In the absence of evidence to the contrary, especially in
light of the fact that no controversy has erupted, I will be assuming, in this
article, that our mayor has proclaimed in favor of gay pride week.
The word evangelical must be put into quotes when referring
to our mayor and the church that she attends. Our mayor, the photogenic Tara
Veer, by proclaiming gay pride week on August 14th, 2015, tacitly proclaimed
against her profession of faith. Maybe she believes, like so many politicians,
lawyers, and judges do, that her faith is private and should be kept out of the
political sphere. But even over at the limp, lifeless, spiritless church that she
attends, you may hear the pastor say that spiritual life should permeate the
whole of a Christian’s walk. They all say that. Did the pastor remind her of
this principle? Does God judge anyone as a dual entity? Will God divide persons
on judgment day in order to judge their private lives in distinction from their
public lives? You might escape controversy in this world by dividing your life
up into parts. But if you do that, in the next world you will be judged for
having been a coward in the face of controversy. That is exactly what the Bible
teaches, and straight from Jesus Christ: “Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed
of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also
shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with
the holy angels” (Mark 8.38.) Did the mayor receive this reminder from her
pastor after she proclaimed to the city that perversity is okay? Is he a real
‘living stone’ if he did not? If he did not, is he not just as cowardly as she
is?
John the Baptist reproved Herod for his sexual indiscretions
(Luke 3.19) and was beheaded for his boldness. Our mayor, instead of reproving
wickedness, proclaims it to go ahead, even though no one would have suffered
one hair from her golden head to be plucked out if she had refused. The girl
has not the heart that we were hoping she had. It’s just a guess, but maybe the
mayor can’t be too quick to judge because by doing so her own indiscretions
might be hauled into view.
God will not cut you any slack on the basis that you proclaimed
in favor of evil just professionally. R. L. Dabney addresses this very issue in
his brilliant essay, Morality of the
Legal Profession. “Let every man rest assured,” he warns, “that God’s
claims over his moral creatures are absolutely inevitable. He will not be
cheated of satisfaction to his outraged law by the plea that the wrong was done
professionally” (Discussions, Volume 3, p.
232.)
It is a serious matter for a mayor to proclaim in favor of
wickedness, especially one who claims to be a Christian, and who attends a
church that the city regards as evangelical. God will hold her accountable, and
not just for sinning against her own conscience. People, kids most notably,
look up to a pretty young mayor, and if she proclaims in favor of gay activities,
they will be swayed by her proclamation. The mayor will have to answer to God
for this too. Had she refused to do the proclamation, that would have been a
check on what a celebrity like Kristin Chenoweth says, who I’m sure that the
kids know much about. Kristin claims to be a Christian, and according to her
‘personal faith,’ it’s important for Christians to support ‘marriage equality,’
by which she means, gay marriage. So the mayor will have to answer to God for
not being a tower of strength between hypocritical celebrities and
impressionable kids. But there is more. (The bit about Chenoweth comes from the
Friday Forward, August 28th, 2015.)
From the same essay by Dabney: “There is no lesson of
experience clearer than this, that the habit of advocating what is not
thoroughly believed to be right, perverts the judgment and obfuscates the
conscience, until they become unreliable…Now, it is a fearful thing to tamper
thus with the faculties which are to regulate our moral existence, and decide
our immortal state. It may not be done with impunity. Truth has her sanctities;
and if she sees them dishonored, she will hide her vital beams from the eyes
which delighted to see error dressed in her holy attributes, until the
reprobate mind is given over to delusions, to believe lies” (pp. 235, 236.) The
proof of this proposition is found, fittingly, in Romans 1, right where
homosexual relations are condemned more strongly than anywhere else in all of
Scripture. God turned the perverts of old over to a reprobate mind because they
did not want to retain the knowledge of God (Romans 1.28.) Be careful mayor, be
careful Mr. Pastor (who should have reproved her and cut her off from the church
for her own good), your refusal to retain the knowledge of God leads to you
being turned over to a reprobate mind: a mind cast away by God as being
worthless. That’s what it means. Instead of God enlightening you, he will cast
your mind into darkness so that you will believe in things that will damn your
soul.
If the mayor had stood firm against doing the proclamation,
most of the churches, as non-theological and fearful as they are, would have
stood by her, I think. Perversity, then, might have been blocked just a bit. At
the least, it would have been censured. I did not hear of any pastor or church
group protesting gay pride week and the vile events connected with it. The
churchgoers of this city do not realize that their unconcern, fear, and
cowardice in the face of evil are nouns that witness to what state they are in
spiritually, which is a state lacking sanctity and maybe salvation. They love
to speak of revivals and to predict them. Revivals, for their information, are generated
through Christians who are so alive to God’s truth that they confront error and
evil no matter if the city gets turned upside down on account of their
righteous stand against what God condemns. Our mayor is a hypocrite; our
churches are dead; our pastors are half-blind men leading great swaths of
ignorant citizens into ditches—ditches that wind swiftly downward toward hell.
Since I wrote this article, I have read that maybe it was the
deputy-mayor that did the actual proclamation. This does not alter anything I
have said because when a deputy-mayor does an official proclamation, it is done
in the name of the mayor’s office and at the behest of the mayor herself.
Indeed, if the mayor appointed her deputy to do the dirty work, that is even
worse than if she had done it herself, for by delegating her deputy to do the
proclamation, she caused another person to sin on her behalf, which is to pile
sin upon sin. And it is just another species of cowardice that she will have to
answer to God for.
This has been a Puritanical opinion on a
so-called Christian mayor who proclaimed in favor of gay pride week in a
so-called Bible-belt.
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