Homosexuality

I was a day early with this regular column last week so this week’s edition is a little late. Huh, what!? Clockwork? Never heard of that term!

Anyhow…

# Here’s a well-researched and well-written Biblical look at the teaching of a Pre-Trib rapture by Lavrai. Like her, I don’t subscribe to a Pre-Trib rapture either.

# I’m not looking to start another Calvinism versus Arminianism debate, but the folks at Tominthebox had me laughing out loud with this piece claiming that the recently-concluded John 3:16 Conference has declared that Calvinism is finished.

# On a serious note, here’s Steve Camp responding to the commentary of David Allen during the above-mentioned conference.

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My brethren and sisters have really been busy the past few days with a good number of posts!

# The Passion of Reformation: Our Great Salvation… Chosen by God; Sanctified by the Spirit; Redeemed by the Son by Steve Camp.

# With many of our brethren and sisters poised to vote for the next President of the United States soon, Dr. R.C. Sproul gives us some food of thought with Principles for Voting.

# Tim Challies reviewed Michael Horton’s book Christless Christianity, and it sure looks like it’s a must-read! Here’s his conclusion:

This book is a call for the church to return to its biblical foundations and to remain true to those convictions. It is a clarion call and one that Christians would do well to heed. Christless Christianity is an excellent and timely book and one I would not hesitate to recommend to any Christian.

# My good brother and friend Daniel recently bought himself a molehill of books and has done reviews of two that he’s read so far — Logical Criticism of Textual Criticism by Gordon H. Clark and The Market Driven Church by Udo W. Middelmann.

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It’s happening… and perhaps even coming to your country soon!

If Brazil’s Senate passes a bill approved unanimously by its House of Representatives, Christians and other concerned members of society who speak out and offend a homosexual can soon be slapped with a five-year jail term for doing so.

Under the guise of preventing discrimination, the measure is seen as the latest attempt at promoting homosexuality — the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has previously said that opposition to homosexuality is “perhaps the most perverse disease impregnated in the human head” and called for the “criminalization of homophobia”.

If the bill is passed, it will stipulate a five-year jail term for anyone preventing actions of “homosexual affection” in public or private locations open to the public, and penalize private and public school administrators with up to three years in prison if they refuse to hire openly “gay” teachers. In other words, the measure will force prison time for any “moral, ethical, philosophical or psychological expression that questions homosexual practices”, according to Catholic News Agency (CNA).

The Association of the Defense of Life (ADL) put it down simply as fact that, if the bill is passed, a priest, a pastor, a teacher or even an average citizen who says in a sermon, a classroom or public conversation that homosexual acts are sinful, disordered or an illness could be denounced and detained.

Source: WorldNetDaily.

All I have to say is this:

Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20

Kudos to the brother who openly challenged the Bishop, and shame, shame, shame on those who attempted to drown him out!

It’ll soon be the exception rather than the norm when one can speak out and warn against immorality…

I think Pastor Bob Enyart, a Denver-area activist on Christian issues, says it best in his comment on the passing of the law — that it will only be “lightly” enforced until the law “… just becomes an entrenched part of our (the U.S.) legal framework”, but give it a few years, and Christians and anyone opposing the homosexual agenda will need to watch out.

Biblical Message Now Criminalized

A new Colorado law is helping homosexual activists achieve their goal of forcing Christians to teach biblical condemnation of homosexuality only behind the closed doors of their sanctuaries.

The as-yet untested state law promotes sexual identity “perception” to the level of skin color under state discrimination laws.

Some opponents are calling it a “bona fide censorship law,” and top analysts for Focus on the Family, the Christian publishing and broadcast powerhouse, are expressing concern over the “mischief” they expect to follow the signing by Gov. Bill Ritter.

Full story here.

Talk about tolerance, huh?

One of the most oft-repeated accusations against Christians who speak out against homosexuality is that we are intolerant, close-minded bigots. Well now, let’s see who the real intolerant, close-minded bigots are!

A pastor in Canada has been ordered by the government there to renounce his faith and never again express his moral opposition to homosexuality!

In addition, according to the report, pastor Stephen Boisson has been asked to pay $5,000 for “damages for pain and suffering” as well as apologize to the activist who complained of being hurt.

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Oh, how slippery has the slope become!

Frank Kameny, considered a hero by many in the homosexual community for his integral part in pressurizing the American Psychiatric Association to re-classify same-sex or homosexual activities as “normal”, now says that bestiality is fine “as long as the animal doesn’t mind”.

He has also claimed that there is no such thing as “sexual perversion”.

Kameny, now 83, said, “Bestiality is not my thing … But it seems to be a harmless foible or idiosyncrasy of some people. So, as long as the animal doesn’t mind (and the animal rarely does), I don’t mind, and I don’t see why anyone else should.”

Say, Mr. Kameny, how does one tell if an animal minds or doesn’t mind being violated thus? Is a long moo from a cow a positive or negative response? And what statistics do you have on hand that proves that animals ‘rarely’ mind being objects of lust for perverted minds?

Here’s another thought (I apologize in advance if this offends anyone): I wonder if he thinks necrophilia is fine too, since, well, corpses would ‘rarely’ mind too, no?

All things considered, at least Mr. Kameny is consistent, toeing the oft-quoted line that sympathizers of the gay movement love to put forward — that if the unnatural act (of homosexuality) doesn’t hurt anyone, what harm can it really do?

Full story here: Bestiality ‘OK if animal approves’.

Photo Credit: Todd Franson.

I read Deadpris’ petition to the ping.sg community leader to ban a blog that has for some time now been dissing the gay community with some amusement.

After a tirade against him and stating that she doesn’t tolerate discrimination and that the offending blogger has been using the community to push his anti-homosexuality agenda, she calls on fellow bloggers to vote him out to indicate that they are “humane and tolerating and understanding”.

She’s asking others to vote him out in the name of tolerance because she herself cannot tolerate his “alternative” views?

Hold on, have a piece of cake or something while I go laugh myself silly.

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Seriously, if there ever was a statement that drives me up the wall and has me tearing my hair out, it’s just that. And the fact that most people, even Christians, just go “hmm… yea, true that!” accepting it as some sort of truth doesn’t help things either.

What’s my beef?

Two things: please define “open-minded” and “progress”.

It’s become quite a phenomenon in this day and age to treat the two words “close-minded” as a cuss word and even an insult. Tell someone that he is close-minded, and watch him turn into this snarling hulk ready to tear you up with his bare hands and defend his “open mind”.

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The International press seems to have picked up the fact that hundreds of Singaporeans have signed a petition to ask the Government to decriminalize homosexual sex ahead of Parliamentary debates on Oct 22.

Though anal and oral sex between consenting heterosexual adults has been decriminalized recently, the same law, popularly known as Section 377A, continues to criminalize the same sex acts between homosexual men.

Homosexual men caught in the act can expect to be charged and serve a maximum of 2 years imprisonment.

I recently spoke to a few local Christians on what their stand is on the decriminalizing homosexual sex acts, and I actually didn’t get a unified response to the subject.

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Reading dozens of blogs around Singapore and the world on the issue of homosexuality and why governments should legalize homosexuality and even allow homosexual marriages has taught me one thing.

Most people agree with the pro-homosexuality or pro-gay movement, and are vocal about it. People blog about their support for the movement, and their disdain for people whom they term ‘homophobes‘, ‘bigots’ and other worse names. Or they simply use the term ‘human rights’ loosely to state that homosexuality should be duly recognized.

Which makes me ask the question: where are the Christian voices against the movement?

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