Wisdom to resist gay activism
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Image via WikipediaHaving wisdom is not the same thing as being clever or smart. When the Bible speaks of the folly of fools, the reference is not to those who struggle with the higher forms of calculus. In Scripture, folly is a moral issue, and many very intelligent people exhibit the problem. In short, knowledge is not wisdom.
When personified Wisdom speaks at the end of the eighth chapter of Proverbs, she says that all who hate her “love death” (Prov. 8:36). Application of this truth to the particular case of sexual orientation reveals a great deal. All who hate sexual wisdom love sexual death. Our culture-wide rejection of sexual wisdom is the real problem. In short, the problem of homosexuality extends far beyond homosexuals.
A man may talk quite a bit without revealing an understanding mind. In the same way, a culture may frantically pursue sexual activity, and may exhibit a morbid fascination with sexual issues, and yet be far from sexual wisdom. We believe ourselves to be wise in this area because we are “experienced” and because we reveal our pathological obsession to others by talking about it all the time. But experience or practice makes perfect only if the practice is not muddleheaded.
We have come to believe that experience in sin qualifies us to speak authoritatively. Christians should know better. The only man who can speak with full authority on the subject of sin is the Lord Jesus—who never sinned. Suppose a company of us had to walk a mile in hurricane-force winds. Suppose further that most of us blew over about ten feet after we started, and only one of us walked the entire mile. Who knows the most about the wind? In modern America, on sexual issues, we have all been toppled a long time ago. To this day we lie there, face down, congratulating ourselves on our experience.
Consider the brute facts about homosexuality for a moment. If we were to give a copy of Gray’s “Anatomy” to some visiting outer space alien, with some study he should be able to determine what goes where and why. Understanding the basic biology of human sexuality does not really post a major intellectual challenge. Questions about nuts and bolts, or male and female electronic couplings, would be reasonable questions to put on a test. Failure to figure out the obvious would be grounds for wondering what the cognitive problem was. But we cannot chalk up homosexuality as a failure of intelligence, though the error is of the same magnitude. Homosexuals can point out that their ranks contain many of the most gifted and intelligent people among us. This sexual folly is not a question of intelligence, but of morality.
When we say the problem of homosexuality is a moral one, this is not the same as limiting the moral problem to those who practice homosexuality.
Why is straight America so nonplused by the claims of homosexual activists? Responding to the demands of homosexual activism, some proposed a Defense of Marriage Act. Those defending “traditional” marriages appealed to the most dreadful piffle. Their arguments generally reduced to something like, “we’ve never done it this way before” (and they even got that wrong—we have too done it that way before).
Morality is defined by the Bible, and not by our general cultural experiences. Those who were proposing the Defense of Marriage Act, and those who opposed it (and he who signed it) uniformly make their appeals to the same god of human experience, autonomy, and “wisdom.” Their wrangles are nothing more than disagreements over interpretations down at humanism’s denominational headquarters.
To understand our culture’s inability to resist the claims of “gay activists” we must understand that they are reasoning from premises held by most of straight America, i.e. that sexual autonomy and sexual wisdom are consistent with one another. As much as many traditional straights might want to disavow the homosexual movement, we must acknowledge that the homosexual activists are in the vanguard of our rebellion.
Still, rebellion leads to more rebellion. Heterosexual rebellion leads to homosexual rebellion. Our culture-wide refusal to acknowledge God as God, and our refusal to give Him thanks is bearing fruit. How has it come about that intelligent people are willing to maintain that a man may lie with another man as though he were a woman? The answer relates to how intelligent people are willing to tolerate serial divorce and remarriage, rampant pornography, heterosexual promiscuity, and so on, ad nauseam.
So why can we not just stop, and now say no? Why can we not say, finally, that this is going too far? To use a hetero example, that is like trying to be a little bit pregnant.
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