In my two-year writing “career,” I’ve never written extensively about homosexuality before. When I decided to write America on the Decline, I knew it was only a matter of time before the e-mail came in from people calling me a “homophobe.”
I fear no man, so a “fear of homosexuals” doesn’t describe me. Like God, I hate sin. That’s all. God says homosexual behavior is sinful. For that matter, fornication and adultery are sinful. Lying is sinful. Murder is sinful. I sin, you sin, we all sin!
The difference between believers and unbelievers is that believers are forgiven. Believers have repented and accepted the sacrifice Christ made on the cross to pay for their sins. That’s God’s grace.
What liberals and “progressives” don’t seem to realize is that a secular, atheistic and humanistic worldview is a religion. Religion is defined as “a personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship.”
Secular humanism is a religion! Why do humanists believe they have every right to defend their value system but Christians have no right?
Either liberals are being disingenuous when they claim that President Bush is “stirring up” a sleeping culture war by supporting an amendment to ban homosexual “marriage”, or they think the American people are stupid.
The homosexual push to tread on traditional marriage is not “stirring up” a culture war? Teaching children to put condoms on cucumbers is not rousing righteously indignant parents? Do liberals really think that promoting homosexual behavior at every single opportunity isn’t divisive?
To show you how intellectually disengaged and irrational the left is, read this column by Arianna Huffington. I could provide many links to columns like this, even editorials disguised as news stories, but they all read the same.
I can say so many mean things about this woman and her intellect, but it’s times like these when I must remember to speak the truth in love. “Speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Him who is the Head, that is, Christ.” Ephesians 4:15, and “The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on him in truth.” Psalm 145:18
It’s times like these when I must remember that the saving grace of Jesus Christ is laughable to those still in their sins, but for us, the ones God plucked from the grip of death, it is the power of the living God. 1 Corinthians 1:18
In the midst of the struggle against The Lie, when worldviews collide, when the powers of darkness overtake the culture, I remember that while He still walked the earth, Jesus prayed to the Father, asking Him to protect me:
I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them.
They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name — the name you gave me — so that they may be one as we are one.
While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified. John 17:6-19
If God is for us, who can be against us?
