They Think They’re Jesus
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Last night I had the privilege of sharing the platform at an event in Coeur D’Alene with Aaron and Melissa Klein. They were the owners of the bakery in Oregon that was shut down by the sexual totalitarians. They were then fined a chunk of cash by some despotic bureaucratic flunky, and when a GoFundMe campaign promised to raise the necessary funds in a matter of hours, the Liberal Forces of Enforced Tolerance did enough screaming to get that shut down. GoFundMe changed the terms of service, and said that Aaron was not a worthy recipient because he was guilty of a heinous crime. That heinous crime was that he told someone that he was very sorry, but that he could not bake a cake for their event.
If you want to help them now — and you should — go to continuetogive.com, and search for Aaron and Melissa Klein. Give now, while there is time, before Christians helping Christians becomes a heinous crime.In my remarks, I basically made four points. First, these controversies are not because evangelical Christians want to avoid doing business with sinners. Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 5:9-10
not to associate with sinners, but he hastens to add that he was
talking about professing Christians who were living this way. If we had
to avoid contact with sinners “of this world” we would have to leave the
planet. There is no requirement that conservative Christians feel
burdened by to avoid commerce with homosexuals. In 1 Corinthians 10,
Paul tells us that meat offered to idols is still acceptable as meat,
which means that there is no ethical contamination in doing business
with people who are not Christians and who live as though they are not
Christians.Second, I showed how these issues of conscience are in fact a resurrection of the old Jim Crow methods, only not the way most people think. The old Jim Crow laws were laws, and they required private business owners to behave in racially bigoted ways. It was a sin to treat blacks in that way, and the laws mandated that it be done anyway. If your conscience required that you treat blacks and whites the same, then too bad for you. The same approach is being taken now — if your conscience requires you to define marriage the way God has defined it in both nature and Scripture, then too bad for you. The issues move around but the heart of the jitney tyrants never does.
My third point was one I have made in this space before, which is that the reasons certain professions have been singled out is because they are the glorifying professions — photographers florists, bakers. They are the professions that give approval, that render societal applause. This is why the Kleins would be happy to bake a cake for a homosexual’s birthday party, but not for a wedding. But this only explains why the battle has begun here. It will be by no means limited to such professions. The homo-jihadis think they are Jesus, and so they want every knee to bow and every tongue to confess. Let me think about it, no.
And last, even if we were mistaken, and true morality does not require us to refrain from baking such cakes — we are not wrong about it, but work with me here, just suppose — the kind of liberal society that liberals like to pretend they desire would allow us to be mistaken on such a point. They would leave us alone. They would not require a kosher deli to make them a ham sandwich. They would not require a Muslim owned advertising firm to take that Kentucky bourbon account. And they would not require evangelical business owners to approve of something we cannot approve.
But this is to be expected. Taken at large, liberals don’t really believe in their professions of liberalism. If they believed in it, we wouldn't be here. If they believed in it, we wouldn’t have to be worried about how Anthony Kennedy was going to vote this summer. But we are concerned about it because there is no hypocrisy like liberal hypocrisy.
Nonetheless, even though they really don’t believe what they say, we really do believe what we say. And so here we are.
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