HENRY McCULLOCH writes:

The unholy alliance of the libertine Left with Islam is at it again.  Two U.S. Representatives of the Democratic variety — but no doubt they will find Republicans to agree with them — plan to introduce in the House of Representatives the Federal LGBT Resolution Opposing Discrimination to suppress state religious freedom protection acts of the sort recently abandoned by chicken-livered “Christian” Republican governors in Indiana and Arkansas.  The wilting under the slightest pressure of “Mike” Pence and Asa Hutchinson greatly encourages the legions of indecency to make ever more and ever more radical demands — especially as they scent a great victory heading their way from the U.S. Supreme Court.  I fear they will be proved correct about that.

The first of these Congressmen is Andre Carson, a black Moslem from Indiana.  The second is Jared Polis, a Jewish homosexual from Colorado.  (That’s four Certifiably Aggrieved Groups in just two people!  Truly a coup for Diversity, Inc.)  As their proposed resolution is really about compelling Christians to support homosexualist activities in ways that violate their religious beliefs, it is rather clever that Carson is chosen to give the specious rationale for it rather than Polis:

“For far too long, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans have been forced to live in the shadows because of who they are,” Carson said in a statement posted online. “Year after year, we see attacks on the LGBT community as governments at all levels look to institutionalize discrimination in the name of religious freedom. Recently, we witnessed my home state of Indiana enact a Religious Freedom Restoration Act, giving businesses the right to refuse serve based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”

He said it’s “long past time” for Congress to set in stone bans on such decisions based on religion.

Carson asserted “all Americans, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity,” need to know they are “valued members of our society.”

“They deserve to live their lives like any other American, free from intolerance because of who they are,” he said.

America, he urged, must be intolerant of “discrimination faced by the LGBT community.”

(Is no one else sick of hearing how the diverse aggrieved, who are constantly up in our faces demanding things, are “forced to live in the shadows”?  If only…)

Islam, at least doctrinally, has no tolerance for sodomy, with gruesome capital punishments endorsed for those who engage in it.  It may be true that there is accepted, if sub rosa, man-on-boy pederasty in some countries where the False Prophet’s cult dominates, but that is a testament to hypocrisy and the human proclivity to sin, not anything dogmatically approved in Islam.

So on the face of it, it’s odd that this Moslem would make common cause with sexual deviants and libertines, especially Jewish ones given Islam’s historic and often homicidal hostility to Jews.  Odd only until one realizes that for these social change-agents the enemy of their enemy is their friend, especially when they share the same enemy.  That enemy is Christianity, not merely its doctrines but particularly Christians who wish simply to live according to Christian precepts.  Especially if their conduct should so much as imply anything less than cheerleading support of the sodomite “lifestyle” in all its polymorphous perversity.  Anything other than a joyful welcome for Islam and the myriad Moslems now colonizing the West will, naturally, become equally intolerable.  We’ll very soon be told that welcome must also extend to polygamy, if only for Moslems.

This is another example of how the Democratic Party has remade itself as the party for any group (except white Americans of Christian origin) that imagines it has some grievance against the oppressive white America that once was, still is and will be forever, amen!  And of how the disparate gaggles of the aggrieved form tactical alliances to strip the majority of rights and generally annoy normal people as much as inhumanly possible.  And with “conservative” “leaders” of the moral strength of Pence and Hutchinson failing utterly to resist, we have much more such importuning to look forward to.

Christians must fight this imposition of evil, but making religious freedom the basis of our opposition is not working.  The irreligious — most Westerners today, that is — don’t care about religious freedom.  (And Catholics at least should know that undifferentiated religious freedom is not a social good in the first place.)  Opposition must focus on our opponents’ problems, not on ours.  Those who oppose unrestrained sodomy and the way of life of those who indulge in it must oppose them because of the great harms, to soul and body alike, that sodomites do to themselves and each other, as well as the pain they inflict on the normal people — their relatives, first and foremost — who love them.

If Christians can take any comfort from this, it must be from the long view.  As it says in a book somewhere, a house divided against itself cannot stand.  Post-modern liberalism is nothing if not a castle of contradictions; its fall is preordained although it may yet be a long way off.  What will become of those caught in the falling wreckage I can’t say, but I can say that when homosexual Leftists and militant Moslems fall out — as inexorably they must — my money will be on the Moslems…

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