By Dr. Alex McFarland for THE CHRISTIAN POST
The passing of marriage/family advocate James C. Dobson, PhD., was acknowledged online by many hateful remarks from his ideological opponents. Not since Liberty University founder Jerry Falwell died in 2007 had I seen a deceased Christian leader so vilified. One of the “‘tamer” posts about Dobson’s passing read, “I was taught that you’re only supposed to say good things about the departed: James Dobson is dead. Good.”
I was privileged to know both Falwell and Dobson very well and was employed a number of years by the latter. The fact these Christian leaders, each of whom served numerous presidents and impacted the world through lifelong service to God, would be brazenly cursed at their passing, is troubling. But at his death in 2018, even the globally venerated Dr. Billy Graham’s name was taken-in-vain by online posters. For a culture that has moved so far from the concepts of moral boundaries or an eventual accounting before God, quite literally nothing is sacred.
As I write this article, LGBT activists in Seattle used legal leverage in attempting to put a stop to Sean Feucht’s “Revive in 25” Christian music tour. Performance permits for Feucht’s tour were revoked in eight Canadian locales. Woke activists in the U.S. also urged cities to make it illegal for this particular set of Christian concerts to happen.
Why? Because the singer reads from the Bible and holds to Scriptural views of gender and human sexuality. The militant LGBT activists say that Feucht’s music and sharing of the Gospel constitutes “malicious harassment” and must be stopped. Of course, all persons (including those whose views about sex and gender run counter to the Bible and human biology) are worthy of respect, dignity, and due process. Just not special process.
