Lord, open the eyes of the American Church to the deceptions of evil hearts that are set upon destroying Your principles laid out so clearly in Your Word for us to follow. Have mercy on us all, Lord Jesus.

For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. (Rom 6:14)

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This past week, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), two of the nation’s foremost evangelical organizations, publicly announced they now support adding “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as officially protected minority classifications to the ranks of federal nondiscrimination law.

Explaining their support for the “compromise” that is dubbed “Fairness for All,” (a legislative initiative driven by the argument that religious freedom can only be achieved while also conceding “no one should face unjust discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, or gender identity”), one spokesperson who serves on the board of both the CCCU and NAE explained: “We are increasingly persuaded that the most viable political strategy is for comprehensive religious freedom protections to be combined with explicit support for basic human rights for members of the LGBT community.”

This is a fool’s errand.

First, it is legally and politically untenable to pretend you can grant minority status to any group of people and then maintain for yourself an “exemption” to deny these people the minority protections you just granted them.

If “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” (a moving target and transient definition if there ever was one) are granted minority class status under federal law, what in the world makes the religious institution think that its “religious freedoms” should or will ever trump the civil rights of the protected group it just recognized?

Even Chai Feldblum of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission agrees with this fact when she boasts of the “zero-sum game,” where the rights of LGBT Americans will be secured only by curtailing the rights of religious Americans. LGBT community rights “cannot be adequately advanced,” says Ms. Feldblum, “if pockets of resistance are permitted to flourish.”…

The fact that the leaders of the CCCU and NAE think “the most viable political strategy for comprehensive religious freedom protections” is capitulation and appeasement with those who are the self-described enemies of religious freedom is nothing short of astonishing. One can only think of the image of an ostrich with his head stuck in the shifting sands of his own denial; yes, secure in his own mind, but yet oblivious to the real world around him and the predators that seek to have him for lunch….

Finally, the statements by CCCU and NAE are logically foolish and teleologically unmoored. And moreover, these leaders just capitulated to the terribly-flawed ontological claims of those who say our identity is nothing more than the sum total of our sexual appetites and inclinations….

How can the church — the Evangelical church, the Holiness church — not see the salvific tragedy in celebrating and codifying any group of people based on their desires? I thought the message of salvation and sanctification meant our identity was in our Lord and not our libido? Whatever happened to “dying to self,” being “born again,” becoming a “new creation in Christ,” and “holiness unto the Lord?”

This message from CCCU and NAE is disastrous…. (Excerpts from Everett Piper article in The Washington Times)

The Informer PDF Version December 20, 2018