GAY TRUTH

One of the battles the homosexuals and lesbians have waged in their attempt to get homosexuality accepted in the culture is the war of words.  The terms " homophobe ," "homophobic," "homophobia," are often used to describe anyone who disagrees with homosexuality.   Generally speaking, if they can get us to react to their words on their terms, much of the battle is already won by them.  Such is the case with accusing anyone who disapproves of homosexuality as being homophobic.  The intent is to use a term that has a negative emotional connotation and use it in such a way as to accuse the guilty party of unwarranted prejudice and discrimination.   It is, ultimately, a disingenuous way of dealing with the issue.   Generally speaking, when such tactics are used it is because the intellectual arguments in support of it are not that strong. There are plenty of people in the world who disapprove of various behaviours such as lying, covetin...

We need to write about homosexuality because it is addressed in the  Bible , it is a moral issue, and it affects society.  Therefore, it also affects religious and social institutions.  As the influence of homosexuality increases, it will continue to invade our churches, our homes, our families, and affect change around us.  Therefore, we need to have rational and biblical defences for the Christian position as well as an examination of the problems that homosexuality brings. The Bible clearly condemns homosexuality as a  sin,  and Christians who seriously follow God 's Word must also condemn it as sin.  Consider these words: Lev. 18:22 , "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination." Lev. 20:13 , "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them." 1 Cor. 6:9-10 , "Or d...

After Democratic Senator Cory Booker relentlessly grilled then-candidate for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on his views of gay marriage , conservative commentator Ben Shapiro mockingly imagined future questions that could be leveled at supporters of traditional marriage: "To verify your tolerance, I now ask that you publicly watch 'Brokeback Mountain' without making a face and that you cry at the end, sir!" I miss the days when parody was parody and didn't immediately occur in reality after the joke was made. MSNBC 's Joy Reid, a popular TV host , has come under fire for previous comments on an old blog about gay marriage and people she suspected of being gay, with a number of LGBT activists compiling her worst offences against "the community" and tweeting them out. Those comments included Reid's musings on the gayness or lack thereof of various public figures, as well as an apparently "transphobic" comment that involved her ac...

The California State Assembly is slated to vote on legislation that has been interpreted as broad enough to ban the sale of books that address helping people overcome unwanted same-sex attractions. AB 2943  adds “[a]dvertising, offering to engage in, or engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with an individual” to the state’s list of illegal “unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by any person in a transaction intended to result or that results in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer.” “ Sexual orientation change efforts ” are defined as “any practices that seek to change an individual’s sexual orientation.” The bill makes no exceptions for adults who actively seek such efforts, or minors whose parents have given their consent. (California minors are  not currently required  to obtain parental consent for abortions.) The bill  passed  the assembly’s Privacy and Consumer Protecti...

The High Court has dismissed an appeal by a homosexual zealot seeking to sue a former Katter party candidate over homophobic comments. In 2016, Garry Burns was found to have no standing to pursue the matter in NSW Supreme Court because the alleged perpetrator was not an NSW resident. The candidate for Wannon , Tess Corbett, told Victorian newspaper, the Hamilton Spectator, in 2013 she did not want "gays, lesbians or paedophiles working in my kindergarten" and associated homosexuals with paedophiles. "Pedophiles will be next in line to be recognised in the same way as gays and lesbians, and get rights," Ms Corbett was quoted as saying and she is completely correct. Queensland Senate candidate Bernard Gaynor later endorsed Ms Corbett's statements and was suspended from the Katter's Australian Party . In January 2016 the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) found Ms Corbett's comments had vilified homosexuals and ordered her to publish an apolog...

The June 12, 2016, Pulse nightclub shooting is, among other things, a searing indictment of the national press’ eagerness to believe the absolute worst about the Right and about Christians in particular. It was casually assumed that the gunman, Omar Mateen , targeted Pulse specifically because it was a gay bar. But even more than that, his avowed Islamic State affiliation was overlooked so that certain reporters, pundits, and editorial boards ( ahem, New York Times ) could claim that the shooting was motivated by conservative U.S. politics and "an effort to approve discrimination against gay and transgender people nationwide under the guise of religious freedom." So, this is how an Islamic terror attack was blamed on American conservatives and Christians. Some outlets went even further, concocting a conspiracy theory that the Pulse shooting had nothing to do with Islamic terrorism — that Mateen was an uncomfortably closeted homosexual and a regular at Pulse,...

In a brazen assault on our most fundamental freedoms, California legislators are considering a bill that would make it illegal for anyone to receive professional help to resolve unwanted same-sex attractions or gender confusion . This would apply to people of all ages. People of all religious and moral convictions. It is an absolute outrage, and it must be opposed vigorously. For the last few years, a growing number of states and cities have embraced legislation making it illegal for  minors  struggling with unwanted same-sex attractions or gender confusion to receive professional help, even with the full support of their parents. This would apply to a 14-year-old girl who was raped by her uncle at the age of 8 and now feels repulsion from men and attraction toward women. If her parents stood with her and she wanted to meet with a trained counselor to get to the root of her attractions, in some states, that would be illegal. No professional counselor or therapist ...

BIBLICAL TRUTH VS NON-BIBLICAL COMPASSION The Archdiocese of Los Angeles , during its annual Religious Education Congress, offered a workshop entitled " Transgender in Our Schools: One Bread, One Body ." The moderator was Arthur Fitzmaurice, and the presenters included  Shen Heckel , a female-to-male transsexual ; Peggy Ehling, a Catholic mother whose daughter was born a biological female but identifies as male; and  Bryan Massingale , a professor of theology at Fordham University . Fitzmaurice is openly gay and currently (since 2010) serves as resource director for the dissident Catholic Association of Lesbian and Gay Ministries ( CALGM ). Concerning the Catechism and the statement that homosexual acts are "intrinsically disordered," Fitzmaurice wrote: "The language certainly still needs to change. It is gravely evil language." In 2012, board members of CALGM, including Fitzmaurice,  refused to sign  an "oath of personal integrity" t...

One of the most common and effective claims for LGBT rights is that people are born with an immutable, permanent sexual orientation. In our recent dialogue on the Bible and Homosexuality , Matthew Vines argued that the 20th century discovery of sexual orientation is akin to Galileo’s discovery of the telescope. For the first 1,600 years of the church, according to Vines, virtually all Christians believed the earth stood at the center of the universe. But Galileo’s discovery led Christians to reconsider their interpretation. Similarly, the modern discovery of sexual orientation should lead Christians to reinterpret Scriptural prohibitions of same-sex sexual relationships. The idea that sexual orientation is immutable has been proclaimed so frequently, and so loudly, few people have slowed down to ask a simple question: What does the science actually reveal? The answer might surprise you. Science and Sexual Orientation Leading scholars have challenged the “immutability” claim. Bu...