Pastors who speak against racism but not LGBT & Putting kids through "Transgender" surgeries

So what are this is the question?

What are the issues?

The church is facing right now.

What are issues churches have to deal with?

Well, there's a lot of people talking about the issue of Racism right.

That was that was a big thing.

In 2020, especially obviously there was all the kovat lockdown stuff.

That was a big issue.

Is your church going to remain open?

Are you going to just submit to the whatever the government says.

We will do whatever the government says.

That's an issue obviously.

But then you have.

The whole.

Pride month.

LGBT transgender surgeries for kids, that's a huge issue.

Because there's churches and obviously this is you know.

If you have a local Bible -believing church, there's probably not too many people in there.

Hopefully none that would support such a thing, but you get a church where there's a couple hundred people.

You're gonna have a few.

So I think of what are the big issues?

Racism.

I just want to read this statement.

It was sent to me several years ago.

It was sort of in reaction to the Charlottesville thing.

Remember the unite the right rally in August of 2017.

A few days later.

This statement was put out by area pastors.

In fact a couple of the largest Supposedly evangelical churches in Hampshire County

the pastors Helped draft this statement.

They send it out to other pastors, which is how I got it.

And.

It's the statement on racism.

So based on this these pastors really felt that racism was kind of one of if not

the big issue.

The church was facing one of the big issues.

Let me just read it Statement on racism Says as

evangelical Christians and churches we Categorically oppose racism

and to that I'd say yes.

Amen.

The agendas of the Ku Klux Klan white supremacists and white nationalists

the alt -right and Neo -nazis are Antithetical to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I remember when I read that I didn't it wasn't sure what the alt -right was.

So I googled it and every article that mentioned the alt -right.

Always mentioned something about Donald Trump.

So I was assuming you know since this Statement was sent out a few days

after the Charlottesville thing I I assumed it was a rebuke against pastors who might have

voted for Trump.

That's sort of how I took it.

Maybe that's true.

Maybe that's not but let me continue reading furthermore, we affirm that to

support Encourage or to take part in these groups and their activities or to

indulge in or accept Personal racism it has no place

in the Christian life and to stay silent in the face of such monstrous

sin.

Shows neither love for Jesus nor love for the humanity for whom he died.

We attest to the equality of all races knowing that every human being is made in the image of

God so to stay silent after the Charlottesville incident to

stay silent and the face of such a monstrous sin.

It shows that you don't love Jesus.

Okay, so notice it doesn't say that Racism is a monstrous sin.

Because racism is a sin.

To hate somebody because of their ethnicity Is wrong.

The Bible calls this partiality and it's wrong.

But notice it doesn't say that racism is a monstrous sin.

It says that to stay silent is a monstrous sin, you know, silence is violence I

guess and if you do stay silent, maybe you don't love Jesus.

So this is actually probably the most strongly worded statement I've ever seen.

Taking a hard line.

But yeah racism to hate someone mistreat them over their skin color.

It's wrong.

Absolutely.

But you know, I and when I read this and even today I wonder if they would take

A hard line if they would say maybe the same thing.

About the agenda to put kids through transgender surgery.

But let's continue with the article or the statement against racism.

God created man in his own image the image of God he created him male and female.

He created them Genesis 1 27 and he made from one blood.

Every nation of mankind to live in all the face of the earth acts 1726.

So we stand in solidarity with all those who have fought.

Okay, so this is interesting.

We stand in solidarity with all those who have fought often to the last measure

to overthrow racism in the modern era the abolitionists of the Civil War those who

opposed the racism of the Nazis and Imperial Japan during second the Second World War

and those who advocated for civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s.

Along with those who continue to work for human dignity or human equality and dignity today.

So, you know, we stand with those who fought in the Civil War.

This this is a bullet statement where you actually have pastors now supporting warfare.

Where you have pastors making a statement where they affirm Warfare and the use of

force to fight against what they view as an evil ideology again I just

wonder if They would support The use of force by the

government to fight against other evils.

Would you support?

The government using force to fight against maybe Transgender surgery for kids.

I I Don't know.

But it continues we affirm that not only is all of humanity made in God's

image and thus of equal value all of humanity stands in need of God's saving

grace and is the focus of his Incredible love for God's to love the world and it quotes John 316.

This fundamental equality of all human beings is the true understanding of human dignity and worth.

Okay, so that's that's the statement and then it quotes Romans 10 12.

So a hard -line statement against Racism and while I agree with the sentiment against

racism, you know, maybe not the silence is violence Thing that they sort of hinted

at but the overall sentiment against racism.

Yes racism is wrong to be clear Racism is wrong.

Every pastor.

I know Believes racism is wrong.

No question.

But racism not really a pressing issue in churches here in Massachusetts We're

not really facing that as a big issue.

So to see a strongly word a statement against that I thought was.

Well somewhat surprising.

But what is?

Maybe the big issue of our day.

Is it not?

The LGBT agenda and abortion.

But just to focus on this one thing LGBT compromise.

I mean, this is a big issue of all the churches.

I know of that have gone bad.

It's almost always started with compromise on this issue of the whole Gay

marriage agenda and all that and now it's gone to the extreme of putting little children through transgender

surgery, so after reading this Statement against racism, I've never

forgot it.

I reached out to a few of these pastors to see if they would be willing to draft a similar statement

against the LGBT agenda and how that's.

Facing the church a lot of churches wrote it into their Church Constitution that we will not perform

gay weddings because churches are afraid of getting sued.

So this this is a pressing issue when all these churches are changing their Constitution to protect

against it.

Big issue definitely.

So I reached out to these pastors and I said would you be willing to draft a similar statement and I'll do it with you.

Hey, will you be willing to pass or draft a similar statement against?

LGBT putting kids through transgender surgeries.

One pastor responded.

He told me quote.

There will be no statement.

He said It's too complicated.

The LGBT issue it's just not that clear that's too hard.

It would take like a year so they drafted this statement on racism in about two days.

Maybe a week.

But.

He said it would take a better part of a year to dread LGBT too complicated too hard.

There will be no statement.

Another pastor that I reached out to who leads probably the largest church in Western Mass

and the Northampton area.

He said he didn't want to speak out against LGBTQ in a statement.

He said I'd rather handle that in my preaching.

So I went to his YouTube channel to see what kind of things he's saying in his sermons and the one

Thing that did come up the one time where he did address it.

He asked the question is the Bible oppressive towards the LGBT

Lifestyle.

Is the Bible oppressive towards transgenders.

And he said his response was you know.

That's a really hard question and a difficult one and that's a direct quote.

Well, here's the thing.

It's not a hard state.

It's not a hard question.

It's not a difficult question.

It's not difficult at all.

It's very very clear.

So why is it?

To that they would put out a statement against racism, but.

Absolutely, we will not put out a statement against LGBT.

Hmm.