Ed. The following is an excerpt from an article entitled What Will Be Illegal When Homosexuality is Legal, published by Way of Life Literature. The full article contains a catalogue of (mainly U.S.) cases of ordinary people having their livelihoods removed for simply disagreeing with homosexual propaganda. Sadly, BTM can testify that in the UK, many of the headings in the article are already true. For instance, (true) Christians can no longer work in the field of counselling (as well as a whole host of other areas), we cannot turn down even transsexuals for front-line customer service jobs, we cannot refuse for our own children to be placed with homosexuals if they are put up for adoption, and we haven't been able to refuse business to perverts for several years. This list, unfortunately, is by no means exhaustive.
If homosexuality is fully legalized and homosexual activists are given every right they demand, citizens in western nations will be robbed of many liberties they have heretofore enjoyed. This is not a guess; it is a judgment based on current facts. The right to free speech and the right to the free exercise of religion, in particular, will be effectively destroyed.
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In a nutshell, the thing that will be illegal when homosexuality is fully legal is Bible-believing Christianity, but none of this is surprising to the Bible believer. The Lord Jesus Christ likened the last days to that of Sodom and Gomorrah (Luke 17:28-30). And the apostle Paul prophesied:
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away" (2 Timothy 3:1-5).
We are not surprised at the wickedness that is sweeping across the world, but it is our responsibility to take a stand for God's Word until Jesus comes.
If we take freedom of speech and religion for granted and do not use it to proclaim God's Word, we don't deserve it.
And no matter how evil the hour is, we must not despair. We have all of the glorious promises of a God that cannot lie. Any trouble we face in this life is very brief and fleeting. Eternity is what matters.
"I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth" (1 Timothy 2:1-4).
"But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed" (Luke 17:29-30).
© 24 October 2011
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