Last week’s Tea Party Unity call ended with host Rick Scarborough announcing his hope that God will confuse the minds of the Supreme Court justices so that they will “punt” on the Proposition 8 and Defense of Marriage Act cases they will soon be deciding in order to give America one last chance to get “our politics right” before God’s judgment rains down on us.
Saying that homosexuality and abortion are “the twin towers of evil,” Scarborough declared that homosexuality is actually far more dangerous before warning that it will only be a matter of time before pastors are rounded up and imprisoned:
The twin towers of evil in America, I believe are abortion on demand and the homosexual movement … I believe that of the two great sins of our country, the one that’s the most grievous is this whole more toward the legalization of homosexuality.
In 2002, as you recall, in Lawrence v Texas the Supreme Court struck down the prohibitions in the state of Texas and applied it across the land that no longer could the citizenry declare that sodomy was a sin. You can take a position however you like on that but that law was based on a moral fabric in the country, a belief in biblical rights and wrongs. The reason I said at the time that that was a more dangerous precedent than even Roe v Wade is because of the following: I believe, as a Christian and as a pastor, that as horrible as abortion is – and there’s just no way to describe the horror of abortion – the only ray of sunshine is that at least the baby that was aborted, which is a living human being, suddenly finds itself in heaven.
But with sodomy, it’s a different sin altogether because what you do is you allow children now to be adopted into these families. Those children are raised in the normalization of homosexuality; if they live like that and die like that and you have a biblical understanding you find yourself with children that are basically rejecting biblical truth and that has eternal implications.
Now I am fully aware that the Left monitors our calls and I have no doubt that I likely will be the subject of derision for saying something like this, but I’m praying at best God will confuse the minds of our Supreme Court that they’ll simply, as Bob alluded, punt on the issue of standing and give you and I a little more time to start getting our politics right.
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The very first thing Obama did when he got elected president was pass hate crimes legislation inclusive of sexual orientation. The laws are now on the books to prosecute preachers who have the audacity to say in public what I just said from their pulpits.
You will find them armed with this Supreme Court ruling, if its adverse, then rounding up anyone who says otherwise and prosecuting, perhaps with fines at first but finally with jail and imprisonment. And the laws are now, at least the foundation of laws through hate crimes legislation is in place to bring fill-scale persecution on those of us who stand for truth.
