{"id":178,"date":"2009-04-24T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.consider.org\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2009-04-24T07:30:11","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T13:30:11","slug":"an-isaiah-520-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consider.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/an-isaiah-520-world\/","title":{"rendered":"An Isaiah 5:20 World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I was\u00a0 a new Christian, and a much younger man, there were passages in the Bible that did not make a lot of sense to me. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe them, but rather that I didn’t really see the need.\u00a0\u00a0 Isaiah 5:20 was one of those.\u00a0\u00a0 “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”\u00a0 Ok, but who would ever do this, I thought.\u00a0 Now doing evil I could see, as unfortunately there were far too many historical examples.\u00a0 But Isaiah is not talking about just doing that which we should not, but an intellectual inversion of morality, that was for me, \u00a0incomprehensible.<\/p>\n

But over the last few decades, unfortunately many of these passages have come to make much more sense, Isaiah 5:20 being one of them.\u00a0 At times I feel like Charlton Heston in the upside down world of Planet of the Apes<\/em>,\u00a0 and want to scream, “It’s a mad house, a mad house.”\u00a0 One of those times was this week with the controversy surrounding the Miss USA pageant<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now I am not a big fan of such pageants.\u00a0 I don’t oppose them; I just don’t care about them much one way or the other.\u00a0 But as I learned the details about the controversy I became very bother, because it was one of those moments of clarity where you see how bad things have really become, and how unless stopped they will get much worse.<\/p>\n

The basic facts are that a contestant was asked for her thoughts on legalizing same sex marriage,\u00a0 and said that she believed marriage should be between a man and a woman.\u00a0 It\u00a0 was an answer that the vast majority of Americans would give, and one that even President Obama, and many democrats have given.<\/p>\n

Yet Miss California was denounced and condemned for her answer, and lost.\u00a0 Shanna Moakler\u00a0 a co-director of the pageant applauded her for being<\/a> “willing to miss out on the opportunity of being Miss USA, to stay true to her convictions.”\u00a0\u00a0 But then she when all to say that, “we don’t hate her. But it puts us in a difficult situation because we do have a difference of opinion.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Miss California’s crime was supposedly not her position, but her answer was “insensitive<\/a>” and not “compassionate<\/a>.”\u00a0\u00a0 In short, she should not have inserted “her own personal politics into it.” Here is what she said,<\/p>\n

“I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other, but in my country, and in my family, I think that I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The moral and intellectual inversion involved in the condemnation of this answer clearly qualifies this as an example of Isaiah 5:20. Consider the last part, that she should not have inserted her personal politics into the pageant.\u00a0 \u00a0This complaint was made by the judge who asked her view about same-sex marriage.\u00a0 If her opinion on same-sex marriage did not belong in the pageant, then why ask for her opinion about same sex marriage?\u00a0 The judge who asked the question is a militant homosexual.\u00a0 Does anyone seriously believe that if her answer had supported same sex marriage this judge would have been “shocked<\/a>”\u00a0 or that he would have posted\u00a0 the tirade against her on his web site?\u00a0 This tirade was so vile and disgusting, that the Host on CBS’s the Early Show had to caution him at the beginning of the interview that there show was a live family show.<\/p>\n

Yet in the upside down Isaiah 5:20 world in which we live, vile and disgusting attacks on a woman who expresses biblical values are acceptable, even understandable.\u00a0 But saying that marriage should be between a man and a woman, well, \u00a0that is just beyond the pale.<\/p>\n

As a result, \u00a0the world in which those with traditional values are allow to participate is a little bit smaller.\u00a0 Again I not a fan of such pageants so in many ways I don’t care. But I am a fan of liberty and freedom. I believe that true marriage is only between a man and a woman, not just because this is what the Bible teaches, but for a number of reasons independent of the Bible. More importantly, I believe the reasoning on this is so strong that given a fair and open debate the traditional view of marriage would remain the dominant \u00a0position of society.<\/p>\n

I also believe that this is why the minority that supports same-sex marriage is so intolerant of any contrary opinion.\u00a0 Their position is ultimately flawed, irrational and grounded in silly and false notions such as there is no real difference between men and women.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact, the position is so weak that the only way it can survive is through the suppression of\u00a0 any contrary, that is biblical, views.\u00a0 That this minority controls virtually all the major media and pop culture, allows for this suppression.<\/p>\n

And this is the true significance of the controversy at the Miss USA pageant\u00a0 for is shows how far this intolerance of biblical views has spread.\u00a0\u00a0 The antipathy for biblical values is already in the movies, news, music,\u00a0 and most importantly the schools.\u00a0 The fact that the younger generations see no problem with same-sex marriage, is a testament to how successfully biblical views have been suppressed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

So now the suppression has expanded even further. In \u00a0the name of tolerance and compassion,\u00a0 the expression of the biblical view of marriage can no longer be tolerated, and no compassion will be show for those who express such views.\u00a0 It is truly an Isaiah 5:20 world.<\/p>\n

This is Elgin Hushbeck, asking you to Consider Christianity<\/a>: a Faith Based on Fact<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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