I am posting the whole letter I received from Truth in Action Ministries. I did not watch the Grammy Awards, and now I am very glad I did not. I know with the ice storm down here in the South that's all we would hear, but what about national news? Why are more Christians outraged? Hmmmm.
From Truth in Action Ministries...
Dear Gina,
As you may have seen, this past Sunday night’s Grammy Awards program,
televised nationally on CBS, featured a mass wedding ceremony that included
numerous same-sex couples, officiated by actress/singer Queen Latifah, and
solemnized by the singing of Madonna.
In fact, much of what we saw Sunday night was a counterfeit worship
service, though it was clearly not the true God who was being worshipped.
Since the entertainment industry has devoted much of its efforts in recent
decades to increasingly inane (and in this case exploitative, as the
entertainers used the wedding couples as pawns for their own publicity
stunt) attempts to be “transgressive,” we shouldn’t really be surprised.
And, of course, this is yet another demonstration of what the Apostle Paul
himself described in Romans 1: “Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of
their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among
themselves, because they exchanged the truth about  God for a lie and worshiped and served the
creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever!” (Romans 1:24-25,
ESV). Counterfeit worship is a direct result of rejecting God, and Sunday
night’s “service” featured everything from a choir to mock-stained-glass
windows.
One of the interesting aspects of this year’s Grammy telecast (which also
included former Christian contemporary musician Katy Perry, who performed
as a literal witch emerging from a crystal ball and casting spells) is that
such a thing can be televised nationwide and raise little more than a
collective yawn.
The late Dr. D. James Kennedy, founder of Truth in Action Ministries, once
said of Hollywood, “It continually desensitizes us until we come to accept
things that at one time we would never accept at all.”
In our desensitized culture where idolatry is commonplace (and Paul makes it
clear that among other things, homosexuality is a form of idolatry) it’s
never been more important for Christians to pursue holiness. And in the
face of such a “worship service,” it is harder and harder to justify our
appetite for popular culture.
Culture is a reflection of our own particular choices. Sunday evening’s
telecast once again broadcast to the world every sign of a culture under
the judgment of God. Let us pray for repentance and for the furtherance of
the life-giving gospel that frees us from sin and idolatry and enables us
to worship the True God!
Sincerely,
Jerry Newcombe
Truth In Action Ministries
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