Category Archives: legal and law
Responding to “gay conversion therapy” lawsuits
In recent days, homosexual activists and their allies have launched legal attacks against American mental health professionals who offer what has been called “gay conversion therapy”. See here, here and here.
Let the record reflect that Witness Ministries DOES NOT and HAS NEVER practiced or advocated “gay conversion therapy”. We are not therapists, but preachers of the gospel. As per our statement of beliefs:
We encourage persons struggling against sexual and gender identity issues to seek professional counseling for the solutions they desire. Such counseling should not be a replacement for repentance but as a supplement to one’s Christian journey to maturity in Christ. We caution that those providing the counseling, in order to be effective, must base their counseling on Biblical principles. We therefore reject all practices such as yoga, transcendental meditation, spirit-guides and other new-age based techniques that focus on humanistic solutions to the spiritual problem of sin.”
If the allegations about the methods used by these organizations to convert homosexuals is true, we strongly disagree. Attempting to become “straight” is a false path out of homosexuality. Why is” becoming straight” a false road? Because heterosexual acts (fornication, adultery, heterosexual porn) are not holy and heterosexuality alone is not inherently holy. There will be plenty of heterosexuals who have never even considered a homosexual act in hell. God’s universal command to all who follow His way is to be holy as he is holy (Lev 11:44; 1 Peter 1:16). Thus, the goal of change from homosexuality is nothing less than holiness. Follow peace with all men and holiness, without which no man will see the Lord Heb 12:14.
We do practice and preach with full confidence the power of God which converts homosexuals and any other person enslaved in sin. We will continue to do so not by the allowance of man, but by the will of God. For we are not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone —including the homosexual— that believes (Romans 1:16).
Nearly 100% of scripture that cite homosexual activity, condemn it in the strongest terms. The lone exception is when it celebrates in glowing spiritual language, those who have been delivered from homosexuality by faith in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
“I fully believe these actions by CA Rep. Jackie Speier and other homosexual activists will inevitably cause even more people wanting freedom from sexual sins to seek out ministries like Witness Ministries.”, said Pastor DL Foster. “Closing doors of hope to those seeking freedom will only push them to seek it elsewhere. In that regard, we stand ready with open arms to welcome and minister the same freedom God has given to all who come to Him by faith.”
Attempts to use the law to prevent individuals who voluntarily seek change through whatever methods they choose are unconstitutional and intolerable acts of bigotry. Every citizen should enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness according to their own self determination.
Great Britain PM crusades 4 gay marriage
The threat of government induced homosexual rebreeding isnt just a stage critical threat in America, but its parent nation, Great Britain is also under category 5 attack with the county’s Prime Minister David Cameron officially crusading for the establishment of gay rights.
As reported in our March 9th article, ”Economic embargoes and sanctions next to advance ‘gay rights’?” Prime Minister Cameron at the end of 2011, has become known as a crusader for gay rights around the world. He threatened to cut off aid to any nation that violates gay rights. Britain has already slashed $30 million in aid to Malawi after the African nation sentenced two homosexuals to 14 years hard labor (source). Great Britain has threatened to cut off financial aid to the following African nations of Ghana, Tanzania , and Uganda for their anti-homosexual rights. Despite Britain’s threats, the Nigerian senate passed an anti-gay bill. The bill states that anyone practicing homosexuality would be convicted and be made to serve a 14 year prison term. In addition, anyone that aids or “abets” same-sex unions would have to serve 10 years in prison (source). Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe, called David Cameron satanic because he stated that he would cut monetary aid to any countries that didn’t promote gay rights (source).
Now you can add same-sex marriage to his list of crusades of the homosexual community. Presently, Cameron is attempting to get same-sex marriage legalized in Great Britain.
Pushing marriage perversion
In 2004 homosexual couples in Great Britain won the right of civil partnership. It granted them nearly the same legal status as heterosexual married couples with avoiding using the word marriage for same-sex couples.
However, Prime Minister Cameron and his Conservative Party are pushing to fully legalize same-sex marriage in Great Britain. There are at least 12 openly gay members of Parliament from the Conservative Party, which is more then all the British political parties combined. The majority of these lawmakers came into office with Cameron in 2010. Cameron states that same-sex marriage is a basic human right for homosexual couples (source).
The beast campaigns for Same-Sex Marriage in religious overtones
Former Great Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labor Party in 2004 were the group civil partnerships that gave same-sex couples equal access to national pensions, inheritance, tax breaks, and rights that heterosexual married couples have.
Now the Former Prime Minister, through his ecumenical religious organization the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, is leading a crusade to reform all of the world religions to accept homosexual marriage.
Blair stated that the mission of his faith’s foundations to” move religions away from this anti-gay literalism and towards pro-gay evolution.” He is also optimistic that all religions, including Islam, can go through a “process of Reformation” and that eventually, all religions will accept openly gay people and their partners (source).
UK Christians Respond to the threat
Cameron has met resistance among Christians in Great Britain. In response to the backlash, there seems to be some backpedaling going on already. At an Easter reception on April 3, the Coalition for Marriage reports that Cameron met with a group of Christian leaders to assure them that he only wants to introduce homosexual marriage in registrar offices, not in churches. More than 407,000 people have signed the Coalition for Marriage’s “Don’t Play Politics With Marriage” petition which opposes the government to legalize same-sex marriage.
The response from Christian leaders: Such assurances are meaningless.
The nation’s equality laws would inevitably create the impetus for allowing gay marriage ceremonies in churches.
U.K. Christians have some supporters in parliament. Conservative M.P. Nadine Dorries is among them. Dorries points to a recent poll that reveals 57 percent of Christians are ready to abandon the Conservative Party over the move to legalize gay marriage. This means that 70 percent of the nation opposes gay marriage.
“The fact is that many people now look at the Conservative party and are reeling with the realization that this modern party is the one they don’t know, didn’t vote for and no longer represents their views,” says Dorries. “They don’t recognize the values, are confused by the policies and repelled by the elitism (source).”
So let the battle for same-sex marriage begin in Great Britain! Who will be the winner and who will be the loser? We shall see. Please pray for the Christians in the United Kingdom to stand firm on the truth of the Word of G-d.
Courtroom drama: Wayne Besen confesses to “promotional self aggrandizement”
Its not a surprise to anyone who has at one time come across self ordained chief “exgay” headhunter, Mr. Wayne Besen. He has a storied career of exposing the failures of some formerly gay individuals. He takes great pain to keep all of us aware of just how important a public figure he is here by detailing his conquests. Although a federal judge kicked out Mr. Besen’s lawsuit against exhomosexual Greg Quinlan and PFOX, an interesting self described portrait emerged. One we will call “a Haman moment“. A PFOX press release explains:
Washington, D.C. – A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed by homosexual activist Wayne Besen against Greg Quinlan and Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX). Besen claimed that Quinlan, a former homosexual, had defamed him when Quinlan said that Besen had been fired from the Human Rights Campaign and had uttered hateful rhetoric against Quinlan because he disagreed with Quinlan’s ex-gay sexual orientation. (Besen once told Quinlan in a private conversation that someone should run him over with a bus or inject him with AIDS.)
Ironically, in his court filings, Besen admitted that while he may be known among some gay rights activists circles, “most individuals on the street in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area if asked if they had ever heard of [Besen] would respond with a resounding “No.” Besen likened his public persona to “notoriety in small circles,” admitted to his “own promotional self-aggrandizement,” indicated that the books he has written were of “likely limited circulation,” and that he “might like to view [himself] as more well known than is actually the case.”Besen filed his lawsuit against Quinlan even though state law grants Quinlan and other individuals immunity from civil lawsuit damages when they act without pay as an officer or director of a tax-exempt organization like PFOX. No one at PFOX is paid a salary.
Attorney Matt Barber, a PFOX board member, said “Filing frivolous lawsuits and abusing our judicial system seems to be a new tactic of radical homosexual activist pressure groups like Besen’s. They are desperate to silence the message of hope that there is freedom from unwanted same-sex attractions. It won’t work and, in the end, they only humiliate themselves and hurt what is already a lost cause. The science continues to mount against the false notion that people are ‘born gay.’”
Besen has a history of bullying members of the ex-gay community. Wayne Besen and his Truth Wins Out practice hatemongering, bigotry and intolerance against anyone who supports a person’s right of self-determination and affirms an individual’s right to change from gay to straight.
Truth won out, but not for Mr. Besen. One visit to Besen’s hotbed of anti-exgay activism website and you would see that clearly this is a man with two faces, two personas and two agendas. An open and shut case of ONE man pretending to be TWO. Its highly conceivable, given this court room confession that Besen filed the lawsuit simply because be craved notoriety. In the dog eat dog world of gay activism, it takes a lot to stand out in the crowded field of excessively narcissistic paranoia neurosis (sorry had to get it all in) activists. Our less than concerned suggestion: Besen should join forces with the west coast self aggrandized bully Dan Savage, scrap the “it gets better” charade and be who they really are. Self inflated and self serving social bullies.
Besen has degraced the comment section of GCMW before. You can see more examples of his self aggrandizement here. That ends the really, really big news in small circles.
Nebraska Coach Ron Brown: a man of honor
In the toxic and hostile environment gays have created for free speech and religious conviction, Gay Christian Movement Watch praises Nebraska Assistant Coach Ron Brown for his steadfast promotion of the truth. It recalls how NY Giants Superbowl hero David Tyree stood against impossible odds, threats, vile name calling and more to adamantly declare truth during the New York marriage wars. And then there’s Australian tennis star and pastor Margaret Court, who bravely stood on her convictions despite massive bullying tactics by homosexual groups.
Like Tyree and Court, Brown has come under predictable fire and “outrage” from prohomosexual groups because he refused to retract or revise his beliefs about homosexuality.
The controversy began when Brown, the veteran coach for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, testified at an Omaha City Council hearing on a homosexual rights ordinance.
In Brown’s three-minute appearance, he challenged ordinance sponsor Ben Gray and other members to remember that the Bible does not condone homosexuality. He told council members they would be held to “great accountability for the decision you are making.”
“The question I have for you all is, like Pontius Pilate, what are you going to do with Jesus?” Brown asked. “Ultimately, if you don’t have a relationship with him, and you don’t really have a Bible-believing mentality, really, anything goes… At the end of the day it matters what God thinks most.”
Its no surprise to anyone who sees the stark irony of homosexual “rights” in America. They always come at the expense of the rights of other citizens and often with punitive consequences following.
But Brown would not be bullied into silence or retreat. Like the true veteran winner he is, he publicly made it clear that whatever consequences he had to endure because of his stand, it would be an “honor”.
It was not the first time Brown has spoken out against homosexuality, and not the first time people have called for his dismissal for doing so.
“To be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn’t win enough games,” Brown said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I haven’t lost any sleep over it. I realize at some point, we live in a politically correct enough culture where that very well could happen.”
It was just six months ago that Brown earned national acclaim for leading a prayer for healing at midfield before the Cornhuskers’ game at scandal-torn Penn State.
“Hero to goat,” Brown said.
Brown is adamant he won’t change his Bible-inspired message or quit delivering it. As a Christian, he said, he’s called to evangelize.
At a time when Tim Tebow’s faith has been the subject of admiration and ridicule, there are those who like the fearlessness Brown shows going against the grain of what they say is a culture out to marginalize religion and unwilling to define right and wrong.
True, Coach Brown. Your decision to stand fast is an inspiration to all of us who are waging war against the homosexualization of America…and the American church.This is the same type of honor that has inspired the players he has trained for the last 20 years. A man of integrity should always stand up for his convictions. In a time where far too many Christian men in positions of influence have the backbone of a jellyfish, schools like Nebraska should feel favored to have a man like Ron Brown leading its student athletes. Watch Coach Brown’s powerful defense of his faith after the ACLU threatened him.
Regardless of the threats, intimidation, hypocritical bullying and the consequences, we will stand. Just like Stephen, Paul, Peter, James and all the great cloud of witnesses before us, we will earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints.
Video of Ron Brown’s complete comments before the Omaha City Council
Black and Hispanic leaders speak out against marriage perversion
If you are a real African American leader you will ensure the public record reflects your voice and your face against marriage perversion. African Americans know better than any other demographic what real civil rights is. Its simple and the script is already written: affirm what God has confirmed through creation.
Pastor Scott Lively: homosexuality a “global threat” [UPDATED]
We couldnt agree more. Sobering, enlightening and true. Take time to watch this very important video and get educated on what we have been saying for almost five years. Homosexuality is satan’s weapon of choice against the true church.
Of special note: Very few if any prominent voices (including religious leaders of all denominations) are calling homosexuality a sin without retractions, etc. Most have adopted safe language by saying “marriage is between a man and a woman”. That’s a clear indication that the contemporary church and political leadership have lost the vision for truth and cannot be depended on to stand up for righteousness.
**UPDATED**
Homosexual activists no doubt were behind the bogus Youtube “hate speech” accusation which removed Pastor Scott Lively’s phenomenal video teaching “The global threat of homosexuality”, but for those who have not seen it, fear not.
You can view the entire video here. The Lord would not have us ignorant of the devil’s tactics. May your eyes be opened to the schemes and plots of the enemy against God’s people.
