Matt Barber appeared on the “Today’s Issues” broadcast this morning to discuss his most recent column about a bakery in Oregon which has had a complaint filed against it for refusing to provide a wedding cake to a same-sex couple.
In light of this and similar instances around the country, Barber declared that it has become obvious that gay marriage and religious liberty cannot coexist and so “in much the same fashion as did the civil rights activists of old – Martin Luther King and others – Christians are going to have a decision to make; it may be a time for civil disobedience.”
“Christians have been persecuted for 2000 years by radical leftists,” he said, adding that just as King spent time in jail, anti-gay Christians today might have to suffer the same fate, knowing that they will be rewarded by God for upholding his law and refusing to “pretend that somehow a man can marry a man, a woman can marry a woman.”
“You guys can put on two tuxedos or two wedding dresses and play house and get pretend married ’til your heart’s content,” Barber said, “but marriage is what God says it is. We can no more change the laws of gravity than can we change the laws of marriage”:
