Category — polls and studies

You probably have never heard the term gay media religion so here’s a brief definition. It  when a gay media pundit  gets religion for a quick minute in order to make a media point about religion when it deals with gays.

Enter Washington Post opinion writer Jonathan Capeheart. Capeheart drudged up his inner religion to shoot at/throw stones at “conservatives” who don’t want to jump with wild abandon on the gays-are-the-best-thing-since-the-invention-of-the-toilet-paper wagon. To people like Capeheart, anything less than total acceptance of homosexuality,  is tantamount to desecrating the Auschwitz memorial.

In his opinion piece, He cites a bunch of polls to prove that homosexuals are the creme de la creme of American society. Perhaps that’s why they released the “study” which advanced the theory that having a gay marriage improves your health.

“Trying to exclude loving gay and lesbian families [is there such a thing as unloving gay families?], especially those with children, is a wasted effort. “The Decline of Marriage and Rise of New Families,” a November 2010 report by the Pew Research Center found that “63% say a gay or lesbian couple raising a child is a family.” That’s certainly less than full acceptance. But it’s still a majority of Americans.

A June 2010 Gallup survey put support for marriage equality at 52 percent. Among men it was 53 percent. And among Catholics, a stunning 62 percent. Those numbers were reconfirmed by a March 2011 Washington Post-ABC News poll that showed support for same-sex marriage at 53 percent of Americans, 53 percent of men and 63 percent of Catholics. That last percentage was a jump of 8 points since the question had been asked in February 2010.”

Capeheart’s media spasm is really aimed at attempting to minimize the truth that homosexuals can change. So he dutifully does his part to shoot it down by setting up “conservatives” as the strawman. Capeheart’s razor-thinly disguised arrogance at other people’s freewill and inalienable Constitutional rights to differ with him and other homosexual activists can be summed up with three main points:

1. All conservatives are gay-obsessed. That’s a favorite smoke bomb of those with religion du jour.  The phrase “gay obsessed” is intentionally undefined because if were, the fallacy of Capeheart’s  argument would quickly turn on him and his dear leader, the SOTUS. In fact, if you judged solely by the actions and policies and religious beliefs of Mr. #44, gay obsession would be a mild term.

2. Gays hate, hate, hate reparative therapy whether its the secular brand or the more comprehensive religious brand. We get that. You want to stay homosexual all your life to prove the point that no one can change from being homosexual. We get that. We get it that you want to ensure that all the trumped up policies and laws you have engineered based on a fallacious assumption that “sexual orientation” is immutable dont get wiped off the books by thinking people.

3.  Religion is like toilet paper. You use it only when you are trying to clean yourself up. That’s why out of 66 books with 1189 chapters and over 31,000 verses, the moderately intellectualized Capeheart has only seen two. And those are via Brent Childers of the gay religious organization Faith in America.

Romans 14:13 — Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another….
Ephesians 4:2 — Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

Capeheart cited the two partial verses from Faith in America. Guess what their motto is: “Religion-based bigotry is the No. 1 impediment to equality and full human dignity…Help us end it!”  How ironic.

I dont get why anti-bible homosexuals want to make the bible gay friendly. Let’s face it, its not and it never will be. They claim King James was a “flaming homosexual” . If that is true, its really proof that God, not man controls the content of the scripture. King James could have easily excised every single mention of homosexuality in the bible, but he didnt. He left it as is.  100% of the scripture in the bible that mention of homosexuality —save one— is irreconcilably condemn homosexual behavior. So unless, they rewrite it in their own image and likeness, it will continue to be as is.

And just for the record, the “save one” is when the Apostle Paul states with flourishing joy that there were ex-homosexuals in the Corinthian church. And such were some of you.

You should be aware that homosexuals use many subtle and not so subtle tactics to overlay their sexual behaviors with credibility. With the  advent of gay marriage and its cottage industry of religious and political support, homosexuals have been largely successful at obscuring the truth about their sexual behavior with some rather domesticated terminology. As a precursor to gay marriage, homosexuals begin adding the identifier “long term” to their relationship statuses.  For instance, media might report: “John Q. Private and his long term partner John E. Public attended a play”.  After some time an additional identifier was added to the mix:  committed. These intentionally undefined identifiers sent messages to the public that homosexual relationships were not the highly promiscuous, anonymous sex romps critics claimed they were. More importantly, it conveyed that homosexual relationships embodied longevity just like heterosexual relationships. And basically the only “proof” we have of the alleged longevity is the words of the gay couples. There is no external independent source to verify any of the claims.

While long term gay relationships may be an admirable trait in the human context of reasoning, does longevity make homosexual relationship good in God’s eyes?

Liberty Christian Ministries takes an indepth look at how apologetic arguments supporting the ideology just doesn’t add up.

“The argument that gay relationships are morally justifiable because some last long enough can itself be challenged by consequentialist anecdote.  The founder of Liberty Ministries, Christopher Keane, wrote his testimony in a book called ‘Choices’, and in it, he talks about the phantom of long-term committed gay relationships.  Chris lived in the gay community for about 30 years, but found that the long-term relationships were a myth: “One of the popular beliefs in the gay culture was that of the faithful, long-term relationship.  It was portrayed as being exactly the same as heterosexual marriage except it was [just] with a person of the same-sex.  But where were these faithful and happy relationships?  I certainly hadn’t experienced any, and I was becoming increasingly disillusioned with the promiscuity that, in my experience, was an integral part of the homosexual community” (‘Choices: One Person’s Journey out of Homosexuality, Acorn Press: Brunswick East, Victoria, p. 30).  He continues: “Although [my gay partner and I] had each spent about 15 years as active homosexuals, we couldn’t think of any couple we knew who was in a faithful relationship.  In fact, we could think of very few – including ourselves – who were even happy.  The couples we knew had sex with others as well as their partners.  Often the partners knew about the infidelity, but sometimes they didn’t.  Some of these couples had group sex or anonymous sex … We knew of no one who was in a faithful relationship … We all seemed to be on a merry-go-round of alcohol, drugs, and promiscuous sex, waiting for Mr Wonderful to come along and rescue us … I came to the conclusion [one] afternoon that between us we had spent 30 years chasing something that just did not exist” (pp. 30-31, emphasis that of the author). There is much to be said about this, particularly the faulty assumption that gay relationships are equally the same as heterosexual ones.”

Its clear from recent polls and studies that homosexuals have  a vastly different view of  how fidelity in marriage is lived out. Many hold disdain for the “heterosexist ” model but yet demand their convoluted version of it be called by the same name. Thus, without foundational moral restrictions in relationships (such as the 7th commandment found in Ex 20:14), homosexuals are free to redefine literally everything about marriage and relationships again while co-opting the common terminology. Review the Family Research Council’s report Comparing the lifestyles of homosexual couples to married couples.

LCM used a parable of  Jesus which teaches about the issue of sin and its consequences, in Luke 16:19-31 to highlight that believers should view sin and its fruit as from God’s perspective.  Three important points:

1) The rich man, who ends up in hell, seemed to be- in this life- a good man.  Everything went well for him: he was rich, wore robes of purple (which means loaded with wealth in the ancient world).  Looking at his life from a consequentialist perspective, he looked like he had it all together.  He was influential and denied himself nothing.  The poor man, on the other hand, was probably looked at as accursed because his life was lived in sickening poverty: as a modern American would say, he deserved what he got because he didn’t ‘make the most’ of his ‘opportunities’;

2) Despite what lives they seemed to have in their earthly lives, the rich ends up in hell and the poor ends up in heaven.  Why?  Because the poor man listened to his maker and had a relationship with God.  The rich man was self-sufficient, self-focused, secure in self, and had no room in his heart for God or anyone else.  That sounds identical to the world we live in today, where people spend more money on their plasma screen TVs than they do on loving the poor and giving their lives to Jesus.  But notice where the two men end up.

3) The rich man, as altruistic as he seems of having his brothers saved from hell, demands a miracle to convince them of the need for salvation.  ”Send Lazarus (a man in heaven) so that my brothers won’t be in torment”, he barks to heaven from the confines of hell.  This rich man wants to warn the brothers with an argument of consequences: trust God and you’ll be in heaven.  But Abraham’s answer to him is telling:

‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them … If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead”

The brothers already have enough information.  They know that it is wrong and why it is wrong and where it will lead them.  The verbs in these verses say it all:  let them listen to them.  The problem is not the scarcity of information, it is the lack of listening.  It’s disobedience.  It is their desire to carve a life out of their own regardless of who they hurt and how much they anger God with no sign of deep-seeded sorrow at their sin, not information.

What does this say about long-term gay relationships?

It has everything to do with it!  Essentially, it does not matter if someone has managed to stay in a long-term gay relationship or if the feel as if they are born that way.  Those things are really beside the point.  Sin is sin not because of the consequences so much- although they do play a part- but because God has not made people to live that way, and by living contrary to how God has made us (and decreed in His goodness) we are actually attracting His righteous anger.  For every person happily living in a ‘long-term gay relationship’, I can find an equal number who are not: and all we’re left to is a flimsy argument about morality based on a numbers game (which would be interesting to do if you are talking about 1930′s Germany or South African apartheid).  Sin is wrong because it is wrong.

By Shofarsound

Alert! Alert! Alert! Sodomy Revival Among USA Teens.

Churches tell your teenagers to flee Babylon and its plagues! Christian teens make your “Exodus” out of Babylon now! Don’t look back to Sodom/Babylon like Lot’s wife!

There is a revival of sodomy going in our country, especially among our teens. Young people are being deceived by Satan to participate in other methods of premarital sex outside of vaginal intercourse.  As if premarital sex in itself wasn’t bad enough.  Which other methods am I speaking of?  Oral and anal sex.   Some girls believe that by participating in these other forms of sex they are maintaining their virginity.   Deceived by the lies of the devil, they honestly believe they are keeping themselves “pure”.  Unfor­tunately, they don’t realize that they’ve defiled themselves along with their male counterparts.  Proverbs 14:12 says, “ There is a way that which seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”

Where does sodomy originate from? It originates from pagan idol worship. In the Bible primarily sodomy was among the worship of Baal.  Male and female prostitutes committed acts of sodomy as a form of worship to Baal. Sodomy was widely practiced by the peo­ple dwelling in Canaan.  The American Heritage Dictionary de­fines sodomy as,  “anal or oral copulation of one male with an­other, anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex, and copulation with an animal.”  The book of Leviticus tells us that the practice of man with a man (sodomy), and bestiality (sodomy/ sleeping with animals) among other things were forbidden by Yah­weh. Jewish law bans all acts of sex outside of intercourse between husband and wife.  This includes masturbation, anal sex, oral sex, and intercourse of unmarried people in Israel. In the music industry you have several prophets and evangelist of Baal and sodomy.

Several years ago rap artist 50 Cent had a song called “Candy Shop”.   He also had another song he did with Lil’ Kim called “Magic Stick.”

He also had another song he did with Lil’ Kim called “Magic Stick.”   Both songs  glorify a woman having oral sex, or committing sodomy, with a man.  The latest prophet and evangelist of sodomy is popular a New Orleans  rapper named  Lil’ Wayne. He had a  hit song called “Lollipop in 2008.”  This song makes ref­erences to a woman giving a man oral sex, and vice versa. Imagine a young person who listens to the lyrics of this song day and night.  Its the opposite of Joshua 1:8!  Instead of meditating on the law or the Lord,  s/he is meditating day and night on oral sex, lust, perver­sion, and fornication. By meditating on the song “Lollipop”, any young person is going to fail at living holy, being  righteous, sub­mitting to the voice of the Holy Ghost which is able to keep them from falling into sexual immorality (Jude 24). When young people begin to sing along or listen to the lyrics of “Lollipop” they are letting Lil’ Wayne prophesy oral sex (a curse of sodomy) into their life.  Proverbs 18:21 tells us death and life is in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

What Lil’ Wayne won’t tell in his song is that oral sex can lead into sexually transmitted diseases of herpes, chlamydia, gonor­rhea, syphilis, and human pappilloma virus (HPV). Doctors have now found that HPV causes cancer of the throat.  And what do you know?  There is now a rise in the number of young men with throat cancer resulting from heterosexual and homosexual oral sex.  Physicians are now recommending that not just girls and young women receive the vaccine for HPV, but are asking the gov­ernment’s permission to start giving the vaccine shot to boys. Doc­tors say that if the current trends continue within the next ten years there maybe more oral cancers in the United States caused by HPV than tobacco or alcohol.

Lil’ Wayne is not only a prophet of sodomy, but a prophet of death.  The type of lifestyle he raps about is a “death style”, that leads to diseases, death (Romans 6:23) and eternal separation from God.

Some churches they promote “virginity pledges” among their young people to wait and have sex until marriage.  Unfortunately, many of these program do not work for the following reasons: 1. They don’t promote sanctification, holiness, and transformation of the mind and  2. They lack the proper teaching of taking a vow onto the Lord.  If you take a vow unto the Lord you must keep it. Going through a nice virginity pledge ceremony and receiving a pledge ring doesn’t ward off temptation and demonic influence[here ,here, here].  Most kids that go through these pledges don’t keep them and unfortunately, most attempt to find loopholes of avoiding vaginal intercourse by engaging in anal and oral sex(sodomy). This is the  deception of them thinking that they are maintaining there virginity by not engaging in vaginal intercourse. However, using anal and oral sex as alternatives causes these teens to become new converts of sodomy, thus becoming sodomites instead of saints.

Anal sex opens a person up to anal cancer, HPV, chlamydia, hepa­titis, herpes, syphilis, gonorrhea, and HIV.  Both acts of sodomy (anal and oral sex) make a young person susceptible to disease and expose him or her to unclean perverse spirits that form a sexual stronghold in their life.  Sodomy can possibly damage young peo­ple throughout their adult life if they don’t get delivered through the “blood of Jesus Christ.”

Unfortunately parents don’t teach or talked to their kids about sex and the majority of churches don’t teach the youth about sex.  Most learn about sex through friends, videos, television, music, internet, sex education in school, and pornography.  Don’t let Lil’ Wayne or any other entertainer teach your young people about sex.  But let us be the ones who tell them that that the right type of sex is not dirty, but beautiful and wonderful between a husband and his wife.

We have to turn our young people from the “gospel of sodomy” to the true gospel of Jesus Christ.  We must turn sodomites to saints through repentances from anal and oral sex. Our kids in these days have to be taught the difference between unholy and holy, and the unclean versus the clean (Leviticus 10:10-11).

Parents be vigilant (1 Peter 5:8) with your kids!  Establish and maintain open and honest communication with them.  Check out their Myspace and Facebook pages and check to see if the content is of a sexual nature.  Find out what CDs they listen to and/or the songs they download to their ipods.  What are their favorite videos on Youtube?  Pray in your children’s rooms and anoint it.  Ask the Holy Ghost to lead and guide you to know if they’re involved in sex­ual promiscuity. We must fight a good fight to make sure that this generation is walking in the victory of sexual purity. We are all in a serious spiritual war for the souls of our young people.  We must make sure that they will receive eternal life instead of eternal dam­nation.

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I found the results of this Barna survey very, very interesting. As if we don’t have enough cojoining labels already, here’s another one to deal with. From Ministry Today:

Nearly two-thirds of all unchurched adults—people who have not attended a church activity in the last six months—identified themselves as “Christians,” according to a recent study by the Barna Group.

The survey revealed that 28 percent of the population—some 65 million adults—have not participated in any church activities or services in the past six months. As many churches try to attract this group to worship on Sunday, the study showed that the makeup of unchurched Americans may be surprising.

For example, 18 percent of unchurched Americans say they are born again, that they have “made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life today” and that they will go to heaven only because they have accepted Him as their Savior. Two-thirds (68 percent) say God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the universe. However, slightly more than one-third (35 percent) agree that the Bible is totally accurate in all its principles, and only 15 percent say their religious faith is very important in their life.

Demographically, among the unchurched, women outnumber men, baby boomers and older generations outnumber younger generations, and conservatives outnumber liberals.

Why does such a large group of people who believe in God avoid church? The Barna Group claims that a previous study may shed some light on the question. The study showed that 37 percent of non-churchgoing Americans avoid churches because of negative past experiences in churches or with church people.

The first question I have is can a person be an “unchurched” Christian? Its not clear who defined unchurched as “no church attendance in a continuous six month period”. But maybe redefinition is part of the problem. I’d always thought unchurched meant a person didnt “grow up” in the church and/or were never confessing believers in Christ. This six month deal is a bit shallow if you ask me, but nevertheless it is the basis of the survey’s results.

We had an eye opening discussion that touched on this last year if you want to refresh, but let’s nail it down. You can hit on all or some of the questions if you like.  (1)Is church attendance mandatory for the maintenance of one’s salvation? (2) Is church attendance a prerequisite for salvation? (3) Do you think most church pastors are teaching mandatory church attendance because it is biblical or because they need the revenue of church attendees or both? (4) Is church attendance (to a designated building) the same as “assembling” indentified in Hebrews 10:25?

Other Barna survey stories at GCM Watch:
54% of “Christian” blacks in Barna survey believed Jesus sinned

Christian pollster Barna surveys gay christians

By Shofarsound

Although the people of California voted yes on Proposition 8 to ban same-sex marriages, the battle still rages on in the homosexual community to make it legal.  But the battle involves more than just gays and lesbians fighting for and gaining the right to marry both in California and elsewhere. Believe it or not, economics is now playing strong role in the same-sex marriage.  How, you ask?  Through the wedding industry!  If same-sex marriages were legalized everywhere the wedding industry would experience an economic increase through the onslaught of new homosexual clients.  Let me explain…

Forbes Magazine’s online article on June 16th, 2009, estimated that the financial impact gay weddings would have if legalized nationally, would add up to a whooping $9.5 billion if you added engagement rings, banquet halls, wedding dresses, and honeymoons. This would most definitely have a financial impact in our country.  But is it really worth the cost of selling our morality for the almighty dollar?

In the June 15th, 2008 online article, “California Boosted by Gay Mar­riage Bonanza,” the University of California at Los Angeles did a study stating that the same-sex marriage industry would create 2,100 new jobs.  In addition, the spending of same-sex residences would boost the economy by $683.6 million dollars.  Analysts also feel that California would have a monopoly on the same-sex marriage industry and would cause a boom in tour­ism business.

When gay activists believed that Proposition 8 would be defeated cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Palm Springs were ready to mar­ket themselves as gay-friendly wedding destinations.  Jack Kyser, the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, said that same-sex marriages would lift local tourist sectors as fears of recession gripped the tourist industry.

First Timothy 6:10 says, “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through many sorrows.” Many lobbyist and poli­ticians are influenced by money these homosexual groups pump into their pockets.  In return these wayward politicians come up with gay-friendly laws and get bills passed through the state and federal governments. It’s all about the Benjamin’s!  The love of money has made these judges, lobbyist, politicians; businesses sell out their morals to the “dolla’ dolla’” bill. The fact is this: behind the wicked collaboration of homosexuals, attorneys, lobbyist, judges, and politicians there is the love of the money same-sex marriages can introduce into the national economy.

Today, Hollywood does an excellent job promoting homosexual lifestyle through movies and television. Let’s remember that Sodom and Gomorrah were prosperous cities in their time.  But despite their prosperity, God still judged them for their unrighteousness.  In the days of the Prophet Jeremiah, Judah was prosperous nation but backslidden from God.  Jeremiah tried to tell the nation to repent and return back to God. However his words fell on deaf ears.  Judah trusted more in their riches and they were eventually judged and taken into Babylonian captivity. 

Please understand the marriage wars are far from over. But new information proves that the oft mocked slippery slope is indeed a very slippery reality. Since the homosexual community has enlisted the gay church as it lackeys to sanctify what God has called abominable, let’s just be sure  we know what they are demanding we be “accepting” of. Lifesite News carried the following out of San Francisco:

In discussing a new study confirming that polygamy is a staple within gay “marriages,” a New York Times article has suggested that doing away with the concept of spousal fidelity in marriage represents an “evolution” that “might point the way for the survival of the institution.”

NYT columnist Scott James reported January 28 on a project by San Francisco State University’s Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality examining various aspects of homosexual relationships.  James says the study, which is scheduled for release this month, “reveals that monogamy is not a central feature for many.”

“Some gay men and lesbians argue that, as a result, they have stronger, longer-lasting and more honest relationships,” the article continues.  “And while that may sound counterintuitive, some experts say boundary-challenging gay relationships represent an evolution in marriage — one that might point the way for the survival of the institution.”

Colleen Hoff, one of the study’s researchers, remarked: “With straight people, it’s called affairs or cheating, but with gay people it does not have such negative connotations.”

Steve Weinstein, the editor-in-chief of the gay news service EDGE Boston, said that the research could be placed into “the category of ‘studies that confirm the painfully obvious.’”

James also admits that “none of this is news in the gay community, but few will speak publicly about it,” with many expressing fear that “discussing the subject could undermine the legal fight for same-sex marriage.”

Joe Quirk, author of the sex-themed bestseller “It’s Not You, It’s Biology,” argued that “the combination of freedom and mutual understanding can foster a unique level of trust.”

“If innovation in marriage is going to occur, it will be spearheaded by homosexual marriages,” said Quirk.

Scott James, the writer of the NYT article suggests that destroying the concept of spousal fidelity is an “evolution”. James is the same gay writer who launched the so-called homphobia attack on Vallejo, CA mayor Osby Davis.

So let’s understand where approving homosexual marriage is leading us. Countless people have warned already homosexual marriage is at best a parody and at worst a leading indicator of the disintegration of our society. Whether delayed or immediate, direct or indirect,  we and our children will suffer the consequences for such a foolish and emotional decision. Even with divorce and other negative factors affecting male-female marriage, there exists no common acceptance among male-female marriage to allow one’s spouse sexual relationships outside the marriage. Yet now the homosexual media itself acknowledges what the gay rights agenda wants to equalize is based on a  destructive view of relationships.

For your deceptive pleasure, its being repackaged as “equality”, equal rights”, “civil rights” and “marriage equality”.  All of the fake media-driven photos of happyfied homosexual couples mean nothing. Behind the propaganda photos, these people reject the very basis of what God-ordained, God-created and God-approved marriage constitutes. Covenant with one person of the opposite gender. The people of God should in no way approve, sanction or be complicit in helping to destroy God’s foundations for the family.

When God blessed the union of man and woman in Genesis it formed an everlasting standard for what is acceptable to Him, the creator.

How you can help cripple the homosexual marriage machine:

1. Stop voting for or supporting any political candidate —whether local or national— who favors legalizing homosexual marriage in any context. 1b. Be vocal in demanding they go on record with their beliefs.

2. Demand that church leaders stop supporting and/or allowing prohomosexual political candidates access to Sunday morning pulpits in exchange for backroom favors.

3. Stop promoting or purchasing merchandise produced by any Christian artist who aligns themselves with homosexual marriage or behavior as acceptable to God.

4. As followers of Jesus Christ, make sure you  always uphold God’s standard for marriage. 1 [biological]man with 1 [biological] woman for life.

5. If you are single  Christian and committing sexual fornication, stop now and learn to possess your body in sanctification and honor. This is the will of God. 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8

6. Pray. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous availeth much.