but the same could be said of the novel-looking horse that the Greeks left outside the gates of Troy. The only gift that Christians have to offer is the very same gift that we have received by the kindness of God, and it is a gift, though ancient, which remains powerful and beautiful today.
The Apostle Paul wrote of this gift to a group of citizens in a city whose relativistic contour towards ethics was similar to ours, and to them he said, “you see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:6-8).
The Bible speaks of a God who acted beyond helping his friends; he gave his life for people who are disinterested in him and who don’t approve of him. However, God didn’t wait to win a popularity vote before acting to redeem and reconcile, but he took the initiative and in doing so God refused the path of blind relativism and sucking up revisionism. He loves too much to agree with every desire and ambition we ignite.
As I say, ignoring the evidence, squashing the truth, and vilifying all those who dare to think differently is just how the militants operate. This is the standard response from those seeking to redefine marriage and family and crush all opposition.
Thus we must keep on speaking the truth, making our arguments, and providing the facts. Just be prepared for a whole lotta hate if you do.
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2015/08/24/guest-post-brendan-oneill-heres-my-beef-with-gay-marriage/
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/comment/christian-australia-is-ready-for-marriage-equality-20150816-gj0dcf.html
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/christianity-has-no-room-for-homosexuality-20150820-gj3feh.html
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