Pastor Cary to Huffington Post
Friends,
This is my response to a reporter from the Huffington Post. Thought you might enjoy it.
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Thanks for your inquiry on the current situation in Iowa. In answer to your last question: we have no official/legal affiliation with any other church in Iowa. We do, however, consider all Christians our brothers and sisters, regardless of denominational brandings, and, as has been demonstrated, stand in solidarity with hundreds of churches across Iowa on the sacred issue of holy matrimony.
My official response to the plethora of questions that might be asked is 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.” [Emphasis added.]
I believe she 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.
Iowa’s activist judges are little more than a bellwether of a greater malevolence to come. I will not sit back and allow such groups to use activist courts as their 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.
My public summons to state-wide pastors (for which cause Barry Lynn whimpers), 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.)
Kindest Regards,
Rev. Cary K. Gordon
Liaison to Civil Government
Cornerstone World Outreach
P.S. For more information see my open letter to the “Supremes” at http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2010/10/a-pastoral-letter-to-a-kangaroo-court/