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At HerChurch/Ebenezer Lutheran in San Francisco, still affiliated with the ELCA, the liturgy of the “divine feminine” is celebrated every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Led by Pastor Stacy Boorn and her priestesses and staff, no pagan ritual is left unexplored: “Our prayers and liturgy reach back into the storehouse of tradition to bring forth names [such] as Mother, Shaddai, Sophia, Womb, Christ-Sophia, Midwife, Shekinah, Kundalini, She Who Is.”

The most important One is missing: Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. But His incarnate male identity has evidently been excluded from this feminized crowd, which has ironically recaptured Old Testament paganism in its search for meaningful spirituality.

All gender identities are welcome at HerChurch, so actual men posing as women can participate in this radically “feminist” service, where a goddess rosary is a prized tool.

And HerChurch welcomes children. Special workshops are held for girls as young as 5 to train them early in biblical unfaithfulness.

Fascination with pagan ritual isn’t confined to San Francisco. Presbyterian churches in Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania and elsewhere have revived the use of the labyrinth, a medieval meditation tool that always had non-Christian roots, even when incorporated into cathedral structures. Here’s how one church describes it:

“— a path symbolizing a kind of journey taken to seek prayerfully to be in intimate relationship with God. Labyrinths are established using ancient, sacred geometry.”

Or primitive superstition, perhaps? There is no mention of “ancient sacred geometry” in Scripture.

Many apostasies invade mainline Christianity as the Bible is discarded in eagerness to flirt with other gods and sexual sin. Bisexuality is favored by Dr. Debra Haffner, longtime pro-abortion sexual rebel and now an ordained minister. In a recent speech to WATER, a neopagan women’s spirituality group, she and a co-presenter cited biblical models for bisexuality: David and Jonathan, Ruth and Naomi. The Scripture texts don’t support this fantasy, but some women have been “re-imagining” Christianity for several decades, guided by their own wayward inclinations.

Delusion rules once again.

Religion is not the only pasture where progressivism reaps what it sows – which is too often critical harm. Behind the flash and confidence of liberalism is a grim reality: Their institutions and lives are in disarray and decline.

What could be a better example than abortion, with the recent videos revealing the dismemberment of unborn children for sale and profit? And yet, “progressives” who say they staunchly defend “human rights,” still stand by Planned Parenthood.

This is how suicidal people act.

The Boy Scouts of America organization is now under the control of dedicated “LGBT” activists. Gone is the promise to be “morally straight” as troops now welcome homosexually-identifying boys and, just recently, “gay” adults as well.

“Progressive” board members and BSA corporate supporters pushed for these changes, which caused a 6 percent membership decline after the “gay boys” policy change last year. It’s too early to forecast the fallout from the open door policy for homosexual adults, but many are predicting a steep membership drop, similar to the Scouts in Canada.

The leaders knew this grim prognosis. But just like the healthy male who amputates well-functioning body parts to “become” a woman, the healthy BSA organization shot itself in the foot, believing this is something good.

This is what liberals do. The writing on the wall spells out clear warnings: “Do not be a stupid idiot!” “Run for your lives!” But they don’t care.

I have warned that the last line of defense for the pro-family movement and champions of biblical truth regarding sexual perversion (other than the intervention of Almighty God) is the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Now, in the wake of the Obergefell “gay marriage” disaster, comes the LGBT’s secret weapon to destroy our First Amendment protections. It is called the Federal Equality Act, and it already has alarmingly strong support in both houses of Congress.

The “Equality Act” should be called the “Gaystapo Empowerment Act,” because if passed it will give homosexual activists and their allies the legal power to attack and punish Christians and other pro-family advocates in virtually every sphere of American life. The trampling of Christian bakers, florists, bed and breakfast hotel owners etc. that we’ve seen this far will instantly transform from a few disturbing anomalies to the “new normal” for nearly everyone who wants to live according to God’s law and values.

This handful of examples of anti-Christian homo-fascism we have watched with dismay would quickly explode into thousands.

The Equality Act is a federal version of the same sexual orientation anti-discrimination policies that now operate in 14 states and hundreds of municipalities as tools of LGBT social engineering. I have written that these sexual orientation regulations, or SORs, are the seed that contains the entire tree of the homosexual agenda with all of its poisonous fruit. Once implanted, the rest of the LGBT agenda follows like clockwork.

SORs are far more dangerous than “gay marriage” because they define disapproval of homosexuality as immoral and illegal – effectively criminalizing Christian actions in conformity with the Bible. These SORs are always sold initially as protections for homosexuals in housing and employment – appealing to Americans’ sense of fairness and tolerance. Like all “gay” arguments, this one is designed to deceive. First there is no evidence of any such discrimination in America and hasn’t been for at least 20 years (except in churches and Christian schools, where it is appropriate and necessary). But second, and more importantly, once enacted these SORs are not limited to housing and employment but are enforced as a blanket prohibition on all dissent from the LGBT agenda.

This is, in fact, how the “gays” ultimately took down the Boy Scouts of America, despite the fact that the BSA was protected by a SCOTUS ruling (Dale vs. Boy Scouts of America) recognizing its right to discriminate against homosexuals both in the ranks and in leadership.

Post-Dale, the BSA stood strong during more than a decade of constant extreme harassment by the “gays,” but was finally taken down when these agitators began harassing the BSA’s big corporate donors with the accusation that contributions to the Boy Scouts violated their own internal anti-discrimination policies. Once the corporations indicated they would pull their financial support, the BSA caved. Again, these are corporate SORs ostensibly adopted to protect homosexuals from being fired solely because of their self-identification as “gay” or lesbian, but which are enforced as blanket prohibitions on all dissent from LGBT positions or goals.

Consider the implications of this if SORs become federal law binding on all the agencies and operations of the federal government.

Will the FCC deny broadcast licenses to Christian broadcasters?

Will the IRS deny 501(c)(3) status to pro-family non-profits?

Will the State Department deny travel visas to pro-family speakers and missionaries?

Will the post office confiscate mail that displays pro-family messages?

Will Christian federal employees who refuse to be silenced be fired en masse?

Is there any area of American life in which the federal government does not have the ability to intrude itself? Is there any reason to believe that this federal government under lawless Obama would hesitate for a moment to maximize the implementation of this abuse of power as rapidly as possible – even well beyond the legal limits?

And who would we turn to in an effort to stop him? The same SCOTUS that just invented a constitutional “right” to “gay marriage” from nothing and applied it to all of the states through the 14th Amendment?