I wasn't really surprised when I got quite a bit of flak about my last couple of articles ~ ranging from "surprised you'd send things like that" to "take my name off your mailing list".  When one turns on a light switch it closes a circuit, when it is switched off, the circuit is opened.  It seems to me that many who think of themselves as God's people are open circuits much of the time as they have politically correct switches to flick off each time the world says so.

Integrity is defined as:  "1. Rigid adherence to a code or standard of values., 2. The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness."

How can we maintain a strong adherence to our standard of values or be whole, undivided, or complete when we flick our lights off whenever the world says so?  Jesus talked much about being made whole.  Our lights shine through the power of God, so if our lights aren't shining, whose power is working in us?  Is it really love to make our lights go very dim or shut them off completely or is it compromise?

Even though I've never once mentioned anyone in particular, I've been chastised for lack of love, having a condemning attitude, and for aliening people by pointing out their sins.  There is growing tendency  in our 'politically correct' culture to equate disapproval with hatred.  I must confess, I don't know how to dispell the darkness without lighting a light.  My articles do not point out the sins of individuals, but point to wherever people are seemingly confederated together to lower the standard of righteousness as spelled out by our Creator and Father in heaven.

Jesus said that His kingdom was not of this world and for us to be in the world, but not to be of the world. Christians need to be wary of the attitudes and things that are popular in the world, because the enemy of God is working mightily through those who are world servers at heart to bring into the lives of believers attitudes and things that separate them from their Creator in whose image they are made.  The enemy of souls works as a sheep in wolves' clothing. He is very deceptive.

On occasion I see the very popular Oprah on TV and I see and hear many things that are worthwhile and very informative, but I sometimes find her programs leaving me with an empty sense of wanting to be politically correct, not obedient to God.  Some might say that there's nothing wrong with being politically correct as long as it doesn't interfere with one's duty to God, but my point is that one can't have one foot planted in God's kingdom and the other in the realm of political correctness and expect to walk uprightly in the straight and narrow way that God points out.

One Oprah show I watched ended with her saying [and I'm paraphrasing]:  "Get in touch with your feelings because they are the bottom line, they are where everything is at." and I've heard her say similar things at other times on her show.   Sorry if you're an Oprah fan, but I have to disagree vehemently with what Oprah is saying here.  Feelings can often be misleading and many times they can be dead wrong.  It's not the feelings that are the bottom line, it's the thoughts.  If the thoughts are wrong, then the feelings will be wrong. The thoughts and feelings combined make up the moral character.  If our feelings are wrong, we may know that our thoughts must be wrong too; so to change our wrong feelings we must change our wrong thoughts.

This will not be accomplished if we are more attuned to political sensibilities than to God's Spiritual Laws.  "The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul."Psalm 19:7.  To have right thoughts and feelings, we need to put both feet into and even immerse ourselves, not in the politically correct policies of society, but in the perfect Law of the Lord, because the Law of God is a transcript of God's character.  "He that says, I know Him, and keeps not His Commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him." 1John 2:4.

It is in this day of political correctness that I must point out that I'm not attacking Oprah, I'm   attacking what she is teaching, just as I am not attacking homosexuals as persons, but I am denouncing their lifestyle and teachings and what they are striving to do in the political arena.  I am especially concerned with the effect their teachings have on innocent children and with their efforts to squash free speech.  So many of us have grown up with our minds bent in the ways of the world, that we have a bent to fall back into being slaves to cultural and political thinking.  We must, as Christians, be in the world, but we must make every effort not to partake of the politics and sins of the world.  For this reason, allow me to quote part of a news article I saved this past year:
 

"A member of Brian Camenker's Parent's Rights Coalition taped a March 25 conference at Tufts University sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which benefits from a $1.5 million state appropriation, supposedly to make schools safe for gay youth.

At the conference, teachers, who got professional credits for attending, were told how to "come out'' to a grade school class. Several hundred children also attended. Kids as young as 13 were encouraged to describe the raunchiest acts imaginable, to make them comfortable with their orientation. A presenter told boys that choosing to have sex with a man and not using a condom didn't indicate a lack of self-esteem.

In a suit filed by the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, also a recipient of public funds, Boston Superior Court Judge Allan van Gestel has imposed a gag order on Camenker's group, barring them from releasing the tapes and even discussing the contents.

GLSEN - which has threatened to press criminal charges against Camenker - says its right to privacy has been violated. It's right to use public employees to introduce minors to the joys of acts that can't be described here. Dr. Laura, that hatemonger, would probably call them "deviant".  The gay thought police are working double shifts.

When the subject is homosexuality, moral judgments are deemed to be discriminatory."
~ Don Feder, Creators Syndicate, Inc.
 

To me it's unconscionable, to call oneself a Christian and not to be utterly appalled and to pooh- pooh such things as these being taught to adults, let alone children, and then to have an "honourable" judge protect their teachings; this has to be classified as one of the mysteries of iniquities. There is no shame in these people. Are they not the same as those who say: "We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us:  for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves." ? Isaiah  28:15.

Over the last several of years there has been a constant effort to enact "Hate Crimes" legislation. One bill was passed in the senate just this past summer. This is an effort being made by an immoral world to politicize moral issues. I believe one of their ultimate goals is to make it a crime even to criticize the lifestyle and behaviour of the gay community.  I believe first and foremost that the best way to defeat the purposes of Satan is to teach the truth but if part of the enemy's plans to capture and enslave souls is revealed to me, I would be sleeping on my watch if I didn't cry and call out to protect the innocent and the unknowing.

Jesus didn't just say:  "Neither do I condemn you."  to the one caught in sin, but He also said:  "Go and sin no more."  In our labouring to be so very careful to walk a line of love and/or political correctness we must also be very careful not to compomise our standard of values or else we will may be guilty of being an accessory before or after the fact in inciting, aiding, or abetting those steeped in sin to corrupt the innocent and/or the unknowing.  "But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in Me, it were better for him that millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea."  Matthew 18:6.

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