Liberty Minute February 24 2014

 Those seeking to bring about a cultural revolution employ a tactic that could be described as ?victimidation.? The ongoing campaign for what is called ?gay rights? exemplifies this approach.

 No morally responsible person believes that homosexuals, or anybody else, should be the victims of criminal violence. Most Christians understand that abhorrence for sexual deviance, and a desire to promote sound morality, should not translate into hatred for homosexuals.

 But the cultural revolutionaries who exploit this issue aren't satisfied by this moral understanding: They are demanding that the state reconfigure marriage and the family ? institutions that transcend politics ? and suppress the property rights of business owners who do not want to participate in so-called same-sex weddings and similar rituals. The argument made on behalf of this imposition is that businesses, unlike religious congregations, have public obligations that the government can enforce.

 That distinction will soon disappear. The next phase of the revolution is playing out in England, where two millionaire homosexuals have filed a lawsuit to compel the leaders of a church to perform their supposed wedding. 

The objective is not individual liberation, but the expansion of state power over all private institutions ? an outcome that would destroy everybody?s freedom.

 Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.