There Comes a Time — Michael L. Brown

Lord we love you. I thank you for your people. We desire to please you. We desire to do your will. We desire father to live our lives in such a way that glorifies you. I Pray that you would stir us. I pray that you would speak to us.

I pray that you would shake us. I pray that you would awaken us. I pray that you would give us ears to hear what your spirit is saying father. May there be the sounding of an alarm that resonates in each of our hearts.

May fire step up to its divine calling and destiny in this hour in Jesus name. Amen. Friday night. I spoke a basic message about leaving our first love. Gave a call to turn back to God gave ways to look at our lives to see if we have in fact Abandoned left our first love.

Last night we preached on the need for the power of the Holy Spirit. Asked where is the power of the gospel and the power of the Spirit? Today, I want to speak something that rallies us and calls us together.

Something of urgent importance something that I'm quite sure is a word from the Lord. Not just for us at fire, but for believers all over America. So if you need a title, the title is there comes a time.

Many of you know this verse from 1st Chronicles 12 verse 32 because I've I've used it often in preaching in. The account there in 1st Chronicles 12. It mentions the mighty men who joined David when he was in Hebron to help bring the kingdom into his hands.

These were warriors. These were battle-tested people. And when you read the account beginning a few verses earlier. It talks about the weaponry they carried. It talks about their skill in battle. One after another after another some large numbers and then verse 32.

There's this little group and if you'll notice it doesn't mention their weaponry and it doesn't mention that their battle-tested. It says something else about them, but I'm quite convinced that in a real way.

They were the most important part of the whole group. Men of Issachar who understood the times and knew what Israel should do. 200 chiefs with all their relatives under their command. I have no interest in abstract Bible prophecy and people trying to match Headlines in the news with scriptures in the Bible just for some kind of fascination.

I have no interest in that. I have no interest in prophetic speculation. I'm interested in knowing what time is it and what are we supposed to do as God's people? What's happening in the world? And what is our divine assignment in this generation?

Depending on when you live depending on where you live depending on the setting in which God places you there are distinct things that he Gives us to do. What time is it? What is the urgent word? What is the urgent matter?

What is it that we must give our attention to and if we don't we will be failing in God's purposes for this hour in particular those of us here at fire. Now if you've heard me preach about anti-semitism in church history.

You've heard me speak of some of the ugly things that Martin Luther said centuries ago. He also said some wonderful things that I don't want to read to you his words. Martin Luther said this over 500 years ago.

If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition. Every portion of the truth of God. Except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking. I am NOT confessing Christ.

However boldly I may be professing Christ where the battle rages there the loyalty of the soldier is proved and to be steady on all battlefields beside is merely flight and Disgrace if he flinches at that point.

There are times when God's people must rise up. There are times when we must stand. There are issues that rise up in a culture. There are things that happen in a time in society and and we can be busy on a hundred other fronts.

But if we neglect that front we're being disobedient to God. We are missing the point of the battle where the battle rages there the loyalty of the soldier is proved and to be steady on all battlefields beside is Merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

And I want to remind you of the words of another Martin Luther. Martin Luther King as we we ask the question in a moment. Number one. Where is the battle raging? Where where is this battle that's raging that we must give attention to.

Are there specific things right now in this? Generation that we cannot miss that we cannot let slide by and if we do we'll find ourselves accountable. Before God, where is the battle raging number one and number two?

What are we called to do? What is our function as God's people in society in a given generation and a given time. I Remind you of what Jesus said to his disciples. And if we quote these words every Sunday and every day of the week until we die, it won't be too many times.

This is Jesus speaking to his people his disciples. To us to you to me. He could walk in here right now and look at all of us and say these words to each of us here that are his Followers you are the salt of the earth.

You are the moral conscience of the society. You are the moral preservative of the society. I Was doing an interview with a fellow the other day that was involved with getting the CS Lewis Narnia books onto the big screen.

And the end of the day I made the comment that the problem in our society is not the presence of darkness. But it's the absence of light. I Don't expect the world to be godly. Doesn't trouble me that sinners sin or troubles me for them.

I want them to know God. I want them to be forgiven and to repent, but I don't expect sinners to do good thing. I don't expect godless producers to put out godly godly movies. The problem in our society is not the presence of darkness is the absence of light.

The problem is not that the world has no conscience is that the church is not bringing a conscience. You Jesus says to us his disciples are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses a saltiness. How can it be made salty again?

It's no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled by man. If we no longer have our distinctiveness if we no longer have an example. It's different than the world if we no longer are holy counterculture people going against the grain of the society.

What good are we? Jesus says this. You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl instead. They put it on its stand and it gives light to everyone in the house in the same way.

Let your light shine before men that they may see your good deeds and praise your father in heaven. There's the aspect of light which comes down to doing good acts of mercy acts of kindness feeding the poor.

Helping those in need and that needs to be continually an expression of who we are. It's an expression of God's heart. The poor for the hurting for the needy and if you look at what fire is doing around the world by God's grace.

We have been strong in this and there's been much outreach even in our communities here. Some may not be aware, but there's consistent work to minister to the poor and the hurting here and around the world.

There's another aspect of light. Paul speaks of it in Ephesians 5. It's that light exposes darkness. That's why people hate the light. Because it exposes sin because it makes them uncomfortable. That's why when the light shines we we want to hide it and we want to run from it if we're in sin.

It is part of our function to be salt. It is part of our function to be light and I appreciate the way Martin Luther King expressed this years ago. The church must be reminded. He said that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

It must be the guide and the critic of the state never its tool. Look we have been so Shattered and blasted and shaken by scandal after scandal among leaders one corrupt leader after another exposed. Shameful things in the body taking place that we're glad just to be as good as the world these days.

We just want to stay out of the gossip columns for a little while. It's shameful. It's painful. It's something that should get us on our face repenting corporately because that's not just people out there.

That's us. The fact is we should be living lives that are so different because we've been Transformed by the Lord because the Word of God lives in us that the difference in our lives makes the unsaved uneasy.

That it brings conviction to them so that they want to find out about our God and they want to find out what they must Do to be saved. That's supposed to be our function in the society the conscience of the state.

It's difficult to be the conscience of the state when we drink in the media and drink in Hollywood and drink in TV and drink In internet and drink in videos and drink it all this other stuff more than we drink in the word.

It's hard for us to be conscience. But that's our calling. Look at what King said if the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal. It will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.

You tell me if that's not a description of much of the Church of America an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority. And what we try to do is attract numbers of people to come to a Sunday meeting and we think that that's the gospel.

If that Sunday meeting or that Saturday meeting or whenever it is does not impact the lives of the people. So we go out and impact the world. That's not the gospel. Let me read one other quote. That's relevant.

That King wrote in his letter from a Birmingham jail, he said there was a time when the church was very powerful as during that period when the early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed in.

In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion. It was a thermostat that transformed the morals of society. Wherever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being disturbers of the peace and outside agitators.

But they went on with the conviction that they were a colony of heaven and had to obey God rather than man. They were small in number but big in commitment. Come on, read the book of Acts wherever the believers went things shook.

There was either revival or riot or both and it's not because they were obnoxious troublemakers. It's because they were light bearers and truth bearers and full of the Spirit. And the kingdom of God was coming in conflict with the kingdom of darkness.

King continues they were too God intoxicated to be astronomically intimidated. They brought to an end such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest. Things are different now the contemporary church is often a weak and effectual voice with an uncertain sound.

It is so often the arts supporter of the status quo. I was looking at some journal entries I spotted a couple nights ago. About 10 -11 years back and I'd written down the words how I hate white-collar Christianity.

How I hate Christianity within four walls. This is this tame home and garden religion that doesn't threaten the kingdom of darkness at all. This nice smile he keeps everybody happy finds out what people like and tries to cater to it.

That's the gospel today in America and friends that's not the gospel. It may have some elements of truth that may have believers in the midst of it. But that's not the gospel in accordance with Scripture.

It calls us to deny ourselves take up the cross follow Jesus. Following Jesus 101 is I give my life for the gospel. That's not the advanced class for the Super Saints. That's where it's supposed to start.

I remind you and I was with my friend Yesu Potem doing baptisms as we do every year in India for 17 years. That as people are baptized as they're making a public profession of faith. He asked them in Telugu in the the language of that state in India.

Are you willing to follow Jesus even to the point of death? Are you willing to follow him by life by death just to get baptized just getting started? People aren't serious on that level. You don't belong.

We have a task in front of us. Our calling is to be salt and light. But where is the battle raging? What is the critical issue that we must give attention to? I know many of you at fire will immediately resonate with what I'm saying.

I know many of you will know where I'm going. I know others especially if you're newer or don't know me at all may take offense or may misunderstand. I have no problem if you take offense after you hear me.

That's between you and God. If you curse me hate me after you hear me. That's between you and God if you differ with me after you hear me. That's between you and God, but at least hear me. At least let me present what I'm gonna present and don't hear something I'm not saying.

It's the most remarkable thing that the moment I'll touch on the subjects. We're about to touch on people hear everything except what I'm saying. And they'll tell the pastor afterwards. They'll show me the emails that come in.

The people are furious with me. They said brother you weren't saying that at all. So if you're gonna get mad get mad for a good reason. Yeah, we're out of time isn't it? We've got to go to the next service now.

Sorry King said this far from being disturbed by the presence of the church the power structure of the average community is Consoled by the church is silent and often vocal sanction of things as they are.

Talk about it. Wow. You can read about 15 books that I had written up until 2004 2005 and If you read those books you'll find a lot those that are Spiritual life oriented those those that are not dealing with Jewish issues and things that are dealing with Repentance in the church and so on you'll find a lot about sin in our midst.

You'll find a lot about Heterosexual sin. You'll find a lot about Sexual sin that we need to repent of when we're talking about moral issues in the society. You will not find must mention at all. Maybe a few lines total in all the books that has anything to do with homosexuality.

What I'm about to talk to you about what I'm about to bring your attention to is not something that I've majored on through the years. This is not an area of ministry that God had primarily called me to get involved with.

I don't come out of this background. This is not something that was high on my attention or radar until we got here and God began to speak to me. After others that had been involved in ministry here invited some of our folks to attend the local gay pride parade.

And it was after that that God began to speak to me. We had known things were issues in our society. But God had not laid them on my heart in terms of my specific mandate. Question where is God calling us to take a stand?

January 2005 this word came to my heart it had burning been burning in me through 2004. But that a prayer vigil in front of the Supreme Court with with Lou Engel and others standing for pro-life. God spoke this word to me.

Reach out and resist. It was January of 2005. Reach out and resist meaning. Reach out to those that identify as gay lesbian bisexual Transgender. Reach out to them with compassion if that's you if that's a family member I want to announce as loudly and clearly as I can that Jesus died for people with same sex attraction.

The same as he died for heterosexuals. And that the love of God is poured out on this entire world. And that no one is rejected by who they are. The door is open for salvation healing redemption forgiveness for all.

Reach out to the homosexual community with compassion. Resist gay activism with courage. I want to present to you today that the greatest challenge lying before us as believers. The point of battle that Luther spoke about.

The point where we must take a stand. The point where we must be awakened and become the moral conscience of society. Is this very area the area of gay activists. You may think. Oh come on Mike you've lost it.

You got a good ministry to Jewish people and and revival. And you get this good radio show and these other things that you know you teach at seminaries. You've lost you become this foaming at the mouth fundamentalist.

Just give me a couple minutes. Let me share a couple things with you. Let me tell you what's happening. Because some of us have no idea what's happening in society. And others have been so bombarded by what's happening in society.

We've already lost our moral courage. We've already capitulated. I mean you have to remember that it's been several years now. Since it was a big announcement that a major Southern Baptist Church here in Charlotte.

Began ordaining practicing homosexuals into clergy. Began ordaining them into ministry. That was a headline several years ago. How many of you went to the grocery store in the last week. Checked in checked out.

Looked right at that magazine cover with Elton John and his partner. Elton has a baby. And you hardly even realized it noticed it. Went to the store and said what in the world is this. This affects our kids.

This affects our kids. This is this is present Los Angeles school policy. Gender identity refers to one's understanding interest outlook and feelings. About whether one is female or male or both or neither regardless of one's biological sex.

That's official school policy. That's the most insane statement you'll ever read. And it's official school policy official school policy in San Francisco schools. Restroom accessibility. Students shall have access to the restroom that corresponds to their gender identity.

Exclusively and consistently at school. So Johnny is convinced he's Jane. That's how he dresses. That's how he goes to school. He uses the girls locker room. He uses the girls bathroom. This is reality friends this is happening all over the place on our watch.

Oh if we had been there in the days of slavery we would have done something. Oh we'd been there just oh we would have done. We were there in Nazi Germany we would have done something. Folks took a stand for Jews and others in Nazi Germany.

They could be tortured likely killed suffer horrors for them and their family. We take a stand today. Maybe somebody gets mad at us and that's too much. Here the riddle homophobia scale which is used in some high schools now as a way to test for homophobic attitudes.

Homophobic attitudes now include repulsion pity tolerance and acceptance. According to the homophobia scale now if you are tolerant and accepting you are a homophobe. This is what's expected. These are positive levels of attitude support admiration appreciation nurturance.

You must support homosexuality admire it appreciate and nurture it. This is taught in the schools. And I was preaching about some of these themes in Florida a few weeks ago a pastor wanted me to address this.

And I was talking about some of these things and at the end of this message I'm going to talk to you practically about things that we can do and that God is calling us to do. But first I need to sound the alarm after the message man came up to me from England.

He said I pre-ordered five of your books, which I'll tell you about later. I pre-ordered five of your books. He said I've come from England six years ago. It's already all over and I said oh, yeah I address it in one chapter.

I talk about religious rights and freedoms being taken away and street preachers being arrested you name it. Old folks homes being told they have to introduce homosexual teaching and stuff like that on and on so it's in the book.

He said I came from England six years ago. He said I got to get this book out to people because I don't want what's happening in England to happen here. And I see it happening. He told me about his 13 year old daughter coming home from school one day.

And she had sex ed material that she had brought home. He started flipping through it. I cannot repeat to you what he told me she was learning and 13 years old and He went to the school and talked about it.

They said well, that's up to the headmasters discretion. How about children's readers? Some of you know, I've bought every one of these I could just to show what's out there. I got a stack of these book after book two daddies in me a tale of two daddies.

Daddy's roommate Heather has two mommies. Oh the old classic Mama, excuse me. Mommy mama and me daddy papa and me. Here's from one of the books. There's much to learn. I'm off to school. My daddy's walk with me.

It's so cool. How about this one dad two dads brown dad blue dad's the dedication of the book says to Jacob who has only one mom and One dad but don't feel sorry for him. They're both great parents. Think if he could have had two dads instead of just one.

How about this book? Oh the things mommies do what could be better than having two? I'll give you an answer to that. Oh my mommy's bring me glee. What could be better than having three? I Mean, why not?

Look, don't don't worry about it. Don't worry about the fact that kids are being raised that are guaranteed to never have a mother or never have a father. Don't let that trouble you. Don't let that trouble you that gender itself is under attack.

Don't worry about it after all we had a nice service praise the Lord. After all your own family's healthy praise the Lord. After all you tithe and got a financial miracle this week. Praise the Lord doesn't matter society's going to hell around us and Jesus coming back pretty soon.

So we'll all be out of here. Anyhow. So I remember hearing about 40 years ago, how about this coloring book girls will be boys will be girls. This is a description of the book the antithesis of the Dick and Jane coloring book.

This is a funny playful and provocative provocative deconstruction of traditional gender roles. The activist authors use drawings as well as images taken from old children's books to show how completely silly and unnecessary most common gender assumptions are.

There is an attack on the very foundations of human society, which is male female moms dads family. Everything under assault the last page of King and King. Yes. Those are two boys kissing a children's reader many reports of parents.

Calling the school shocked when their first grader first grader comes home. Oh. What'd you learn in school that all we learned about King and King. The Queen tells the prince he's gonna be king soon, and he needs to get married.

So he surveys all of the kingdom all the girls all the ladies and finally finds another prince and the two of them get married and live happily ever after. In fact I have the book that's the sequel to this King and King on their honeymoon.

What's a children's version? This is this is the last page of the book. We have become so Desensitized we have become so numbed. We have so lost our conscience in our sense of right and wrong. We don't want to sound like intolerant bigots that we forget how perverse this is.

The scary thing is we can talk about some of this in some circles and people like. So what's so bad about that? That's how far we've lost our conscience. By the way, I recently did a TV show for a friend of mine with a major international ministry and a major international TV show.

He was burdened about these issues and asked me to come on and do the show. But of course we knew we can't air this in Canada. Can't air it in Canada would not get by the censors. Those of you that think well, I'm safe because I'm homeschooling.

I'm safe because my kids are in Christian school watch and see what's coming. If we don't speak up now. We're not gonna have the right to teach what we want to teach our kids in the home and there are parts of America Ready where parents have been brought to court over these issues teaching their kids at home.

The glisten lunchbox stands for gay lesbian straight education network used in elementary schools nicely packaged. I didn't bring in all this stuff with me to show you. But it's got all the exercises.

Here's what you teach kids elementary school different lessons. One of the lessons is called this. Getting in touch with your inner tranny. This is to help participants better understand and personally relate to the breadth of issues around gender identity and expression.

In other words, you're gonna ask little kids. Hey, are you called boy? Sometimes you don't really feel like a boy. Maybe you're really transgender. Maybe you're a boy in a girl's body or a girl in a boy's body and this is an exercise to help people get in touch with their inner transgender identity used in our schools and.

What might surprise you is it may be used in a school right here that your kids are in. You say surely not here. All right, one of our gals I've had her talk about this many times when she shared it with me.

Heather. Heather and said Heather was teaching in a preschool here in Charlotte for four-year-olds. Four-year-olds in Charlotte. Is that close enough to home? She was not allowed to address the kids as boys and girls since that would be making a gender distinction right here in Charlotte at a highly rated preschool and.

Some of those books I mentioned they were on the reading list to read to the kids. You said you drop your kid off for nursery school for or for preschool. You don't know what they're getting. Of course, Heather just didn't read those books.

Come on, this is a few years old this news now. New York Times reported this Park day school in Oakland, California. Teachers are taught a gender-neutral vocabulary and are urged to line up students by sneaker color rather than by gender.

Quote Tom Little the school's director. We're careful not to create a situation where students are being boxed in. We allow them to move back and forth until something feels right. I spoke back in May in Burke, North Carolina, so what's maybe an hour a quarter hour and a half from here?

Concerned pastors has asked me to come in and talk about these things on a Tuesday night. In fact Saturday February 5th for those that are interested want to take the trip to Burke. There's an all-day seminar talking about these issues talking about practical ways where the church can minister to people in need people hurting people struggling and why these issues are important.

And Testimonies from people who've come out of homosexuality by the grace and power of God. Saturday February 5th. So I do this teaching talk about some of these issues. Woman testifies that had come out of lesbianism shares her story.

Afterwards different leaders start to come up to me privately secretly. Yeah, we got this problem with young people. Three kids now identify this game. We're quite how to deal with it and different ones come out privately to tell me what's going on as if it's a shameful thing.

You can't talk about open. One pastor tells me this this is rural, North Carolina. He says you know my daughter's got a good friend. Another girl loves softball. Burke, North Carolina loves softball. She just quit the girls softball team.

Why? Because she was the only non-lesbian on the team. Don't worry about it. Maybe you're into football. The Super Bowl is coming soon. I mean, that's what really matters. Don't worry about these petty little things that a whole generation is being picked off.

That moral foundations are being completely undermined that we're losing all sense of right and wrong and that a plague of sexual destruction Is coming in the church. Don't sweat it. After all there's a coupon for a discount at the restaurant.

I look I'm just talking straight that most of us are so caught up with daily life and Just maintaining and being happy at the fact that the moral fiber of our society is crumbling all around us hardly matters.

I'm like there's hardly a day that goes by where this is not in the news. Be it issues having to do with same-sex marriage being issues having to do with homosexual men and women serving openly in the military.

Being issues having to do with the employment discrimination things look. It's touching businesses right in our own community here at fire. The Kurtz the courts ruled in Massachusetts that it's more important to teach the children diversity than to honor the requests of the parents.

Is that the famous case David and Tanya Parker their little boy goes to school kindergarten first grade comes home with the children's reader? Who's in a family and some of the options you know two moms two dads?

They go to speak to the school and say hey if this is going to happen. We need to be alerted so we can pull our kids out. The school makes clear. No, we're not going to do that. Plus same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts.

Ends up going all the way to appeals court. The Supreme Court has refused to hear it. So this is where it stands. The court made a ridiculous ruling and said it is more important to teach diversity meaning homosexual values etc more important to teach diversity than to honor the requests of the parents and.

Then one another dad Sean Lannan wrote in about his first grader and said I want to be notified before these things are taught. They said you must be new to town or you don't know about the court ruling.

It's already the law in parts of England now. Where parents Muslim Christian parents go to pull their kids out you may have like a whole gay emphasis month. At the schools, and they want to pull the kid out just for one especially offensive week they are told you are not allowed to and there will be an academic punishment if you pull your kid out as.

Some gay activists have said there is no other side of the story. Dietrich Bonhoeffer said this the ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leads to its children. This is happening on our watch.

Come on. How many of you caught the news at the end of last year? If you're applying for a passport you're a foreigner. You're applying for a passport. They change where it says moms and dads to parent a and parent B and.

Then because they knew that there'd be an uproar from some circles. They left in the option there could be mom or dad there could be parent a parent B. You already have that in birth certificates in Spain.

Progenitor a progenitor B because there may not be a mom or a dad. There are now marriages so-called marriages in America say two ladies, and they have been pronounced bride and broom. He said it's idiocy.

It's yeah, but it's happening on our watch. If you listen if you can destroy marriage if you can destroy male-female identity. Everything is up for grabs. How about this two dads with a difference? You say okay?

What is so these are two gay men with a baby? No those are two women. Who now identify as men take hormones? That's why one of the guys has a goatee. That's the baby as one of the guys said my boyfriend is the mother of my child and both of us are Women who are living as men and a kids being raised in that environment.

Don't worry about it. There's a story that well June 2007 in the village voice cover story there, but this picture queer in the crib. We're talking about the overthrowing of male and female. News week August 16th 2010.

Just a few months ago news week are we facing a genderless future. A Small but growing number of people are rejecting being labeled male or female from a university professor Barber's herself a lesbian teaching social workers in England the social construct of defending Dividing humans into male and female is oppressive and should be rejected altogether.

Challenging oppressive gender structures and making gender rights a priority are critical steps toward universal freedom from punishment for gender non-conformity. Gender is the enemy. Someone sent me an email the other day about the gender cast system.

Look, I've got books on undoing gender and bending gender and blurring gender and eradicating gender and multiplying gender happening on our watch. How about this news week? July 2009. Polyamory the next sexual revolution that means having multiple Loving partners without being married, but families with several husbands wives together.

News week said they're at least half million such families in America now. Traditionalists get ready because here it comes. Oh, how about this time magazine April 2007. Should incest be legal? Look, it was just last month that a Columbia University professor was arrested for having a three-year affair with his older daughter consensual affair with his grown daughter.

And and people posting on the Columbia website said well, what's the problem? It's two adults just doing what they want to do. It's love. What's wrong with it? Their lawyer said yeah academically we agree incest is wrong.

But if it's okay for homosexuals to do what they do in private. Why can't two adults that are related to the same thing in private? We've lost our moral bearings entirely. I'm quoting these things just to say this is just out there discussion.

You talk to your average person cycle. What's the problem? And the media is certainly complicit with this 1989 Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen to social scientists trained gay activists called for the conversion of the Americas average Americans emotions mind and will.

Through a planned psychological attack in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the media. It has happened film critic Michael Medved said this a Martian gathering evidence about American society simply by monitoring our television would certainly assume that there were more gay people in America than there are evangelical Christians and.

To expand on this the Martian would also conclude that gay people were with rare No exception incredibly nice family oriented creative and considerate while evangelical Christians were all mean-spirited judgmental dull greedy and hypocritical.

Yeah, I don't watch these programs either. So I read up on them and I documented what was what in the media chapter in my book. It's mind-boggling. What kids are watching. What kids are seeing day in day out little children teenagers inundated with.

Reinforced in the schools and Then reinforced from pulpits in compromise across America. Michael Kinsley Time magazine said this the debate of 14 years ago about gays in the military seems almost quaint.