The Truth About
Homosexuality
The churches of Christ Greet You (Romans
However, homosexuality is not new. It is as old as the
Bible. It was one
of the sins that destroyed
What is new is the popularity,
publicity,
and political clout which homosexuals enjoy in
In the 1992 election, voters in
Years ago, a 1000 member "Gay" church in Dallas -- the
Metropolitan Community Church -- dedicated a new $3 million Cathedral
(Metropolitan Community Churches are a national network of homosexual
churches).
Nationwide there are probably more than 500 exclusively homosexual
churches.
Special Panels in the Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.)
have recommended new guidelines which condone homosexual relationships
and
allow the ordination of practicing homosexuals.
Many have been confused by the Rhetoric! Not long ago an active
church
member, who has served as a leader in a congregation in another state,
shocked
me by saying: "I used to be hard against this homosexual business --
but
now I don't know... It seems like they can't really help it and I've
been wrong
to oppose it."
Many of our children are being systematically indoctrinated in our
public
schools. They are taught that homosexuality is as normal as having
brown eyes
or blue. Many communities have already adopted a program called "One In
Ten" or "Project 10" designed to teach students that "gay
is good." (One in ten comes from the homosexual assertion that 10% of
our
society is gay.) Dr. Jocelyn Elders, President Clinton's former Surgeon
General
has been actively involved in efforts to introduce this program into
A speaker at a recent
They have created a favorable image in the media - due in part to
the large
number of publishers, editors, producers, directors, etc. who are
involved in
the homosexual culture. They have succeeded in selling the following
myths to
key political figures, educators and officials in many denominational
churches.
1. "Ten percent of the population is homosexual."
The "Gay" subculture has attempted to gain respectability and
influence by picturing itself as being much larger than it really is.
The
"One in Ten" program has tried to sell this idea to the Educational
establishment. Homosexual activist Bruce Voeller
admits that he has preached the 10% figure for years in order to
persuade
people that "we are everywhere" so that it will appear that
homosexuality is "normal." (Focus on the Family
Citizen, April 20, 1992, p. 3.)
The truth is that the number of homosexuals is much smaller than
their power
and influence would indicate. In part, this impossibly high figure is
the
result of unreliable studies done by pioneer sex researcher Alfred C.
Kinsey.
He relied heavily on data gleaned from criminals - including sex
offenders -
and projected his findings on the general public. One of Kinsey's
research
assistants, Wardell Pomeroy, acknowledged
in 1972
that Kinsey's subjects were "coached" to give answers to suit a
hypothesis.
Numerous recent studies (such as the
2. "Homosexuals have stable, loving families just like
heterosexuals."
The effort is underway to force this viewpoint into schoolbooks and
classroom discussions. Gay activists wish to promote the idea of gay
families
because of economic benefits which our society makes available to
families: tax
exemptions, social security benefits, etc. Homosexuals want to be able
to go
through some semblance of a marriage ceremony and wish to be able to
adopt
children, etc.
The reality: A 1981 study showed that only 2% of homosexuals have
relationships that are even semi-stable (which for the purposes of the
study
was defined as having fewer than 10 lifetime partners!) The average
homosexual
has 500 (mostly anonymous) lifetime partners. Thirty percent of
homosexuals
will have more than 1000 sexual partners in their lifetime.
3. "Homosexuals are a persecuted minority."
Homosexuals have tried to gain sympathy by comparing the Gay
Liberation
movement to the Civil Rights Movement. Homosexuals like to picture
themselves
as victims of unreasonable prejudice who are persecuted by bigots and
religious
extremists. They are fond of referring to anyone who opposes the gay
life-style
as "homophobic" - which once meant those who feared homosexuals but
now means those who condemn the homosexual life-style.
Studies show that homosexuals are far from being persecuted (The
Arkansas
Citizen, Aug. 1990, p. 1). Homosexuals have an average annual household
income
of $55,430 as compared to $32,144 for the general population and
$12,166 for
disadvantaged African-American households. Homosexuals are three times
more
likely to be college graduates as average Americans (60% vs. 18%).
Homosexuals
are three times more likely to hold professional or managerial jobs as
other
Americans (49% vs. 16%). Almost two-thirds of homosexuals (65.8%) are
overseas
travelers; that is four times the average for other Americans (14%)!
4. "Laws should be passed to give homosexuals the same civil
rights
as other Americans."
Homosexuals already enjoy the same rights as others; they want
special
privileges. Homosexuals will not settle for tolerance; they want public
endorsement. The Gay Teacher's Association's bill of rights calls for
the
affirmation of "the beauty and legitimacy of our life-styles."
Homosexual leaders demand that schools offer special courses to teach
acceptance of homosexuality as an alternative life-style and that
school
libraries be stocked with books extolling homosexuality. In some key
areas it
appears homosexuals already enjoy a greater degree of freedom than any
other
group in this country. This is true, for example, with regard to the
way the
AIDS disease has been treated in
Another example of the unusual freedom enjoyed by homosexuals is
that they
have escaped prosecution for vandalizing public office buildings,
interrupting
church services, desecrating church buildings and attacking public
officials.
No arrests were made following the 1990 and 1991 Gay and Lesbian Pride
Parades
in
5. "Homosexuality may be a sin, but it should not be treated as a
crime."
There are many sins which are also crimes. Rape, incest, child
abuse,
murder, prostitution, etc. are illegal because they impact on other
people.
Historically, most Western nations have outlawed the act of sodomy.
There are
still 24 states which outlaw sodomy, with penalties ranging from a
minimum fine
of $200 to a maximum jail sentence of 20 years. The Supreme Court, as
recently
as 1986, upheld the constitutionality of these laws. Thomas Jefferson,
in his
revision of the criminal code of
Society has the right to legislate against sodomy because of its
victims.
Though homosexuals represent only 1 or 2% of population, they commit as
many as
half of all child molestations. 79% of all recorded cases of
teacher/pupil sex involves homosexuals.
Homosexuals are 20 times more likely
to molest children than heterosexuals (Michael Downs, "Homosexuality:
The
'Gay' Myth," Rosemont Reminder, Ft. Worth, TX, Oct, 4, 1992, p. 2).
Several homosexual organizations actively promote sex with children,
including the Rene Guyon Society, the
Childhood
Sensuality Circle and the North American Man-Boy Love Association. In
the past
17 years over half (some studies say 65%) of all mass murders were
committed by
homosexuals -- who comprise less than 2% of the population. Sodomy laws
seek to
curtail behavior that is destructive to homosexuals themselves.
6. "Homosexuals can't help being what they are."
Many attempts have been made to find some genetic basis for
homosexuality. One
study claimed to find a difference between the brains of homosexual men
and
heterosexual men. The study was too flawed to be taken seriously
because it
involved only a hand-full of cases (19) and lacked scientific controls.
The
results were statistically insignificant.
The truth is that no one has ever found a single genetic, hormonal
or
chemical difference between homosexuals and heterosexuals (Brad Haydon & John Eldredge,
"Homosexual Rights: What's Wrong?" Focus on the Family Citizen,
Genesis 19:4-11 indicates that homosexuality was the sin
which caused
God to destroy
Leviticus
Deuteronomy 23:17-18 specifies: "None of the daughters of
Judges 19 & 20 describe Sodom-like homosexual behavior
among the
men of the tribe of Benjamin in the city of
1 Kings
In Romans 1, Paul describes people whom God gave up on! (vss. 24, 26, 28) He pictures homosexuality as an
outgrowth
of a reprobate mind which was unnatural and deserving of death (Romans
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 asks "Do you not know that the
unrighteous
shall not inherit the
1 Timothy 1:9-10 ranks
homosexuality
with such sins as murder, kidnapping and prostitution. These words are
used to
describe such acts: "lawless, rebellious, ungodly, sinful, unholy,
profane
and contrary to sound teaching."
Jude 7 compared certain people to the men of
1. Homosexuality is a perversion of God's intentions in creation.
It is a sin against nature; contrary to nature. "Then the Lord God
said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper
suitable for him." "And the Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib
which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. And the
man said,
"This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of
my
flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of
Because it was not good for man to be alone, God created woman as a
suitable
companion for him. That was God's creative purpose from the beginning.
In
Matthew 19:8, Jesus takes us back to that original intention, saying
that it
had always been God's plan for one man and one woman to come together
as one
flesh for life. Male and female are so created that in a sense in
coming
together they rejoin. Woman was taken out of man; woman and man are
rejoined in
the sexual relationship. Homosexuality is an attempt by Satan to take
what is
natural and to twist, pervert, distort and disrupt what God intended
from the
beginning.
2. Homosexuality is a clear violation of the laws of God.
A great deal of ingenuity has gone into attempts to explain away the
clear
teaching of the Bible. It is said, for example, that the sin of
3. Homosexuality is a choice, not a genetic condition.
Homosexuals are not born; they are willingly or unwillingly
recruited.
Ultimately, they consent to be what they are. With proper motivation
and
assistance they can change. They can repent and be forgiven of their
sin.
Cleansing is available. "And such WERE some of you..."(1 Corinthians
4. Homosexuality must be confronted with truth mingled with
compassion.
We must hate the sin while loving the sinner. We must declare the
whole
counsel of God without compromise. We must continue to hold out the
Gospel of
Christ as the only hope of the world. We must guard ourselves from a
Pharisaical, holier-than-thou attitude which cries out against one sin
while
winking at another’s which may be in our own lives.
The Bible is the only safe standard in dealing with every moral
question. My
preferences or your preferences or anyone else's will not change
Biblical
truth! Biblical standards of right and wrong are intended to make us
holy as
God is holy. God is eternal and unchanging; neither do His principles
of
righteous living change! The Bible requires that Christians keep
themselves
pure (1 Timothy