Wherever the backsliding takes the United States, says Deace, something will always be worshiped. The latest example of the Biden administration’s joyful embrace of sexual deviancy is the promotion of another pro-LGBTQ individual to a key communications position.
Previously the administration hired Karine Jean-Pierre, the openly lesbian White House press secretary. Last week the administration introduced Tyler Cherry to its communications team. Cherry appears to fall somewhere into the five-letter acronym based on enthusiastic participation at "Pride" events and his choice of women’s clothing, jewelry and company in multiple social media photographs making the rounds.
Cherry’s gender decisions have been overlooked in the current news cycle while the focus has been on his anti-police, anti-border enforcement and anti-Israel slants during employment with the Department of the Interior.
Cherry says he’s turned over a new leaf in regard to his political views. Most of his X account was scrubbed over the weekend.
“Past social media posts from when I was younger do not reflect my current views. Period. I support this Administration’s agenda – and will continue my communications work focused on our climate and environmental policies,” he wrote Sunday.
If Democrats appear to fully support a lack of morality, Republicans have their own issues, Deace said on American Family Radio Monday.
Citing past federal elections with presidential candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain, Republicans have punted on participation in state and local politics, preferring instead to throw unquestioned support behind anyone who emerges as their presidential nominee, Deace told show host Jenna Ellis.
Both paths are perilous, he said.
“That has killed us on the Right for a generation,” Deace stated. “In the end, nothing matters more to us than the 15 seconds to an hour – however long it takes, depending on where you live – that you go in and vote for a Republican to quote ‘Save America.’ The level of participation and critical thinking that we do in this process between those moments is really just not there.”
Deace: GOP puts faith in man
Political activism among Republicans is near zero, Deace lamented. He compared the “one strong man” approach of most conservatives to the last days of the Roman empire.
“You hand him the keys to the city like they handed Julius Ceasar to save them from the barbarians, but then, of course, he never gives the keys back. Then one generation later his nephew, Augustus, becomes the first Roman emperor to declare himself God. That’s essentially the other avenue,” Deace said.
It manifests itself in different ways but is no less damaging.
“There were Ceasars in Rome who were at least somewhat moral. It could be many different manifestations, but the Ceasar is now king. We conform to the king, so we can be weak. We can be disgusted by homosexuality, but when Nero shows up to marry his slave in the Senate we applaud because he’s the king,” Deace said.
Deace said the current cultural climate in America – the Democrats’ full-on embrace of deviancy and the Republicans’ strong man quest – is what the First Century church faced in Rome. A diverse group of believers, Gentiles and Jews, struggled to mix together while also finding their place in society.
“That’s what it’s going to look like in post-Christian America for the spirit-filled believer. The pressure you’re going to feel to conform to one of these is going to be relentless and daily,” he said.
There was an opposite pressure in the first two centuries of the United States, Deace said.
“It’s the opposite pressure that Americans felt for generations in this country to conform to the Judeo-Christians' moral ethic because it had hegemony in the culture. It’s what the culture was based on, what the institutions were built upon.”
Deace said the strong man approach is really all Republicans are left with after most have disengaged politically at the local level. For example, he said, most conservatives can recite what was said on Fox News but can’t name their state legislator.
“We don't have a grassroots. We haven't participated in school boards and city councils and state legislative elections for decades. We've reduced all of our political activism and civic involvement to where we vote once every four years and usually only for federal offices. Therefore, the groundswell that we need to make our red states actually as red as the blue states are blue simply just does not exist,” he said.
For Dems, it’s celebrate – not tolerate
For Democrats, enabling the LGBTQ culture is not enough – nor is monitoring and punishing alleged discrimination, said Deace. They will continue to push for LGBTQ acceptance, he added. The plan is evident in White House hiring practices, White House proclamations, through the celebration of Pride Month in June, and in other ways.
“They are going to proclaim their pride. They're going to evangelize their movements. They do not want to be just left alone – and I promise you, 'I just want to be left alone' has lost in every history book ever of all time,” Deace said.
It’s important, he concluded, for Christians to realize there are no leveled outcomes in the culture war.
“We have to understand this. Someone's worship will be at the apex of a culture. It will either be ours or it'll be something from the pagan, occultic, demonic world. Period. End of sentence. Those are your only two options,” Deace said.
