Born gay - now way all born sinners
“And having been set free from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.” – Romans 6:18 There’s an awful lot of talk these days about inborn tendencies, especially in the sexual arena. Whereas once we judged the rightness or wrongness of something by the thing itself, today we’re judging right versus wrong actions by their origins. It’s as if we’re saying, “If you were born with a tendency, that justifies the tendency.” Lady Gaga said as much a few years ago when she made a huge splash with a dance single extolling the virtues of self-love, self-congratulation and general self-celebration in her song “Born This Way” (lyrics here ). The lyrics proclaimed that whatever we are must be good simply because it is. And if it is, that must mean God intended it. So our birth endows us with certain attributes that must be acknowledged, embraced, trumpeted. To do less is to deny your true self. There’s a lot wrong with that, though. Let’s talk some general principles first,...