The Malice of LGBT Activists
The Core Issues Trust (CIT), a Christian charity, which seeks to help people with unwanted same-sex attraction has reported that Barclays Bank is closing its company bank account. This follows pressure on Barclays to do so by an LGBT group. Mike Davidson, the CEO of CIT said that he had received letters from Barclays Bank saying that they would close his charity’s account on September 14. He asked for an explanation but was given no reason and was referred to their customer agreement statement, which says that either party can terminate the account.
Barclays features highly on Stonewall’s favoured employer list for its employee equality policies and the bank is a lead sponsor of “Pride in London”. Mr Davidson said that the cancellation of their accounts “appears to be in response to social media demands. Several LGBT activists and others are demanding that Barclays close our accounts.” In addition to the action by Barclays, the Trust have been dropped by other service providers such as Paypal and Mailchimp. Mr Davidson has had death threats against himself and threats have also been made against his wife and children.
The LGBT activists accuse the charity of “conversion therapy”. However, the CIT has made it abundantly clear that there is no compulsion or coercion in what they do. They simply offer one-to-one counselling for those who seek it.
CIT is being supported, in seeking to resolve its issue with Barclays, by the Christian Legal Centre. Its chief executive, Andrea Williams, is quoted as saying, “If banks and other service providers start to placate social media campaigns by unilaterally terminating their accounts, then the UK will be a very difficult place for biblically-faithful Christian ministries”. It is not the role of a commercial organisation to monitor and police the legitimate religious beliefs of their customers. We are seeing more and more assaults on religious freedom by those who see scriptural truths as a reproach on their way of life. It could be that the details of this apparent discrimination may not be as clear cut as reported but what is clear is that, if anyone disagrees with the views of LGBT activists, they are vilified, threatened and hounded. LGBT activists are also foremost in demanding prosecutions for perceived hate crime, when they are evidently the worst offenders. FRD
Rising up in Judgement
Christ speaks of the men of Nineveh and the Queen of the South rising up in judgement against the generation to whom He was speaking (Mt 12:41-42) and condemning it. They will be cited as witnesses against them at the Day of Judgement, and by their own judgement will wholeheartedly concur in the condemnation then passed upon that unbelieving generation.
In a similar way, we can think of those who have been deliberately aborted in the womb rising up at the Day of Judgement against the mothers, fathers, doctors, nurses, hospital and abortion-clinic staff, politicians and nations who denied them a span of life on earth. Their witness will be unanswerable. The Lord bestowed natural life upon them, and these others had no shadow of excuse for taking it away. They had done nothing worthy of death in human terms (Rom 9:11). You ripped me to pieces, they will say, and you deserve to be ripped to pieces yourselves.
For those who did not repent of their part in the slaughter – washing away their sins in the blood of Christ – the punishment will fit the crime. “Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver” (Ps 50:22). DWBS