“The Liberty Counsel was founded by conservative activists Mathew (“Mat”) Staver – an attorney and former dean at Liberty University School of Law – and his wife Anita. The Counsel bills itself as a non-profit litigation, education and policy organization that provides legal counsel and pro bono assistance in cases dealing with religious liberty, “the sanctity of human life” and the family. Mat Staver chairs the Counsel; his wife Anita is the president. The Liberty Counsel shares a close affiliation with Liberty University (founded by the late Jerry Falwell in Lynchburg, Va.) , especially the university’s school of law. The partnership includes the Washington, D.C.-based Liberty Center for Law and Policy, which conducts legal research and writes about current legislation and policies.”
“Now [the group will] allow homosexual young boys in the Scouts and allow homosexual leaders in the Scouts, and what are you going to have? You are going to have all kinds of sexual molestation. This is a playground for pedophiles to go and have all these boys as objects of their lust.” – Mat Staver, “Faith and Freedom Radio,” August 2015.
I am convinced that it is futile to argue the propaganda set forth in the above statement relating to the Boy Scouts of America. An enlightened, discerning America knows this is absolute hogwash. Those who wholeheartedly support this claim by Staver will always choose to live in their darkness and homophobia. But, let’s talk about hypocrisy. Those of us who are familiar with the writings of the Bible and the words which have been attributed to Jesus of Nazareth, know that Jesus strongly and frequently condemned the Jewish religious hierarchy of his day. He referred often to the hypocrisy which had taken an ancient faith based on one’s personal trek with God to a ritualistic cult of animal sacrifice and human oppression. The commoners of Jesus’ contemporary society were in bondage not only to the Roman overlords but also to the Jewish elite. Only a few references are made to the oppression of government while most of the writings focus on the oppression inflicted by religion.
John 8:7 He said, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Mark 12:30-31 “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Matthew 7:3 “Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye but fail to see the log in your own eye?”
Matthew 23:28 “So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.”
Do your own research of the LIBERTY COUNCIL through the links provided above and their own website which proclaims on the opening page:
“Liberty Counsel is Restoring the Culture by Advancing Religious Freedom, the Sanctity of Human Life and the Family” liberty council
Yes, they are promoting freedom if it is their very narrow and intolerant interpretation. Fundamentalist religious persuasions tend to take this route. However, what is most disturbing about its agenda is their need to legislate their brand of morality and to attack a minority of American society which has historically been marginalized by a homophobic society intent on promoting hatred and distrust rather than acceptance and inclusion.
The opening quote from Mat Staver is just a sampling of the outrageously uninformed and unsubstantiated misinformation coming from this non-profit organization posing as a legal refuge for the victims of religious persecution.
Anyone -believer, agnostic or atheist- who has read the Gospels of the Bible with an open mind can only interpret the message of the great mystic, Jesus the Christ, as a message of love, tolerance, compassion and inclusion. Anything other than this is religious heresy and hypocrisy.
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you are, once again, preaching to the choir. The ones that need to hear this message will never listen. And, I think that fact..that they will never listen, is what scares me the most about them.
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Know what? I agree wholeheartedly with you. Anyone who reads my stuff is on the same page as I am. Your blog along with several others are daily “must reads” for me because I need to know that there are voices of reason and compassion in this stupid, crazy world. Very often I want to turn off my rant and rave and just write about the peaceful, quiet things in my world. I’m feeling that way today. This BS we call the POTUS will play out as it is destined to play out with or without my input. I sense that also in your writing recently. We have voices that have a need to be heard, but we’re not sure what to do with them……and we’re getting tired. I celebrate 70 years today and don’t want to play out the balance of life in a rant. Am I right?
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