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Dog Whistle Call To Violence By Anti-Gay Activist Comparing Christians To MLK?

It’s hard to explain the effect of a dog whistle call to violence when it’s directed at you. You’ll have to read this one for yourself.

Some on the left wonder if Matt Barber is “secretly a gay rights advocate who has gone under deep cover to make the Religious Right look absolutely ridiculous.” Others are taking a heisted illustration (above, and below in full) accompanying his latest column as “a personal insult.”

Those valid suggestions aside, I’m of a different opinion.

Matt Barber’s recent column, taken in context of his Barbwire website, feels like a dog whistle call to anti-LGBT anti-progressive violence, in my opinion. At least, that’s how it feels to me.

Barber, a former boxer who portrays himself as a devout Christian, is now an Associate Dean at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University and the Vice President of Liberty Counsel Action. He is also is the publisher of the newly-created BarbWire.com, an increasingly hate-filled website that attacks gays, liberals, progressives, secular Americans, and reinforces the religious right’s anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-minority beliefs.

But Barber’s column, published this weekend at BarbWire (“fueled by the Word of Life”), has already been republished at The Blaze and World Net Daily (WND).

While others may laugh, some might fear it to be, as do I, a figurative incitement to violence.

Here’s how it begins:

From behind a smoking sniper rifle high atop his ivory tower peers the secular “progressive.” He surveys his many victims, strewn across the American landscape below and mockingly sneers, “War on Christianity? What war on Christianity?”

He then resumes shooting, all the while insisting that those uncooperative Christians who scatter for cover behind the word of God and the U.S. Constitution somehow suffer from a “persecution complex” (the baker, the photographer, the florist, the innkeeper, the Christian school administrator, etc.).

Though there are many, it is plain for all to see that abortion and “sexual liberation” remain the two principal theaters in the ongoing culture war battlefront.

To fully advance the causes of radical feminism, abortion-on-demand, unfettered sexual license, “gay marriage” and the like, the pagan left must do away with religious free exercise altogether. Under the guise of “anti-discrimination,” Christians today face discrimination at unprecedented levels.

Let’s see if we can make this abundantly clear. Christians, true Christians – regenerate, Bible-believing Christians who strive their level best to maintain fidelity to the word of God and honor His commands – will not, indeed cannot, participate in, approve of, facilitate or encourage certain behaviors deemed by the Holy Scriptures to be immoral or sinful.

This is both our constitutionally affirmed human right and our Christian duty.

It is not done from hate. It is not done from bigotry. It is done neither from a position of superiority nor a desire to “impose our beliefs” upon others.

It is done from both obedience to Christ and compassion for our fellow fallen who yet wallow in folly.

That’s just the beginning of Barber’s “The Coming Christian Revolt,” the title of which sounds more like a wish, a promise, and a threat than a fictional illustration. 

Portraying the collective of secular progressives as (ironically, since many or most are anti-gun) a sniper shooting a rifle at “uncooperative Christians who scatter for cover behind the word of God and the U.S. Constitution,” is Barber calling his supporters to fight back and attack LGBT people and progressives?

Barber continues:

For every law, regulation, activist court ruling or presidential edict that demands Christians violate their sincerely held religious beliefs and adopt a postmodern, moral relativist way of life, there increases, in exact proportion, the likelihood of widespread civil disobedience – disobedience of the sort we haven’t seen since the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and ’60s.

Indeed, if, in the spirit of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., we, his fellow Christian travelers, must again face the water hoses, then face them we shall.

This, by the way, is the image that adorns the top of the column:

That’s an iconic photo by Charles Moore, altered with a rainbow-flag effect. The description reads: “Protestors in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, on 3 May 1963, being hit by a high-pressure water hose being used to disperse people during a civil rights protest.”

And these are some of Barber’s recent tweets:

 

 

Scary, scary stuff.
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