Hundreds of MI pastors: Stop 'gay' civil rights or send me to jail

Maybe some of my fellow pastors are beginning to wakeup to the fact that the legalization of same-sex marriage is not some benign live-and-let-live proposal, but a nefarious and malignant attempt to silence the church in America. The LGBT community is hellbent on silencing all opponents of their agenda by co-opting the coercive powers of government in order to file financially ruinous civil litigation for discrimination and criminal charges for hate crimes against anyone raising so much as a peep of opposition to being forced fed their sexual perversion and blatant immorality. As this article points out, Michigan pastors were moved to take this bold stand by the recent and unprecedented move by the lesbian mayor of Houston, Annise Parker, who subpoenaed the public messages and private communications of pastors in hopes of finding evidence to prosecute them for violating Houston's new nondiscrimination laws. Although Mayor Parker retracted her subpoena because of public backlash, I fear her overreach was mostly a mistake of timing. As Alexander Pope pointed out:

Evil is a monster of such awful mein 
That to be hated needs but to be seen
But seen to often, as to become familiar with its face
We first endure, then pity, and finally embrace.

As an example of Pope's words, all we need to do is look at the road this country has travelled to embrace the evil of abortion on demand. It is my contention that the same thing will occur in America when it comes to the evil of homosexuality and same-sex marriage. There will soon come a day when subpoenas like Mayor Parker's will not be met with public backlash, but with public support, thanks to the public's embracing of the LGBT community and enmity toward Christ and all things Christian. Still, I'm grateful for the courageous stand of Michigan pastors against the LGBT monster. At the same time, I must honestly admit that I'm disappointed with my fellow Southern Baptists over their recent handwringing meeting in Nashville (click here to read about the SBC meeting). In spite of the fact they did decide that holding the biblical line against the sin of homosexuality was imperative, they softened their stand by wringing their hands over ways to acquiesce and improve relations with the LGBT community. Whereas the Michigan pastors realize that we're in a battle to the death, my fellow Southern Baptists are still trying to wave olive branches at the passing Gay Rights Parade, despite the fact that it's marching to America's town halls and courthouses to silence the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our land.