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If you the reader seriously think that I am over-exaggerat- ing this point, then stop for a moment, and think about what occurred while Clinton was in office, and what continues to happen today. Stop and ask yourself if these things would have happened if a more conservative God-fearing president had been voted into office during those eight years. Clinton flashed the green light, and it was as if someone had said "Follow the leader!". The movie screen and the television screen have become flooded with gay and lesbian characters. There are books, magazines and other publications dedicated to the gay and lesbian cause, and they are not just geared to adults who are of that sexual persuasion. This garbage is being printed for our children as well. In July of 2000, the following news item was included in a newsletter I often receive from the Baptist Information Service: ----- Begin Quote ----- Sodomite Super Heroes "The comic book company that gave us Superman will now give us the first super heroes that will fight crime as a couple - not as Batman and Robin - but as a cohabitating homosexual couple. The dashing duo named Apollo and Midnighter, appear in the D.C. Comics series 'The Authority,' . . . Apollo and Midnighter will be like any other super heroes, fighting crime and saving the world. It's just that at the end of their adventures they will go to bed." (Sword of the Lord, June 23, 2000) ----- End Of Quote ----- The movie, television and publishing industries are not the only places where the gay and lesbian community is applying pressure, and concentrating their efforts on changing the psychological landscape of America. During the last quarter of 1998, a blasphemous play entitled "Corpus Christi" made a brief but popular showing at a theater located on West 55th Street in Manhattan, N.Y.; however, stiff opposition by the public caused it to be terminated. What was the reason for the sudden termination? The ungodly play depicted Jesus as a gay man who engaged in homosexual acts with his followers. It is my understanding that the building was later condemned and torn down. This isn't the only kind of ungodly filth that is coming out of New York. In February of 2001, the Associated Press news agency published the following report regarding a controversial photography exhibit, also located in New York: ----- Begin Quote ----- Nude Female Jesus Photo Stirs Chaos NEW YORK (AP) - A photography exhibit that includes a work depicting Jesus as a naked woman is stirring debate at the same museum where a dung-decorated painting of the Virgin Mary sparked a heated six-month legal battle. The work "Yo Mama's Last Supper" features the photographer, Renee Cox, nude and surrounded by 12 black apostles. It is part of an exhibit of 94 contemporary black photographers opening Friday at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Cox, a Jamaican-born artist who was raised Catholic, said the Last Supper image highlights legitimate criticisms of the church, including its refusal to ordain women as priests. "Get over it!" she said. "Why can't a woman be Christ? We are the givers of life!" Another artist's photo collage depicts a topless woman, crucified. "I think what they did is disgusting, it's outrageous," Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, adding that anti-Catholicism "is accepted in our city and in our society." Giuliani said Thursday he is appointing a task force "that can set decency standards for those institutions that are using your money, the taxpayers' money," including the city-subsidized museum. In 1999, the museum's "Sensation" show featured an elephant dung-embellished Virgin Mary. The mayor froze the museum's annual $7.2 million city subsidy - about a third of its annual budget - then sued in state court to evict the museum. The museum filed a countersuit in federal court, where a judge ruled that the city had violated the First Amendment and restored the funding. This time, Giuliani said he would go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decisions he said are based on "showing decency and respect for religion." ----- End Of Quote ----- Speaking of New York, how ironic that the Clintons have set up shop there, and Hillary Rodham Clinton is now a Senator from that State. Undoubtedly, the gay and lesbian community of "The Village" are happy to have such powerful and loyal supporters as residents of their state! Sadly, the Clintons are not the only prominent citizens from America's so-called Bible Belt of the South to abandon their Christian upbringing. A few months after Mr. Clinton made his outlandish remarks regarding the so-called "higher levels of decency" occurring within American society, former president Jimmy Carter, a man who many Americans viewed as being much more of a Christian example than Mr. Clinton, announced that he was not opposed to homosexuals being ordained as priests. Following is a news article from the Baptist Press which was published at that time: ----- Begin Quote ----- Carter States Affirmation Of Homosexual Ordination Baptist Press November 4, 2000 ATLANTA, GA (BP) -- Former president and former Southern Baptist Jimmy Carter said that while homosexuality is a sin, he sees nothing wrong with a "Christian homosexual" being ordained. Carter made his comments during a 60-minute telephone interview with Baptist Press on Oct. 20. Carter announced Oct. 19 that he could no longer be associated with the Southern Baptist Convention citing among his reasons the Baptist Faith and Message as adopted in June and its stance on female pastors. Carter said he was convinced to leave the SBC after listening to a taped message by Charles Wade, executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Carter discussed a variety of issues surrounding his decision to leave the SBC, including his stances on several controversial issues -- homosexuality and abortion. "If that person [a homosexual] was demonstrating the essence of Christianity, I would not object to the individual being ordained," Carter said. "Yes, homosexuality is a sin but so is adultery. When somebody doesn't give 10 percent of their earnings to the church, it is a sin. All of us are sinners every day. And adultery is a more serious sin than homosexuality." Carter said the ordination of homosexuals is a decision to be made by individual churches and he doubted his home church, Maranatha Baptist in Plains, Ga., would go out of its way to ordain a homosexual. "If we did have a homosexual in our church who wanted to be ordained, it would be decided not on sexual preference," he stressed. Carter said he does not support legal approval for homosexual marriages but he does support laws that prohibit discrimination against homosexuals. "Homosexuals have a perfect right to profess to be Christians, accept Christ as Savior, and I wouldn't have a problem if they worshiped side by side with me," the former president said. "Jesus never singled out homosexuals to be condemned. When the Southern Baptist Convention started singling out homosexuals as a special form or degree of sinfulness, I didn't agree with it. Now, that target has shifted to the subjugation of women." On the issue of abortion, Carter said he is pro-life. "I have never believed that Christ would approve of abortion," he said. "When I was governor and president, I took an oath to uphold the Constitution. I had to administer the [abortion] law, but I did everything I possibly could to discourage abortion." ----- End Of Quote ----- In Matthew chapter seven, Jesus taught that a tree is known by its fruits. If America's political and spiritual leaders are so weak, and so backslidden in their faith, that they're willing to do the things that they do, and say the things that they say, is it really any wonder then that the general American population follows suit? As Jesus said so long ago regarding His religious critics and persecutors: "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." Matthew 15:14, KJV As I mentioned in part two, the gay and lesbian community is fighting tooth and nail, in order to advance their perverted cause and sinful lifestyle, and they are using every legal means at their disposal. Please make no mistake. They are not the weak, helpless, innocent victims, which for so long they have portrayed themselves to be. These people are powerful; they are rich; and they are extremely well-organized. Not only do they possess the power to recruit the help of state politicians like Governor Dean; or openly gay Congressmen such as Barney Frank; or even the President of the United States, but they even have their own law agencies; and they are using them to the fullest, in order to soundly defeat long-held Christian values. Jeff Snyder, SysOp - Armageddon BBS Visit us at endtimeprophecy.org port 23 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your Download Center 4 Mac BBS Software & Christian Files. 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