Homosexuality

by Dave Brown (written August 2001)

It is difficult not to get alarmed when our nation’s largest teacher’s union seems compelled to get some curriculum into the public schools that negates the sin of practicing homosexuality by convincing our young people that it is just “an alternative life style.”  Consider God’s statement to his people (Lev. 18:21-24) “Neither shall you give any of your offspring to offer them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the LORD.  You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.  Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.  Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.”  I have included the context here to make a strong point.  Look at where God placed this sin — right along with child sacrifice and bestiality.  “It is an abomination.”  Read further and see that this was one of the main reasons for the Canaanites being “cast out” of the land, or as it says, “the land spewed out its inhabitants.”  Consider Sodom and Gomorrah.  In both cases God consumed entire populations.  

The New Testament is equally clear (1 Cor. 6:9-10) “Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor {the} covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”  What could be clearer than that?

There is no room for a Christian to hate, fear or wish to do violence to those who practice homosexuality.  But we have to maintain our right to teach the truth on this subject, and we need to be exercising that right without fear.  For, practicing homosexuals are exercising their rights, and are extending them to unbelievable limits.  No nation can last when its people have the attitude that this just does not matter.