Peer Pressure

It's a while since I have posted to this blogspot but I feel so strongly about what I witnessed on TV this week that I have to speak out.

I am referring to BBC Question Time aired on Thursday the 27th March 2014. As is often the case on BBC output the subject of 'gay marriage' reared it's head through a question from the floor. As far as I could see there were only 3 people in the room who were prepared to voice their opposition to 'gay marriage', they were, Roger Helmer a panel member representing the United Kingdom Independence Party and two ladies in the audience.

Every time these three individuals attempted to articulate their positions there was booing, hissing, gasps of horror and general ridicule aimed in their direction. Now here is my problem with the whole thing, BBCQT audiences appear to be regularly overloaded with lefties and liberals who snoot and ridicule people who dare to express a more conservative point of view.

The BBC as a public service broadcaster has the responsibility to provide a forum where all sorts of political, religious and social views can be expressed in a balanced way. They as a corporation will argue that they have done so by inviting right of centre politicians onto the panel and by allowing them and sympathetic members of the audience to make their points, but that is where the balance ends.

The make up of of BBCQT audiences are far from balanced. The room always seems to be stuffed with militant lefties who do what militant lefties do best and that is bully. Lefties never seem to be able to make coherent arguments to defend their position, they simply insult people they don't agree with by accusing them of being imperialists, racists or homophobes.

As a Christian my opposition to homosexuality is not based on a hatred for a certain section of the population but on a love for the Word of God and His commandments. Sadly in the face of such militant opposition many Christians are allowing themselves to be put under such pressure to such an extent that they are trying to reinterpret God's Word on this subject in light of relative social conditions. We must never allow ourselves to be bullied away from standing up for God's truth.      

The leftie tactic of stuffing question time audiences is designed to make you think that people who think like you are vastly outnumbered in society. Don't you believe it, there are millions in the UK opposed to 'gay marriage' and do you know what, even if we were only a handful it wouldn't matter they would still be wrong. God's truth is not determined by a democratic vote, it is determined by His Word.

 'Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth'. John 17 v17