Quote from the Dude

The valedictorian at the BYU came out as “a gay son of God” in his speech last week.

I read articles about it in the SL Tribune. He said that he had to have his entire talk approved before giving it. BYU approved it. When he “came out” he was given a loud ovation. So we cheer perversion now? Am I supposed to cheer this, endorse it, be happy and clap my hands?

Denver Snuffer spoke in Colorado a few weeks ago. In the Q&A part of his talk he gave this response about same sex marriage:

“Marriage – one man one woman – chastity is important. There is accommodation going on everywhere to try and allow divergent forms of marriage to be acceptable or tolerated and some of that is being done as a desperate measure to try and reduce suicide rates among young people, where suicide rates in Utah have climbed. As clearly as I can put it, wickedness never was and never will be happiness. There is embedded into each of us, as deeply as our DNA itself, a course of life which if pursued in the proper way, will result in the bearing of children and a fullness of joy experienced as a consequence of introducing offspring into the world for whom you are granted the challenge, the privilege, and the opportunity of nurturing and caring and teaching. These are things that stretch you beyond your comfort zone. These are things that will tear your heart. These are challenges that will befuddle you, that will make you question and re-evaluate and reconsider time and time again, who you are and what you are saying, and how you are treating these your children.

The institution of marriage was designed, by its very nature, by that God who created us, to allow us to engage in that God-like process. It can be experienced in the way that God intended in one and only one way; that is through the marriage of man and the woman together, through their union that is intended to produce offspring, through her struggle to bear and bring forth the child, through his protection and providing for her during her period of inability and her period of nursing and caring for the infant that is utterly dependent upon the body of the mother for its existence. All of these things are Godlike. They are instructions, they are experiences, that are intended to convey through the mortal body and the mortal experience, things that replicate and reflect a divine perspective about life itself, about who God is, because God is a male and a female and they are productive. Their love results in the creation of more life. They experience a fullness of joy and when you have all joy in its fullness the only way in which it is possible to make more joy is to create others in which they too can experience a fullness of joy. And so that increases through offspring, through family, through progeny.

You will not reduce suicide rates by pursuing a course that says wickedness can be entertained, the purposes of God can be frustrated, the experiences that God intended for us to go through and to have in this life can be set at naught and you can approach the whole thing in a different mechanism, in a different pretense, because however deeply you may feel about that structure, at its core, it is defective, it is desolation, it is a practice if it were universally engaged in then all who are here today will be the last generation that will ever live, because it produces desolation and if at the core of the relationship what you have is a desolate future, there is no amount of psychological treatment, anti-depressive medication, or lies you can tell to yourself, that will make you say, what I’m engaged in is not in the eyes of God abominable. You cannot destroy that truth. If you want happiness, because of the way we were created by the creator himself, it is to be obtained by following the path ordained by the creator to realize the results that he established in your heart, in your soul, in your body, even in your DNA.”

I don’t know about you, but doesn’t that sound like someone connected to the real God, the Lord Jesus Christ? Like something a Nephi, Alma, Mormon, or Moroni might say. Did they mince words or were they careful about declaring what the Savior told them to say? I don’t think so. Ask Samuel the Lamanite or especially Abinadi if they worried about what God gave them to speak. They spoke it as the Savior declared it through them. Pretty cool I’d say. Snuffer does the same thing. Actual prophets don’t have a choice, do they? Ask Jonah. Actual prophets don’t mince words or accept perversions, do they? Ask any of those from the Bible or Book or Mormon.

So instead, many now accept what God considers to be abominable, and stand up and cheer it. You’ve come a long way, baby.

Why am I not accepting of this abomination? Why am I not politically correct? Maybe because I have no desire to be. I have had experiences being around this abomination. As a young twelve-year-old I helped my friend with a project in elementary school. A man had come to do his puppet show. He’d asked my friend to help him tear down the set and put it in his truck. My friend asked me to help. After we were done, school was long over. He said he’d give us a ride home. He dropped my friend off and then took me to my home. In my driveway he made a homosexual move on me, and I hit him in the face and jumped out of the truck. I’ve had a huge dislike for this perversion ever since. This man did puppet shows at elementary schools all over Utah. How many boys weren’t able to get out of his truck? How many lives did he mess up trying to satisfy his perversions?

Later, I was working the Living Scripture booth in a mall in downtown Salt Lake City. (Yes, I have repented of selling Living Scriptures.) We were in the lowest level of the mall. I would watch as “gay” men would walk the mall and hand out cards to any young man they found alone. They would walk by and put their cards on our counter and mock us for our beliefs, for believing and being Christians. They would laugh in our faces and walk away, trying to intimidate us.

What was on their cards? It asked if the young boy was confused about his sexuality. They offered to counsel him about his sexuality. Folks, this was thirty years ago when they weren’t so in your face about their perversions.

These days you have Time Magazine putting a gay man that is running for President on the cover with his husband. In 1996 a poll said 27% of Americans accepted same sex marriage. It is now 64%. It is becoming the norm. We are accepting their perversions. The camel now has more than his nose in the tent and it’s not going away. Well, until God wipes this country off the face of the map that is.

I agree with what Snuffer has written and praise God for it. He doesn’t need to grow a pair, he already has. He spoke the truth, just as the Lord Jesus Christ told him to say it.