9 Thoughts on Homosexuality
Ahh! I?m so excited! Robin asked me to address something on my blog so now I have an excellent reason not to do the Spanish homework that?s looming over my head.
So let us charge onward into the subject of gay marriage?
1. I have gay friends. I have many of them! I think that some of them have wonderfully big hearts and they care for me then many other people I know. These are friends that will be there for me through thick and thin. These are also friends who know that I think the lifestyle they are choosing to live in is wrong.
2. Homosexuality is wrong. The Bible clearly states that it is. And since the Bible is God?s word, it is what I live my life by.
Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Romans 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Romans 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will no inherit the kingdom of God? Do no be deceived; neither fornicators, no idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, no thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, no swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.3. The church is not doing a proper job in dealing with the issue. It isn?t. I?m ashamed. Do I think that homosexuals are living in sin? Yes! But so is the man who is having an affair with someone who is not his wife?or the alcoholic. Yet, we would welcome them through our church doors on a Sunday morning. The church needs to deal with homosexuals in a much more loving matter.
4. Negative Health Effects. Hollywood and the media relentlessly propagate the image of the fit, healthy, and well-adjusted homosexual. The reality is at polar opposites to this caricature: homosexual and lesbian relationships are typically characterized by instability, promiscuity, and unhealthy and risky sex practices, factors that greatly increase the incidence of serious and incurable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including hepatitis, HPV, syphilis, gonorrhea, and AIDS.
5. Psychiatric Problem? For years homosexuality was seen as a psychiatric issue. Individuals who had tramatic experiences in their childhood were having issues with their sexuality. Why has the psychiatric community changed it?s stance on this issue? Was is new research? No. Was is some fabulous discovery? No. It was simply the fact that America was able to accept it as just another ?norm?. I think the fact that is was regarded as a mental condition for so long is very telling.
6. Gay, but not forever. If people are born homosexual, why do we have people renouncing their homosexuality?
7. What next? I truly feel as if we are sliding very quickly down the slippery slope. We are headed to legalized polygamy and incest. Shocking? It shouldn?t be. Look at the past? The pill brought about sexual promiscuity in the 60?s. It made sex outside marriage ok. So then, since it was ok to have sex before marriage, why wasn?t it ok who you had sex with? Next, it will be how many partners?and then who the partners can be.
8. Masculinity and Femininity. If homosexuality is totally natural, why do we find, in homosexual relationships, that one person takes on more masculine traits, and one takes on more feminine? We usually find couples where one is taking on the ?breadwinner? role and one is taking on the ?housekeeper? role. Why is this?
9. Adam and Eve. Why wasn?t it Adam and Adam?.or Eve and Eve? If God had intended for homosexuality to be a natural practice, he would have allowed asexual reproduction.
