Month: July 2015

Everyone is talking and writing about the SCOTUS ruling.  However, the greater danger few people are talking and writing about, and that has been obscured by the SCOTUS ruling, is the Oregon persecution against the bakers, Aaron and Melissa Klein.  The Kleins were not charged and prosecuted in a traditional court of law.  There was no due process, no jury of their peers, and their Constitutional rights were violated, including the First Amendment regarding freedom of religion.  It amounts to Christian persecution not unlike what is occurring in some foreign nations.

The Labor Commissioner, Brad Avakian, convened a court, acted as judge, jury, and executioner.  Additionally, it is reported that Avakian has a gay son and is a LGBT supporter.  He should have recused himself on those points.  It is doubtful that he would have won a case against the Kleins in a genuine court of law.

Every citizen has the right to due process of law.  Avakian’s court ignored that right. The Fifth Amendment says that no one shall be “deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”  The same words are used in the Fourteenth Amendment to describe the obligation of all the states.  That means that Avakian should have taken his case to a proper court where the proper procedures, including the rules of the justice and evidence, were followed.  Instead, he chose to violate the Kleins’ Constitutional rights, and is attempting to force them to pay the settlement immediately, even though he most certainly knows that his actions will be overturned by the first genuine court that it is presented in.  The Kleins will never get their money back.

Nevertheless, Avakian awarded $135,000 to the gay couple allegedly damaged by the Klein’s refusal to make them a gay oriented wedding cake.  The list of symptoms of the gay couple’s damage include, “acute loss of confidence,” “doubt,” “excessive sleep,” “felt mentally raped, dirty and shameful,” “high blood pressure,” “impaired digestion,” “loss of appetite,” “migraine headaches,” “pale and sick at home after work,” “resumption of smoking habit,” “shock,” “stunned,” “surprise,” “uncertainty,” “weight gain” and “worry.”  There were no expert witnesses allowed to sustain or refute those damages.

Avakian’s stated goal is to “rehabilitate Christians” to accept homosexuality and homosexual marriage.

“The goal is never to shut down a business. The goal is to rehabilitate,” Avakian said. “For those who do violate the law, we want them to learn from that experience and have a good, successful business in Oregon.”

That sounds like the double-speak that Communists use to mask their persecution of citizens who refuse to comply with their agenda.  Hopefully he will learn when the court overturns his injustice.

Not satisfied with his imperialistic justice, Avakian issued a gag order after the judgment, which is highly irregular and a violation of the First Amendment.

“The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries hereby orders [Aaron and Melissa Klein] to cease and desist from publishing, circulating, issuing or displaying, or causing to be published … any communication to the effect that any of the accommodations … will be refused, withheld from or denied to, or that any discrimination be made against, any person on account of their sexual orientation,” (Brad Avakian).

There is little outrage from the Christian community, and few are writing about and discussing it.  If this is allowed to stand, it will have far greater impact on Christians than the SCOTUS ruling.  If we do not stand now, the time is rapidly approaching when it will be fruitless to stand.  “Kangaroo courts” will convene across the nation charging and convicting Christians of numerous trumped up charges.  This is the emerging of a tool for very harsh Christian persecution.  It has already been used successfully.  One man, Brad Avakian, is forcing Christians in Oregon to deny their faith or be wiped out financially.

Avakian is a rogue politician abusing his office and power.  He should be held accountable and recalled.  Emboldened by his actions, many in the homosexual community will come after Christians.  That we can count on.  Are you scared yet?  Are you ready to keep your mouth shut in meek compliance?  If not, where is the outrage?

Went to the florist the other day, and a transvestite waited on me.  I wanted a spray with a Christian message, but he refused to take my order.  He explained it was against his principles to make or sell sprays with Christian messages.  I was devastated.  I believe that I should be compensated for the damages.

First, when I walked out of the door, I immediately had a fit of sneezing ($15k).  Then I got in my car, but the heat was so bad that I felt faint ($5k).  Pulling onto the street a car honked and I had to swerve to keep from hitting it ($5k).  I thought I would feel better if I turned on the radio, but “Another One Bites the Dust” blared out of my speakers ($10k).

At that point, I began to wonder how much damage the transvestite had done to my self-esteem.  After a quick assessment, the results were bad.  I did not feel confident enough to try out for American Idol ($8.5k).   When I went to the ATM, I was frozen at the key pad, fearful of withdrawing some cash ($2.5k).  My fear was confirmed when I looked up and an old lady smiled at me.  I smiled back, but she walked right past and hugged a man behind me ($5k).  I bought a “scratch-off” lottery ticket, but God did not let me win ($2.5k).  At the sub shop next door, I ordered a 6” sub.  The woman asked, “Toasted?”  Why does everyone know what happened to me ($5k)?

From there, I went to Wal-Mart.  It seemed that everyone was avoiding looking at me ($3k).  I bought some nasal decongestant because I heard that 2 squirts on the tongue would take away the smell of onions.  It didn’t work.  I blew on my fingers and could still smell onions ($2k).    On the way out of the store, I walked into the glass panel beside the door ($5k).  Some people laughed ($10k).  I walked past some flowers and a bee attacked me ($2.5k).   Luckily, I wasn’t stung.  I suddenly felt very alone and dejected ($5k).

I was so depressed that I called my pastor ($5k).  After I told him my story, he told me that I was homophobic and needed to see a psychologist ($10k).  The next day, I visited the psychologist.  He gave me a prescription for Prozac and a gay movie on Blu-ray ($15k).

I was at my wits end, in anguish, going from one crisis to another, until I met this homeless guy.  There I was sitting on the park bench when he tried to sell me a small bouquet of flowers for five bucks.  I remarked that I wished it was that easy to buy flowers all the time.  He asked me what I meant, and I told him my story.  When I was finished, he asked me why I didn’t just buy flowers from a Christian florist.  I felt stupid ($25k).

So the rulers and influencers of the world system want to eliminate Christianity.  They want to force us to accept homosexuality and other anti-Christian beliefs and practices.  Further, they want removed from society every vestige of Christianity: nativity scenes, the Ten Commandments, etc.  By forcing their agenda on Christians, they hope to convince the majority of Christians that it is not worth bothering to defend their profession of faith.  Ultimately, they wish to divide the faithful from the nominal.  Then they can easily and without any repercussion deal harshly with the ones who refuse to join the forced apostasy.

My response is, if they want this world so badly, then go ahead and take it.  If they want the sorry mess they have made of the culture and society, they can have everything from the whorehouse to the White House.  This world is not my home.  I won’t need or want it after they are finished with it anyway.  I’m going to a better place, a city whose builder and maker is God.  That city will never have a corrupt ruler, never have an act of evil committed in its boundaries, and there will never be a tear shed, or a person die who is a citizen thereof.

So, I say to the corrupt politicians, the financial pimps and money mongers, homosexuals, vile judges, and other parasites and barnacles, go on and take it—every last bit of the sorry mess you have made.  You can have your rat-infested, sin-laden, roach hotel and keep it as long as you can until the end of time.

But there is one problem I feel the need to warn you about.  When you put the finishing touches on your godless society, God will show up to give His opinion of your work.  This is His planet that He spoke into creation.  He did not give mankind an eternal lease on it.  Instead, He gave us permission to occupy it until He arrived to take back full control.

Your problem is that God is a consuming fire.  He is coming in flaming fire.  He is going to purge the earth and everything in it with fire so intense that the elements will melt.  Only whatever survives the fire will remain.  Further, everyone who practiced rebellion against Him will be cast into the lake of fire with the devil and his angels.  That’s the problem.

Just as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego many years ago were impervious to the fire because God was with them, so God’s people will not be harmed by the fire because God is in them.  Thus, the only way to escape this coming judgement is to become a citizen of God’s kingdom.  That is accomplished by believing in your heart that Christ Jesus is Lord and Savior, that God raised Him from the dead, and confessing those beliefs verbally.  If you are sincere, the Holy Spirit will come to dwell in and possess you and begin the process of transforming you by renewing your mind.

Of course, that means that you will then be a Christian as I am.  You will view the world as hostile to your faith and put yourself at risk of persecution.  However, you will also realize that no matter what you suffer here for being a Christian, it is not worthy to compare to what you will inherit when you arrive in God’s eternal kingdom.

It’s time to make a choice.  Either serve the god of this world, or God Almighty.  You cannot do both.  The time is short.  Things are rapidly coming to a conclusion.  Make up your mind before you run out of an opportunity to choose.  Come Lord Jesus!