This would be amusing if the consequences of this theology weren't so dire.
Here's a post from a pastor named Taylor Grant.
My comments follow below.........
The original post can be found here.
Taylor C. Grant
Christians Can No Longer Serve God and this Country Honorably
On December 22, 2010 the representatives of the people of the United States in Congress assembled passed a bill and forwarded to the President for his approval, now a law; the promotion, exaltation, and preferment of Sodomites in the Armed Forces of the United States. As a consequence, the complete moral destruction of the Armed Forces begun under the last Democratic President 17 years ago is now accomplished within the current Democratic President’s term. Homosexuality is an abomination before God:
Leviticus 20:13
13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Romans 1:26-27
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
1 Corinthians 6:9
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Homosexuality was a death penalty offense in ancient Israel and in the New Testament era they are numbered among those who will spend eternity in Hell. This is of immediate importance because federal law requires the following oath of enlistment for every member of the Armed Forces of the United States:
In the Armed Forces EXCEPT the National Guard (Army or Air)
I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
In the National Guard (Army or Air)
I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the State of (STATE NAME) against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the Governor of (STATE NAME) and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to law and regulations. So help me God.
• God will not uphold an oath which by its action mandates a violation of His Holiness.
• The elected representatives of the United States have now placed the Armed Forces of the United States in direct opposition to God.
• Hereafter defeat will follow disaster will follow defeat for the Armed Forces of the United States both at home and abroad.
This day I warn every soldier, sailor, and airman who professes the name of Jesus Christ as their Savior to evacuate the Armed Forces immediately. I, as Jefferson, tremble at what is to come:
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
~Thomas Jefferson
Taylor C. Grant
Pastor
Sovereign Grace Baptist Church
Formerly 1LT, Infantry, 9th Infantry Regiment, 7th ID, USA 6/89-7/93
Protoprotestant:
Since the nonsensical Don't Ask Don't Tell law was repealed, many Christians have been a tizzy, but this takes the cake.
It's written by a pastor who proudly proclaims his veteran status, 'serving' from 1989-93 in an infantry unit. This was during the time of the 1st Gulf War. I don't know if he was in it, but he was part of the military at the time it was happening and apparently proud of it.
Apparently it was honourable to kill Iraqi's? It was honourable to turn and attack a country and a ruler which had largely been an American asset, a proxy during the 1980's when Iraq and Iran slaughtered each other? The same American government that was honourably selling arms to both sides? Serving a government with such patently duplicitous aims is honourable?
He honourably served the government which propagandized the American public with lies concerning Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait, babies in incubators, and phantom Iraqi troops massing on the Saudi border?
He honourably served as the non-Imperial United States intervened once again into other country's affairs, countries created by Western powers at the end of WWI as they gobbled up the Ottoman Empire. Very honourable.
He honourably served as the United States decimated the Iraqi army in retreat on the Highway of Death, but then stopped short as the Shiites and Kurds began to rise up, leaving them to be slaughtered by the betrayed and now violent Saddam Hussein? Very honourable.
Perhaps he helped build the bases in Saudi Arabia (another of the American client-states) which have so outraged the Muslim world? Even if he didn't his government and military in which he 'served' did. Most people consider military occupation to be something Imperial powers do to other countries. Empire, being a political euphemism for National Theft at the point of a gun.....wow, that's really honourable.
I guess he got out before the United States unilaterally imposed the illegal no fly zones and began to systematically destroy Iraq through embargo and bombing. Look up depleted uranium in Iraq on the Internet or read my article at this site. Very honourable.
During the 1990's America systematically sent a modern country back to the stone age, destroyed their infrastructure and poisoned their waters. Over half a million Iraqi children died, and somewhere over a million Iraqis in total died. International aid workers and diplomats decried this as genocide and some resigned their posts in protests. When questioned, Secretary of State Albright said, "It was worth it."
So honourable I can't stand it.
It was so honourable to do these things...apparently in the name of Christ? But then we're supposed to be undone because a bunch of sodomites with their filthy morals (who have long been present in the military) can now 'serve' the Empire openly?
And oh yes, military people in general are very moral people. I remember well trying to sleep on a Friday night because I had to work the next day, but could not because of smashing glass, screaming, and loud music. I remember roommates bringing home other men's wives, and people in engaged in public sex. A TDY is a temporary duty and the old saying was, "What happens on TDY stays on TDY." In other words get wild and crazy while you're away from home. And I assure you that many did so. I remember listening to sergeants counsel young enlisted men on how to have an affair and not get caught. I remember well finding only a handful of Christians that I could converse with. I remember feeling caged and trapped among all those honourable people, some of the foulest I've met in all my days.
Yes, I'm sorry to say, was in an American uniform just a few years after this honourable pastor and in my small unit there were at least three homosexuals that everyone knew about.....and guess what? No one cared. It didn't affect the mission....which I'm sorry to say was just as honourable as the Iraq war. Oh, I as a Christian cared for all those lost people. One of the homosexuals actually had a bit of conscience and I was able to talk with him about the Lord. I can't say the same for some of the other lost men. They were cheating on their wives, blaspheming, and laughing about people's sufferings....hey, but at least they weren't gay.
And as far as those lost young sodomites....what they needed was the gospel. A civil law restricting who they can legitimately kill and who they can't won't do much for them will it? As Christians does it really matter if the Empire in which we sojourn employs or doesn't employ homosexuals as it drops bombs on people in other countries?
I suppose it might if we have some kind of convoluted idea that our nation is holy and its military are holy warriors on some kind of holy crusade. But no one diligently studying their Bible would ever do that. No student of the Word would ever dare to commit such a sacrilege as taking verses applying to Israel, the Holy People and apply them to a common non-sanctified, non-covenanted nation like the United States. That would be like expecting the Syrians to keep kosher laws....it would have done them good right? It would have pleased God for them to do so right?
No first century Christian would have ever thought that because some in the Roman legions were homosexual that therefore they couldn't serve in the legion? The question would have never even entered their mind. The early church did not look favourably on Christian's serving in the Imperial Legions. Whether or not there were homosexuals present (and there certainly were) even entered the equation.
Of course I'm also not sure how this man thought that killing Iraqi's was 'serving' America? How was that making our lives safer? How was that defending the United States? I hear 'defending our freedom' thrown around a lot. How were soldiers in 1991 defending our freedom? How are soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan today 'defending our freedom?'
Neither country has ever attacked the United States. The people there have never attacked the United States.
But because the American legions have spread death around the world....yes, we've now lost some of our freedoms. We can thank a Republican president for that. We can thank him for tossing out several amendments in the Bill of Rights. And, yes, it's now unsafe for Americans to travel to many parts of the world.
But somehow this is 'serving' the American people? Honourable? Christian?
Since we're so worried about honour, we're going to quote Jefferson who trembled for his country. Pity he didn't tremble when we revised the Bible and took out all the miracles and supernatural elements. Too bad Jefferson wasn't worried about the Christ he blasphemed.
How can we take these oaths? Perhaps as Christians we shouldn't take oaths, especially when they bind us to something that WE CANNOT in good conscience bind ourselves to...knowing that our primary allegiance is to Christ. I think it is dishonest for a Christian to take such an oath.......dishonest, or treasonous to the Kingdom which he ought to owe all allegiance.
I repented of the oath I took as an unbeliever and removed myself as quickly as I could from its obligations.
What a strange sense of honour this person has! Somehow it's honourable to kill people. Apparently the military is somehow blessed....if not, he wouldn't be making this argument about Christians having to get out.
And how tricky....we can play games with God. It's not alright to 'serve' in the full-time military, because that's Federal, but we can 'serve' in the State part-time military, because the wording is different.
Never mind the fact that when I was on active duty overseas we were regularly supplemented with Guard and Reserve units. And, the Federal government if anyone hasn't noticed has 'borrowed' significantly from these part-time forces to augment the primary mission.
Clever little games. Games with words. Games with allegiances. God's keeping score I assure you.
It's somehow less honourable to kill.....if you're homosexual?
If someone is lost, but not gay......then it's okay to kill for these honourable causes?
But somehow if you're a sodomite and you kill for America......it desecrates the cause?
I think Taylor Grant ought to step down and re-think the Kingdom of God and the gospel. Apparently he's a little confused about what we're here to do and Whom we serve.
Do you want to know who I tremble for?
The people he is pastoring and teaching the Word of God.
I think someone ought to be dishonourably discharged from the pulpit.
I apologize if the tone here was sarcastic and unkind, but this kind of rubbish is an affront to Christ and is destroying the Church.