ENDA Tramples
Christian Conscience
By
Rev. Ted Pike
26 January 2010
When is a Christian obligated to disobey an
evil government and face possible persecution, imprisonment—even
death? It is when government would require the Christian to disobey
God and help corrupt his fellow man. The Anti-Defamation League’s
church and workplace hate crimes bill, The Employment Non-Discrimination
Act, would cause countless American employers to face this
choice.
 If
approved by the US House in mid-February and later by the Senate
and president, ENDA would require Christian employers to hire qualified
homosexuals and not fire them because of their sexual orientation.
It would exponentially heighten the likelihood of “harassment”
lawsuits against Christian employers who witnessed to homosexual
employees. ENDA thus coerces Christians to be “unequally yoked”
with unbelievers.
Scripture
commands: “Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness but rather reprove them.” (Eph. 5:11) The Bible requires
Christians to not even eat with so-called Christians who practice
sexual immorality (1 Cor. 5:11). ENDA would make it illegal
for Christian churches, organizations and employers to observe this
command of our faith.
The
Civil Rights Act of 1964¸ from which ENDA receives
its authority, is unclear about a church’s obligation to not
“discriminate” against minorities. But ENDA could easily
be used to force churches to hire homosexuals in at least non-spiritual
positions. All it takes is a decree from Attorney General Eric Holder,
upheld by President Obama. The ADL and a cluster of Jewish organizations
in America, along with other liberal groups, are now pressuring
Holder to force Christian churches and organizations to hire homosexuals.
[1]
Already Happening in Canada
About
five years ago in Canada, a Christian church school discovered it
unknowingly hired a practicing homosexual. When they attempted to
fire him, he immediately appealed for protection under Canada’s
anti-hate law. The government told school authorities they would
be fined and imprisoned if they fired him. The church capitulated.
The
Bible prophesies that someday Anti-Christ will require all people
to receive his mark, “666,” on their forehead or the
back of their hand. Refusal means starvation. In that day, millions
will rationalize that survival outweighs moral objections. But Christ
says anyone who cooperates will be cast into hell (Rev. 14:9-11).
Is it a lesser compromise for Christians to hire homosexuals as
staff workers—including PE coaches and summer camp counselors—to
be mentors and examples for Christian youth? By accepting ENDA’s
requirement of a “criticism-free zone” for homosexuals,
Christian leaders will provide a perfect base of operation for sodomites
and pedophiles to prey on Christian youth, even recruiting them
into sexual perversion. Clearly, if any church in our relatively
prosperous society submits to ENDA’s terms, their sin is even
greater than accepting the mark of the beast to avoid starvation.
Churches
and church schools, like businesses of over 15 employees (Rep. Dennis
Kucinich wants it lessened to six), will also have to allow males
who claim they are “transitioning” into females unlimited
access to female bathrooms and shower facilities. If a church school
administrator or Christian business owner refuses such a request,
they can be indicted as federal hate criminals, heavily fined, and
imprisoned. Churches can lose tax exemption and face seizure of
property.
Considering
its nightmarish and immoral consequences, ENDA must not be allowed
to become law! ENDA had hearings in both the House and Senate Education
and Labor Committees this fall. Because conservatives were preoccupied
with healthcare, there was virtually no encouragement to Republicans
to oppose ENDA. In the House hearing, only one in 19 committee Republicans
even attended! Result: ADL and the homosexuals triumphed in both
hearings.
Normally,
laws of this magnitude would be debated in the judiciary committees.
But dominant Democrats don’t want feisty Judiciary watchdogs
(like Reps. Gohmert, King, Goodlatte and Forbes) to tear into ENDA
like they did into the hate bill last April. Televised exposure
of that debate led the National Prayer Network to create devastating
videos and e-alerts which flashed through the religious right. Bad
publicity slowed the hate bill’s passage in the Senate by
nearly three months.
Right
now, lovers of freedom must bombard their members of the House and
Senate and demand they vote no on ENDA. Also call the House and
Senate Judiciary Committee members, both Republican and Democrat,
with the following message. Tell them, “The Employment
Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) HR 3017 or HR 2981 and S 1584, is
primarily a legal and civil rights issue which should be debated
in the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. Yet Democrats are
rushing ENDA forward, ignoring due legislative process. I demand
that this very dangerous and discriminatory legislation be adequately
debated in the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. I urge you
to vote no on ENDA.”
The
names of all House and Senate Judiciary Members are listed on the
Action Page
at www.truthtellers.org. Call 1-877-851-6437 toll free or 1-202-225-3121
toll.
Don’t
think that Tea Party and townhall activism or Jim Brown’s
victory in Massachusetts means the Democrats are going to retreat
on ENDA. They are going to try to do as much moral and legislative
damage to America as they can—unless you roar in protest now!
Footnote
1. Jewish groups demanding churches hire homosexuals include:
the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, B’nai
B’rith International, Central Conference of American Rabbis,
Hadassah, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, National Council
of Jewish Women, Na’amat USA, Rabbinical Assembly, Religious
Action Center of Reform Judaism, and Women of Reform Judaism.
(www.jta.org, Sept. 17, 2009,
“Holder Urged to Drop Religious Hiring Exemption”)
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For
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 Alert
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major reasons."
Also,
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Although
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in terms of his political and religious views, the threats we
address all stem from the same corrupt power elite. I mention
in my concluding remarks below that this elite “would mobilize
us into domestic tyranny and foreign wars, while distracting us
from economic depression and the groups that brought it about.”
This
is the real problem, not the lack of more “hate crime”
laws. If anything, we need even more freedom of speech to speak
truth to power, sort out our problems, and develop peaceful strategies
to handle high level malefactors. This is why we urgently need
for members of Congress to not only take a principled stand and
stop all hate crime legislative initiatives, but to also roll
back all the existing hate crime laws currently on the books.
Hate
crime laws actually pose a major national security threat. They
condition Americans to feel that certain types of thought are inherently
immoral or illegal, even if they do not result in any form of violence
or infringement on the rights of others.
In
our articles related to false flag attacks, Capt.
Eric H. May and I have discussed strong evidence that Mossad-CIA
was behind 9-11, the mere "thought" of which would some
day be outlawed once hate crime oversight bureaucracies become firmly
implanted in America. We can expect government hate crime overwatch
entities to experience the usual cancerous growth and abuse of power
that libertarian writer and Presidential candidate Harry Browne
described in his classic book Why
Government Doesn't Work.
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