Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote that, “The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” What kind of world are we leaving to our children? When our kids or grandkids ask us one day, “What were you doing when they changed America?” how we will respond?
When an influential political leader states that, when it comes to abortion, our “Deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed”; when a New York Times columnist tells us we need to remove homosexual practice from our “sin list”; when the Solicitor General tells the Supreme Court that, potentially, religious schools could lose their tax exemption if they refuse to redefine marriage – when statements like this are being made on a regular basis, don’t tell me I’m overreacting when I sound the alarm.
Recently, after I posted yet another “wake up” call online, a woman accused me of “fear mongering” and called me “Chicken Little” on my Twitter feed.
Ironically, she claimed to be a truth-based realist in her bio, yet it seems that her personal, anti-Christian biases had robbed her of her ability to think clearly, since it is anything but fear mongering to tell American believers that we had better come to grips with the most aggressive assault on our faith in our nation’s history.
I’ve often pointed out that, 10 years ago, when I began to say that, whereas gay activists came out of the closet in the late 1960’s, they now want to put us in the closet, I was greeted with mockery and derision. “No one wants to put you in the closet!”
A few years ago, I noticed a change in sentiment, with people now saying, “Bigots like you belong in the closet!”