{"id":5164,"date":"2022-12-01T13:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T19:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2022-12-01T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T19:02:21","slug":"middle-ground-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5164","title":{"rendered":"MIDDLE GROUND &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; CONSEQUENCES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Comments before the Temple City Council in Texas&#8212;December 1, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DEI&#8212;LGBT&#8212;all one big agenda&#8212;never satisfied<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Claims of being persecuted have been used to gain a hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Media obliged, followed by compliant government and accommodating businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+just want equal rights<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+got it&#8212;sodomy laws revoked<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+got it&#8212;gay marriage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+not enough&#8212;want public endorsement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+got it&#8212;White House lit up in rainbow lights<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+got it&#8212;lots of celebration, and prominent business endorsements, in Temple, for the first &#8216;annual&#8217; gay pride day&#8212;with enthusiastic expectations of&nbsp; bigger and better next year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+got it&#8212;a drag queen show hailed as family friendly, open to the public, in Temple, without a word of regulation to protect children<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T has been added to LGB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DEI is the new code to slip in their agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drag queen show in Temple is directly in sync with sexually mutilating children&#8217;s bodies irreversibly, at the altar of transgender (just like we mutilated sixty million children already).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you think for a moment that it will stop here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you realize there is a powerful, organized force behind all this, organized to destroy everything we hold dear in this country, this town?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon, every business mission statement must include inclusion&#8212;specific wording catering to LGBT&#8212;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">or else<\/span> you can&#8217;t do business, IN TEMPLE ? ? ?\u00a0 YES, IN TEMPLE&#8212;sounds good, except for the Christian in business, IN TEMPLE ! ! !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Jesus Is Lord of This Business&#8221; on MY business card is not compatible with any form of LGBT\/DEI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we do not take a stand to halt this agenda&#8212;and just let it be&#8212;guaranteed it will take over this city&#8212;lawsuits with Christians pining through the courts for years, like in other cities right now (Lorie Smith, Christian web designer in Colorado, appears before the Supreme Court Monday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When &#8220;the thief comes to kill, steal, and destroy&#8221; America:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+Subversion gains a foothold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+The fringe gains publicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+The radical gains power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+Evil demands endorsement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+Good edged out to the fringe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+Christians persecuted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments before the Temple City Council in Texas&#8212;December 1, 2022 DEI&#8212;LGBT&#8212;all one big agenda&#8212;never satisfied Claims of being persecuted have been used to gain a hearing. 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