Unfortunately every\u00a0situation in the United States and around the world\u00a0is being politicized.\u00a0 What were once clear moral issues have become divisive political issues.\u00a0 It’s not that those\u00a0who defend Judeo-Christian values tried to politicize issues, but instead the government meddled as usual and reared its ugly head where it shouldn’t (read the Constitution) and thus, everything in the\u00a0United\u00a0States has\u00a0become politicized.<\/p>\n
Over the last several decades, most Christians and their leaders have been polite as the world has turned upside down.\u00a0 Some clergy won’t tackle controversial subjects from the pulpit.\u00a0 Is it so as not to offend someone in the pews?\u00a0 Is it because they fear some may choose a different church?\u00a0 Maybe donations will decline?\u00a0 Or will the IRS appear on their doorstep?<\/p>\n
Remaining quiet\u00a0and indecisive\u00a0hasn’t accomplished much.\u00a0 In fact, it has probably contributed to the increase in abortions, gay “marriage” (quotations marks are used because the\u00a0possibility doesn’t exist), living together, and increased divorce to name a few.\u00a0 Where has this gotten us?\u00a0 Families are a mess or non-existent, fathers are missing, unborn children are mourned, women are depressed, the government says kids\u00a0can pick if they are male or female……and these situations are occurring in all families, church-going or not.<\/p>\n
Recently, a controversial sex education curriculum was implemented in Ontario, Canada, known as Wynne Sex Ed<\/a>.\u00a0 The fact that the Canadian government pushed this through was bad enough.\u00a0 Now there is controversy as to whether Catholic leadership spoke up<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0stop or slow down\u00a0this curriculum.\u00a0 We won’t know if Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto could have done a better job rallying the troops to fight Wynne Sex Ed, there seems to be various opinions.\u00a0 But should there be a question at all?\u00a0 Shouldn’t it be a slam dunk that at least a\u00a0CATHOLIC priest would be clearly on record opposing a dangerous agenda, while using his pro-life and pro-family resources easily found in a Catholic Diocese to organize resistance?<\/p>\n Many Protestant preachers also avoid\u00a0controversial subjects.\u00a0 Maybe\u00a0 members should ask\u00a0their pastors\u00a0to speak about\u00a0our societal ills\u00a0from the pulpit, in the weekly bulletin, or during Sunday School.\u00a0 Maybe the pastors don’t know the laity\u00a0desires clear direction, whether we realize it or not.\u00a0 It’s like going to the doctor, we don’t always want to hear his advice but we know we need it.<\/p>\n In September of this year, a local priest wrote a letter about Christian solidarity<\/a>, and now\u00a0his words\u00a0seem prophetic.\u00a0\u00a0Seven weeks later in\u00a0Houston, the “Bathroom Bill<\/a>” was defeated.\u00a0 This is good news.\u00a0 But even better news is the leadership of clergy<\/a> in Houston.\u00a0 They did not take\u00a0NO for answer and used every resource at their disposal.\u00a0 It was a long fight, but it exposed the radical progressive agenda.\u00a0 And the Bathroom Bill didn’t just lose, it lost big.<\/p>\n So clergy, if you’re already taking a stand about our moral issues, we thank you.\u00a0 Those that aren’t,\u00a0feel free to\u00a0start meddling in our schools, our government, and with those elected officials who would rather we\u00a0stay quiet.\u00a0 We can also\u00a0rear our ugly heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unfortunately every\u00a0situation in the United States and around the world\u00a0is being politicized.\u00a0 What were once clear moral issues have become divisive political issues.\u00a0 It’s not that those\u00a0who defend Judeo-Christian values tried to politicize issues, but instead the government meddled as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[437,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3397,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/3397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}