For Immediate Release:

Rev. Cary Gordon responds to Justice Marsha Ternus’ public criticism

“Activist judges like Marsha Ternus, Michael Streit and David Baker are little more than a bellwether of a greater malevolence to come. I will not sit back and allow liberal judges to inappropriately misuse their power as a tool for unnatural social re-engineering. The path Iowa’s courts have placed us upon will inevitably lead to the criminalization of teaching the Bible in America, as has been done throughout much of Europe, and more recently, Canada. Their usurpation of authority, hubris, as well as their attempt to create an oligarchical tyranny, requires the most immediate and severe response allowed by civil and Divine laws.” Said Rev. Gordon

“My public summons to state-wide pastors (for which cause Marsha Ternus complains), now joined by a number of churches nearing the 200 mark, emulates those principles of righteous civil disobedience – promoted by the Holy Scriptures – and once used as the very rationale for our own Declaration of Independence. (See the theological work of John Locke, Two Treatises on Government, from whence the Declaration was virtually plagiarized.)”

“My response to Marsha Ternus’ strawman arguments are best summarized by the prophetic (and heretofore unheeded) warning given by my favorite “radical lesbian and atheist feminist” (her own words), who also happens to be a social science professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Dr. Camille Paglia.

Here’s what she had to say about the disrespectful behavior of her own gay community as it relates to people of sacred faith and tradition:

“[Gay activism], encouraged by the scientific illiteracy of academic postmodernism, wants to deny that there is a heterosexual norm. This is madness!…[eventually] the INSULTING DISRESPECT shown by gay activists to religion…[will] produce a BACKLASH… History shows that massive spiritual revivals are a fundamental, recurrent element in culture.” 1 [Emphasis added.]

I believe Dr. Paglia accurately described what you now see unfolding before your eyes in Iowa. Gay activism, at home and abroad, continually demonstrates a zero tolerance policy with regard to religious liberties. Indeed – the radical gay agenda (as previously demonstrated above – an agenda that is considered disagreeable by many gays) is INCOMPATIBLE with religious freedom around the world.

Ternus, Baker and Streit should re-read the preamable of the Iowa Constitution (which see), and brush-up on the foundation of American constitutional law…NATURE AND NATURE’S GOD…GRANTOR of unalienable rights.”

“We, the people of the State of Iowa, grateful to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a continuation of those blessings, do ordain and establish a free and independent government, by the name of the State of Iowa…” These are the words of the Preamble of Iowa’s State Constitution, drafted in 1857!” Since it is true, that in 1857 sodomy was considered a criminal offense across much of our nation, we are beyond certain that the Iowa Constitution did not, nor could it now produce the canard of gay “marriage.”

Rev. Cary K. Gordon
President, PeaceMakers Institute

1 “Ask Camille”, by Dr. Camille Paglia, Salon Question and Answer, posted March 17, 1998. Also see “No Law in the Arena,” by Dr. Camille Paglia, p. 72, Vintage Books, 1994