Hello. Thank you for your time today. My name is Philip Milstead. I'm here today in opposition
against gay pride and advocating that the city of Arlington reject gay pride and not
be an advocate for it. So I'm a member of Steadfast Baptist Church. I have been for
seven and a half years, but I also grew up Catholic. And growing up Catholic, they also
taught that sodomy and homosexuality was a sin. So it's not something just that the Baptists
teach or that Steadfast Baptist teaches. This has been a founding doctrine of the Christian
faith for a very long time, that sodomy is a sin. It has always been rejected. And so
our country has been founded on this faith of the Bible, of the King James Bible that
they brought over here to this country. And when they wanted to find rules to establish
and have moral guidelines, they picked the Bible. They picked the King James Bible. And
in that very Bible, it states that sodomy is a sin, as we've heard earlier today in
Leviticus 2013. So the thing is, if our founding fathers founded our rules and our morals and
guidelines on the Bible, how did we get here today in this very room debating the very
topic of gay pride? It's the fact that men today have cowered themselves to the wisdom
of man, who've been pushed around by wicked ideology and disgusting beliefs that are not
Christian. They're anti-Jesus and anti-Bible. So if the Bible is true, which it is, amen,
our founding fathers put their faith on that Bible and establish our morals. But the thing
is, is that today, we don't have that. We have men putting their faith in men. The Bible
says in 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 5, it says that our faith should not stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God. So if your wisdom is not in what the Bible says,
it's in man. And man can change. Their thoughts can change. Their beliefs can change. Their
hope and what they believe in can change. Their ideology can change. But we should never
change. Our wisdom and what we believe should be founded in the Bible is all-powerful, is
all-wise. So we need to get back to putting our belief in the Bible, get back to going
to church on Sundays and having pastors that actually preach every word of the Bible from
the King James Bible, not cowering to the masses of wicked and vile things, to the baser
sort of men in the city. 1 Kings 15 verse 11 through 12 says, And Asa did that which
was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father, and took away the sodomites
out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made. So Arlington, do
you want to be right in the sight of God? Because God never changes, ever. And if you
want to be right and have the blessing of God upon you, drive out the sodomites from
the land and reject gay pride.