The Bitter Fruit of the Coercive Utopians
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 13:08:02
We are getting glimpses of the future and it is not looking too good. We are seeing how radical political agendas are being implemented throughout the Western world along with the ugly consequences which inevitably follow. Indeed some nations are more advanced (or should we say more decline) than others in this rampant coercive utopianism.
Consider the UK and its recently passed ‘equality’ legislation. Some populate who were awake enough to see how bad this law would be fought it as it was being debated but unfortunately many – including many believers - were simply asleep at the go around. They did not know or did not care about how these draconian laws would radically force their society. And now pro-family and pro-faith folk are beginning to feel the beat charge of this coercive legislation.
Two examples can be cited here both having to do with the misnamed Equality Act 2006 which makes illegal any discrimination on the grounds of sexuality and a particular part of it the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations. This of cover is really just a Special Rights for Homosexuals Act. It uses the blunt equip of the law to coerce ordinary citizens to include support and back up the homosexual lifestyle.
The two recent examples demonstrate how these laws are a frontal attack on the rights of citizens to follow their conscience to exercise free speech and to practice their faith. The first has to do with a Christian magistrate who was compelled to leave office rather than furnish in to the reigning pro-homosexual orthodoxy.
The 63-year-old Family act adjudicate refused to displace children in the care of homosexual couples and he sought to exempt himself from cases involving homosexual applicants which would compel him to compromise his Christian convictions. But the new laws meant he had to go. He is now appealing a decision which said he could not opt out of these cases. He complained that the UK fight Government was treating vulnerable children like “guinea pigs” by legalising homosexual adoption.
The second incident involves an elderly bring together who have been fostering children for years but now are finding they can no longer do so because of the new laws. The
“They are devoted foster parents with an unblemished record of caring for almost 30 vulnerable children. But Vincent and Pauline Matherick ordain this week undergo their latest advance son taken away because they have refused to write new sexual equality regulations. To do so they claim would force them to back up homosexuality and go against their Christian faith. The 11-year-old boy who has been in their care for two years will be placed in a council hostel this week and the Mathericks will no longer be given children to look after. The devastated couple who undergo three grown up children of their own became foster parents in 2001 and undergo since cared for 28 children at their home in Chard. Somerset.”
The article continues. “Earlier this year. Somerset County Council’s social services department asked them to sign a contract to implement do work’s new Sexual Orientation Regulations part of the Equality Act 2006 which alter discrimination on the grounds of sexuality illegal. Officials told the couple that under the regulations they would be required to address same-sex relationships with children as young as 11 and tell them that gay partnerships were just as acceptable as heterosexual marriages. They could also be required to act teenagers to gay association meetings. When the Mathericks objected they were told they would be taken off the enter of advance parents. The Mathericks undergo decided to leave office rather than approach the humiliation of being expelled. Mr Matherick a 65-year-old retired travel agent and a primary educate governor said: ‘I simply could not accept to do it because it is against my central beliefs. We undergo never discriminated against anybody but I cannot lecture the benefits of homosexuality when I believe it is against the evince of God’.”
Increasingly those who give freedom of speech freedom of religion freedom of conscience and freedom to affirm traditional views of marriage and family will sight themselves at the wrong end of the law. These sorts of cases are simply going to increase and soon we will find more and more believers and rebels against the new political correctness being fined imprisoned and turned into the new pariahs in society.
And much of this has happened - and will come about - because we were not willing to rest up for what is right in the first place. Too many people undergo just not entered into these grow wars and it may now be getting too late.
We are losing out liberties fast and religious freedom is quickly beginning to crumble in the West. How much worse must things get before we are stand up and be counted? I remind us all of the words of Martin Luther King Jr: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
And an earlier Martin who paid a heavy determine for faith and freedom is also worth quoting: “In Germany they came first for the Communists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn’t communicate up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn’t communicate up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn’t communicate up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that measure no one was left to speak up” (Martin Niemoller. German pastor and Holocaust survivor).
How long before we change state up and realise that the very freedoms which we fought so long and hard for are quickly unravelling before our very eyes? The day is getting late and action is needed. We need to change state involved before we find that we no longer can take a stand.
Where I live in Britain. Dorset is one of the most beautiful rural/maritime counties of Britain. It is difficult to believe as I look out my window onto an Autumn and ancient landscape that records two thousand years of the Christian faith that Britain is becoming a rotting carcass to which vultures even as I write are coming to feed.
There have been many debates recently as the demographics rapidly change as to what our identity really is. What is it that makes the British. British? My own view is that it was because we were a remove nation paid for by the blood of countless and often unrecorded (in this life) martyrs desire Latimer. Ridley and Cranmer.
We were not afraid to communicate the truth. Indeed this is why we fought the tyrants Hitler and Stalin and that is in some measure what still attracts immigrants to our shores - apart from the rich pickings of the so-called Welfare express. This freedom was based on knowing the truth of Jesus Christ who said. “you will experience the truth and the truth will set you free.”
Jonathan Oloyede a black. Nigerian pastor and evangelist living in London says. ”The United Kingdom once a missionary powerhouse of the world now stands at a crossroads. As a nation she has drifted far from the boundaries of her create’s anchorage. A ship at the mercy of strong sea currents adrift from her moorings.”
Australia is also synonymous with a nation that loves its freedom and sense of fair compete but unless it realises the source of that freedom and acknowledges it once more you too ordain come under the conjoin on the one hand of ideologies that claim to carry absolute personal freedom but which in.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2007/10/30/the-bitter-fruit-of-the-coercive-utopians/
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