Real Islamophobia, the Homosexual Agenda, and Calls

Beautiful. Well, it's Reformation Day here in Phoenix, Arizona. Beautiful, beautiful day here in Phoenix. About 77 degrees, very slight breeze, not a cloud in the sky. It is absolutely gorgeous. I did read a very interesting article.

I shouldn't mention this if I can't then tell you where it is. But who linked that? I don't know. I get too many things. I've got Feedly and Pocket and Twitter and all that kind of stuff. And I just can't keep up with it all.

I don't think God ever designed us to have this much information flying at us at any one time. But I read an article this morning while rowing. Well, OK, I listened to an article while rowing this morning.

And it was by a RTS grad and a professor of history. And it was all about the history of Halloween. And it wasn't what I expected it to be. I had never spent much time thinking about it, to be honest with you.

But it was very interesting. Maybe, I don't know if that would be enough information to Google it or not. But it was quite interesting. So I guess, yeah, it's Halloween too. But I prefer Reformation Day.

I now have had the opportunity of standing in front of Wittenberg's door myself. Of course, it was under construction. But we have plans within plans. There are plans, believe it or not, to try to arrange a major debate with a Roman Catholic apologist for Wittenberg for 15, 17, in October of 15, it's not 15, 17, 2017, 500 years later.

And I would really look forward to that. I hope that works out. It would be awesome to get an opportunity to defend justification by faith in Wittenberg 500 years down the road. That would be pretty, pretty cool.

Yes. I can't hear a thing you're saying.

Because I pushed the wrong button. You wouldn't be thinking about taking the same road back from that that Luther did. Now you're confused.

I'm confused? It was the road back from the Diet of Worms. Oh, yes. 1521. 1521. That was after... See, that's a place to have it. Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders. Gott, helfe mir. Though that really probably wasn't what he said, but it was close.

But that's a place to have it. Can you translate what I said? So we shouldn't have done that. Tongues. Just trying to be consistent here. And you and I are the only ones here. So if you're not the translator, then...

Here I stand. I can do no other. There you go. We're good. We're good. All right. There we go. Yeah. Well, that was pretty obvious, wasn't it? I thought it was. No, that was the Diet of Worms after he responded to Charles in that fashion and was headed back to Wittenberg and was pseudo-kidnapped by Frederick the Elector, his protector, and became Junker Jorg, not to be confused with the world famous Junker Jorg in Hawaii, who lost his hair.

But I'm not sure if he's even going to hear that. But if he does, then he can drop me an email and go, Hey, I heard that. Just a little secret message I had to send out to somebody. Anyhow, I want to start off the program today, even though we actually have started off the program with another subject.

I've spoken so many times on Reformation Sunday, which I guess would have been last Sunday or maybe next Sunday, whatever. I don't know. Sometimes I sort of lose track of where we are in the year. This is a very, very busy time of the year.

I sort of think the Strange Fire Conference sort of distracted a little bit from the celebration of Reformation Day. But at the same time, I grew up, I had never heard of Reformation Day, not once. And I think the reason it's not nearly as popular as some might wish it was, I think it's become more popular over the years, over the past, you know, 15, 20 years anyways, as people have come to understand the Reformation, the importance of it.

But so many evangelicals today do not have any investment whatsoever in the issues of the Reformation. And in fact, most, if they were to be really, really honest, would look back at that particular time period and the issues are being addressed, and we just don't have a connection, we don't understand.

We are so distracted by our technology, and we don't think about death. I mean, for Martin Luther, and for the people today, the discussion of how you can know right now that you have peace with God was such a day-to-day thing.

I mean, I'm getting into my church history mode here, and I like getting into my church history mode, actually. Someone needs to tweet that we're actually on, because I've got to do that. So somebody tweet that, and I'll retweet it.

Did you? Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, sort of. Yeah. I don't want folks to miss the fact that we're... You know what the funny thing is? This is the regular scheduled time, and we're so, what are they doing on now?

What's that going on? That's weird. Okay. I'm sorry. I just saw Micah had just now caught up and said, apparently, The Dividing Line is live now.

No one tells me. See, don't you see the, from Alpha and Omega Ministry up there, I started a live stream on YouTube? Well, it's at the bottom of my screen. I can barely see it. Oh, okay. See, that's the live stream.

Yeah, but that doesn't say anything about The Dividing Line. I started a live stream on YouTube. That doesn't tell you what it is. Well, I guess. Someone needs to tweet something about The Dividing Line, and then I'll retweet that and let people know that we're actually here.

Anyhow, what I was trying to say before I got so completely distracted, see, Martin Luther would never have been distracted by tweets, would not have been distracted by live streams, nothing like that.

That's why they got things done, and that's why I don't get things done. I need to find that video that I saw on YouTube a few years ago of the lady. It's 20 minutes long, and it's just how you can get sidetracked, sidetracked, sidetracked, and you get to the end of the day, and you got absolutely positively nothing done.

You actually did 47 things, but that's the way it is. So, anyhow, I was trying to talk about church history here very quickly. There is something that we do need to understand. One of the reasons that the Reformation, Sola Fide, the risk of life that Luther faced at the Diet of Worms, that doesn't ring with a lot of people today because of the deep and sad humanism of our day and the fact that we just don't think about death, and hence we don't think about life.

I mean, death was such an ever-present reality. Disease could take you so quickly in those days. We have this false idea that, well, I'll just get to the hospital. There's some diseases running around out there that we cannot fix at all, and they're fast and they're swift.

We've really been lulled into insecurity at that point. But the memory of the plague, which had taken a third of Europe, can you imagine? One out of every three people you knew in cities was dead. Maybe more in cities, because it was more in that area, obviously.

The memory of that was still clear, and the plague would sort of do the return thing. I mean, Calvin stayed and risked infection when the plague came to Strasbourg to care for his parishioners. It would happen.

It would come in, and it wasn't as bad as it had been during the 14th century, but it was still around. And so people thought about eternity, and they thought about how they could have peace with God and things like that.

And so these issues were right on the front burner. But anymore, you try to get most people to think about eternal issues and about stuff like that, and it's just like, no, no, no. Just no interest. Just doesn't ring the bells.

And I think that's reflected in the lives of a lot of people, in regards to what we find interesting and that captures our interest and that we celebrate. And so I certainly celebrate Reformation Day.

I celebrate the fact that God truly, by His grace, broke into Western culture. Now obviously, I recognize that it wasn't October 31st. I mean, I know, and hopefully you know, Luther was not staying there as a Lutheran.

He was a faithful son of the Roman Church. He was an Augustinian monk. All he was doing was posting stuff that he hoped would result in some debates. That's all he was doing. Yeah, he was, he already, God had begun working in such a way, but God had begun working long before Luther.

I mean, you look back at Hus, you look back at Wycliffe, and the light was beginning to dawn, and man, Luther would not have been the guy I would have chosen, okay? Nah, wouldn't have been the guy I would have chosen to be the one, to be the one through whom this message would get out.

But there were so many streams, so many streams that had already come together to allow this to happen. I mean, right at the time that Luther was starting to go, man, those indulgences things, they really stink.

I mean, I'm seeing just how anti-Christian and how far removed from the truth this stuff is. And right at the same time, he comes into possession of one of the first printed Greek New Testaments, printed Greek New Testaments.

And so he has ease of access to the original languages, and he can compare the Latin and the Greek, and that helps him to understand justification by faith and to come to understand things. Well, that came out of the Renaissance, that came out of Erasmus and Ad Fontes, To the Source.

And there's just so many streams. The German nationalism that was rising in that day, which allowed the Germans to go, you know, I don't like this, how we're in charge for these indulgences, and the money leaves Germany and goes to Italy to build the St. Peter's, you know, it seems like a religious tax of some kind based upon forgiveness.

It seems really bad, and of course it was and still is. And so all these things came together in an amazing way, and it's great to tell the story. Unfortunately, most Protestants today don't know the story.

But even when they learn, it's sort of like, oh, that's interesting. It's not the stuff of life, you know, for most people. When it becomes the stuff of life, those are the people that are in no danger of ever going off to Rome or anything like that, because they've come to understand what's really important.

But it's the ones who don't understand that that end up going off to Rome in some way, shape, or form. Anyways, what I want to, I start off saying I want to start off with something else, start off with that.

But just a little brief conversation there on Reformation Day. Ran across something yesterday. I want to bring it to your attention, just as an illustration, hopefully as a warning. Once again, I am disturbed by the, well, we've all heard the abuse of the term phobia, right?

You know, you have certain phobias, and now, of course, homophobia was the first term to come along that is just massively abused and turned into any disagreement with homosexuality whatsoever. And anybody who has a moral bone in their body is considered to be a homophobe and all the rest of this kind of stuff.

Then you have Islamophobe. And the Muslims picked up on this, hey, this works pretty well. You just beat somebody over the head with this phobe thing, and everybody stops thinking, and you win the argument.

And so if you have any disagreement whatsoever with Islam, then you're an Islamophobe. Well, there are homophobes, and now, of course, actually, it should be homosexual-o-phobes, I suppose. There are people who have a bigoted response to homosexuality.

It's not based upon having thought through morality and ethics and the nature of the male and female and marriage and culture and all the rest of that stuff. It's just, I just don't like those folks, okay?

There's people like that. And to take them and apply a term used for them to everybody else that has a moral objection to this, obviously, is absurd. But the same thing is true in regards to Islamophobes.

There are people who are Islamophobes. There are people who they just look at a Muslim, and if that Muslim happens to wear traditional Islamic garb, just automatic fear and automatic prejudice. I've been, if any of you have listened, and I don't know how you could not have, but if any of you have listened to the opening statements that I have been making in my introduction to Islam stuff for months now, I've really been trying to address the fact that Christians, believing Christians, the Christians who I assume are attending some presentation that I would make.

And so, two weekends ago, I was in Spring, Texas with Vody Balkam and his church. Last weekend, I was up in Vancouver with the Sola Scriptura folks, Heinz Daskalonitz, and they'll all tell you that the opening statements that I made were directed to Christians saying, look, we need to understand what Islam teaches.

The primary source of our information from Islam should not be Fox News. I always joke that it's better Fox News and MSNBC, but either one of them are not really what we should have. But also that if we have fear in our hearts toward a Muslim because of the way they dress, because of just our unfamiliarity with them, etc., etc., that in all probability, we are not going to take the opportunity of being the one who opens the dialogue for the presentation of the gospel because that fear is going to cause us to remain quiet, to direct the conversation someplace else, whatever it might be.

That fear can come from many things, it primarily comes from ignorance, but that fear can also be stoked by many people, Christian and non-Christian, but on the right hand of the spectrum of things. And so, as a result, I've told the story more than once that, for example, I've gotten the message a few times from TSA agents, yeah, I will travel with an Arabic Quran in my checked luggage, and twice now, I've gotten to my hotel, opened my luggage, and found sticking out of the Quran, the TSA inspection card.

Now, think about that. If you got to your hotel and you were a Christian minority, you were in a majority Muslim context, you got to your hotel and found an inspection card stuck inside your Bible, don't you think that's a message?

And don't you think somebody in the TSA was trying to give the message, we're watching you? Now, of course, they had no idea who they were watching. They're trying to warn a guy with an Arabic Quran who happens to be a Christian apologist who's going around the world debating Muslims.

So wasted that one, shall we say. But twice that's happened, twice that's happened. And somebody was trying to give me the message, no question about it. And there are acts of vandalism at mosques and things like that, and you got your redneck guy someplace, you know, just wants to get himself a Muslim, and you've got ignorant people like that out there, there's no question about it, they're there.

So someone on channel says they've had that happen with their Farsi Bibles, because Farsi looks like Arabic, I mean, to the untrained eye, they'll stick it in there like, we know you're there, we're watching you, you know.

Well anyways, yesterday I saw something posted, John Mark posted something on Twitter, and I followed the link because I saw the name of Yasir Qadhi. Now I've talked about Yasir Qadhi a number of times on this program, haven't really mentioned him for a while.

I think I mentioned him shortly after the book came out because I had seen an article where he said he's not using the term Salafi of himself any longer, which I found very interesting, and unfortunately I had used it of him in the book, but when I wrote the book, that was still the terminology that was generally used.

But I have spoken with Yasir Qadhi, I have corresponded with Yasir Qadhi, I have listened to hours and hours and hours of Yasir Qadhi in his lectures, and so on and so forth, and I've been very appreciative of the consistent Muslim perspective that is his, he is very conservative, but he is a thinking individual, and I would love to have the opportunity of dialoguing with him someday, I just don't get the feeling that's something he's interested in doing, but I would love to have that opportunity someday, that would be great.

Anyway, I followed the link, and it took me to an article by Tim Brown at FreedomOutpost .com. FreedomOutpost .com. And, you know, Freedom Outpost has the coiled snake, established July 4, 1776, don't tread on us.

And the title is, Tennessee Imam Abu Ammar Yasir Qadhi, Jews and Christians are filthy, their lives and property can be taken in jihad by the Muslims. I started to read it, it says, Abu Ammar Yasir Qadhi, a memphil imam, I'm not sure what that means to be honest with you, based in Tennessee, I assume that has something to do with Memphis, preaches openly about what Islam truly is, he makes no bones about thinking that anyone other than a Muslim doesn't deserve anything, and are less than Muslims.

In fact, part of Yasir Qadhi's preaching includes rhetoric that says non-Muslims' lives are forfeit and their property is legal for Muslims to take in jihad, and this would include women as sex slaves.

Recently, Yasir Qadhi said that, quote, Jews and Christians, and it's not typed properly, it should be, Jews and Christians are filthy, their lives and property can be taken in jihad by the Muslims, end quote.

And then there's a YouTube video, and I watched the YouTube video, and it's very disrespectfully done, it's a still frame of Yasir, and when he's saying things that Mr. Brown can't understand, he goes yada yada, wizza wizza, when he's typing out what it is, because he doesn't know what it is, he doesn't understand what the background is.

It says, Yasir Qadhi is not only a memphil imam, but is also the dean of academic affairs at the Al-Maghrib Institute, he is a hafiz, he has memorized the Quran, and he has an MA in the Islamic creed and a BA in Islamic sciences from Islamic University of Medina, as well as a master's and a doctorate in Islamic studies from Yale.

During a lecture on shirk, or polytheism, Yasir Qadhi said that Jews and Christians are mushrikun, or polytheists, because they have made partners with Allah. From Yasir Qadhi's perspective, only Muslims are monotheists.

He also claims that it is the responsibility of every single human being to bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah and Him alone. Well, yeah. First of all, this wasn't recently.

I started talking to you about listening to those exact lectures back in 2006, 2007. This wasn't some recent thing. These are actually some of Sheikh Qadhi's earlier presentations, and I would imagine he would be a little bit more nuanced today than he was when these were originally recorded.

But what they did in the YouTube video was to take just portions of a lecture. And again, you can go back to whenever it was I started dealing with Qadhi. And I played some of this stuff. I played portions of it.

One of the reasons that I had originally contacted Yasir Qadhi, the possibility of writing the book with me, was because he does take the consistent, and it is the consistent perspective of the vast majority of Muslims in the world, that we as Christians are mushrikun, that our worship of Jesus Christ involves us in shirk, that we are associating someone or something with Allah and that this results in shirk.

And I respect the Muslim who holds to tawhid and hence is very, very concerned about shirk. I respect him a whole lot more than I do the Muslim that doesn't and isn't concerned about these kinds of issues and doesn't see the relationship between tawhid and shirk and things like that.

I mean, if you're going to be a believing Muslim, be a believing Muslim, for crying out loud. I can actually deal with a believing Muslim more easily than I can a liberal Muslim who doesn't share with me a commitment to the idea that there is truth and things like that.

But what they did is they just took sections and piled them all together, and the result is, obviously you can tell by the title, Jews and Christians are filled with their lives of prayer but can be taken in jihad by the Muslims.

Now it's interesting, I played, years ago, his exact statement in regards to jihad, where he said, this cannot be done now. And I expressed then the concern that was mine, because I remember right where I was in South Mountain, I was listening to this, in fact.

He explained that there is no state of jihad today. That's why, you know, one of the things that was unfair about this is Yasir Qadhi has been attacked from his right, because even as a Salafi, he stands against the acts of violence that are perpetrated by some Muslims, by Islamists and things like that.

But the line that he draws is what I tried to point attention to a few years ago when I reviewed these things. And that was, he basically said, there can be no state of jihad because there is no caliph.

There is no caliph today. There is no leader of all the Muslims to be able to proclaim a state of jihad. Now, if there was a leader of all Muslims who could proclaim a state of jihad, then the lives and property of the enemies of the Ummah would be forfeit.

And everything that he said there would be true. And when he was talking about Christians and Jews as najis, that is a term of ritual impurity in regards to people who engage in shirk. And so if you think that we're engaged in false worship, then you're going to say that we are impure in God's sight.

Now, what worries me is that a lot of Christians will grab hold of this stuff. And John Mark hadn't looked into it, didn't look back into the background of it. I told him about it. I said, hey, sorry.

And he pulled it, and that's great. And I appreciate that. But folks, this is the stuff that's done to us all the time. And we get upset about it. This is what is done to us all the time. I mean, you have any idea how easy it would be?

How very, very easy it would be for someone, if they wanted to take the time to go through the stuff I've said on this program over all these years? I mean, all you'd have to do is set up a large hard drive and record for about a month.

You'd have pretty much all the way back to 1998. And you'd hear me saying stuff about Jesus Christ as Lord and judgment coming upon the nations. And why is the video feed dying all of a sudden? I don't know if you're noticing this, but something strange is going on with the camera there.

And that sort of worries me. It just disappeared. It just died. I think the camera just croaked while I was watching it. I'm hoping that's the camera and not smoke or something, because it just went white.

So I just thought I'd mention that in case it's something other than the camera just dying for the last... That's probably one of the older cameras we have. Actually, it isn't. That's terrible. Anyways, just thought I'd point that out to the powers that be.

And I'll continue on to what I was saying. This happens to us all the time. If you recorded all the stuff that I've said, I've talked about judgment coming upon the nation, and I've talked about every knee bowing and every tongue confessing, and you could find all sorts of stuff about judgment and the Lordship of Christ and all that stuff and make me sound like a complete nutcase.

A complete nutcase. It would be pretty easy to do by ignoring the context, ignoring everything else that I was saying. And that's exactly what's been done here. And unfortunately, a lot of Christians don't care if it's done to Yasir Qadhi because, well, he dresses funny and his name is different than what we'd like.

You know, all that kind of stuff. But we have to be consistent. We have to recognize if people are going to put together this kind of unfair compilation of citations and take it out of its context, not that there's...

Look, there's reasons to think about what Yasir Qadhi said about what the dividing line for jihad is. There's reasons to be concerned that for a non-jihadi, the line there, it seems rather scarily thin.

But that means I would want to talk with Yasir Qadhi about how we can understand that and what the foundations of that are and how that's different than Christianity, not just go, oh, we need to... There's someone that's dangerous and we need to, you know, don't want this person around type of thing.

That starts getting into the area of, well, Islamophobia. It really does. Because it's not a rational... It's not seeking to understand what he's saying and to disagree with it from a Christian perspective in a fair way.

It's just, I don't like what the Muslims are saying. And I'm going to apply one standard to them. It's not the same standard I apply to my own faith. And I am so super sensitive to that because I have to deal with it constantly coming from the other direction.

Constantly coming from the other direction. And so I think it's far better to err on the side of grace at that point. And so I even contacted Yasir Qadhi and he directed me to a response that he himself had put up when...

This is July 3rd of this year, I guess. And so a few months ago, the audio clip had been put up. Now, this one that I had seen yesterday was really... What was the date on this? October 29th. So this is...

They just must have glommed onto this recently, I suppose, at Freedom Outpost 1. Evidently, this is something that's not overly new. But he had responded to that. And this is available at MuslimMatters .org, which I think they must have...

Now that I think about it, they must have changed their RSS feed. And I need to get back on it because I used to get their stuff. So I would have seen this. But I think I lost the RSS feed and didn't even realize it.

Well, now I know. So I'll try to fix that. But anyway, he thanked me for pointing it out to him. And I just wanted to point that out that, folks, we just can't go that direction. We cannot behave in this way.

Even if the Muslims do not reciprocate, even if the Muslims do not respond to us, it doesn't matter. We still have to, out of service to Christ, do what is appropriate at that point. And that's just absolutely necessary.

877 -753 -3341, phone number today if you'd like to get involved with the program. 877 -753 -3341. I mentioned last week my thanks for the words of Al Mohler as he spoke at BYU. It looks like there's something going on up there.

Because on October 30th, so yesterday, religionnews .com, evangelical visits to BYU signal a new evangelical Mormon detente. And the picture here is of Richard Land, the new president of Southern Evangelical Seminary at Brigham Young University.

It says, last month, after being sure to get his caffeine fix at Starbucks, Southern Baptist leader Richard Land went where a few evangelicals had dared to go before, the campus of Brigham Young University, intellectual heart of Mormonism.

I went there. It just kicked me off. But of course, that was many, many moons ago, and I was passing out tracks, so it was a little bit different. But it also, unfortunately, mentions Richard Mao and all the compromisers that have been up there.

And that, of course, is the problem. Even when good folks go up there because of people like Mao and others. It's just, who's to know? That's the problem. They've got a bunch of pictures of Mao and Millet, and we've talked about the soft-selling of Islam to a soft-selling of Mormonism.

Muslims, Mormon, I wish they had different starting letters. It'd be easier for me to keep track. What?

Well, since you were talking about Mormonism, I just thought I'd point out that this morning, I uploaded a never-before-seen….

Which is the main reason I can't get my internet to work anymore.

In public video, it's been a…. And yeah, you're not connected to the console, so you don't see the caller. Oh, that's true. It's been available on the audio side of things, but I finally found a way to be able to produce this in video, and it is now on the YouTube site.

I'll be actually posting later this evening the links and stuff to it into the blog. But the Witnessing to Mormon Seminar from 1994, ladies and gentlemen, if you would like to see James. White skinny with hair, no beard.

Well, you got back around to it. True, true. And actually, I think in some regards, those watching on video will be able to tell you, you're still a little bulkier now than you were then. No. Yeah, you are.

No, I'm not. I happen to know my weight now than I did then, and no, I'm not.

Yeah, but I don't think you'd actually lifted anything called weights back then.

No, that's true, but I weigh the same thing now as I did then. I can't get into the phones, so I just thought I'd let you know that. Well, we do have a caller. I can't do anything about it because the connection failed, so….

Yeah, it took me two or three shots to get into it, and then it let me in. I don't know what that's about, but…. Oh, that's exciting, I wonder.

Well, I think I do know who it is. I think one of the reasons I can't do anything on the net today is because that thing needs a brain cleaning, again, very badly. So once you're done whatever you're doing, once we're done here, we got to reset everything.

And I wish there was some way of telling it to do that at three o 'clock in the morning. Yeah, no kidding. Well, and the problem is, what about that poor one person who's listening to the Weighback Machine at three o 'clock in the morning?

That'd be bad. Very, very bad. But anyways, I have no idea. You're going to have to give me some information about phone calls and stuff otherwise, because I do not have access to the phone system in here at all.

I have tried. 877 -753 -3341 is the phone number if you'd like to get involved with the program today. I'm going to try to get the phones working on a different computer, maybe. I don't know if that's going to work, but probably won't.

Because once Comrex doesn't want to talk to you, Comrex does not want to talk to you. But anyways, I was saying, we're going to have to keep an eye on what's going on at BYU because it is very, very, very interesting.

And I'm not sure where it's going. And I think the reason I'm not sure where it's going is because I don't think the Mormons know where it's going. That's the whole issue. And my concern is that they want to utilize this kind of willingness on the part of people to mainstream more.

Maybe they think that's the direction they need to go. I don't know. Now my computer can't even find the server. So we've got major problems. Just hope we make it through the program today without the whole thing falling down around our ears.

Well, I listen to this, and I think this is pretty much consistent with how the LDS Church has done things over the last 20, 30 years, and that is go out and befriend people and just kind of push all that stuff.

What was that guy out in Mesa?

What was his name? That came over to the office, an older fella, doing the same thing. Yeah, wanted to just sort of do the chit-chat thing.

Just befriend you, let's all get along.

How much we have in common.

We don't need to be talking about gods and stuff like that. Yeah, all that theology stuff. That's exactly, yeah. Yeah, his name will come to me.

Yeah, it's been a long time. Right there. He was very, very old when I met him a long time ago, so he may not even be around anymore for that matter. But yeah, that's the same thing going on there. Before we go to the phone calls, since this is relevant.

Perfect. I saw this article a couple weeks ago. I didn't realize this. We now have our first same-sex married U .S. Ambassador. Thank you, President Barack Obama. U .S. Ambassador to Australia marries in private same-sex ceremony.

There's a picture. Wedding rings are exchanged between U .S. Ambassador John Barry and some fellow by the name of Curtis Yee, partners of 17 years. And of course, the person officiating is a woman. And of course, it's a radical leftist liberal church in Washington, D .C.

Where else would it be? But isn't it wonderful that as Australians seek to fight against the redefinition of marriage in their country, the ambassador from the United States of America is himself an open and avowed homosexual who has profaned marriage.

Is he the husband or the wife? We don't know because those terms don't mean anything anymore. Those words are meaningless within this context and cannot be defined because we have lost our simple, common ethical and moral sense.

It is absolutely a shame. And that we are exporting this and doing so purposely. That also should cause us to consider this article from Christian .org .uk. Free speech laws that allow people to express their opinions about homosexual conduct should be scrapped, Labour leadership hopeful Ed Miliband says.

Incredibly, he claims the law, which has been backed by Parliament on four occasions, makes it harder to convict murderers. His extraordinary comments appear in an opinion article he wrote for the homosexual website Pink News.

The current law says that, for the avoidance of doubt, criticizing same-sex conduct or urging people to refrain from such conduct is not, in itself, a crime. It was inserted by Parliament into a sexual orientation hate crime law following a string of alarming cases where Christians had been investigated by the police for their beliefs about sexual ethics.

Well, duh. But Mr. Miliband says that he was angry that the free speech protection had been introduced, and he claimed that the safeguard makes it harder to convict someone for killing someone because of their sexuality than for their skin color.

Throughout his article, Mr. Miliband took pains to stress his commitment to the homosexual agenda. He voiced his support for attempts to radically redefine the nature of marriage in the UK, and he praised a recent court ruling in California that ignored 7 million voters on the issue of same-sex marriage.

Yeah, okay, that would be, we know which one that was. So, there you go. Anybody still naive enough to think that any one of these alleged free speech or religious speech protecting amendments, little codicils that are put in law, are actually going to stand.

It's not going to happen. They're there only to get the law passed, and then they will be torn out, ripped out as fast as can be. I don't know why anybody anywhere believes anything any politician has to say anymore.

But especially when it comes to the left, you need to understand they want to shut us down. They want to silence us. The idea that, well, we've put in language that will protect the Church, and no, no, no, no, no.