{"id":220,"date":"2010-10-30T17:22:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T17:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/10\/199-countering-the-gay-agenda.html"},"modified":"2010-10-30T17:22:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T17:22:49","slug":"199-countering-the-gay-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/10\/199-countering-the-gay-agenda.html","title":{"rendered":"#199 Countering the gay agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gayagenda1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/gay\/gayagenda1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"492\" height=\"494\" \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Christian culture feels the recent anti-bullying legislation is a subversive means to infiltrate the vulnerable younger generation with the homosexual agenda. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itgetsbetterproject.com\/\">It Gets Better Project<\/a> addresses the epidemic of suicides in gay adolescents who have been bullied, so you might think the staunchly pro-life Christian culture would champion this effort, but the gay issue seems to supercede suicide prevention. <\/p>\n<p>Christian culture is deeply afraid of some sort of indoctrination by homosexuals. At <a href=\"http:\/\/truetolerance.org\/p9_June_Jul_Citizen_10_antibullying.pdf\">this website<\/a> they say &#8220;Gay activists realize that if they can capture the hearts and minds of the next generation, they will, for all practical purposes, have won the culture war.&#8221; There&#8217;s that culture war again. The fact that Christian culture is so invested in the idea of a culture war is interesting because the Jesus they claim to follow didn&#8217;t promote a culture, but rather a consuming love that casts out all fear. The fact that Christian culture is so frightened makes you wonder what their motivation is.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus said the world will know his followers by their love. Ask some gay Americans if they&#8217;ve felt cared for and sought out by someone who claims to be a Christian and chances are they will say no. Interestingly, in many of the videos on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itgetsbetterproject.com\/\">It Gets Better<\/a> bullying victims say that Christians and the church have induced much of their shame and fear. If Jesus spoke of love more than anything else and never addressed homosexuality once, which of the two might he be concerned with? Christian culture tends to couch &#8220;confronting&#8221; gay people with the truth about their sin as being loving. People in Christian culture don&#8217;t seem to see themselves as being as sinful as they think gay people are. But claiming to follow God while refusing to humble yourself dooms all of us to repeat history as the Pharisees wrote it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian culture feels the recent anti-bullying legislation is a subversive means to infiltrate the vulnerable younger generation with the homosexual agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,338,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doing-things-and-avoiding-relationship","category-gay-agenda","category-perceived-subversion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>#199 Countering the gay agenda - Stuff Christian Culture Likes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/10\/199-countering-the-gay-agenda.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"#199 Countering the gay agenda - 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