by Jim Fennell

This is Part IV in the “pride month” series…

The Civil Rights Act was passed by Congress with the approval of President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964.  In 1969 in New York City, the ‘gay movement came out’ demanding that they be given their ‘civil rights’ just as this new law had given other ‘minority’ groups.  After all, they were a minority too.  And they had been suppressed and persecuted. They could not practice in culture what they practiced behind closed doors. But they were not a ‘minority’ based upon race or ethnic origin, rather they were a minority based on their sexual preferences. 

Then in 1978 artist and drag queen Gilbert Baker created the rainbow flag that became the visible sign of their movement.  Originally billed as a harmless symbol of love, tolerance and diversity, it is not. It heralds the rise of an atheistic paganism in which its adherents openly reject God and makeup reality to satiate their desires. At its most extreme, it leads to persecution of non-celebrants–in particular Bible-believing Christians. In reality, their behavior proves they were, and still are, moral- less atheistic pagans. Their god requires nothing but self-gratification and hatred for everything Christian—the Bible, Bible-believing Christian churches, and Bible-believing Christians. 

And so began the growth of this ‘movement’ that like cancer, continues to grow and destroy the moral foundations of America today on June 1, 2024. The Psalmist suitably asked the question some 1,000 years ago that applies more than ever to America now: “If the foundations [of a godly society] are destroyed, What can the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:3 AMP)

W ith so many Christian denominations and even ‘Evangelicals’ now having rejected the fundamental doctrines of Christianity and pushing a social gospel, the question “What can the righteous do?” is even more in need of not only an answer but action.

Signs of a new spiritual Dark Age are everywhere in the media, internet, TV, and entertainment. When you see a rainbow flag draped over a cross in front of a woke Methodist church, it’s the equivalent of the Muslim practice of erecting mosques on the ruins of churches. The message is clear: This is captured ground. When you see a rainbow flag flying on the flagpole of a government building or a public school where is the “separation of church and state” that the political liberals continually demand?

But now the ‘spot of moral cancer’ that came out in 1969 has grown into a massive ‘tumor of moral cancer’ that will not stop growing because, in reality, it’s a spiritual battle waged by the god of this world, Satan. It has gained political power and financial power that has grown so large that it can (and does) influence the media, corporations, governments, sports, entertainment, and educational institutions. Its lobby is a powerful force in Congress, and it continues to spread its woke message everywhere it can spread it. And it will continue to demand you conform to its acceptance or else. Just like cancer, the movement won’t stop its spread until you are either siding with them or dead.

As one writer has so appropriately said “… we should realize by now that sexual deviance has become a club with which to clobber Christians and Jews and destroy First Amendment freedoms.”  

So, now what?  It’s time that Christians wake up and pick up the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God. It’s time to share the gospel message with a lost and dying world more than ever before. Every person on earth is only one breath away from eternity and eternal judgment including these people who have been blinded by the god of this world.

• Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the might of His strength. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. (Ephesians 6:10-13)