12 posts tagged “homosexuality”
John R. Houk
© May 15, 2008
A Commenter that calls him/her/both self “Gay Pride” said this to a June 4, 2007 post on Gay Pride parades in Jerusalem:
i say go ahead and show your pride people GAY PRIDE RULES AND NOTHING ANY BIGOT CAN SAY WILL STOP ME FROM SHOWING MY PRIDE
I am never in the mood for homosexuals to validate their lifestyle with displays of so-called “pride” and then have the audacity to proclaim the Biblical view of homosexuality as bigoted and thus by extension asserting that I am a bigot.
I merely write the Truth that the darkness of deaf ears and blind eyes cannot see due to the delusion of worshipping the creation more than the Creator. If anyone is bigoted here it is the homosexual who rejects Christ’s Grace or humanistically cherry picks Holy Scripture to validate deviancy as defined Biblically (not by the human AMA or its psychiatric twin).
The Epistle of Romans in the New Testament is the classic measuring stick of the sinfulness of the practice of homosexuality:
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality,[c] wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving,[d] unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them. [Romans 1: 18 – 32 NKJV. Emphasis Mine]
Here is where a homosexual will do one of two things (sometimes both):
1. They will find some deviant scholar that will say some hogwash that the Scripture is not talking about homosexuality; or
2. Notice the passage “deserving of death” and rant on that Western Culture has moved on from such medieval practices.
In addressing number one only a moron would interpret phrases like “women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature” or “Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful” as not addressing homosexuality.
In addressing number two the phrase “deserving of death” is for different than the Old Testament judgment of “death.”
“You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination” (Lev. 18: 22 NKJV).
“If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.” (Lev. 20: 13 NKJV)
I am not Jewish thus I cannot attest to the modern interpretation of these Scriptures in Judaism; however in a Christian perspective these Scriptures are part of the Law. Christ came not to abolish the Law but to fulfill it (Matt. 5: 17 – 20) and in fulfilling it those who believe in the risen Lord are no longer under the penalty of the Law but are under Grace (Rom. 10: 4; Gal. 3: 23 – 29; Eph. 2: 11 - 22).
On the other hand Grace is not a license to sin (which includes more than just a homosexual lifestyle but all lifestyles contrary to the Word of God).
Romans 6: 12 – 23 nails it as far as homosexuality or any lifestyle that sets out to contradict a Christian Biblical lifestyle.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. 18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (NKJV)
Grace covers the penalty of death in this life but does not absolve the consequences of the Law if a sin lifestyle separates one from God thus reawakening the curse of the Law. The curse of the Law has “reaping and sowing” consequences either in this life or in the life after death at the Last Judgment.
In ending my response to “Gay Pride’s” Comment, homosexuals walk a dangerous line in this Life because Grace and Forgiveness is always available if one calls on the Name of Christ as Lord even to one’s last breath. As to bigotry, homosexuals and the supporters of a homosexual lifestyle are the true bigots because in flouting the Grace and Holiness of God they are in essence acting in prejudice against Christians.
Congresswoman Sally Kern continues to be maligned with impunity for her stand for Christian Values and Morality by homosexual activists that are now taking steps to propagandize the citizens of Oklahoma with cherry picked sound bytes that portray her as a hating bigot.
The fact of the matter Congresswoman Kern is a loving Christian that is an example of sharing the Good News with homosexuals to minister a better way of life.
Read this update from Thinking Through … by Stephen Black:
Here is a classic example of the homosexual agenda exploiting the belief that homosexuality is an immoral practice by using anti-discrimination or hate crimes laws to PUNISH a business that declined to do a photo opt for a same-sex marriage. The State Government is using anti-discrimination laws to prevent the free exercise of religion as protected under the First Amendment to protect the practice of a horrible disgusting lifestyle in which the Bible believing Christians find sinful.
Disgusting!
JRH 4/14/08
This is another example of the State battling Faith and Christian American foundations in particular. A Homosexual moment of silence is being forced on Public School students to brain wash acceptance of Homosexual and other alternate lifestyles. Talk about a joint agenda, this is the will of atheists, homosexuals, secular humanists, moral relativists and Leftists in America and in Western Society. The agenda is to scrap Judeo-Christian based morality. I am certain many of those agenda persuasion sorts are unaware of the damage to social mores this is causing. The more the government removes Judeo-Christian values from our society the more our society becomes untrusting, dishonest, violent, thieving and hedonistic. Is that an America we wish to live in?
JRH 3/9/08 (See Also this Related Story)
A majority of Americans view Homosexuality as an immoral practice; however Homosexual Agenda Activists have been slowly eroding that majority. Of the majority that views Homosexuality as immoral, growing numbers ironically are beginning to view that Homosexuals should equal rights as Heterosexuals. For me this is a moral/immoral American paradox that I feel is highly influenced by a Secular Humanist agenda of removing and denigrating Christian Values as the bedrock of American society.
Even I, a confirmed homophobe, am beginning to wonder where to draw the line on what is acceptable and unacceptable according to the U.S. Constitution on the Freedom of thought or expression.
I clearly believe the creators of the American Constitution would be horrified at the acceptance of Homosexual and Alternate Lifestyles acceptable in American Society today. It is also clear a significant majority of the Founding Fathers including the Liberals favorite – Thomas Jefferson – would be abhorrent that black slaves have received full manumission with an ever growing enlightened equality of Constitutional civil rights.
As much as I hate to say it, the Left has done some great things for America along the lines of civil rights. That is the greatness of the American Republic style of Democracy. The right thing always seems to manifest even if it is difficult road.
Nonetheless for every good thing the Left has accomplished there also seems to be a price that degenerates America’s moral absolutes causing a slow whirlpool of sinking values that in the late 20th century and early 21st century seems to weaken the nature of what has made America great by blurring what is good and what is wrong.
That “blurring” is the elimination by the Left of Christian Morality as the standard of right and wrong in American society. The blur is even now increasing because of the push for multiculturalism to override what has been America’s National Motto: E Pluribus Unum – Out of the many, one.
The Multicultural push by the Left will create a divisive America in which citizens will demand their cultural heritage to supersede the Constitutional Rule of Law; e.g. Sharia Law by Muslims, Relativism by atheists, the establishment of multiple languages such as Spanish or Arabic to be a part of legal documentation or public signage and so forth.
E Pluribus Unum will be eliminated in favor of a divisive and ultimately an inward destructiveness of Ex plures, divortium - Out of the many, division.
I write all this to make this observation: The Barack Hussein Obama campaign website has an open letter [In case of removal click HERE] to the homosexual activist organization – LGBT – “assuring them he believes in ‘full equality’ for homosexuals and stating that, unlike Sen. Hillary Clinton, he advocates the complete repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act.” (WND)
Since a majority of Americans consider homosexuality to be an immoral lifestyle, a vote for Obama is a vote for immorality. Does America need more immorality?
A pro-homosexual lifestyle commenter once asked, “How can I see any difference between a homosexual couple and a heterosexual couple?” The pro-homosexual commenter said homosexuals are just as loving and nurturing as any heterosexual couple. The commenter continued, “If the goals of soul mates are the same - whether homosexual or heterosexual, how could I denigrate such natural affection of a homosexual couple that experiences the same thing as a heterosexual couple?
Then I read this at Americans for Truth about Homosexuality (AFTAH) and I awoke from the influence of deadly spiritual lies.
JRH 12/22/07
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A Note from Americans For Truth to Our Supporters
By Peter LaBarbera
December 20, 2007
Americans For Truth about Homosexuality
This post is Excerpted
They have the power, the money and the influence.
We have the Truth.
They have Hollywood and the media.
We have the Truth.
They have the schools, the universities, the professional organizations, the corporate “diversity” programs.
We have the Truth. And the simple truth is that homosexual behavior is always wrong, but it can be overcome — like any sin — in a person’s life through the power of the Christ of Christmas, who came not to “condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.” (John 3:17)
You know what? I wouldn’t give up God’s Truth for all the power and money in the world.
In the last 16 months since AFTAH came on the scene as a full-time organization, we have been mocked, vilified and, well, HATED by homosexual activists as few other pro-family groups. Here’s one example from a fanatical homosexual blogger who called me “one of the most hated men in America”:
LaBarbera, a man who would bury the Constitution under six feet of damp earth, haunts us thanks to the freedom he’s allowed by that very same document. In many civilized countries, LaBarbera would be in jail for hate language that makes all other hate language seem like benign nursery rhymes.
In any case, LaBarbera has started a new website called “Republicans For Family Values.” Of course, LaBarbera is as much of a Republican (not my favorite people) as cancer is a sentient life form and LaBarbera is as familiar with family values and values overall as you and I are familiar with why Peter LaBarbera’s mother hasn’t killed herself out of embarrassment.
Such cruel slanders come with the territory, from lost souls who project their own hatred for God and His values onto those of us who “agree with God,” and who are merely doing our best to uphold godly values in the culture — against a multi-faceted “gay” lobby that spends far more in promoting homosexuality than all the pro-family groups combined do in opposing it.
Yes, they call us “pornographers” because we expose the unique, vanguard role of the homosexual lobby in promoting shocking public indecency and perversions like the “Folsom Street Fair,” which occurs every year in Nancy Pelosi’s own district, and which she can’t seem to condemn despite it’s unprecedented and illegal public nudity and sex acts in the streets, and its awful anti-Christian bigotry.
They say that I must be secretly “gay” – because I fight the homosexual movement.
They say that I have a homosexual bathhouse obsession — because we seek to expose and close down the resurgent homosexual sex clubs that serve as breeding grounds for deadly diseases — the same sort of clubs facilitating anonymous homo-sexual acts that helped spread AIDS in America in the first place (see Randy Shilts’ And the Band Played On).
They call us “judgmental” — because we affirm the truth that “gay (c)hristianity” mocks God and His Word — and is no more plausible than, say, ”adulterous (c)hristianity.”
The(y) despise us when we speak the truth in love that homosexual men and women can change and overcome homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ, whose humble earthly birth we celebrate this season.
Yes, they absolutely HATE us because we stand unapologetically against their sexual ideology as one that a holy Creator can have no part of. This “culture war” is not about us — it’s about right versus wrong, and those who, “wise in their own eyes,” would cast God and His moral law aside by calling ”evil good and good evil.” (Isaiah 5:21)
Nancy Pelosi could not have been more wrong in what she told the adoring audience of homosexual activists at the Human Rights Campaign gala: our holy and loving God cannot “bless” sin — much less a sexual sin group like HRC that spends tens of millions of dollars every year to promote homosexuality in politics and culture, even to America’s youth.
But God will “certainly bless” you when you stand for His Truth, no matter what the cost.
Will you stand with Americans For Truth today? Please prayerfully consider as generous a year-end gift as you can to AFTAH, as we prepare for another year of standing against the lies of the pro-homosexuality movement in our culture.
God bless you, and Merry Christmas!
Peter LaBarbera
Americans For Truth (www.americansfortruth.org)
“For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not sent his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:16-19; NIV)
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Is Nancy Pelosi Right? Can God ‘Bless’ America with Homosexual Activism?
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Can God bless homosexual activism? Nancy Pelosi thinks so. Speaking before the world’s most powerful homosexual pressure group, she said: “God has certainly blessed America with the work of the Human Rights Campaign.” Help Americans For Truth oppose such lies with a tax-deductible, year-end gift.
Recently, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) appeared before a massive fundraiser put on by the largest homosexual pressure group in the world, the Human Rights Campaign, to accept their 2007 National Equality award. In her speech — which you can watch by clicking HERE — Pelosi praised HRC “for being a powerful and positive counterbalance to the voices of hate.” Thus she confuses, as does the group that honors her, defense of marriage and the natural family — and opposition to homosexuality – with “hate.”
Here is how Speaker Pelosi ended her speech:
“Thank you, HRC. May God bless you. God has certainly blessed America with the work of the Human Rights Campaign.”
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Here is an interesting study that probably drives same sex couples (homosexual sinners) nuts for the data suggests that morality decreases in societies in which normal nuclear families decrease. Yes I am writing of Godly morality. The study had little to do with a focus on homosexuality but rather on secularization.
Apparently the predominant theory is secularization advances a decrease in the belief of God and thus a secularization of morality meaning viewing morality in Secular Humanistic terms, i.e. moral relativity.
Moral relativity is the bedrock of the cultural acceptance of alternate lifestyles such as homosexuality that is in direct contradiction of Christian/Biblical morality.
Mary Eberstadt’s essay entitled “How the West Really Lost God” suggests that the traditional nuclear family tends to have a stronger belief system in the existence of God and thus a Deity influence on the lives of people. To me this suggests that the lack of Godly morality dilutes the values that make a culture strong. Value dilution affects other aspects of society such as birth rates and the strength of a homogenous cultural foundation.
Imagine if governments pull a big switch-up and begin to plug the value of God in the lives of their citizens. I am not suggesting the government legislate religion (in America anyway); however I am suggestion the government promote the values that come from religion. Currently the government particularly invokes restraint on the Christian religion in particular. Due to the slanted left Secular Humanist influence Christian values are overtly removed from public forums such as local governments and public schools. Nearly a half a century of this bombardment has eroded the strength of the nuclear family, more so in Europe than America yet still distinctly influencing America.
In Secular Humanism’s battle to decrease the permeation of Christianity in Western society multiculturalism is a weapon utilized to confuse the issue of cultural foundations of faith in the West. Judeo/Christianity and Greco/Roman philosophy is the religious/cultural foundation of the West. Secular Humanism’s insistence on placing Oriental and Mohammedan religions on an equal par in public education further dilutes the West’s nuclear family. Certainly a comparative aspect of all religions should be taught in public education to understand what is foreign but not to the exclusion or demonization of the West’s religious/cultural foundations.
It was lame to allow slanted left Secular Humanistic umbrella organizations to re-invent the non-Constitutional term “Separation of Church and State” as excluding the Christian faith from public institutions beginning roughly with the 1960’s. America enjoyed nearly two hundred years of Judeo/Christian values as a public influence. I mean the Ten Commandments and Christmas Carols are values that were inculcated in the public domain as a natural order of thought even under American Constitutional Law until an atheist talked the Supreme Court to change the Constitution by fiat rather than by Amendment.
On June 30, 2007 homosexuals staged a ‘gay’ pride parade in St Petersburg, Florida (as did many other cities). If you are a Bible believing Christian these parades would be viewed as government validated Sodom and Gomarrah abominations sanctioned to walk down city streets.
The two people in the picture above (the vulgarity of it all, I cannot verify the sex) are not clowns meant to entertain children. They are male or female perverts dressed in an overt display of Godless homosexuality. The ‘pride’ part has nothing to do with lions; rather it is a promotion of same sex carnal knowledge. This is an extreme perversion that Leftists and Secular Humanists are HARD BENT to manufacture as acceptable normalcy in American and Western Culture. It is an attack on Christianity as the foundation for morality of Western Society.
This is one of the valid accusations Mohammedans are able to deliver in propaganda against the West: homosexuality is immoral debauchery that pollutes Western Culture based on Christianity.