🏳️‍🌈✝️ Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness - NOT - Bigotry, Hate and Discrimination

Rainbow Pastor David

10/14/2017 

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It is becoming more obvious every day that this current administration, congress and the RADICAL EVANGELICAL'S are going to be continue to fight to keep the LGBTQ Community oppressed. We have been warned in the Word of GOD that "RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS" would turn from the truth of God in  the last days. We are seeing that more and more in the EVANGELICAL WORLD. A couple of scriptures for you to read so you understand what is going on in AMERICA and around the world are:

2 Timothy 3:1-9 

^1-5 Don’t be naive. There are difficult times ahead. As the end approaches, people are going to be self-absorbed, money-hungry, self-promoting, stuck-up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude, coarse, dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical, treacherous, ruthless, bloated windbags, addicted to lust, and allergic to God. They’ll make a show of religion, but behind the scenes they’re animals. Stay clear of these people.

^6-9 These are the kind of people who smooth-talk themselves into the homes of unstable and needy women and take advantage of them; women who, depressed by their sinfulness, take up with every new religious fad that calls itself “truth.” They get exploited every time and never really learn. These men are like those old Egyptian frauds Jannes and Jambres, who challenged Moses. They were rejects from the faith, twisted in their thinking, defying truth itself. But nothing will come of these latest impostors. Everyone will see through them, just as people saw through that Egyptian hoax.

 

 Matthew 7:15-20

^15-20 “Be wary of false preachers who smile a lot, dripping with practiced sincerity. Chances are they are out to rip you off some way or other. Don’t be impressed with charisma; look for character. Who preachers are is the main thing, not what they say. A genuine leader will never exploit your emotions or your pocketbook. These diseased trees with their bad apples are going to be chopped down and burned.

I am sure you could start making a list right now of all the Television Preachers who are being described in these two passages of scripture. Probably even know of church's where you live that fit the description. My point is this people, we need to be aware that we are in a SPIRITUAL WARFARE, Ephesians 6:10-18.

It is my sincere prayer that the TRUE FOLLOWERS of JESUS CHRIST not the ones following the AMERICANIZED EVANGELICAL CHURCH with their false teachings, will RISE up, put on the armor of God and go to battle. I pray God will open your eyes and hearts to the TRUTH of HIS WORD  through the HOLY SPIRIT'S GUIDANCE. Blessings and Peace, Rainbow Pastor David

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On this day in 1979, more than 100,000 people marched on Washington to demand equal rights for LGBT people.

But nearly four decades after the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is intent on rolling back their rights.

Just over a week ago, Sessions issued a memo to Department of Justice lawyers asserting that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not protect transgender workers from employment discrimination. His directive overturned the protective policy established under President Barack Obama.

That same day, the DOJ moved to dismiss the first lawsuit against President Trump's transgender military ban.

A few days later, Sessions issued a "religious freedom" guidance, essentially inviting government employees and contractors to discriminate against LGBT people, as long as they cite a religious reason for doing so.

It was a stunning series of policy measures that laid bare the Trump administration's cruel anti-LGBT agenda.

The impetus for this assault on LGBT protections certainly did not come from the public. Seventy percent of Americans now believe homosexuality should be accepted by society, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. That's 7 percentage points higher even than last year – and a major step forward from a decade ago.

Where the attack on LGBT people likely did originate is with groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom, with whom Sessions consulted to draft his religious guidance.

Today, many of the most vocal anti-LGBT groups are in Washington for the annual Values Voter Summit, hosted by the Family Research Council (FRC), which has been designated as a hate group by the SPLC.

The hateful rhetoric of the FRC and the other hate groups at the Summit raises the question: Whose values, exactly, do they purport to represent?

Surely not those of LGBT people, who have been portrayed by the FRC as sick, incestuous, perverted and a danger to children and the nation.

And certainly not those of the majority of Americans.

Bigotry is not an American value. But under a president who sees "very fine people" at a neo-Nazi rally, it's no surprise that groups like the FRC are moving into the mainstream — or that President Trump himself was a keynote speaker at the conference, something no sitting president has ever done.

"Today in the capital of America, we are all here, the almost liberated and the slightly repressed; the butch, the femme and everything in-between," wrote Allen Young at that first march. "Yes, we are all here! We are everywhere! Welcome to the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights!"

That was 1979. Today, the capital looks very different.

As always, thank you for your support,

The Editors

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