SLF NEWS LINKS
Unbelievable what is happening in our nation's oldest universities. Read the article by Agape Press. 3/9/2006.
The Salt Lake Tribune published an SLF editorial on Sunday, February 26, 2006. Read the op-ed piece here on our website, or read it from the Tribune.
Gay-straight alliance clubs not allowed under anticipated new Utah law. Read our op-ed piece here on our website, or Read it from the Feb. 22, 2006 Provo Daily Herald.
Hear two excellent Albert Mohler programs. "The Cuddle-Puddle at American High Schools" and "Can Homosexuals Change?"
SLF on Salt Lake City radio station KUTR, AM 820. Janice and Drew Graham were interviewed about our book, My Darling from the Lions, on the Dr. Liz Hale show Friday, Jan. 27, at 10:00 a.m. Hear the podcast of the show. 33 minutes. 1/27/2006.
Good news. "The Book of Daniel" has been cancelled by NBC. Nearly 700,000 emails complaining about the irreligious show were sent by concerned viewers. Read the story by WorldNetDaily. 1/24/2006
New! Listen to SLF's new audio podcasts. Standard of Liberty Live is a chat with Steve and Janice. Introductory podcast is available now. 1/20/2006
Listen to KSL's Doug Wright, 1/12/06, show on which our friend Ken Cromar challenges Doug's support of pro-homosexual movie "Brokeback Mountain." 32 min. Read Ken's research document on the dangers of the homosexual lifestyle. 1/19/2006
Steve Graham visits Utah state legislature. Read about it on our "What We're Up To" page. 1/18/2006
New! Check out our Get Informed page for an amazing list of resources and brief descriptions. Education at a glance for busy people! 1/12/2006
Don't be fooled. "The Book of Daniel," the new NBC TV show is clever culture-changing propaganda. Read news, reviews and our response. 1/9/2006
Megaplex Theater refuses to show Brokeback Mountain, makes national news. Read the CNN.com article. Read the Deseret Morning News article. "Gay" groups are boycotting. Read the article. Click here to send a message of support to Larry H. Miller, owner of the Megaplex. 1/9/2006
Hear Dr. Albert Mohler's radio program about "The Gospel According to Oprah." An expose of the anti-God agenda being taught on her show. 35 minutes. 1/7/2006
Pro"gay" club propaganda on KSL radio. The Doug Wright Show, 12/15/05, was slanted toward acceptance of GSAs in Utah schools, despite a call from Dr. Richard Wilkins. Listen to the 36-minute show. 12/31/2005
"Brokeback Mountain," the movie celebrating "gay" cowboys, received unexpected positive reviews from Doug Wright on KSL Radio's Movie Show and Jeff Vice at the Deseret Morning News. To read and hear the reviews, click here. 12/31/2005
Amazing News about the Ten Commandments. Liberty Counsel reports that the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has that a display of the Ten Commandments together with other historical documents in Mercer County, Kentucky, is constitutional. Read the article by Libety Counsel then the entire opinion of the court (pay close attention to pages 13-14 in the opinion). The court rejected the ACLU's "repeated reference to 'the separation of church and state.' This extra-constitutional construct has grown tiresome. The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state." 12/22/2005
Court Affirms Marriage Benefits in California.
A California Court handed down a ruling that a city cannot recognize
same sex marriages by granting benefits to employees who enter such
unions. This was in response to a lawsuit filed against the mayor and
city council of San Jose which passed Resolution 72559 which gave
employee benefits to persons in same sex marriages. In her order, Judge
Mary Jo Levinger wrote that the Council’s granting of the benefits was preempted by law which exclusively recognizes marriages between a man and a woman. Read the report by the Pacific Justice Institute. Salt Lake City's Mayor Rocky Anderson recently tried the same thing. This should be seen by the Utah courts and legislature as a precedent for sending a message to Mayor Anderson that he can't disregard the recent amendment to the Utah Constitution. 12/22/2005
Blatant "gay" club advocacy in Deseret Morning News. An Editorial entitled "Gay-straight clubs issue is already settled" was printed in the Dec. 20., 2005 issue. This editorial is an example of the clever way the "gay" activist movement is indoctrinating and conditioning the public. Read the editorial and our comments. 12/21/2005
GOOD NEWS. The Alliance Defense Fund reports that a New Hampshire legislative commission has determined
that marriage "across essentially all societies and history has been defined as the union of a man and a woman," and that "marriage models both natural human sexuality and reproduction that commits to the health, safety, and welfare of both the individual and the community." The commission also confirms that
same-sex "marriage" is not a civil rights issue. Read about it by clicking here. 12/6/2005
Homosexual advocacy in Lone Peak High School newspaper. This hits home. Our daughter Elise was assigned by her Journalism class teacher to write the "con" side of two opinion pieces on the issue of GSA clubs in schools. The person who wrote the "pro" piece wrote a homosexual advocacy propaganda piece, which is against our state law. Read both articles. 11/30/2005
Foundation representatives addressed the Provo Utah City School Board Tuesday Nov 8 opposing a homosexually oriented club at Provo High School. Hear radio coverage featuring Stephen Graham. Read the news release. Watch news coverage of SLF going after the GSA (on the top of the TV web page type "Provo High" in the search box, click search, then click on the report). Read the text of KSL TV coverage interviewing Stephen Graham. Read newspaper articles with quotes from Stephen Graham in the Provo Daily Herald before and after the meeting and the Deseret News after the meeting. 11/9/2005
Learn about Gay-Straight Alliance clubs and how to prevent them. We have prepared 3 files of useful information regarding the homosexual activist movement's plans to indoctrinate our youth. Homosexual agenda handouts presented to Provo School Board (Word, WordPerfect, pdf). Legal Liability of schools (pdf only). Narth Homosexual Advocacy Groups & Your School (pdf only). Print and use any materials you find helpful. 11/5/2005
GOOD NEWS! A Judge in Oregon has upheld a ban on homosexual marriages adopted last year.
Homosexual activists were hoping to have it overturned. From ABC News. 11/4/2005
"Gay" recruitment of teens. Listen to this excerpt from a weekly radio program by the Family Research Council. It covers the article in Time Magazine about how the activist gay movement is recruiting our youth. 11/5/2005
GOOD NEWS! The dangerous Hate Crimes ammendment was deleted from the Child Protection Act because of the outcry from citizens! But we mustn't let our guard down. Truth Tellers. 11/4/2005
The Ninth Curcuit takes away parents' inherent rights. Agape Press. 11/3/2005
Activists are allowed to break laws while protesting a "Love Won Out" conference in Boston at the Tremont Temple Baptist Church helping people overcome homosexuality. Steve talked with Amy Mann of the Article 8 Alliance. 11/2/2005
Schools face potential liability for allowing GSAs. Citizens for Community Values (CCV), out of Ohio, is working nationally to help local citizens and school disricts turn back efforts to establish Gay Straight Alliance clubs in igh schools. Steve spoke with David Miller of CCV about his school liability paper. 11/1/2005
Convicted Sex offender on KSL radio. Listen to a podcast of a KSL radio show Janice heard Oct. 26 in which a convicted sex offender was given 5 minutes to manipulate the audience and shift responsibility for the crimes of child molesters from themselves to the community! 10/28/2005
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Standard of Liberty Voice
A Response to the Homosexual Movement within America’s Churches
A defense of homosexuality and everything that comes with it is being pushed by liberal elites within Christian churches across America. This is being carried out, both overtly and covertly, by influential members who, according to Albert Mohler, are evidently “committed to revisionist understandings of theology, sexuality, and church doctrine.”1 Due to the nature of the propaganda and the sources from which it springs, it must be concluded that this is a carefully planned and deliberate strategy coming from inside every major denomination. No church is immune. Pro-homosexual ideologies are quietly and steadily being disseminated to church members through every possible church-related outlet including the local pulpit, seminaries, institutes, universities, symposiums, radio, TV, movies, books, magazines, internet sites, and newspapers, all disguised as Christianity.
Incredibly, insidious homosexual propaganda now commonly co-exists alongside orthodox information. In some seemingly religious venues, when it comes to the issue of homosexuality, orthodoxy has disappeared altogether. An example from elites in mainstream Christianity is a book called What God Has Joined Together? A Christian Case for Gay Marriage. 2 Several such instances occurring among the Latter-day Saints, including the first book published by Deseret Book advocating the acceptance of homosexuality to the Mormon audience 3, are catalogued on our web site.
Sad to say, because of this shrewd and relentless propaganda many churches are falling in step with our oversexualized society by reconsidering holy scripture as out-of-date in favor of popular psychology and allowing homosexuality to infiltrate their ranks. Others are just a few steps behind society as a whole but seem to be inching towards the full embrace of homosexuality by first accepting, perhaps under the umbrella of compassion, the relatively new tactic, “alternative sexual orientation.”
Such a policy suggests the acceptance of self-identified homosexuals into full church participation and service while requiring that they do not physically act on their proclivities. Besides dangerously inching churches towards full acceptance, this policy also appears unfair. Indeed, some homosexuals are up-in-arms at such an idea, which is understandable. It seems incongruent to accept someone’s “alternative sexual orientation” as natural and immutable but then discipline him for acting on it. This would be like giving a child a lollipop but not allowing him to eat it, or acknowledging that a person is indeed a ballerina but forbidding her to dance. I can’t help but feel that the worst thing about such a policy is that it seems to overlook the suffering, worth, and redeemability of the homosexual’s soul.
I am impressed with Pope Benedict who, as I understand it, recently stated that priests who identify themselves as homosexual must be rejected from the priesthood whether celibate or not, demonstrating the church’s clear position that homosexuality, in theory or behavior, is in opposition to God and His laws. It seems the pope is willing to risk harsh criticism and financial and membership losses in order to maintain the integrity of the church. (A provision is made for former homosexuals who have repented.) 4
The issue of churches accepting homosexuality is of great importance because it denies holy scripture on which Christianity bases its doctrines concerning gender, family, and sexual purity. Albert Mohler says, “When a culture gives itself over to something this fundamentally in rejection of the created order, what results is an entirely new order which brings mass disorder.” He goes on to say that when a culture reinterprets and rejects scripture as completely unambiguous as God’s commandments on sexual purity, the transcendent authority of all scripture is also subject to reinterpretation and rejection.5 In other words churches who reject the word of God, especially on something as basic as His boundaries for human sexuality, are no longer built on a rock, but on sand.
How should believers respond to the invasion of homosexuality into their churches? Mohler says, “Our main concern must be the positive presentation of God’s perfect purpose in creating us male and female and as sexual beings. Nevertheless, we must also confront the confusions and distortions of our age, knowing that the rejection of God’s pattern and order for our sexuality leads inevitably to human misery and to God’s judgment.” 6
I take this to mean that we must unflinchingly establish our own understanding of God-given human sexuality and teach the truth to our children. At the same time we must be very clear about what doctrine reveals concerning sexual sin in thought and deed and teach that to our children as well. We must be aware of the often repeated propaganda, what C. S. Lewis even in the mid-1900s called “good solid lies about sex,” 7 now permeating even Christian society and counteract it with frequent discussions and prayers. Says Mohler, if we are true believers, we must remember that God’s law is superior in authority to everything including science and natural law. “Our own ideas and conceptions of homosexuality are not authoritative – our duty is to understand the mind and intention of God.” 8 Most important, we must continually practice and teach repentance, that is, turning to the Lord and seeking his Spirit for guidance, correction, and truth. As Hugh Nibley said, “Nobody’s very wise, brave, or strong.” 9 We cannot fight this juggernaut without divine assistance.
It may be comforting to note that, in one sense, the sexual revolution bombarding our culture, our churches, our families, and each of us as individuals can become a great blessing reminding us to turn to the Lord continually. The confusion and temptation to give in to modern sophistries coming from within the fold may be the impetus for much spiritual growth and reliance on the Savior to a degree perhaps never before imagined. Personally, I believe this is the reason the Lord is allowing it to happen. Here in the last days perhaps he will finally get our undivided attention.
As a member of the LDS Church, I am profoundly grateful for the timely official document called “The Family, A Proclamation to the World,” announced in 1995 which in effect states that there are only two genders, and respect for these two genders and their traditional roles is essential to our temporal and eternal well-being. In addition, I am infinitely grateful for the Standard Works of scripture we treasure including the Bible and The Book of Mormon which firmly and repeatedly proclaim God’s commandments concerning human sexuality and the possibility of repentance and redemption through the Atonement of Christ. Because the LDS Church is centrally headquartered, I make it a point to pray for our prophet, apostles, and other administrators that they will be enabled to resist the pressures now surely coming from high-profile members of the Church who are in positions of influence and power. I pray our leaders will be strengthened against subtleties, that they will never let their guard down on all issues concerning homosexuality, and that they will continue to uphold our Church’s doctrines and policies at all costs.
The growing number of casualties falling to homosexuality within good families within good churches is not surprising. The homosexual movement uses the most subtle and sophisticated propaganda men’s minds can devise, money can buy, and technology can produce. Lies are repeated so often and in so many ways that the individual loses his power to resist and then feels he must continue his behavior in order to justify the highly politicized cause he has joined. And, once again, we must acknowledge that acceptance of homosexuality is being pushed within every Christian church by those who are committed to revisionist understandings of theology, sexuality, and church doctrine. Pro-homosexual propaganda now runs in a steady muddy stream through every religious denomination in America. Those who belong to strong groups and who adopt a group mentality are easy to indoctrinate.
It is as Joseph F. Smith warned: the three dangers that threaten the Church from within are pride among men, false ideas, and sexual impurity.10 It is up to each of us to seek the Spirit to confirm the truth of what we are now hearing even from some ostensibly within Christ’s fold. Said Harold B. Lee, “. . The time is coming and facing you right now . . . when . . . you will not be able to stand on borrowed light.” 11 President Hinckley reminds us that “the tide of evil flows.” 12 As Paul wrote to the Ephesians, “Put on the whole armor of God , that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” 13
To quote Mohler one last time, “We must learn to address the issue of homosexuality – and other difficult sexual issues – with candor, directness, and unembarrassed honesty. This is not an hour for prudish denial. To fail at [this] task . . . is to fail to speak where God has spoken . . . We must neither cringe nor surrender in . . . the face of all the arguments given in defense of homosexuality” 14 (emphases mine) – no, not at home, not at school, not at work, not in our communities. And, heaven help us, not at church or in the name of Christ.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is incomplete without both knowledge and charity, justice and mercy, judgment and grace. It remains our duty as Latter-day Saints to tell the plain gospel truth about the sinfulness of homosexuality, at the same time offering the message of Christ’s gift of redemption to the individual homosexual, whether obdurate or penitent, practicing or celibate, just as it is offered to us all.
-Janice Graham
Note: For an in-depth discussion on biblical revisionist tactics attempting to excuse/embrace homosexuality within the church see Albert Mohler’s “Homosexuality in Theological Perspective” at http://www.albertmohler.com/commentary_read.php?cdate=2005-10-03 .
1. Albert Mohler, “A Christian Case for Gay Marriage?” http://www.albertmohler.com/commentary_read.php?cdate=2005-08-26 .
2. Ibid.
3. Fred and Marilyn Matis, Ty Mansfield, In Quiet Desperation: Understanding the Challenge of Same-Gender Attraction, Desert Book Company, 2004. (See reviews on our Get Informed page.)
4. Peter J. Boyer, “A Hard Faith, How the New Pope and His Predecessor Redefined Vatican II,” The New Yorker Magazine, May 16, 2005.
5. Albert Mohler, “The Challenge of Homosexuality–How Important Is it?” http://www.albertmohler.com/commentary_read.php?cdate=2006-01-05.
6. Ibid.
7. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, HarperCollins, 2001, p. 97.
8. Albert Mohler, “Homosexuality in Theological Perspective, Part Four,” http://www.albertmohler.com/commentary_read.php?cdate=2005-10-06.
9. Hugh Nibley, DVD: “The Faith of An Observer,” Covenant Communications, 2004.
10. Gospel Doctrine, Sermons and Writings of President Joseph F. Smith, Deseret Book, 1978, p.312-313.
11. Harold B. Lee, The Teachings of Harold B. Lee, 140.
12. Gordon B. Hinckley, “In Opposition to Evil,” Ensign, Sept. 2004, 3.
13. Ephesians 6:11-12.
14. Albert Mohler, “The Cultural Momentum of the Homosexual Movement – And the Church’s Response, http://www.albertmohler.com/commentary_read.php?cdate=2006-01-06. |
