Viewpoint: The Sign Said "God is Queer"

?I passed a billboard sign in front of a church.?On the first line of the sign it said, ‘God is Queer’.?On the second line of the sign it said, ‘Happy PRIDE’.?

?I wondered if the 6,800 Americans who were killed in the Revolutionary War knew they were fighting so that such a sign could be displayed in America.?That’s not counting the 6,100 wounded, 20,000 taken prisoner and perhaps an additional 17,000 deaths resulting from disease.?Historians estimate that between 8,000-12,000 of the 20,000 taken prisoner died while prisoners of war.?

?I gave some thought to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence.?In an article at MichaelWSmith.com we are told that five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the revolutionary army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.

They signed; and they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.

What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts and died in rags.

Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him and poverty was his reward.

Vandals,?soldiers, or both, looted the properties of Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. The owner quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed and Nelson died bankrupt.

Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife and she died within a few months.

John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.

?Then I pondered what God thought about the sign.?He gave us His Word, and on many issues it’s pretty easy to know the truth.?I’m no theologian, but I’m pretty sure God isn’t queer.??

?If you believe the Bible, you know that God gave His only son to die on a cross, be buried and rise again for all mankind.

?I guess that means Jesus died for the people who put up the letters on that sign.?That means Jesus died for people who call themselves His children but ignore His word.?Come to think of it, I guess the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence and suffered great loss for their courage, signed that Declaration of Independence for the people who put up that sign.

?Of course, Jesus died for all mankind. But when He comes back (also promised in His word), He will judge all mankind as well.?At that point it might get a little dicey for the people who put up that sign.?It would seem to me it would be a little difficult to broadcast so deliberate a lie and be welcomed into God’s Kingdom.??

?Just saying.