Tim Wildmon
AFA president
April 2014 – I went into a pet store a few days ago. As I was passing the bird cages, a parrot kept repeating, “I’m gay! I’m gay! I’m gay!” And every time the parrot would say this the other birds would start flapping their wings in celebration. Apparently one bird forgot to flap. Quickly several others surrounded it, flapping their wings in a condemning frenzy. The non-flapper slowly started flapping but, evidently, the other birds were not impressed with his lack of vigor so they moved in closer and started pecking him from all sides until, finally, he too started flapping just as feverishly as all the other birds.
There’s a pecking order in America today that starts with the media every time someone publicly declares that they are gay. The media cheers and the world follows. “Hooray!” they chant. “Hooray, all you men who have sex with other men! Hooray, all you women who have sex with other women! Hooray all you men who wear pantyhose and dress like a woman! To anybody but heterosexual people we say, hooray! What heroes you are!”
What is going on here? Homosexuality is everywhere. You can’t escape it. I visited a popular golf website recently and on the front page was a big story asking, “When will the first gay PGA golfer come out of the closet?”
Those who are promoting this lifestyle and political agenda demand that all of us applaud the homosexual or else be labeled a homophobe, hater or bigot – basically a modern day Nazi.
In the name of “fairness,” American popular culture is in full-blown rebellion against God when it comes to human sexuality. The nation is becoming Sodom and Gomorrah as we watch.
In California, the state legislature passed a law last year that said, in essence, that males and females are the same and so therefore bathrooms in schools are interchangeable depending on if the individual feels he is a male or female on a particular day. This also applies to sports teams. A dude can play on a girls’ team if he feels like he is a girl trapped inside a boy’s body. A recent Los Angeles news story featured a photo of a muscular teenage boy wearing lipstick and makeup saying he wanted to play on the girls’ softball team. He played baseball last year. The school had no choice under the law so they put him on the team. If he wants to switch back to baseball next year because he feels masculine again, he can.
This is sexual anarchy. If society can’t make moral judgments any longer, who knows where this madness will lead. And it could lead right into the church.
I’ve written before about the photographer in New Mexico, the florist in Colorado and the bakers in Oregon who were cited and fined by their respective state governments when they declined to be a part of homosexual “weddings” because of their Christian convictions. Well, Kansas was considering a state law that would allow for Christian business owners to opt out of participating in the ceremonies without fear of retribution from the government. Per usual, the secular media and left-wing organizations lambasted the Kansas legislature for considering this. But what was shocking to me was to hear that well-known Atlanta pastor Andy Stanley agreed with those who say Christian business owners should be forced under penalty of law to offer their services for homosexual “weddings.” I am not making this up.
Pastor Stanley said it was “offensive that Christians would leverage faith to support the Kansas law.” And that, “Serving people we don’t see eye to eye with is the essence of Christianity. Jesus died for a world with which He didn’t see eye to eye. If a bakery doesn’t want to sell its products to gay people, it’s their business. Literally. But leave Jesus out of it.”
Huh? Is Stanley not leveraging his faith to oppose those who support the Kansas law? Then why can’t the baker do the same?
When Stanley says “leave Jesus out of it,” does he really want to censure those who don’t “see eye to eye” with his assessment of the mission of Jesus Christ?
If serving others is really the essence of Christianity, I wonder if he would serve gay couples by officiating their wedding.
We who believe in biblical morality and the First Amendment are under siege. And we see that the incoming arrows are not only from without, but also from within the church. 
