Love In Action VII: The Final Countdown.

Don't celebrate just yet, but something has happened. The State of TN has ordered the closing of Love In Action's two facilities operating in Memphis and determined they are in continued violation of our state's licensing regulations. Here's an excerpt from the story:

The state inspected two facilities in Memphis on Aug. 19 and determined Love In Action International Inc. was providing housing, meals and personal care for mentally ill patients without a license, according to a subsequent letter to the organization from the Department of Mental Health.

The department gave Love In Action until Sept. 23 to cease operation of the facilities and apply for a state license.

I'm sure I'll have more to say on this as time moves on myself, but for now I can say with great certainty that Love In Action is going the "martyr route" with their whole defense. "Oh look at us! We are being persecuted for our religious beliefs by these homosexuals and our government!"

I have news for you guys: you're not Jesus Christ, you don't even deserve to walk in his shoes because, at the end of it all, you're using his teachings as an excuse to do things which you know are completely wrong. You lie. You dispense medication to patients without a license. You purposefully seek to hide the truth of who you are in order to gain some shallow form of acceptance from people who will never fully accept you. You even, allegedly, take money from insurance companies to the tune of thousands and thousands of dollars to provide something which you aren't licensed to provide.

You give Christianity a bad name, and the only thing of which anyone should ever be ashamed is of devoting themselves to your sadly misguided journeys into faith.

If I were a Christian, I'd be doing everything I could right now to make sure people in positions of authority knew that what Love In Action does is not ministry. It's therapy, it always was therapy, and it always will be no matter what words you change on your website and in your pamphlets to make people think it isn't.

But you'll just shut down here and reopen somewhere else and keep running until you've run out of ideas and supporters.

I don't think anyone involved with Love In Action is a bad person, but good people often do bad things. When they do them in the name of Jesus Christ, they insult and demean worshippers the world over. The purity of your motives is not in question: it's the purity of your actions.