To the Editor,

It was Martin Niemoller who penned the following words after spending eight years in concentration camps as a personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler.

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out–because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out–because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out–because I was not a Jew. And then they came for me–and there was no one left to speak for me.”

Niemoller’s haunting words are just as relevant to our time as we are now experiencing only the genesis of Christian persecution like this nation has never before witnessed! Here, in parody, could be the words of Niemoller in 2015.

“First they came for the bakers and florists, and you did not speak out–because you were not a baker or a florist. Then they came for the county clerks, and you did not speak out–because you were not a county clerk. Then they came for pastors, and you did not speak out–because you are not a pastor. And then they came for you–and there was no one left to speak for you.”

Chilling…but on our horizon not tomorrow, but TODAY!

Last Monday, July 6, my family and I had the privilege of standing with Casey County Clerk, Casey Davis, as he stood for religious liberty in a town called “Liberty,” of all names! That morning on the courthouse lawn, Casey was not just defending his own religious liberty–but yours and mine as well.

Why? You may wonder, would we get up so early, drag two small children out of bed, drive so far, miss a day’s wages…all for a complete stranger… Friends, I am a pastor’s wife. In case you did not notice, my husband happens to be next on the list in the above little parody before there is NOBODY left to speak!

A passage of scripture found in I Corinthians 14:8 explains the predicament of “Christians” today. It states, “For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to battle?” While the lackadaisical lukewarm Church has been occupied splitting insignificant doctrinal hairs and busy compromising with sin in the name of political correctness and more mammon in the plate on Sunday morning, our trumpet has grown shaky. Our troops are divided, asleep or indifferent. We have sold our children to government schools to be indoctrinated in humanism and every perversion that accompanies it. Their warm bodies may still be perched on the pew come Sunday morning but their hearts are cold toward the Gospel of Jesus Christ. After all, they reason, what does any of it really matter if I’m just a blob that evolved from nothing.

In the meantime, hearing our shaky uncertain trumpet, Satan rallies his unified army with a very loud, very certain trumpet and brazenly moves in for the kill.

Casey Davis has refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples (the Bible refers to such as Sodomites) on the grounds that doing so would cause him to violate his own religious beliefs. His plea to Governor Beshear on Thursday, July 9 fell on deaf ears. Our governor refused to protect the rights of Kentucky’s clerks as Governor Abbott of Texas recently and heroically did. Mr. Davis was told to either do his job, resign, or be removed. His Christian faith (though not true of other religions) was to be left at home. This may be acceptable to “Sunday Christians” but it is not acceptable to those of us who have the Law of God written on the tables of our hearts, and it most definitely is not acceptable to God!

Casey’s trumpet is giving a loud and clear sound. How is your trumpet? Shaky or uncertain?

“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgressions” Isaiah 58:1.

Anita Pitcock,

Burkesville, Kentucky

Cumberland County