Individuals will make up their own minds about Cracker Barrel and I have decided to forgive them because they seem sincere in their apology. However, if it happens again then it will be obvious that Cracker Barrel officials don’t know who butters their biscuits. Maybe they will get the message when pro family customers go elsewhere to eat. After all Chick-fil-a is still doing a roaring business–except on Sunday.

STOP is a very loose coalition of concerned Christians who are weary of business owners who pander to the Perversion Lobby that represents Christians as haters. We are determined to remind all who will listen that we are the people who love homosexuals enough to tell them the truth about perversion. We are in the ministry of nudging, not pushing, other decent people to get involved.

I am sure many people who don’t identify with Bible-believing Christians will also get involved with STOP activities. No doubt we will pick up a few stray nuts and others who loaf on the fringe of every group but we will have to live with that. I am willing to admit that all the nuts are not in the Perversion Lobby. Some are in the church lobby, carry a Bible, and wear a silly grin. For sure, all nuts are not on the trees. No doubt, some of the Repulsive Radical Religious Right will get involved, especially in Kansas, but we will disavow them with the understanding that it is still not illegal to be a religious nut in America.

We will also have to live with some in the Christian community who will oppose our activities as being unchristian, unwise or maybe unnecessary. Furthermore, some asinine critics will use the Bible to tell us we are wrong! It is a misuse of English to call religious leaders, leaders if they don’t lead! Usually they are weaklings masquerading as leaders. Most Christians want a leader with hair on his chest, a working brain in his head, an understanding heart in his bosom, and a stiff bone in his back. Most loosey-goosey religious leaders are missing all four but do have a small yellow streak up their backs.

Even an old dog knows the difference in being kicked around and being stumbled over. So do astute Christians, who will no longer be kicked around without expressing our outrage by withholding our credit cards and our cash. You remember cash; it’s a four-letter word not seen often.

Some of my crowd will suggest that they are too busy to get involved in STOP. Say what? Those  same pastors give the impression that they work day and night preaching the Gospel, visiting the sick, feeding the hungry, knocking on doors, etc. Of course, everyone knows they spend time on the golf course, bowling alleys, hunting, fishing, and watching some of the new vile television shows. So, I think all religious leaders and decent laymen can spare a couple hours every couple months to take a public position on decency as supported by the Bible they are profess to believe. Preachers who are critical of STOP are willing to preach from the pulpit but not practice in the streets and on social media what they say they believe.

Others will tell us that they can’t be involved in STOP because it is not right to demand a business owner serve them as did the Civil Rights demonstrators. I agree. That’s the point: we don’t want them to serve us. We want to serve them! We want to convince them that it is a stupid business decision to antagonize 98% of their customer base. We want to help them, not hurt or harass them.

I have a computer list headed “National STOP List” with my name at the top. Many others have added their names in the last few hours with more being added every hour. I have a “State STOP List” and under Georgia I am listed. I may add an international list. My plea went out Dec. 24 to pastors and laymen for help in calling attention to the normalcy of a pro-family position. I requested name, city, state, and email. No one will have access to that list but me and I will never turn it over to anyone for any reason. When the next business owner decides to dance with the dandies of the Perversion Lobby, I will send out an alert to my list in the appropriate state or throughout the nation. All will be invited to get involved. I will not harass anyone to get involved; however, I will remind them of this opportunity to do something practical in support of the Bible and common sense.

We will be more sure of success if there is state and national communication between me and everyone else. After all, I can’t be aware of every problem. So cooperating Christians will contact me when a business goes off the rails and I will check it out and disperse the facts either at the state level or national level. Such cooperation will make us all more effective without a national office, budget, and other normal requirements for a large, effective movement.

If a “spontaneous” confrontation is necessary, I will issue a press release or column announcing the issue with the business, locations, and suggested procedures. Each person can then use his influence to influence others to apply pressure, kindly of course. So business owners take note: Christians have learned something from Blacks, feminists, homosexuals, Hispanics, socialists, and others: we will never be unkind, unruly, untruthful, or unchristian but we will be heard and will STOP funding businessmen who kick us around as they accept our money.

Let me assure everyone that the road to America’s moral garbage dump is paved with bad intentions. The Perversion Lobby wants to destroy your way of life. STOP is a simple and, with social media, an easy way to make a difference instead of whining about our “mistreatment.”

Hey, even a mangy old dog knows the difference in being stumbled over and kicked around. We have been kicked too many times and we demand a Stop To Oppressive Persecution.

http://bit.ly/1iMLVfY Watch my eight-minute videos of my lecture at the University of North Dakota as I challenged New Atheists to put up or shut up.

Copyright 2013, Don Boys, Ph.D.

One must be true to himself as well as to the truth. Sabina and Richard Wurmbrand (a Lutheran pastor in Romania) were that kind of people. I met them in the 1980s when they came to Indianapolis three or four times. I heard his story, bought his book, saw the scars on his back where he was tortured by the Communists in a Romanian prison, and became a great admirer of them both. Few people know how he became a Christian activist.

In 1944, the Soviets took control of Romania and began to establish a Communist government and when they tried to control the churches, Richard began to minister illegally to the “underground church.”

He and Sabina were at a meeting where 4,000 priests and ministers of all denominations had gathered. Soviet Dictator Joe Stalin was the honorary president of that group. Many speakers spoke about how Christians and Communists can get along with each other. After a few minutes of antichristian rhetoric,  Sabina nudged Richard in the ribs and said, “They are spitting on the face of Jesus. Go wash the shame off His face.” Richard said, “If I speak against the Communists, you will no longer have a husband.” His wife replied, “I do not wish to have a coward for a husband.” She was true to self, the Scripture and the Savior.

Richard slowly arose from his seat, went to the microphone and shocked his friends and co-laborers by advocating only loyalty to Christ. He would not coexist, cooperate, or compromise with Communists. He was arrested in 1948 and again in 1959 and spent about 13 years in prison, three of those years in solitary confinement, and was tortured by his captors. Sabina was also arrested and spent three years in a labor camp. They were both people who lived by the truth.

I don’t profess to have the courage, character, or commitment that the Wurmbrands had but there are some things I will not do. I will not permit the government to run my ministry or control my beliefs.

No person, or entity or authority will ever control my ministry for two reasons: the First Amendment and the Bible. Many Christian leaders in other nations seem to think that they don’t have the obligation to be militant since they have no legal protection; however, Christians are to be responsibly militant wherever they live. They should be wise, discrete, and in the case of Muslim nations, secretive but Christians must be Christians under all circumstances.

When it becomes illegal to preach, teach, talk, or write anything negative about homosexuality, Islam, abortion, etc., I will break that law. It is appalling that there are not a hundred Baptist preachers in jail in Canada at this time. Have they all lost their voice? Here’s what they are saying: “It is unfortunate that we can’t teach the truth about perversion, Islam, etc., but since we can still preach the Gospel, I’ll go along with the new laws. But if they ever tell me not to preach Christ as the only means of salvation, I’ll….” Sure. What kind of nation are they leaving for their children and grandchildren? I will preach against homosexuality, abortion, Islam, etc. if it means a loss of everything including my freedom.

When a judge tells me, as one told a preacher/friend in Canada, that I cannot preach about a particular issue, I will tell that judge that he has no jurisdiction in this matter! And go to jail. The incredible gall of a judge to tell a preacher what he can preach! A non-thinker yells, “You think you are special and above the law.” That’s exactly right!

When I was a member of a Select Committee during the summer of 1978 at the Indiana House of Representatives, we were commissioned to look into the school lunch program; WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) program; and the matter of day care licensure in the state. I listened to the head of the day care state licensure group make his pitch for the safety of children, quality pre-school care, etc. then I told him and the committee that licensure protects no one and provides no guarantee of quality. In fact, I was at that time administrator of a large Christian school in Indianapolis and also ran an unlicensed day care that fed into our pre-kindergarten program. He said, “You church people seem to think that you are special and don’t have to submit to state controls like everyone else.” I leaned into my microphone and said, “You are exactly right and if you don’t like it go change the state and federal constitutions.” We remained unlicensed, unbothered, and uncontrolled.

We must be true to self and the Savior whatever the circumstances, the crowd, or the consequences. Otherwise, we are a tragedy in the making. I decided at age 22 that I would do what I’m convinced is right if I lost everything and spent my last days in prison. I still believe that and am prepared to disobey any law (and take the consequences) without whining about suffering for Christ.