Recently, I received a comment from a young woman named Melissa on an article entitled “LGBT Misogyny: The Battle of The Bathrooms“.
Melissa, thanks for reading, and thanks for your comment.
In that blog, I discuss the recent push for “non-discrimination” laws and policies that make it legal for men who identify as female to use women’s restrooms. I maintain that such laws endanger women, and violate their rights and privacy.
Melissa’s comment is a common response to that position. So instead of replying with a short comment, I decided to address it more thoroughly in a post.
Melissa said:
“I live in Seattle. We have had an equal rights ordinance allowing trans women to use women’s restrooms since 1985 and there have been no complaints of them misbehaving. No leering. No exposure. No assaults.
Are men in Springfield that much more perverted than those in Seattle?”
Melissa, you seem like a reasonable woman. I do take issue with your statement, and ask you to consider another perspective. …More

The book of Revelation is fantastical. Its bold imagery, other-worldly creatures, and apocalyptic message both capture the imagination and defy belief.
But as the prophetic clock eats away at the years allotted for this supposedly final generation— birthed in 1948, when the “fig tree” of Jerusalem was revived as Jesus predicted— we get a surprise.
The book of Revelation is proving to be remarkably accurate.
Case in point: the prophecy of the 200 million man army.
We see this prophecy in Revelation 9:13-16 (NET):
“Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a single voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God, saying to the sixth angel, the one holding the trumpet, ‘Set free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!’ Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour, day, month, and year were set free to kill a third of humanity. The number of soldiers on horseback was two hundred million; I heard their number.” (emphasis added) …More

The Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly the Alliance Defense Fund) is standing for freedom of speech in the pulpit— or are they?
For the 7th year in a row, the ADF (a group of Christian lawyers) is encouraging pastors to break the current IRS law governing 501(c)3 organizations by endorsing political candidates from the pulpit. This year, Pulpit Freedom Sunday is on October 5.
The stated purpose of the Pulpit Freedom Initiative is “…to protect a simple, but fundamental idea – that pastors have a right to speak freely from their pulpits and not be subject to government censorship or threat of punishment when they do so. Pulpit Freedom Sunday is simply about pulpit freedom, no more, no less. Because we do not have the free exercise of religion in any meaningful sense if the government is allowed to punish a pastor for something he says from the pulpit.”
So the ADF claims to stand for the right of pastors to “speak freely from the pulpit”. Judging by the staunch anti-woman position …More