Biblically Speaking

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I've been interested in the Boy Scouts of America's fight with the government, the ACLU, and the United Way (among others) over the issue of depraved, sexual deviants having the right to lead children into their lifestyle through the scouts. While the Boy Scouts may have won for the time being, I have no doubt that this fight is only beginning. I think the story illustrates two very simple and practical things that Christians can do (or rather not do) in order to live more explicitly Christian.

First, a Christian should never, ever, ever give a dime to the United Way. The United Way funds abortion, and the United Way has actively promoted homosexuality. These two reasons alone should persuade a right thinking Christian to not give to them.

The United Way has cleverly devised a scheme to answer the abortion funding question. You can request that none of your donation go to Planned Parenthood. This is a ruse at best. If I give $5 to United Way and request that none of it go to Planned Parenthood, does Planned Parenthood get a smaller grant that year? No. If Planned Parenthood was getting $10,000, they aren't going to get $9,995 now. United Way will just direct my $5 to some innocuous park project and take money that was going to go to the park and redirect it to Planned Parenthood. It's called supplanting funds. In truth, a penny given to the United Way is a penny given to Planned Parenthood.

On top of this, the United Way has been instrumental in trying to coerce the Boy Scouts to renounce their intolerance of homosexual leaders of the scouts. They do this by giving conditional grants. They might say that the Boy Scouts can have $10,000 if, and only if, they allow homosexual scout leaders. There are Christians out there who have given money to the United Way, and the United Way is trying to use it to force people into depraved and sinful activity.

Christians should be devoted to charity, but not to helping those who are standing as an affront to scripture. It is scandalous when Christians give to organizations such as the United Way and count that as tithe. Money that is used to target those standing for righteousness...as tithe money! Truly sad.

Second, the Boy Scouts dilemma points out the pitfalls of taking government money. The Clinton administration's Department of Interior is supposed to report to the Justice Department today on every grant, other funding, and interaction that the Department of Interior has with the Boy Scouts. The reason? The President is looking for some kind of a hook to force the Boy Scouts to include homosexual scout leaders. Government money never comes without strings, and the Boy Scouts will soon be a living example of this.

It isn't just the Boy Scouts taking government money. We have churches, Christian schools, Christian outreaches and other ministries all taking government funding. We fail to realize that these taxes are stolen from people by the one who holds the power of the sword. The government has the right to imprison (or kill if it should come to that) anyone who refuses to cooperate (and hand over the taxes). The money was in a sense taken at gunpoint so that the church down the street could run a "Christian" child care program where they can't pray or talk about Jesus. As Christians, we should look to God as our source of wealth. When we look to the government it is plainly faithlessness.