Doing nothing for Good

What exactly are Hate Crimes? I have asked myself this question over and over and pondered what is reality and what is myth. Logically speaking, as a Pastor and a Christian, I know the fundamental truth that God is love and only infinite love. Therefore, one that is walking in love is walking with God.

To the contrary, one that participates in violence, aggression or behavior that is contrary to the Word of God, while fueled by dislike, disagreement, and or un-acceptance of a particular race, belief or lifestyle; that person is not walking with God.

On the subject of Hate Crimes, the phrase was first entered into the Merriam Webster Dictionary in 1984. Its definition is “any of various crimes (as assault or defacement of property) when motivated by hostility to the victim as a member or a group (as one based on color, creed, gender, or sexual orientation).

The term “Hate Crime” first appeared in the late 1980's as a way of understanding a racial incident in the Howard Beach section of New York City. A black man was killed while attempting to evade a violent mob of white teenagers, shouting racial epithets.

Now there is about to be a vote on Hate Crimes Legislation. On the outside, this seems to be a pretty simple piece of legislation. In fact, at first look, the compassionate heart that was given to me by my Heavenly Father may accept the illusion of the enemy that this is a necessary and much needed law to stop the attacks against our brothers and sisters. The reality is the vast majority of hate crime laws do not criminalize any new behavior; instead, they increase the penalty for behaviors that are already against the law.

The problem that exists with that reality is it is flawed. It is not flawed based on the truth that no one person on this earth should go un-punished for a crime of violence such as assault or defacement of property against a person or group of persons based on their color, creed, gender or sexual orientation, but rather it is flawed based on the open invitation by various self interest groups that are seeking to distort the original intent of laws.

Since the beginning of time, God has set down a standard of living commonly referred to as morality. He based this standard of living on what is good and right. In Genesis 4:7 God asks the question “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?”

Being moral is just that, doing what is right.

The problem with Hate Crime laws is that they are an essential key to a long term and carefully laid out plan by homosexual activists to use a term such as “sexual orientation” to radically criminalize biblically based morality and any biblically based teaching against their lifestyle.

Many have suggested throughout the years that I have been overstating the agenda of homosexual activists but I could not disagree more.

Several years ago, a longtime school friend had interviewed me and asked me about my hesitation in ascending to the principle that homosexuals had basic rights that were granted under legal unions. The problem I foretold then has come to pass in just five short years.

The homosexual agenda was not happy with the legislation that allowed civil unions that extended the same rights and privileges to them as married couples. They successfully pushed the envelopes in at least five states that now allow “same sex marriage” thus remodeling God’s Original and Perfect Creation found in the Covenant of Marriage which was between a man and a woman.

The slippery slope we are now sliding down is one that seeks the complete overhaul of life as we know it, moral and good; to an era of political correctness utilizing the tool of “hates crimes legislation”. This is all conveniently formulated by the homosexual activists seeking to suppress the truth that is found in the Word of God.

In the coming months and years you will see the homosexual agenda move to have “male, female or other ”; “spouse 1 and spouse 2”; or “parent 1 and parent 2” on forms and applications.
All of this may seem innocent to some or far reaching to others but it is only a clear and decisive plan by the enemy of man and enemies of God to normalize the abnormal.

Until such time that each and every clear thinking person seeks to stand up for our Judea/Christian values in this country we will be held accountable for our inactions.

For evil to succeed, good must only do nothing.