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from: Jeff Snyder
date: 2009-04-22 12:31:00
subject: When Sin Is No Longer A Sin 08

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:

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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)

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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:

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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."

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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:

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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."

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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
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