SOME EYE-OPENING INTERACTION WITH AN "ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA" MINISTER

This interaction took place on my AskDrBrown Facebook page over the weekend of July 7-8, 2012. Rev-Gerald posted the comment that began our interaction.


Rev-Gerald: Dr. Brown what is your motivation for the work you do?

MLB: Love for God and love for people; a burning call from the Lord; the clear mandate of Scripture -- just for starters.

Rev-Gerald:  I am sorry but I don't see the love for people. Is that love for all people or just straight? Love does no harm.

MLB: Rev-Gerald, wow, you seem to be judging me without knowing me, and that doesn't sound like love at all. Of course I love all people. Jesus does! And I constantly hear from students at our ministry school and folks who listen to my radio show that they now have a tremendous love for LGBT people, a love that they never had before, and we have had many times of prayer, often with tears of compassion, for the LGBT community. Love does no harm because love tells the truth and then love says, "I'm here to give my life to help you know God and walk with Him." By His grace, that's what we do. So, dear brother, where is the love in your statement towards me? And aren't you guilty of violating Matt 7:1? If you really want to hear my heart and you're not just here to post judgmental statements, please watch this.

Rev-Gerald:  Dr. Brown I am very aware of your work and very aware of your words and deeds toward the lgbt community. You are not on SPLC's radar for love in truth.

MLB: Rev-Gerald, tell me about our missionaries serving in more than 20 nations around the world, sir. Tell me about our outreach to the lost sheep of the house of Israel for more than 40 years. Tell me about our message to the Church of America to return to its first love, and the list goes on and on. You obviously have no idea who I am and I wonder if you even took the time to watch the link I sent you. As for the SPLC, please, Gerald. They have disqualified themselves from being taken seriously for a long time now, and even the quotes of mine they use have not a syllable of hate in them. So, I ask you three simple questions: 1) Did you watch the link I sent? 2) Are you demonstrating the kind of love that "does no harm" in your accusations against me? 3) Is the Bible your final authority on how we should live? I look forward to your answers and I do hope that you will not avoid these simple and direct questions. And may you truly be touched by the radical, life-transforming love of Jesus!

Rev-Gerald: ‎1. I watched the link and kudos to Harry Knox. I didn't miss you brag about the same thing you bragged about here (support of missionary work). Again, it is not what we say but what we do to back up what we say. You do double talk. You say what would Jesus do but yet you self publish "A Queer Thing” which is full of misinformation and has been used by some in the anti-gay crowd to hurt the gay community. You say no to homophobia and yet your work is used to fuel homophobia.

2. Why play the victim card? My accusations are not pulled out of thin air sir. They are not without substance. You call out the so-called gay activists and agenda for what you consider to be their wrongs, I and others do the same to you. Repent from your false and misinformation about the lgbt community. Your work in this area, divides families. You may have the best of intentions but the product is a tool of harm. You are seen by some as an expert on the issue of sexual orientation, sexuality and the Bible. Your words are taken as gold and used to verify and excuse hate. There is no room to argue that your words on this issue are misused by others, your words and information on this issue are twisted and skewed from the start.

3. The final authority of how we should live our lives is the Holy Spirit. The Bible as we see in many cases has been used to oppress others. Does that mean to throw it out? No. That means we need to examine ourselves. That is why I asked my question about what motivates you to do this work. If one is motivated by love the end product would be love. When it comes to the LGBT community, especially the transgender community, love is not seen.

I don't know you personally, and do not have a heaven or hell to put you in. What I do have is grave concern for the damage that you are causing in the lives of many.

A REALLY WONDERFUL TESTIMONY

This email was sent to me via the AskDrBrown page on Facebook with encouragement to share it with others as long as I didn't mention the writer's name. So here it is! Be encouraged as you see how the truth of the Word of the Lord can really transform someone's life. Praise God! I inserted hyperlinks within the text to direct you the messages he was speaking about.

Dr. Brown,         

I want to say first of all that I rarely ever use a computer except to learn more about God, and I do not have any kind of social media account. This is through my wife’s account. I am writing you this letter to encourage you; and hopefully others to give to your ministry. I want to also share a little about how God has used your work in radio and preaching to draw me closer to Him and open my eyes wider to the true spiritual war we are in. I have given to your ministry before but have not become a torch bearer yet; even though my wife and I have felt led to become one. When I heard your plea to listeners to help keep God’s work going through your ministry on radio, I knew this was a call for action on our part, (the listeners, and all who have been blessed by any part of your work- past or present). I truly believe that you are on the front lines of the battle against persecution of Jesus and Christians, and moral insanity. I will be giving $1,000 to help your ministry stay on the front lines. I will also become a torch bearer. As soon as I said to myself “I will give” God immediately laid this amount on my heart. This is a lot of money for me to be giving but I know God will provide and increase its value.

God saved me out of drug and alcohol addiction in 1998 on Fathers Day. I became a new person. I, like many, still had struggles though. Staying in church and growing in knowledge. My biggest struggle was pornography. It had been a part of my life for a long time. I was exposed to it at an early age, around 10 to 12 years old. I would fall into this sin and get back up, fall and get back up. Even in the months that I would be victorious in this area, I could not overcome condemnation or believe that I would ever really be freed from this chain of bondage around my neck. I was not given over to it but I just could not get total victory, without having another failure take place and I would be in broken fellowship with God *AGAIN*. I began thinking this would just be something God’s grace would have to see me through. * NOT TRUE* , THAT WAS THE DEVIL’S LIE! God does not want sin to rule the lives of His own. As I have learned from your teaching, Jesus came to save us from our sins not in our sins. He can deliver all who are in bondage to sin. One day during a conversation with my wife about this area of sin in someones life, she asked me if I had viewed pornography. I had determined when I married her that I would be honest with her so I confessed to my wife the failures; and after one counseling session with a Christian counselor and friend, she (my wife) was on my team, praying for me with the understanding that this is the spiritual warfare the bible tells us about. Now I am nearly 3 years free from the bondage of that sin. Your ministry has been a BIG part of the victory. I have “Go and Sin No More” as well as some of your other messages on my iPod. Your messages on Holiness vs Legalism, Overcoming Condemnation, How to Stay on Fire for God, and much more. OH! And every one should hear your “Aharith” message. I listen to your preaching over and over again and it strengthens me and my faith. Your practical teaching about holiness is truly what “The Church” needs to hear today. Let me say that I am a member of a great Southern Baptist church that is definitely standing for what is right, however “the true church is not bound by any denomination anyway.” I believe that without people like you and the light that you are shining, true revival will not come here in this nation. I want to plead with everyone to get on board with your ministry. I, like you, believe that revival is possible if we would do all we can to stand with those who are leading the charge. I listen to you on 1030 am Truth Radio in Raleigh.   

By the way you should know it took me 3 hours to type this letter. I hardly ever use the computer.  

With many thanks,

B---

WHEN "CHRISTIANS" REJECT THE WORDS OF JESUS: A REMARKABLE DIALOGUE ON FACEBOOK

This interaction took place on the Facebook page for A Queer Thing Happened to America from about 2:00 AM until 4:30 AM, Tuesday morning, June 26, 2012. My posts here are identified as "MLB." Aside from removing an unrelated comment or two, as well as the comment of a colleague, this is the exact dialog as it unfolded. I post it here in its entirety, not to shame those I was reaching out to -- in fact, your hearts will break for them as you read -- but because it is one of the clearest examples of spiritual deception you will ever see. Take the time to read it through, and you will be amazed.

The original post was from a man named Nathan who said he would be watching what Facebook did carefully in terms of censoring pages that carried Christian perspectives about homosexuality. This is what followed. (One further note to the reader: I had interacted with Will many times before and he had actually been banned from all our other pages because of the nature of his posts, but I wanted to reach out to him again.)

Will: MANY of us are watching, Nathan .. like hawks. God is watching, as well.

MLB: Will, yes God is watching and reaching out to you, calling you to Himself and calling you to repentance and salvation and new life.

Will: Mike, if you talked with people instead of at them ... and if you honored Paul's words from Romans 14:1-4 ... God would, at least in part, be honored. ONLY you and satan would say what you just said. God and I know better.

Will: Fr. Martin Laird has reminded us that when satan, the prince of darkness, comes against us with his lying vanities as he did to Jesus in the wilderness .. the proper response is the truth of God's Word. He is our defender against every lying accusation from the pit of hell. Even against those things uttered by tongues whose entire agenda is self promotion and using God's beloved for financial gain. As I said earlier ... even more importantly than those of us who watch with vigilance .. God is watching, as well.

MLB: Will, how utterly, terribly tragic that you mistake God's offer of repentance, forgiveness, and new life for the voice of Satan! As for Paul's words, he was speaking about issues like observance of different holy days or eating of certain foods, not sexual sin. On this, he was 100% clear: 1 Cor 5:1-13. If you came here saying, "I want to follow and honor the Lord but I struggle terribly with same-sex attraction and can't see how God would consign me to a life of loneliness and celibacy," I and others would reach out to you and help you any way we knew how, crying with you and praying for you and encouraging you. But when you mock God's truth, falsely accuse me and others of all kinds of foul things, and then call the Father's voice the voice of Satan, you make it very difficult to help you. Nonetheless, I will pray for you, knowing that God can have mercy on us in the midst of our ignorance.

Will: Michael, I utterly reject the bastardized perversion of Christianity that is Fundamentalism ... and I live by faith according to the promises and faithfulness of Christ .. not any sort of Jewish Law that is based on the knowledge of good and evil. There is little sense in discussing anything with you .. so I will leave it, once again, at my original statement. GOD IS WATCHING, Michael. Be certain of it.

Will: You do NOT speak the word of God, Michael ... you speak "the knowledge of good and evil" which is the voice of satan that destroyed the union God intended with Adam in the first place. It is you, sir, that is confused and taking God's name in vain .. not me. You have nothing whatsoever with which to help me. Your relationship is with religious dogma, not with the Spirit of life in Christ, and it is very apparent. Now, let's not waste each other's time .... GOD IS WATCHING, Michael .. be certain of it.

MLB: Will, I base every word of what I wrote here on the God-breathed, life-giving truths of the New Testament. You can accuse all you like, but what you are shouting aloud is that you will reject and twist God's beautiful standards and holy Word based on your sexuality rather than submit to the liberating lordship of Jesus. As for me, I am blessed and thrilled and encouraged by the fact that God watches over me. My Father is wonderful beyond description, and what I do, I do out of love for Him.

Will: For my response ... see above.

JERRY SANDUSKY, GAY ACTIVISTS, AND “CONSENSUAL” PEDERASTY

Every gay and straight person I know deplores the terribly abusive acts of convicted pederast Jerry Sandusky, since he used his position of power to sexually abuse boys and young teenagers. But would gay activists condemn Sandusky if the acts had somehow been consensual?

Consider the example of Harvey Milk, the pioneer gay politician who is celebrated in many schools on Harvey Milk Day and who was memorialized in the Academy Award winning film “Milk.”

According to the acclaimed gay journalist Randy Shilts, at age 11, Milk began attending performances of the New York Metropolitan Opera where he met with “wandering hands” and soon was engaged in “brief trysts [with grown men] after the performances.” While still in junior high, he “dove headfirst into the newly discovered subculture,” and by the age of 14, Milk was “leading an active homosexual life.”

Were the men who were sexually involved with Harvey Milk any better than Jerry Sandusky? And can an 11-year-old give truly informed consent to such acts?

As Milk grew older, the pattern reversed itself to the point that, at age 33, Milk hooked up with a 16-year-old named Jack McKinley, one of a number of younger men with whom he was intimate. Does this not tarnish his legacy?

The school lessons supplied by GLSEN (which in practice stands for the Gay and Lesbian Sexual Education Network) contain tools like “North American History Game Cards,” where children learn that famous Americans like Allen Ginsberg and Walt Whitman were gay. What the children don’t learn is that if Whitman was, in fact, a homosexual, he was also a pederast while Ginsberg was a defender of NAMBLA, the notorious North American Man Boy Love Association, of which he infamously said, “Attacks on NAMBLA stink of politics, witchhunting for profit, humorlessness, vanity, anger and ignorance. . . . I’m a member of NAMBLA because I love boys too — everybody does, who has a little humanity.”

An even more celebrated gay icon, Harry Hay, considered to be the founder of America’s gay liberation movement, was also a friend of NAMBLA. When a gay pride parade in Los Angeles banned NAMBLA from participating, Hay decided to march with a sign that said, “NAMBLA walks with me.”

From 2001-2006, Yale University’s LGBT program was greatly helped by the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies, named after the famous gay activist and author. In a 2004 speech in New York City, he spoke of a “sweet young boy who didn’t know anything and was in awe of me. I was the first man who f----d him. I think I murdered him [meaning, by infecting him with AIDS].” Where is the gay outcry over this?

During a radio interview last year on the Rick Amato Show, Jimmy LaSalvia of GOProud stated, “I happen to think that a good school teacher, when they’re teaching literature, would mention that Oscar Wilde, when they’re teaching his work, would mention that Oscar Wilde was locked in an asylum because he was gay.” Would they also mention that he was a boy lover and that he wrote about his passionate sexual encounters with young teens no older than some of the boys molested by Sandusky?

As noted by Jim Kepner, formerly curator of the International Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles, “If we reject the boylovers in our midst today we’d better stop waving the banner of the Ancient Greeks, of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, [and others]. We’d better stop claiming them as part of our heritage unless we are broadening our concept of what it means to be gay today.” (There is, of course, dispute about the sexual orientation of some of the men on this list, but if, in fact, they were homosexuals, they were also pederasts.)

And where is the world condemnation of David Norris, the Irish gay activist, Senator, and presidential hopeful? While stating that he abhors child abuse and that offenders should be fully prosecuted by the law, he has also declared, “I don’t believe in an age of consent.” Norris told the magazine Magill, “There’s a lot of nonsense about pedophilia. . . . I think there is a complete and utter hysteria about this subject.” He insisted that children were capable of giving informed consent to sex, saying, “The law should take into account consent rather than age.”

Lifesite News also reports that in a September 2011 letter in which he clarified his views, Norris confirmed his support for consensual pederasty, “saying that from his own experience as a young gay man in Dublin, he would have preferred to have engaged in such a relationship as his ‘introduction to sexuality.’”

This is reminiscent of a statement made by Larry Kramer and proudly quoted by NAMBLA: “In those cases where children do have sex with their homosexual elders . . . I submit that often, very often, the child desires the activity, and perhaps even solicits it, either because of a natural curiosity . . . or because he or she is homosexual and innately knows it.” He even claimed that, “. . . unlike girls or women forced into rape or traumatized, most gay men have warm memories of their earliest and early sexual encounters; when we share these stories with each other, they are invariably positive ones.”

Tell that to the victims of Jerry Sandusky.


(For an earlier version of this article, see HERE.)

TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR MY NEW E-BOOK

For those interested, here's the complete Table of Contents for my new e-book, In the Line of Fire: 70 Articles from the Front Lines of the Culture Wars. Each article is linked to its original source of publication online so you can also join in the comments section there if you like. Enjoy!

Preface

1) Gay Is Good or Bullying Is Bad? A Teachable Moment

            October 25, 2010

2) The Southern Poverty Law Center Debunks Itself

            November 29, 2010

3) From Chastity to Chaz: Thou Shalt Not Criticize

            May 19, 2011

4) Are We on the Wrong Side of History Again?

June 13, 2011

5) A Right Wing, Fundamentalist Christian Mass Murderer?

            July 25, 2011

6) Leftists Beware: The Christian Revolutionaries Are Coming Your Way

July 28, 2011

7) It’s the Morality, Stupid!

August 08, 2011

8) Please Stop Sexualizing Our Children (Part 1)

            August 14, 2011

9) Please Stop Sexualizing Our Children (Part 2)

August 16, 2011

10) Why Are We Surprised With the Push for “Pedophile Rights”?

            August 26, 2011

11) Bad Reporting, Bias, or Both at the Charlotte Observer

            August 30, 2011

12) CNN, the Seminary Grad, and Errors Galore

            September 1, 2011

13) Must a President Be Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

            September 01, 2011

14) The Most Important Quality You’re Looking For In a President

September 07, 2011

15) Did Gay Activism Play a Role in the Murder of Lawrence King?

            September 9, 2011

16) Are We As Devoted As the 9/11 Terrorists

            September 14, 2011

17) Why Have Some People Called Me a “Heartless Monster”?

            September 15, 2011

18) The Man Who Married the Goat (And Reflections on the Meaning of Marriage)

            September 19, 2011

19) When a Gay Jewish Liberal Tries to Redefine Christianity

            September 28, 2011

20) Don’t Put Your Trust in a Political Savior

            September 29, 2011