I just received and paid my latest credit card statement from Macy’s. I included a letter asking for any additional charges because I am closing my account. Despite a long relationship with the company, I’ll no longer do any business with it. My reasons are the following:

About ten days ago at the store in Boise, I made a purchase. The cashier rang it up and then asked me, “Would you like to round it up… for pride”. I wasn’t sure I heard her correctly. “Round up for what?” I asked. “Gay pride,” she added a little sheepishly. Flabbergasted, I told her, No. The same thing happened at another register with another salesperson. Do you want to round up? No, I do not.

Every floor in the department store had rainbow Gay Pride placards because the month of June has been hijacked as Gay Pride month. I’d seen them. Obviously, someone at the top thinks it is ok to ask customers who don’t think it is ok to step around their marketing propaganda and then brazenly be requested to “round up” to support a contentious political cause I do not support. I left the store angry, disgusted and very aware of the spiritual battle ratcheting up against our Christian faith.

We all are used to businesses asking customers to “round up” to the next dollar for charitable causes: food banks, Jerry’s Kids, breast cancer or local needs. It’s an easy and kind thing to do. But this is different. It is not charity. Read the news. Powerful companies are pushing political agendas abhorrent to Christians. They are threatening not to do commerce in states which are standing against the LBGTXYZ agenda and abortion lobbies. Locally, can we now expect this sneaky ploy by other retailers who are copycatting legitimate charities? Macy’s – and anyone else – are you kidding me?

For me it is a line in the sand. I can’t do more than tell this company good bye. Canceling my account will not make a whit of difference to them. My letter will either irritate or amuse them immensely and end up trashed. But it is something, obedience and perhaps a touch of grit. Two hundred years ago the English statesman Edmund Burke gave a warning.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

There is a lot more at stake than nickels and dimes. The persecution of which Jesus warned us is closer than we would like to admit. Satan prowls Boise and looks to McCall and New Meadows as surely as New York and Seattle. By refusing to round up for Gay Pride this month, our enemies will call us bigots, racists, hateful Bible thumping fools. We’re labeled intolerant because we refuse to bend the knee to the god of lies. I am simply astounded at the hypocrisy and wonder what aberration will try to pick our pockets – and our souls- next month?

Jesus warned that we will be hated for our faith because He was and still is hated. We are not above our Master. Our warfare is fought by Christ’s victory and through unceasing prayer. Holy Spirit in us is much, much, very much greater than he who dangles nameless corporate policy makers like marionettes on strings. He will empower us to stand up for good and not cave in to evil. I choose to let go of Macy’s foolishness. It is not so much that I was offended because the Lord tells me I have to forgive my enemy. The offense is against God alone. He is the righteous Judge who will not be mocked much longer by men or corporations.

As for me, when I see evil, I can say, No! And I can write.