Dr Paul Allen

GetEqual ENDA Protest (Photo credit: mattymatt ) The ACLU and other groups supporting gay rights have announced that they are withdrawing their support for the Employment Non-discrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA) . ENDA is a controversial measure because the bill would make it illegal for employers to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or sexual identity. Why would the ACLU and gay rights groups remove their support for such a measure? Because the current form of the bill provides an exemption for religious employers. The ACLU et al. have decided that the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobbydecision gives too much ground to religious liberty . To curtail that trend, these groups will not support the bill as long as it offers broad exemptions to religious employers. What does that mean? Until the Hobby Lobby decision, these groups were fine with religious exemptions. In fact, ENDA’s exemptions are based in part on the 1964 Civil Rights Act . But now, that has changed. Christian ...

Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image via CrunchBase In our multi-cultural, all-is-one, anything-goes world, the distinction between the Truth and the Lie clearly has to go! The Church must understand the present struggle between the Gospel and the growing, multi-faceted opposition to it in our time. You will discover a deeply anti-Christian spiritual movement incubating, once the fortress of Christianity in the modern world. Reading voraciously to understand what the spiritual “progressives” were saying, you will be driven to a deceptively simple text— Romans 1:25 . Here Paul sums up in 25 Greek words the bedrock nature of spiritual conflict, be it in the Garden, in his own time, or, by implication, in ours. In this verse he lays out an irreducible age-old conflict between two opposing world views: 1. the worship and service of creation; 2. the worship and service of the Creator . These two options sum up the whole of r...