Religious broadcaster says Christians must prepare for martyrdom if Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage.
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While speaking at a conference titled "U-Turn: A Conversation with Pastors on Society, Culture and Leadership," Sandy Rios,
director of governmental affairs for the American Family Association
and host of a daily radio program, said that Christians should prepare
for martyrdom if the Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage, the Raw Story reported Friday. Worse yet, she said such a ruling could crush America.
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“Homosexual marriage is going to bring about the tip of the spear of
the battle we’re going to face,” she told the gathering of conservative
Christian pastors and activists. "There is persecution afoot," she
declared, warning that if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the gay
agenda, "your wives, your sisters, your children who now are going to be
forced to go into public restrooms and share them with men dressed like
women."
In response, she said Christians would be faced with a choice if the
Supreme Court strikes down laws banning same-sex marriage, possibly as
early as next month. Christians, she added, must be prepared to take a
stand.
“If they do, every single person in this room is going to be forced
to make a choice, and I’m just telling you: Even if you don’t want to
engage in this battle, you will and your people will, and you’d better
stand,” she said. Saying the Bible encourages bold action, she said the
activists and pastors need to “stop playing it safe.”
"You must prepare for martyrdom,” she said. “I don’t know what it’s going to look like, but it’s coming.”
Predictably, the left-wing hate machine sprang into action, with a number of critics attacking Rios on her Facebook page. One person, for example, expressed hope that Rios would be the first to die.
"Will you be the first martyr??" one person asked. "[O]ne can only hope."
"Thank you for sharing your beliefs," another person said. "They are ugly. Please stop sharing them."
Rios, however, is not the only conservative to sound the alarm over
gay marriage. Cal Thomas, a conservative Christian whose articles
appear in publications across the country, called gay marriage a sign of
the end times predicted in the Bible and said he believes the Court
will rule against traditional marriage.
"If you read the Scriptures, as I do, in both testaments all of these
things are forecast in prophesies, in the book of Daniel and what Jesus
and Paul said, so I'm not worried about it,” Thomas told the Huffington Post.
“I say everything is right on schedule. I’m trying to shore up my own
family first and, hopefully, that will be an example to other people… If
you look at not only what Jesus said, but Paul the Apostle, about what
things would be like in the end times, people will be lovers of lies
rather than the truth. They will elevate things that are called
abomination in scripture to normality… All of the prophesies up to the
final ones have come true. And that’s why I say that everything is right
on schedule.”
Proponents of gay marriage have also let the cat out of the bag. As
we reported in 2013, lesbian activist Masha Gessen admitted that gay
marriage is a lie designed to destroy
the institution of traditional marriage. Naturally, anyone who
disagrees is automatically labeled a bigot, as we have reported multiple
times.
In one instance, two Christian pastors in Idaho faced the real possibility of arrest and jail
for refusing to perform gay weddings. The Coeur d'Alene city attorney,
however, said the pastors were exempt from the anti-discrimination code
since the chapel filed as a religious corporation. In another
instance, gay sex columnist Dan Savage told Bill Maher he wished all
Republicans were "f-g dead."
As we have reported in the past, Christian-owned businesses have been
threatened and terrorized for refusing to support gay wedding
ceremonies.
Some have lost their job for opposing gay marriage and others, like
young Madeleine McAulay, have received death threats. Meanwhile,
liberals profess to support "diversity" while at the same time proving
theirs is an ideology of rage and hate.
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