NEW SODOM

The Asymmetrical World of New Sodom and Her Suburbs
Are they trying to kill truth-tellers or just the truth they tell?
by Pastor Ralph Ovadal, director, Wisconsin Christians United

To listen to sodomite propagandists, one would think that a wave of deadly violence against homosexuals sweeps across the nation every time a minister of the gospel publicly proclaims what the Bible actually does say about sodomy and other perverted sexual acts--ditto every time a politician expresses the slightest concern about using the institutions of civil government, the educational system, and the taxpayers' money to support and advance Sodom's agenda. Of course, we all know that Matthew Shepherd was brutally murdered because of that sort of thing, right? Matthew's tragic death was totally unrelated to the fact that he picked up two strangers in a bar for anonymous sex. Shucks, anyone should be able to do that without worrying about putting his life and limb in danger--anyone, even those guys who dress up as ladies and pick up whoremongering men looking for a good time who then react badly when they realize that while the lady was a tramp, the tramp was not a lady! By the way, I wonder when we will see a play memorializing the genuinely female prostitutes who are murdered after picking up the wrong guys? But I digress. Let's have no mumbling similes here that might lead people to draw logical conclusions.

We were talking about how the sodomites scream bloody murder every time their opponents voice a principled opinion. We are told that our words provoke violence, breed terror, and birth death for "gay and lesbian" people. Consider, for instance, all of that "gay on gay" violence which is reported as hate crimes. No doubt, that too can be laid at the door of those callous individuals who continue to stubbornly and ignorantly insist that homosexual acts are dangerous, often deadly, sins which God condemns even as He graciously offers forgiveness and salvation to those homosexuals who will repent and believe the gospel. So it's our fault; it's all our fault. Suicide; AIDS; drug use; premature death; and certainly, especially, violence against homosexuals is our fault. When will we cease this reckless preaching of law and grace, objective truth and love without dissimulation?

Now, just to go widely off the issue for a few lines, some of us Christians have been physically attacked by homosexuals. Duh, I almost forgot--that too is our fault. We are told, as I have been told many times, that if we would not speak against the sin and agenda of Sodom, we would not be attacked. So again, our own words are to blame. Here is a curious thing: those who simply speak the truth about homosexuality are said to maim and kill. We equip foaming-at-the-mouth lunatics to go on rampages against homosexuals. Thus we are to be silent--silent, that is, about homosexual acts. We can talk about child abusers or rapists or drunkards or drug dealers in the strongest of terms. That's different. If someone attacks one of those characters, we can simply point out that two wrongs do not make a right. It is different than if we talk against homosexuals and someone uses that as an excuse to attack one of them. Let's try to keep all of this straight. It's probably good I'm writing it all down.

Another thing, Sodom's sons and daughters can say anything they want about Christians. That's also different. As an oppressed people class who have been inflicted with all sorts of health problems out of the blue, that's their right.

In my home state, we have a homosexual political group called Action Wisconsin. Homophobes at the state capitol in Madison have secretly told me that Action Wisconsin is rather proficient at playing the bully. Recently, Action Wisconsin decided to bully my ministry, some of my friends, and me. Wisconsin Christians United held an event which we called the International Conference on Homo-Fascism. The conference featured speakers from several different countries who spoke of a rising tide of fascism which is manifesting itself in hate speech laws and increasing restrictions on religious liberty. Action Wisconsin--brilliant strategists that they are--ordered off of our web site CDs featuring five hours of conference speeches. They then excerpted out of context remarks we speakers made in those speeches. Their goal was to make us look like a bunch of mad-dog killers, drooling at the thought of murdering homosexuals.

Action Wisconsin really went for the brass ring with several remarks from Pastor Grant Storms's sermon on the biblical story of Jonathan and his armor bearer's fight with the Philistine army. After performing some fairly extensive surgery on the pastor's remarks and ignoring the message's context, Action Wisconsin's brain trust issued a press release in which they wrote that the preacher was talking about and even acting out the murder of gay people! They also compared our conference to "a Ku Klux Klan rally or a neo-Nazi conference." WCU was described as indulging in "extreme hate-group activity"; and it was related to the world that we "espoused . . . frenzied, hysterical hatred." In a nutshell, so to speak, Action Wisconsin juxtaposed Wisconsin Christians United alongside those who have hanged black people and gassed Jews. They lied by saying that we encouraged, and even reveled in, the murder of "gay people." Just for good measure, they described us as being consumed by "frenzied, hysterical hatred."

Now, Pastor Grant Storms and I have both received numerous threats to our lives and limbs in the past. I have had several homosexuals make good on the limb-type threats. Action Wisconsin's news release assault on WCU went on their web site and out to the media on Monday, December 8, 2003. On the afternoon of Tuesday, December 9, 2003, WCU held a picket in Galena, Illinois. We set up a number of signs and banners with biblical messages, including a sixteen-foot banner reading, "Homosexuality is sin." As I stood beside that banner holding a sign bearing the message "Christ can set you free," I was attacked by a young man wielding a five-foot long, three-inch thick stick. As police watched, he did succeed in hitting me in the knee hard enough to shatter that solid stick into three pieces. Ouch! The Galena Police Department decided not to charge the errant lad with battery. Instead, they gave him a disorderly conduct charge. I guess, technically speaking, attacking a homophobic pastor does create a disturbance, although generally battery with a stick is considered battery. Perhaps my assailant did not want to be charged with battery. That could be it.

In 1996, I was knocked unconscious by a homosexual while I was doing ministry work in Madison. In that case, the Dane County D.A. dropped the initial charge of substantial battery down to an ordinance violation because, she told me, the perpetrator did not want a criminal record. By the way, in that incident, my attacker told police that he had a right to hit me because of the message I was sharing on the public sidewalk in front of an elementary school in which a display about "gay families" was being presented. I wonder where he got that idea?

In 1996, four hundred sodomites trespassed and semi-rioted on the property of a church where I was speaking in Madison. The police did not order the intruders off of the property because they did not want to leave. I could relate many other similar examples from WCU history to prove the point of this story, but it is time to get to that point.

Action Wisconsin released to the press and posted on the Internet a story in which the speakers at a WCU event, including me, were luridly and falsely painted as hysterical wanna-be murderers of "gay people." Thirty-six hours later, I was attacked by an obscenity-spewing, club-wielding young man who is either a homosexual or, it would be safe to say, pro-homosexual. Now what if WCU had put out a press release in which we flat-out and knowingly lied by accusing Action Wisconsin leaders of literally advocating the cold-blooded murder of Christians and reveling in the thought of such bloodshed? What if the next day, Action Wisconsin executive director Chris Ott was assaulted as I was assaulted? Do you think maybe, just maybe, Action Wisconsin would then claim that WCU's concocted story had something to do with that assault, whether or not they could prove it? But of course, that would be different.

At the risk of sounding stupid to those who are so smart that they reject God's dictated or natural law and His revealed law as found only in Holy Scripture, I will bring this little monologue to a close by summarizing what Action Wisconsin et al want us to learn. It is very simple. Those who preach the faith of our fathers and stand for the law of our Father cause violence against those who do violence to His Word, their own bodies, and the culture in which our children live. On the other hand, due to their pressing need to marginalize, demonize, and silence their opponents, this nation's sexual anarchists have every right to slander, libel, intimidate, and even falsely present as dangerous, blood-thirsty murderers those who hold to a principled, public stand against Sodom's agenda. That is the lesson the citizens of Sodom and their supporters in Sodom's suburbs are busily weaving into America's psyche. With the help of the mainstream media, spineless politicians, and quiet-as-death pastors, they seem to be having quite good success. When sodomites are the victims of violence for any reason, it is our fault; and when we are the victims of sodomite violence, it is our fault. Is that what they mean by "different strokes for different folks"? Those Christians who do not relish quivering Lot-like in a cave somewhere after having failed both their Lord and their family by remaining silent in the face of a great evil need to take a truly biblical, public stand against what can only be termed a rising tide of homo-fascism.

For more information on WCU or to see the whole story on Action Wisconsin's recent verbal assault against WCU, go to www.wcuweb.com.

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