As California voters rejected the recall of a governor that closed prisons, suspended the death penalty, enforced vaccine mandates, and enforced COVID-19 statewide restrictions, another crazy, hard to believe event occurred in the state.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America last Saturday installed a transgender Bishop. The Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer (they/their/them) will serve a six-year term and preside over the Sierra Pacific Synod, which consists of roughly 200 Lutheran congregations.

Rohrer’s bio says, “Pastor Megan lives near Golden Gate Park with their wife Laurel, two children and three cats.”

THEY is pictured mask-less in THEIR bishop vestment with two small children wearing masks.

This is just one example of how far the church has fallen, yet many will celebrate Rohrer’s installment as a victory for equality, LGBTQ rights, transgender rights, diversity and inclusion. Never mind that this is a mainline denomination posing as a “church” that calls itself “Christ’s Church.”

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s website describes its faith as: “When Lutherans talk about faith, we are talking about the relationship God’s Holy Spirit creates with us. It’s a relationship where God’s promise of steadfast love and mercy in Jesus opens us to a life of bold trust in God and joyful, generous service to everyone we know and meet in daily life.”

Therein, it should also adhere to the principles of the Bible.

While the Old Testament says in several places that homosexuality is an abomination, the New Testament also criticizes deviant sexual behavior. Romans 1:18-32 is quite specific in describing the wrath of God against all ungodliness because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has shown it to them, and they are without excuse. Verses 26-27 says, “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another.”

1 Timothy 3:1-7 describes the qualities of a Bishop—husband of one wife, blameless, sober, good behavior, etc. Would God place in leadership someone to hold His truth in unrighteousness? No. But there is also another dark side.

Just as in the picture announcing Rohrer, the message is that this is good for children. Children are a focus of the LGBTQ agenda. What better place to institutionalize it than in the “church,” God’s house? Perhaps, public schools?

The LGBTQ evangelical agenda advances under the guise of trusted “church” leaders, school helpers, advisors or teachers. It is an attack on children to confuse, thwart, usurp, and undermine their natural sexuality.

If this is occurring in your “church” or school community, understand that silence is complicity. The community of believers is “the church,” not the building or misguided leaders. Same with school districts. That’s why you elect school boards. Stand against it or remove yourself and your kids from it. Going along with this destructive and abusive situation is nothing short of, say it with me…Stupidocrisy.

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Harvard University is considered worldwide as the standard-bearer for academic excellence and intelligence. Harvard boasts the likes of former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, among six other US Presidents, 11 US Attorney Generals, 16 Supreme Court Justices, and Presidents and Prime ministers from Ireland, China, India, Mongolia, Bolivia, Mexico, Singapore, Chile, Liberia, Columbia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Canada, Somalia, Bhutan, Tanzania, and Hong Kong.

Also, several Nobel Prize winners and executives like dropouts Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg came from Harvard. The list goes on and on, and the influence of Harvard, not only in America but around the world, is unmatched.

Best College Reviews writes, “Harvard University possesses the title of America’s oldest learning institution, founded in 1636. At its inception, this university’s name was “New College,” whose purpose was mainly to educate clergy. In 1639, the school’s name became Harvard University, so named for the Rev. John Harvard. Harvard bequeathed half of his estate and his entire library to the school upon his death. This significant bequest led the school to honor him by taking his name.”

Harvard was established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony [which was settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England]. The book New England’s First Fruits about early evangelization efforts of the Puritans states, “After God had carried us safe to New England…one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the Churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.”

Imagine Reverend John Harvard’s reaction if he saw what has become of his beloved institute of higher learning in today’s times. Nothing could be more demonstrative of Harvard University’s spiritual condition than the recent announcement that it chose Greg Epstein, 44, a devout atheist and ‘humanist chaplain’ as president of the chaplains of Harvard.

During the 2020 election, Epstein was the national chair of Humanists for Biden/Harris. The Chaplains describe themselves as “a professional community of more than 30 chaplains, representing many of the world’s religious, spiritual, and ethical traditions, who share a collective commitment to serving the spiritual needs of the students, faculty, and staff of Harvard University.”

So much for the foundational doctrine of Christianity proclaimed by Christ in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

Harvard has drifted far from its original mooring as proclaimed in its motto, “Truth for Christ and the Church.”

Harvard has become a cesspool for secular humanist thought, an example of those forewarned in Romans 1:25-26, “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator…. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections.”

Now Harvard has placed a capstone on its transformation with an atheist heading up its chaplaincy.

As we look at this latest move and the long list of the oh-so-smart world leaders from Harvard who have made quite the mess of things, we can say it without reservation… Stupidocrisy.

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