By REY FLORES
They say that when it rains, it pours. That couldn’t be truer for our nation.
Within 48 hours, the Supreme Court of the United States decided that the farce that is Obamacare should continue and that the federal government could force states to accept the abomination that is “gay marriage.”
For Christian America, it sure seems like the bottom of the ninth inning, down by a seemingly insurmountable five runs with two outs and no light at the end of the tunnel — but again, we all know how the story ends, so all hope is never lost.
To top it all off, I was laid off from my position as director of outreach at the American Life League this past week. I guess it’s a sign of the times when the White House gets lit up in rainbow colors to celebrate sin and immorality, and pro-life nonprofits like American Life League have seen such a decrease in donations that they have let several of us go this past year.
Yes, times seem pretty rough right now for me personally and as a nation, but as I’ve said a million times over, thank God that we have God! I have no idea how people who refuse to believe in God make it through the rough times in their lives.
By the time you read this, it will already be at least the 5th of July. I think this is symbolic, given that as of last week’s Supreme Court fiascos, we now live in a post-Christian and post-constitutional America, where the Land of the Free has become the land of persecuted. The 4th of July is pretty much gone for all intents and purposes.
At the risk of sounding like Chicken Little, I can only foresee things getting worse, and I say this because of something else that happened to me last week.
For any of you who read my columns here in The Wanderer or follow me on social media like Twitter and Facebook, you know that I usually do not hold back when it comes to my opinions on most of the social issues of the day.
Apparently Facebook and some of their more thin-skinned liberal users had had just about enough of my comments on the SCOTUS “gay marriage” disaster and the Confederate flag flap.
One posting that really got them mad as a hornet was an image I grabbed off the Internet from the 1996 sci-fi movie Independence Day, where an outer space alien spacecraft shoots down a laser beam straight down at the White House and blows it into smithereens.
My graphic used the same picture, except I jokingly added the rainbow lights over it the same way the White House had been lit up. It was my satirical way to respond to the Obama administration’s arrogant disregard of the 98 percent of America that is not gay.
As of June 26, Facebook has blocked me for 30 days from posting anything on the popular website. So much for freedom of speech!
By simply exercising one’s First Amendment rights on the social media site, one is under the scrutiny and judgment of the politics of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and all of his liberal employees, who can block anyone out simply for expressing opinions contrary to the pro-abortion and pro-homosexual narrative.
There are plenty of vile and disgusting Facebook pages, such as one titled “The Virgin Mary Should’ve Aborted,” but Zuckerberg and his cohorts refuse to remove those offensive pages from Facebook.
You see, it’s a double standard in today’s America where good is now evil and evil is now good.
Another sign of the times is the ludicrous persecution of anything representative of the Confederacy, including the rebel flag and statues of any historical Confederate figures. Just because of one mentally unstable, heavily medicated 19-year-old who posted a photograph of himself with the rebel flag, now we have to erase and change history.
Several retailers and entertainment companies have now pulled any products that have anything to do with the Civil War off their inventories and shelves, the most ridiculous being channels who will no longer televise old episodes of the 1980s TV hit The Dukes of Hazzard because the car they drove on that show has a rebel flag on its roof.
Ironically, the socialist finger-waggers at the Southern Poverty Law Center are expressing their joy on Facebook about how Birmingham, Ala., officials have voted unanimously to remove a Confederate monument built in 1905. This is thanks to a loudmouth rabble-rouser named Frank Matthews who is president of a ridiculous outfit called the Outcast Voters League.
So just because one rabble-rouser complains about a monument honoring fallen American Confederate soldiers, he should get his way?
This kind of cleansing of history is the type of thing that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were known for. Today it’s ISIS radicals who are also destroying ancient holy sites and churches in between raping women, beheading men, throwing homosexuals off rooftops, and setting whole classrooms full of children on fire.
The signs of the times are scary, my friends. Now more than ever we must stand firm against false accusations against us of bigotry, hatred, racism, and/or homophobia.
The people hurling these epithets and labels at us are truly the ones who are the haters and the Christophobes and the intolerant ones.
Hang in there folks, and if anyone has any professional opportunities for yours truly, please send them my way. Pray that God shows me and my family our next opportunity fairly soon. God bless and thank you!
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(Rey Flores is a Catholic writer and speaker. He can be reached at reyfloresusa@gmail.com.)
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