"Our "rights" must be measured against the advance of the Gospel and the preaching thereof by our lives, as well as our words. It would seem that in these days, the politics of the Church has overshadowed the Gospel itself. The predicament is that our political views have effectively hindered the preaching of the Gospel and the reaching of the lost. When the world knows all that we oppose and none of what we promote we have lost our influence, or it is the wrong kind of influence. Our testimony to the world should be on the basis of what Christ commanded and not what we may think is the most effective."