By Paul Bremmer
It’s over. Conservatives have lost the marriage debate. “Same-sex marriage” is here to stay. Those who still oppose it are on the wrong side of history.
At least that’s what “gay marriage” supporters want their adversaries to believe.
Michael Brown, talk-radio host and president of FIRE School of Ministry, has heard these sorts of taunts from leftists ever since he released his book, “Outlasting the Gay Revolution,” in September. In fact, Brown claims one detractor told him, “I’m waiting to use your book as toilet paper.”
Brown has a defiant message for people like that.
“Hey, buddy – we’re not going anywhere,” Brown proclaimed in an interview with WND. “We’re not backing down, we’re not bowing down, we’re not caving in, we’re not quitting. We are here for the long haul.”
The Supreme Court may have declared “same-sex marriage” a constitutional right, and a majority of Americans now support “same-sex marriage,” but Brown does not believe that means the marriage fight is over.
His eighth and final principle for outlasting the “gay” revolution is, “Be determined to write the last chapter of the book.”
“If Jesus doesn’t come first, I believe the tide will turn,” Brown, a WND columnist, asserted. “I believe that gay activism will continue to defeat itself, it will continue to bring awakening and consolidation among Christians, and that we will literally see a Gospel-based moral and cultural revolution in America.”
However, Brown believes conservatives will need to summon all their courage and moral conviction, because leftists will work hard to make them conform to the “gay” agenda.
He gave an example from the biblical book of Esther to illustrate the current situation. Mordecai was a Jewish man who refused to follow the law by bowing down to Haman, a highly exalted Persian official.
Mordecai’s refusal angered Haman. It was not enough that everyone else in the Persian Empire bowed down to him. For Haman to be satisfied, Mordecai had to either bow or be killed. In his anger, Haman resolved to exterminate all Jewish exiles living in the Persian Empire.
Homosexual activists do not seek to kill conservatives, Brown explained, but they want to force others to “bow” to their agenda.
“They are not happy that the church is still here,” Brown said. “They will not be satisfied until the church capitulates. They will not be satisfied until the church does not have government protection for its views, and they will not be satisfied until Mordecai bows down. I am here to proclaim that Mordecai will not bow.”
Conservatives need to take a multi-generational view of the conflict, according to Brown. They must refuse to quit just because the cultural momentum has turned against their values for the time being. The tide may one day turn.
In Brown’s book, he points to evidence that same-sex marriage and other homosexual practices existed in several Bible-era cultures: ancient Greece, Rome, Canaan and Egypt. He notes those societies no longer exist, while the Jewish people, who followed God’s commandment against homosexual behavior, are still around today.
Brown told WND the apostle Paul also ought to give social conservatives hope. By the time Paul was beheaded, he was a lowly prisoner at the mercy of the powerful Roman emperor Nero. But history does not remember Nero as greater than Paul.
“For many years now, as someone once commented, men name their sons Paul and name their dogs Nero,” Brown remarked. “You never know how the tide will turn.”
The lesson, according to Brown, is that people will eventually win if they remain faithful to God’s commandments. Social conservatives may appear to “lose” in the short term because the tide of law and public opinion has turned against them. But if they continue to hold firm and obey God, they will come out on top in the end.
Said Brown: “All we have to do is do what’s right in our marriage, in our family, in our personal ethics – continue to stand and do what’s right, and ultimately we will be the last man standing.”
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