by Standerinfamilycourt
“My Dear Fellow Clergymen,
While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling our present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom, if ever, do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas … But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I would like to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms. “
(Rev. Martin Luther King, April 16, 1963)
Today marks a major milestone in the ministry of “standerinfamilycourt”. Someone was “triggered” over our blog on antinomianism and the Christian media pandering-for-profit to so-called “blended families.” Interestingly, the Facebook crew had just 24 hours earlier, approved this particular post to be “boosted” in a paid ad, deciding at that time, it met their “community standards”.
Of course we weren’t talking about “the Brady Bunch” here when we discussed these “blended families”. Back in the day, it was as reliable as twin beds in the TV-land marital bedroom that “the lovely lady” and the “man named Brady” were both widowed. We were instead talking about those who blatantly disobey New Testament scripture to drag their spouse before a pagan court to get “dissolution” papers, and then further disobey scripture to take advantage of biblically-immoral civil laws that allow them to “remarry” while their true spouse is still living. Jesus repeatedly told us that this amounted to ongoing adultery, as did the Apostle Paul.
For a couple of years, “standerinfamilycourt” has watched many distinguished others (who are vocal online about sexual ethics) get shut down without notice, and based only on someone “reporting” a post as “offensive”, find themselves unable to operate any sites they were associated with, including their personal wall (even if that’s not where the reported “infraction” occurred). Those who have gone before have usually “triggered” someone in the LGBTQ community, or their sympathizers. Meanwhile, since SIFC tends to believe that hand-wringing over mere symptoms (weaponized homosexualism, for example) of the root cancer (church leadership acquiescence to immoral and unconstitutional family laws) is a bit futile, unless surgery is scheduled at the source of the symptoms. “standerinfamilycourt” believes that the conditions others complain of in that realm are part of God’s slowly unfolding progressive judgment on the nation, ongoing for 50 years at least, eroding the privilege of effective constitutional protections, and which our church leadership alone could turn around, if only they weren’t utterly complicit with the breakdown in heterosexual ethics and families. Our site has long been blessed to fly under the radar screen, so to speak, in large part because of this wholistic philosophy. Almost never, in over four years, would a post on our site go after homosexuals for its own sake; always such posts are tied on our pages with owning the truth about evangelical hypocrisy with regard to “sanctified”, legalized adultery-with-paper. As our culture continues to erode, even this is “triggering” people. Such is the identical kind of “hate” John-the-Baptizer, Jesus Christ, the Apostles Paul and Jude, brother of Jesus, regularly expressed. Thank God, the penalty has been greatly reduced in our times for such “hate”. At least for now.
“Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their ‘thus saith the Lord’ far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I. compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.
“Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds… ” MLK, April 16, 1963
Because many have “gone before” who are far more articulate than “standerinfamilycourt”, it almost seems redundant to complain (again) about the insult to our free speech protections in the 1st Amendment posed by the prevailing cultural norm: that everyone has some sort of fundamental right “not to be offended – ever“, which trumps free speech on a tech “platform” to which our Federal government grants immunity protections from damages for harmful content, provided they don’t censor content. Indeed, we are coming up on the anniversary of Mark Zuckerberg’s famous testimony before the U.S. senate, when Sen. Cruz asked him something like, “under the standards of the CDA (Communications Decency Act of 1996, section 230), would you call Facebook a “platform” or a “publisher”? The CEO insisted that Facebook was a “platform”. Yet the censorship is legendary at Facebook, and continues to grow without any sort of due process including notice or appeal. If that sounds familiar, think back to the unsubstantiated allegations brought for purely partisan political reasons against Justice Brett Kavanaugh last fall, where the accusers insisted that their mere allegation (never proven) should preempt his very “license to operate” on the bench, or even on the coaching bench. As MLK alludes to the need to do, “standerinfamilycourt” is still “working through” the best way to raise the necessary funds not to sit idly by behind a computer screen, but get out around the country to family policy councils, legislatures, standers’ retreats and other events, toward the end goal of abolishing forced faultless divorce and curbing adulterous remarriage in our country.
About three years ago “standerinfamilycourt” had a much-admired Australian counterpart whose Facebook community page had grown over the prior four years to just a bit larger following than Unilateral Divorce is Unconstitutional‘s current 780 or so. She was surely reaching the feeds of several thousand people each week, and she knew the traditional marriage activists in her own country well (such as the oft-incarcerated Bill Muhlenberg). Unlike our page, this owner went as aggressively and directly after the LGBTQ community as she did the blight of sanctioned, legalized adultery saturating the church. Then one day without warning, both her personal and her community pages disappeared, never to return. The hope was, by way of explanation, that her estranged, prodigal husband had repented and returned. Unfortunately, the covenant marriage stander community never found out exactly what happened to our comrade “Zipporah Moses”. This alone should reinforce how very precious our free speech protections are to us in the United States. Today’s gestapo are the large corporations rather than government storm troops.
“In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. ”
MLK, April 16, 1963
This blog post will be the only open whining planned by “standerinfamilycourt” over this incident. It might be different if “demonetizing” our avenues to donation funds was on-the-line with our site, as was the case with The Activist Mommy, and PragerU. But this ministry just isn’t quite to that point yet, and only beginning to mull over a more formal future, with clarified objectives and a strategy roadmap currently being deliberated. We will continue to defy the Community Standard to the full extent necessary to put the biblical truth or other reliable facts across, but with no intentional offense being targeted at anyone. We aim to do so lovingly, and we do accept the full consequences or penalties for our choices, as graciously as possible, making the most of the time as the days grow evil. But for crying out loud, this time we “triggered” a white, female evangelical with the “offensive”, verbatim word of God!
Elizabeth Johnston, “The Activist Mommy” probably has a special place in her wardrobe for her Zuckerberg “slammer attire”, given her “hate” recidivism. We believe her initial “conviction” (more accurately, her accusation via “reporting”) was about a year ago. Early this week she had the delight to report in her blog on legislation introduced in the Florida Senate, which would fine social media firms $75,000 for each occurrence of censorship actions taken for political and religious reasons. Please support FL SB1722 and ask your own state representatives to sponsor similar bills. While this may seem like a slap on the wrist to the tech giants, the cumulative occurrences would soon add up, and just may help to trigger actual enforcement of the Federal law aimed at this, since liability is being imposed on firms for not complying with their claimed status as a “platform” due to the censorship they impose on conservative sites. As it stands now, any person can shut down a site for a period of from 24 hours to indefinitely just by claiming to be “offended”. That’s not due process! And “triggered” people, especially those who claim to be “Christians”, but feel the need to “report” content that quotes holy scripture in disciplined, accurate context, well…..you have no respect for the 1st Amendment, either.
UPDATE 3/14/2019: Well, as it turns out, “standerinfamilycourt” never did get a jail notice, and learned on Thursday that what was going on instead was a widespread and very long outage. Our record it seems is still free of FB felonies, despite the rebuffs and occasional threats we get from offended folks. The timing just happened to coincide with a threat by one of our disgruntled readers to report us. Our functionality was starting to return bit by bit on Wednesday evening. We publish this anyway, because most of the points made within are still perfectly true and valid.
Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers used to treat the false prophets in the same way. Luke 6:26
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