Tolerance of sin is not love. Indulgence of sin is not obedience.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints discreetly enabled a network of abusers for decades, by routing child rapists and sexual predators to the Church’s in-house LDS Social Services, and by establishing a hotline for victims to report to the Church’s law firm and its Risk Management Department. The former was designed to shield the Church from outside scrutiny; the latter was clearly designed to do the same while also preserving the Church from legal liability in the form of civil damages. Over time, sexual predators within the Church were able to rise to greater and greater levels of responsibility, from bishoprics to stake presidencies and the like.
IRA has received allegations from victims that implicate current and former Quorum members and members of the First Presidency in sex trafficking, ritual sexual abuse and child rape, and homicide. Time and time again, the same individuals are accused of sexual impropriety encompassing adultery, rape, incest, and homosexuality.
The patterns of behavior are the same in nearly every single allegation, and the patterns fit the known pattern of pedophiles and sexual abusers in the scientific literature. The overwhelming majority of abusers know their victims, having either a family or authority figure relationship with the victims. Over 90% of abusers abuse children they have a prior relationship with, and when the victim is 12 years of age or older, that number only dips to 80%. 97% of those who sexually abuse children are male, and females who sexually abuse children do so as the subordinate accomplices of a male.
In the Hamblin CS group, these statistics match what the Hamblin children reported to the police. Every single perpetrator of abuse against the Hamblin girls was either a family member, a family friend, or someone known to David Lee and Roselle Hamblin through their various endeavors. The girls were not raped or abducted by strangers. They were not physically abused by strangers. Their abusers were overwhelmingly male, and the females were almost always connected to men within the group who were their husbands, fathers, or siblings.1
Within the wider ranks of the LDS, the statistical profiles of abusers match up with the academic profiles of pedophile, hebephile, and epehebophile abusers. Male children under 6.5 years are more likely to be abused than older boys; for girls, the risk of being abused increases exponentially between the ages of 10 and 14.2
In its haste to protect the image of the Church, the LDS burned that image to the ground long term. 21 states have seen declines in LDS membership, and the retention rate for LDS adults raised in the church has fallen from 62.5% to 46%. The hypocrisy of a Church that emphasizes sexual purity publicly, while covering up sexual impurity that encompasses child rape, has paid its dividends.
Pedophiles do not reform. They do not rehabilitate. There is not a single documented instance of a pedophile reforming. The very fact that an individual would rape a child is an indication that he or she has no faith in God, and more importantly, it is the indication that such individuals have no saving faith in God. Salvation is transformative. It turns us against our own fleshly desires, and compels us to thirst for the things of the spirit.
Romans 8:7 makes it clear that to the carnal mind is enmity against God. Those who pursue the flesh to the degree that pedophiles and habitual adulterers do have no inheritance in Christ. They are at war with God, with the Holy Spirit, and with Christ. The LDS has made a mockery of church discipline over the course of its history, excommunicating and disfellowshipping pedophiles only to rebaptize them, and then profess utter shock when pedophiles reoffend.
Those who are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh, as Romans 8:5 notes, but they that are after the Spirit mind the things of the Spirit. The habitual nature of pedophilia, adultery, and sexual impurity among those who sexually abuse children is the proof of their flesh driven existence, and their rejection of grace. By allowing pedophiles re-entry into its ranks, the LDS has effectively thrown open the gates of Hell to allow the wolves of Lucifer to prey upon the sheep of Christ, whose appointed Shepherds abdicate their responsibility by placing a greater premium on rehabilitating wolves than they do on protecting the lambs they have been entrusted with.
The greatest consequence of sin is that it alienates us from God. It is not merely that we are condemned to death; we are deprived of that which we are built to live for: communion and interaction with our Father through Christ. It is not merely the sinner who is alienated from God; it is the sinner’s children, his wife, his neighbors, and all who are affected by his sin. In the case of a child rapist, the effects of his sin alienate his victims from God, because they are left to wonder why God would allow their suffering.
God did not allow anything. He established us as His followers to be His emissaries and His warriors in this temporal world, to wage war with the Devil and His debauched followers. He has given us everything we need to address child rapists, but it is a sad indictment of our sorry spiritual state when we will not utilize the law and the criminal justice system to end child rapists once and for all. Imagine having a pistol in your hand when someone breaks into your house, begins abusing your family, and standing aside, offering only feeble appeals to their decency to stop. If they had any decency in the first place, they wouldn’t be in your house violating your family.
The LDS is effectively a homeowner with all the means at their disposal to address the Devil’s incursions, but they will not rise to the challenge. No other institution in the State of Utah has the equivalent means or the influence to put a stop to the epidemic of child rape as the LDS, but the LDS will not use its power to end this depravity. It has not taken a hard line against sin, when the only line to take against sin in any form is a hard line. The prohibition against sin, especially sexual sin, is absolute in all scriptures.
We are temples of an indwelling God, and our purity is non-negotiable and absolute. We cannot make decisions and externalize the blame for our decisions to a God who has given us the tools to avoid sin. We have the Word. We have the power of prayer. We have the knowledge that with every temptation there is the means of escape, as 1 Corinthians 10:13 points out. There is no such thing as an exotic or overpowering sin, no such thing as an overwhelming temptation, for all temptation is “common to man,” and our God is faithful: he will not suffer us to be tempted beyond our abilities to resist.
The declining growth and retention of the LDS and other church denominations is a direct result of the embrace of heresy in liberalized-and accommodating-attitudes towards sin. Open homosexuality exists on all four of BYU’s campuses, and the open embrace of abortion, same sex marriage, and pre or extramarital sexual activity exist as well. Those who embrace such positions insist that the LDS Church’s growth potential is connected to its willingness to embrace and normalize sinful behavior under the auspices of divine revelation. Each of these heresies must be addressed, and each must put in the context of the overarching backdrop of sexuality.
Lucifer comes to us through our sexual desire because it is the basic drive we are engineered to experience. It is the means by which we procreate, and the means by which our love is expressed in a culminating act. As James 1:14 says, when we are tempted, we are drawn away by our lust or desire, and enticed. Evil is the perversion of entirely healthy and good drives against their purpose, whereby eating becomes gluttony, rest becomes sloth, and love becomes lust. Instead of these acts being subordinated to a healthy, life affirming purpose, such as nutrition and satiation, or refreshment through sleep, or drawing us together with our spouses and freeing us from temptation, these acts become primary unto themselves.
There is no purpose in overeating beyond eating. There is no purpose in sloth beyond laziness, and there is no purpose in lust beyond a few moments of pleasure with someone you do not care enough about to be in a committed marriage with.
The design of humanity can be summed up simply enough: we are designed to eat and drink, excrete, respirate, and reproduce. The former three give rise to the fourth. We are social animals built for fellowship with our fellow believers and with our God. We are built to assemble together, as Hebrews 10:25 says, in order to exhort each other towards righteousness.
Those who willfully sin after receiving knowledge of the truth are not just, and they were never just. The just live by faith, and while they are imperfect, they do not willfully and repeatedly cross lines. That is the province of the unjust. You know them by their fruits. Pedophilia is not the result of a temporary lapse; it is the culmination of a long and conscious series of decisions on the part of the pedophile to reject God’s truth. The average pedophile has between 150-185 victims over the course of their life.
Those victims are not left to deal with the physical and mental scars of their abuse; instead, they are condemned to a life sentence of spiritual consequences that reverberate through their relationships going forward. 34% of child rape victims will grow up to become perpetrators. All of these facts sufficient on their own to justify a concerted and unified effort to confront child rape and child sexual abuse in all of its forms with a hard line and absolutist stance. Collectively, these facts serve as an indictment of any institution or community that would turn its eyes away from the severity of the problem and refuse to take it on with the severest remedies, including life in prison and the death penalty.
Sin is non-negotiable for true believers. We all stumble, and we have our moments where we fall short of the grace of God, but the mark of true repentance is a willful and successful effort to abstain from repeatedly engaging in the same sins over and over again. We discipline and subordinate our lives to righteousness as Christ followers, as heirs to grace and eternal life through Christ. We hunger for Him, and we feel it acutely when sin separates us from God. We are wounded when our daily communion with God is interrupted or disrupted by sin. Most of all, we are chastised by our Father, not out of wrath-though He would be entirely justified in wrath-but out of loving correction in order to restore us to righteousness.
Those who can rejoice in sin, who can repeatedly and willfully engage in sin without experiencing negative consequences or sadness, are not and have never been recipients of grace. They have no inheritance in the Kingdom. They are the prodigals who request their inheritance ahead of time, and they receive it and squander it in this world. They could have eternal life, but they choose instead to have temporal pleasures whose unifying consequence is eternal death. They are the most shortsighted people in existence, as anyone who has watched them would attest. They throw away their marriages, their families, their friendships, and everything that gives life meaning and purpose as though their spouses, children, and friends meant nothing.
And they do it in the name of happiness and fulfilment. They say to themselves and everyone else that they were not happy, that something was missing, and they are completely right. The something that was missing was a saving relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Likewise, when sin is an identity, as it is with pro-choice, homosexual, transgender, or polyamorous people, there is no grounds for saying that such individuals belong in any legitimate Church where God resides.
The interest of the pro-choice, pro-homosexual, pro-trans, and pro-poly crowd is in bringing the Church down to their level. These groups seek to profane the sacred, by reclassifying sin as righteousness. The standard of any orthodox Church is impossible for such individuals to meet. They do not have the power of God’s grace to enable them to overcome sin and temptation, which is why they cannot comprehend sin as anything other than a normal existence.
The reality is that sin is pedestrian and normal. We are all born in the flesh, and we are all born under sin. Only through Christ can we become anything else. Only through Christ can we transcend our sinful inheritance through Adam and Eve. Our natural destination is death, both temporally and eternally. Through Christ, we overcome death and attain the life eternal. Through Christ we surrender our susceptibility to the inane banalities of liberal arguments on abortion, which is murder, and homosexuality, which is sexual blasphemy. We receive Truth, and we are granted the ability to see right through the absurdities offered by the proponents of abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism, and adultery.
The Spirit is Illumination. Illumination helps us to see the Truth.
Homosexuality
There is not a single verse in Scripture that condones homosexual conduct. Leviticus 20:13 classifies homosexual conduct as an abomination.3 Leviticus does not merely stop at condemning homosexuality as a capital offense. It also condemns adultery as offense punishable by death, as well as the following:
Any man who lies with his father’s wife must be put death, and the wife shall also be put to death. Leviticus classifies this as “uncovering his father’s nakedness.” This provides insight into why Ham was cursed, not for seeing his father naked, but for having sexual relations with his father’s wife while his father was sleeping. Ham was not merely content to uncover his father’s nakedness; instead, he walked out of the tent and bragged about it to his brothers.
Likewise, Leviticus 20:12 says a man who lies with his daughter in law must also be put to death with the daughter in law.
A man who takes his wife and her mother is to be burned alive alongside the wife and his mother in law.
Bestiality is grounds for execution as well in verses 15-16.
Incest, among siblings and half-siblings, among nephews and aunts, is also prohibited.
The nation displaced by the Israelites practiced these forbidden acts, and Israel is commanded to not walk in the manner of that nation. The Israelites have been separated from other people, and they have been set apart as holy to the Lord. Men and women who have familiar spirits-sorcerers, diviners-and wizards are to be stoned to death.
Romans 1 provides further clarification, stating that those who knew God but changed the image of an uncorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things were given up by God to the uncleanness through the lusts of their hearts. God gave them up to vile affections, with the women engaging in homosexual activity with other women, and the men doing the same. God gave them over to a reprobate mind, the consequences of which are clear in verse 32:
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
God does not single out homosexuals in Leviticus, a fact that the LGBTQIA movement is happy to seize upon, but he did place them in the same category as practitioners of incest and bestiality.4
The modern alphabet mafia is keen to point out that the behavior is condemned, but the orientation is not. There is no evidence for sexual orientation among heterosexuals, let alone homosexuals. The evidence that is present in various studies suggests that homosexuality is a function of in utero dysfunction, as when women with congenital adrenal hyperplasia develop higher rates of same sex attraction later in life. These women are exposed to high rates of testosterone, which clearly affected their natal development.
There is evidence that suggests that males who are exposed to the wrong sex hormones-or the wrong amount of sexual hormones-at certain stages in utero grow up to demonstrate a higher likelihood of homosexual attraction. Neither of these factors gives rise to a basis for an entire orientation. If anything, they point to environmental or hormonal irregularities giving rise to same sex attraction as a dysfunction with its origins rooted in uterine conditions during development.
Orientation, like gender, is largely a subjective social construct offered up by social scientists. Gender, when connected to the objectively real basis of biological sex, has some merit as a concept. When divorced from the objective basis of biological sex, gender becomes the ideological free for all we are currently witnessing in our culture, with anywhere from 32 to 80+ genders outlined by social theorists and activists.
The activists and theorist have a problem in the form of real world data, which conclusively demonstrates the disastrous reality of homosexual conduct. The rates of anal cancer have skyrocketed since the 1960s, with black men born after 1986 having a fivefold increase in risk for squamous cell carcinoma (SCCA) of the anus, with white men and women incurring a doubled risk. The fact that SCCA is associated with HPV in more than 90% of cases is yet another indicator that promiscuity and the normalizing of anal sex have had disastrous effects. The rates of anal cancer before 1950 were drastically lower, but the Sexual Revolution ushered in a new paradigm:
Since the 1950s, dramatic changes in the risk factors for SCCA have occurred, including an ideological shift in sexual behaviors (normalization of receptive anal intercourse and increased number of sexual partners) and the emergence of the HIV epidemic (especially among men who have sex with men) (16–18), that may have influenced SCCA trends in contemporary birth cohorts.
HPV infections increasingly show up in oral cancers as well, which puts the gay population at higher risk: the primary method by which they achieve sexual gratification is sodomy, oral or anal. Men who have sex with men, as the NIH and CDC classify homosexuals, comprise a mere 2-4% of the population, yet they account for a disproportionately high number of STDs and STIs:
80% of all annual primary and secondary syphilis diagnoses are in men who have sex with men. 47% of these gay men are co-infected with HIV.
Gay men have early syphilis rates 248X higher than other males.
Gay and bisexual men account for 70% of new HIV infections each year. Those same men account for 63% of all people with HIV in the United States.
Gay and bisexual men are 42x more likely to contract gonorrhea than heterosexual men.
Put simply, men who have sex with men disproportionately contract and spread venereal diseases. They are 4% of the population, and they are the overwhelming majority of STD and STI cases. They are disproportionately overrepresented in pedophilia as well. The academic literature takes great pains to minimize homosexual pedophilia by classifying a male adult who has sex with a male minor as a heterosexual if he is engaged in a relationship with an adult female.
Through this sophistry, LGBTQ advocates classify 95% of pedophiles as “heterosexually oriented” in order to deny a link between homosexuality and pedophilia. The LGBTQ advocacy groups who advance this falsehood are often infested with child rapists. Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services (GLASS), a Los Angeles advocacy organization operating group homes, was founded by Teresa DeCrescenzo, who determined that allegations of molestation among GLASS staffers were not indicative of inappropriate behavior.5 DeCrescenzo had previously edited a book on helping children come out as gay, although most individuals manage to come out on their own.
In 1996, the California Department of Social Services sought to strip GLASS of its license to operate group homes for children after GLASS’s finance director Bernard La Fianza, Jr. and part time night supervisor Henderson Slaughter were accused of having sex with a resident. Multiple staffers were accused of sexual contact with residents over a period of years. DeCrescenzo also allegedly instructed staffers to wait two to three weeks before informing county social workers that a resident had run away, thereby enabling GLASS to continue receiving payment for the child. She was barred by the State of California from working at GLASS as a result.6
The simple reality is that same sex pedophilia, hebephilia, and ephebophilia are overwhelmingly embraced by the gay community. In 1992, Leland Stevenson, the Co-Recording Secretary of the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), wrote to Ben Love, the Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America to implore him to “cease discrimination against openly gay or lesbian persons in the appointment of its scout masters and scouters and in its membership.” NAMBLA had adopted a resolution at is membership conference calling on the Boy Scouts to rescind such discriminatory practices in order to enable the exposure of scouts “to a variety of lifestyles.” 7
There are no advocacy groups for heterosexual men seeking to break down barriers for straight men to serve as leaders within the Girl Scouts. W.D. Erickson’s 1988 study Behavior Patterns of Child Molesters chronicled the fact that 86% of pedophiles surveyed classified themselves as either homosexual or bisexual.
The mainstream LGBTQ community’s ties to organizations like NAMBLA are clear indicators that pedophilia, hebephilia, and ephebophilia are not problematic. In 1995, the United Nations severed ties with the International Lesbian and Gay Association, which counted NAMBLA as a member organization, over ILGA’s refusal to cut ties with six member organizations that promoted pedophilia. The UN did so after the U.S. Congress threatened to reduce its contribution to the UN’s budget by $119 million. Rather than kick pedophiles out of its membership, ILGA sacrificed its seat at the UN table.
ILGA had previously passed multiple resolutions calling for the abolition of age of consent laws. Gay publications made it their business to issue provocative declarations, with San Francisco’s The Sentinel claiming "[t]he love between man and boys is at the foundation of homosexuality.” Guide magazine stated that children were sexual, and deserving of sex with whoever they choose, and gays should proclaim the goodness of child sexuality for the sake of the children.8
Alyson Publications, known for its sex education book Heather has Two Mommies, also published Gay Sex: A Manual for Men Who Love Men, wherein men were instructed to “[a]void situations where a number of men are having sex with the same boy, or group of boys, over a period of time” in order to evade criminal consequences for child rape.
Far from being an exotic or fringe movement in the LGBTQ movement, pedophile advocates are and have always been the mainstream of the LGBTQ culture. In 1972, the National Coalition of Gay Organizations’ platform called to “repeal all laws governing the gene of sexual consent.” Those laws form the basis of nearly every child sexual abuse criminal statute. The goal of the homosexual movement, and of homosexual culture in general, is unfettered and unobstructed sexual access to children.
This is borne out by the academic literature: although homosexual and bisexual males account for 4% of the population, they account for between 25% to 40% of all child molestation, and when the victims are male, 86% of the perpetrators are gay or bisexual males. A 2000 article in the Archives of Sexual Behavior concluded that 25-40% of men attracted to children preferred boys, making the the rate of homosexual attraction among pedophiles 6-20 times higher.9
Eugene Abel’s 1987 study revealed that homosexuals molested boys wth an incidence that was five times higher than the molestation of girls.10 Freud and Watson's findings indicated that gay males were three times more likely than straight men to engage in pedophilia.11 The findings are corroborated across the academic and scientific literature, with Alan Bell and Martin Weinberg finding that 25% of gay white men had previously had sex with boys under the age of sixteen.12
Far from merely legitimating homosexuality, any church or government that legalizes or attempts to normalize same sex behavior will inevitably find itself faced with the normalization of pedophilia. This is because pedophilia and homosexuality are inextricably linked together. Disease and homosexuality are inextricably linked together. The power of sin is evident in the disproportionate effect a minority group like homosexuals have with regards to child sexual abuse and venereal disease. When the Bible states that the wages of sin are death, it is not speaking of an esoteric mystery. It is telling the plain truth.
As Christians, we do not uphold sexual purity in our own lives as part of some mystery, or out of a desire to be ascetics defined by abstention from pleasure. The Christian life is a joyous life precisely because it presents believers with a preventative prescription for a good life, one that promotes healthy relationships, strong families, and keeps those who follow the commandments of Christ from entirely preventable danger and suffering.
The liberalizing of the Church does not simply legitimate sin as righteousness; instead, it points the way for death and suffering to those who sin because they believe an institution that has told them that sin is no longer sin. There is no compassion in such a Church. There is no God in such a Church.
Heterosexual Immorality and Abortion
The academic and scientific literature that exists on heterosexual immorality comes to conclusions that are obvious to anyone with a regenerate mind in Christ: promiscuous heterosexuals are more likely to contract an STD or an STI, they are more likely to suffer divorce, they are more likely to find themselves unable to gain and keep healthy relationships, and the quality of their families declines precipitously.
This is not a thunderbolt of revelation. It’s an obvious, commonsense reality that any dullard can see in advance. Sin does not work to produce a happy, productive life, because the author of sin has no interest in seeing human beings enjoy truly happy and productive lives. The Devil seeks to devour, to destroy, like Saturn eating his children. Heterosexual immorality’s greatest consequence on this earth is not mere disease or divorce: it is the tens of millions of dead children who have been aborted as inconvenient consequences of out of wedlock sexual relationships.
Child sacrifice is the sacrament demonic entities have preferred since the dawn of man. Be it Baal, Molech, Dagon, or any of the other devils throughout human history who were worshipped as gods, their primary sacrament has always been human sacrifice. Human suffering and pain are a delicious and pleasing incense to the Devil and his demons.
When the United States allowed judges to unilaterally revoke the personhood of the unborn in order to enable on-demand abortion, it ushered in an age of human sacrifice on a scale that would have been unimaginable in Canaan or Babylon. Unborn children were dismembered in utero by physicians, who then vacuumed out their remains from their mother’s body. Every single person reading this began their life as an embryo.
Before we were in the womb, our Creator knew us. We know this from Jeremiah 1:5, where God unequivocally says to Jeremiah that He knew him before he was born, He set him apart, He appointed him as a prophet to the nations. God has a purpose for every child that is ever conceived, a plan for each and every individual who will ever be born. It is for this reason that abortion is an abomination before God and man. We do not simply enable the murder of a child when we permit abortion; we enable the rejection of God’s purpose and His plan for that child. We enable doctors and mothers to take someone who was knit in their mother’s womb by God and undo what God has done before it can be completed.
Abortion, like any other sin, is a slap in the face of God. It is an open and haughty rejection of His plan and purpose, an openly defiant step by man to step into the place of God in order to attempt to obstruct Him in His rightful path as the Creator of all living things. If abortion has any purpose whatsoever, it is this: to remove any and all excuse on the part of those who commit abortion, and those who enable it, so that they may receive the full recompense of God’s judgement. Abortion is murder. It is the termination of a living human being, the reclassification of a gift fashioned by God for His purpose as an inconvenience to men and women, who arrogantly state that their purpose and their will should supersede that of Almighty God.
It is the exactly the sort of self-worship Lucifer engaged in when he challenged God. The dividends of Hell are upon us, pouring out into our society, when churches inch closer and closer to reclassifying righteousness as open sin in order to appeal to man, thereby placing man and his desires in a position of primacy over God.
Conclusion
The LDS has engaged in the positioning of man over God by indulging pedophiles and child sexual abusers within its ranks for decades. Repentance is not merely for individuals; it is for nations and churches. The Church is supposed to be set apart from the world, not to resemble the world or to be influenced by the trends of the world. The true Saints understand this, and the followers of Satan cannot because sin blinds them to the truth. We are consecrated vessels, set apart by God for His purpose and His power. We are vessels of grace who have experienced mercy on a level that cannot be quantified, destined to escape the consequences of sin through deliverance unto eternal life.
We have been privy to a great and terrible mystery, one that tells us that death can be overcome, and that this life can be a life of joy in righteous communion with God. We can enjoy sex, we can enjoy good food, we can enjoy music and culture and art, we can become drunk with ecstasy on the Word of God until it bubbles over in us and pours out of us. We have no reason to fear anything or anyone, because we shall never die. Because of this, we have no reason to abstain from ferociously opposing liberalization in our churches, our communities, and our homes. Our victory is already guaranteed.
The battle was already won with Christ on the cross.
When we confront the likes of David Lee Hamblin and the CS, or any of the other heresies that persist inside of the churches of today, we do so because we have no excuse not to do so. Our God has given us our lives to contend for Him and His Truth. We have been appointed to this purpose, called by God as His children, and we have been equipped with everything we need to win.
The appropriate response to David Lee Hamblin and to the liberal elements within the church is not fear. It is not apprehension. It is rage. Sin is not righteousness, and saying that it is is a defamation of God. Those who would classify homosexuality, abortion, heterosexual adultery, and any other form of sin effectively accuse God of being a liar. Their truth supplants and displaces His Truth.
Our lives are not our own. They are the property of a Creator, and we were ordained for His Plan. To the extent that we adhere to that Plan and His Truth, we may live lives of joy as happy warriors wiping off our swords after the battle. War is the answer in the face of sin and its advocates. There are no martyrs among those who have eternal life in Christ. We cannot be killed.
We are called to lives of bold and uncompromising righteous, confident in the knowledge that no obstacle is too great to withstand the power of God. No group on this earth or in the bowels of Hell is so powerful that they will triumph over God. The liberalization of the Church is not a foregone conclusion by any means, if the followers of Christ will simply mobilize and use what God has provided to meet the enemy head on with total destruction of their forces as our goal.
Those who support homosexuality, transgenderism, abortion, and sex outside of marriage are not Christians. They are not your brothers and sisters in Christ. They worship the Devil by elevating their own private passions to exceed the strict commandments of God in Scripture. They have no place in our holy church, or in any decent community. We should not employ them, we should not sit with or associate with them, and we should offer them no quarter whatsoever.
We cannot simply agree to disagree. The chief purpose of a Christ follower is to magnify Christ and to oppose those who would smother and suppress His message of grace and righteousness. We are called to fight.
You cannot call yourself a lover of God and your fellow man if you will not contend for the Truth, and the Truth is that homosexuality, transgenderism, heterosexual immorality, and other forms of sin are wrong and lead to destruction, suffering, and death for anyone who embraces sin. There is no compassion in a milquetoast existence that sows artificial harmony by enabling liars to reclassify sin as righteousness. By staying silent, and by avoiding the conflict that liberalism invites in our churches and communities, you demonstrate that you have no portion in Christ and no care for your fellow man and his salvation and well-being.
Tolerance of sin is not love. Indulgence of sin is not obedience. Love for your fellow man begins with the love of God, and the love of God is demonstrated by obedience to His commands.
An exception would be Anne Mecham Gregerson, but she fits within Weis’s findings that female abusers are usually in their forties and known to the family. At the time of her alleged abuse against the Hamblin children, Gregerson was post-divorce and in her late 30s and early 40s.
Modelli, Galvão, and Pratesi (2012).
Leviticus 18:22 also classifies male on male homosexuality as an abomination.
Some might argue that by transforming God from an uncreated, eternal, pre-existing entity as He is understood to be in orthodox Christianity and the Bible, into a created man who evolved into the Heavenly Father the LDS purports to worship, the LDS fits within the context of the mystery cult being written of by the Apostle Paul in Romans Chapter 1. The simple reality is that the LDS under Joseph Smith did not endorse the Adam-God innovations of Brigham Young, or any of Brigham Young’s other innovations such as polygamy. These issues will be examined in future articles.
I-L. Billingsley, Gay Agency Probed for Child Abuse, WASH. TIMES, Sept. 21, 1996, at A2.
Bettina Boxall, Beleaguered Gay Agency Fights Back, L.A. TIMES, June 23, 1996, at B1.
NAMBLA’s ties to the mainline LGBTQ movement are obvious given the fact that its chapters often meet in gay centers, and its conferences and meetings feature gay leaders and speakers. NAMBLA was a member organization of the International Lesbian and Gay Association (IGLA), which hosted workshops advocating pedophile relationships and passed resolutions to abolish age of consent laws.
The Real Child Abuse, THE GUIDE, July 1995.
R. Blanchard et al., Fraternal Order and Sexual Orientation in Pedophiles, 29 ARCHIVES SEXUAL BEHAV. 463, 464 (2000).
Eugene Abel et al., Self-Reported Sex Crimes of Nonincarcerated Pedophiliacs, 2 J. INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE 3, 5 (1987).
K Freund & R. I. Watson, The Proportions of Heterosexual and Homosexual Pedophiles Among Sex Offenders Against Children: An Exploratory Study, 18 J. SEX & MARITAL THERAPY 34, 34-43 (1992).
ALAN P. BELL ET AL., INSTITUTE FOR SEX RESEARCH, HOMOSEXUALITIES: A STUDY OF DIVERSITY AMONG MEN AND WOMEN (1978) (This study involved interviews with 1500 gay men and women from which the above percentages were derived in the study). 53 Cameron, supr
"To Be Good" is never connected to sexual sin. I thought this article was excellent. The law of Justice from God is attached to obedience to God's commandments. Thus mercy can be extended. Grace from Jesus Christ becomes apparent in a person's life when they strive for a higher, holier way of living..meaning the commandments. I know a wonderful young man who has also suffered SRA. He also turned to a gay lifestyle, but as time has gone on he decided his actions were not worthy of who he truly was. It's not been an easy road, but this sweet man has made a commitment to turn to our Savior to heal him. By the grace of God the desires of the flesh he previously gave in to have changed over time. It's been joyful to see the changes of lasting happiness. This is going from grace to grace by the power of the only One who is mighty to heal and save us!
I also perceive that the LGBTQ+ push is far more pervasive and potent in California and Utah. Although I grew up in Utah, I am amazed at the push for this agenda in that state. I currently live in Texas. Although Houston is the 4th largest city in the US, I still find this area to be very "Christian." Not in a bad way, mind you. It's simply more Biblically-based. That means people are more kind than dismissive, but they certainly won't promote that lifestyle. Many if not most, will still define it as "alternative" even if it is sheerly by the numbers.