Recently, famous pastor Voddie T. Baucham released a new book titled “It’s Not Like Being Black: How Sexual Activists Hijacked the Civil Rights Movement” which asserts that the sexual agenda behind the LGBT community has sought to take over the civil rights movement to promote a lifestyle that is incongruent with the word of God.
Baucham maintained that, in the face of this cultural conflict, churches must adhere to biblical teachings and not deviate from God’s moral teachings. However, when looking at many ostensibly Christian organizations throughout the country, it is clear many churches have somewhat assimilated to a secular worldview of sexuality, compromising on the Bible. Baucham warned that many churches will have to “pay a price” to stand up against immorality as society becomes increasingly hostile toward Christian beliefs.
The pastor has also called out how critical theories, which have roots in Marxist philosophy, have driven the broader social justice movement in the United States, bringing along a “train of boxcars” such as the LGBT agenda, climate activism, racial activism, etc.
“The engine may be critical race theory and intersectionality, and the first boxcar that everybody wanted to jump on was that racial justice boxcar,” he said. “But right behind it were all these other boxcars: climate justice, border justice, and then LGBTQ, all this other stuff. These boxcars are coming right along with it. So it just made sense to write this book following along after that one.”
According to Baucham, the normalization of sexual immorality in society was exacerbated by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which affirmed the right to same-sex marriage. “After Obergefell, it’s like we started going downhill at a rapid pace and picking up steam as things just got further and further out of control, in terms of sexual ethics,” he said. “So all of those things really went into writing this book.”
The pastor further emphasized the Marxist underpinning behind the Western social movements, which inherently subvert Christian principles, such as moral absolutism. “This is about that neo-Marxist, oppressor-oppressed paradigm,” he continued. “This is about the idea that there is no God, there are no absolute moral rights and wrongs. There’s just a culture with hegemonic power. And in this culture, that’s Christian morality.”
He illustrated how this has led to the application of the “oppressor-oppressed” moral binary within the LGBT community. “Hence the term ‘sexual minorities’ is just hitching the wagon to civil rights and critical social justice writ large,” he explained.
Furthermore, Baucham also called out the government and the pandemic-related protocols that oppressed Christians and their right to gather and worship. He stated that many Christians “collapsed under the state.” He said, “COVID exposed a lot about our understanding of public theology; about our understanding of sphere sovereignty, or lack of understanding of sphere sovereignty. God gave us the sphere of the family, the sphere of the church, the sphere of the civil government, and COVID basically collapsed those spheres.”
Baucham continued, “And when COVID came, we saw that, theologically, for most Christians, those are all collapsed under the state. And we believe that the state has preeminent unchecked unparalleled authority. And that’s frightening. We seem to have lost not only the ability to appeal to Caesar, but we don’t even believe that it’s appropriate to do so.” Watch a sermon from Baucham reminding Christians not to love the ways of the world.
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