Don’t Forget the Age We Live In
This past Sunday, while preaching on 1 John 2:18, Pastor Emilio mentioned a clip from the Albert Mohler show
Below is the 2 minute clip from Pastor Emilio during Sunday’s message:
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The question this lady asked was in response to an article that Al Mohler wrote on his blog below is a portion of that that is relevant to what Pastor Emilio was preaching on:
As Sen. John McCain recently remarked, “elections have consequences.” President Barack Obama signed the “Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act” into law on Thursday, fulfilling a campaign promise and handing the gay rights community one of its most sought-after achievements…
There was no surprise in the fact that President Obama signed the bill. The shock came, not in the fact that he signed it, but in what the President said in his comments. “This is the culmination of a struggle that has lasted more than a decade. Time and again, we faced opposition,” said the President. “Time and again, the measure was defeated or delayed. Time and again we’ve been reminded of the difficulty of building a nation in which we’re all free to live and love as we see fit.”
Does President Obama actually mean what he said here? Does he really call for a society “in which we’re all free to live and love as we see fit?” The hate crimes bill he signed into law covers gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation. The courts will have to sort out all that is covered in those categories.
But the “free to live and love as we see fit” language was set in a context larger than the hate crimes bill. President Obama is an intellectually serious man. He knows that words matter. When he speaks of all citizens being “free to live and love as we see fit” he opens the door far beyond the categories of heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual. Does he mean to include polygamists in this vision? The “polyamorous?” Incest? The catalogue of sexual interests claimed by some as “loves” goes far beyond these.
We are living in an age increasingly marked by what Sigmund Freud called “polymorphous perversity.” I do not believe that President Obama meant to include any and all sexual interests and lifestyles under his blanket category of living and loving “as we see fit.” But words really do matter, and this President now bears responsibility for signing a dangerous bill into law and then for compounding that act by using language that was self-congratulatory, dishonest, and dangerous.
In another sense, the President’s language was revealing. The logic that leads to the celebration of gay, lesbian, and bisexual relationships cannot stop with those sexual categories. In an age that elevates “consent” as the only meaningful moral and legal issue, any effort to refuse similar recognition to any consensual sexual relationship, lifestyle, or practice is doomed to eventual failure. It is all just a matter of time.
Yes, Sen. McCain, elections have consequences. But words have consequences, too, President Obama. Do you really want to live with the consequences of your words spoken on Thursday?
Read Mohler’s entire article here.
Read Mohler’s article here on some of the things President Obama said which Pastor Emilio also alluded to.
Pastor Emilio went on in his sermon explaining how to persevere in an age like this. You can listen or download the sermon: