By REY FLORES
For months now, we have been seeing pictures and watching videos of many Christians in parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe being persecuted, beheaded, raped, murdered, and even burned alive. It’s hard not to see any of this if you’re anywhere near the Internet.
What I see in the faces of the recently beheaded 21 Coptic Christians in Egypt is courage. The fearlessness in their faces was that of martyrs, pure and simple. These men could have fought back and at least made it difficult for the Muslim extremists to carry out their deadly plan, but instead they were heroically stoic and ready to accept God’s will.
I have stopped watching these videos because I never want to get so desensitized that I am no longer affected by such gruesome butchery. I read plenty, however, and I have to keep asking myself what it will take for the United States and the United Nations to respond to these atrocities against humanity.
Where are all the do-gooders and so many of our supposed human rights organizations? They are nowhere to be found. Does it make a difference to the rest of the world?
Instead, we have our government resisting the push against ending the systemic murder of preborn humans through what has been coined abortion. Obama and his minions continue to fund national and international efforts to sterilize women, vaccinate young people with Gardasil, and promote abortion as a human right. What about the human rights of the preborn?
Then there are the radical extremist homosexual activists who are pushing for their deviant lifestyle to be not only protected, but indeed implemented as the new law of the land. One group even calls itself the Human Rights Campaign, a terrifically clever name that disguises the true agenda.
Imagine someone at work or at your local retail outlet asking you if you would like to make a donation to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). It sounds totally legit to me. “Sure, Bob, let me get my checkbook from my sport coat and I’ll drop it off at your cubicle this afternoon.”
Human rights indeed! I was further disgusted as I wrote this article by researching the organization online just to make sure I had the name right. As soon as its website opened, I was assaulted by a shameless photograph of two old men engaged in a kiss.
Despite being hit by this unwelcome image, I felt it important to further investigate the organization that is also famous for those obnoxious square equality stickers: They are simply a blue square with a yellow equals sign on it.
While many nonprofits that actually help people struggle to keep their doors open, HRC enjoys the financial support of Northrop-Grumman, Apple, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Google, Lexus, Bank of America, and a whole host of other corporate giants.
Just to make it clear: All human beings are deserving of life, dignity, and respect, whether they are homosexuals or not. That means all human beings, including the preborn and the persecuted Christians, also are deserving of all human rights.
If society continues to fall into this downward spiral of deliberate confusion where evil is good and good is evil, we are in for a rough ride.
In another example of this spiral, Lisa Bourne reported as follows on LifeSiteNews February 17:
“As if it wasn’t controversial enough that a homosexual activist group will be marching under its own banner in the New York St. Patrick’s Day parade led by New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the parade has refused a pro-life group’s request to participate.
“When Cardinal Dolan was appointed grand marshal of the parade, he excused the decision to allow Out@NBCUniversal to march under their banner by saying they were merely Catholics who were homosexually inclined, rather than advocates for sinful behavior. The group, however, is an overt promoter of same-sex ‘marriage.’
“The controversy heightened January 22, though, when the parade officially rejected a pro-life adoption advocacy group’s application to march this year.
“ ‘It’s absolutely been a double-cross,’ Dr. Elizabeth Rex, president of the Children First Foundation (CFF), told LifeSiteNews. Not only was the group refused, they had to get a lawyer to pursue the parade committee to find out the result of their application. And even then the parade committee waited until the very last day before the launch of legal action to respond.”
Visit www.lifesitenews.com for the full story and updates.
One more thing on the subject of human rights: I wish President Obama would finally admit that he really dislikes and couldn’t care less about Christians. He’ll spout out platitudes about “reaching out to the Muslim community to build dialogue, trust, and cooperation,” yet just as this issue of The Wanderer was going to press, Fox News reported that a White House statement on the Egyptian beheadings did not identify the victims as Christians.
No, there will not be any human rights for the followers of Christ.
We are surrounded by murderous entities like Planned Parenthood with its highly profitable abortion industry, as well as by Muslim extremism.
I sign off this week disgusted and with many tears, but I am inspired and obligated to continue the good fight against evil, so that the Christian martyrdoms will not be in vain. Tertullian, a second-century Church father, wrote that “the blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church.”
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(Rey Flores is a Catholic writer and speaker and can be reached at reyfloresusa@gmail.com.)
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