There’s
been a huge push lately of the gay agenda. (This, at the expense of any truly
tolerant person who disagrees- but that’s another story.) We are told this is
the way it is. We’re told that times change and we shouldn’t be stuck in the
past. We are even told that if we really want to follow the Bible, we should
not eat pork and stone fornicators- this, under the apparent belief that we are
all Jewish. But is believing that homosexuality is sinful and those practicing
it should not get married really so backward? I’m here to say it is not. I do
not hold people who are not Christians to Christian standards, however,
Christian or not, there are very practical reasons to be against gay marriage.
(I can hear the Homofascists screaming now.)
Despite
what scoffers say, the United States was founded on Christian principles.
Leviticus 25:10 (yes, from that evil law) is on the Liberty Bell. The Bible and
prayer were, for a couple centuries, in public schools and courthouses. The law
itself, common law, is based off of, yes, Biblical law. The need for multiple
witnesses was also found in the Bible. There is more evidence for this that I
explained in a previous post (http://joetrammell.blogspot.com/2014/01/letter-to-a.html).
So
why did a nation whose first settlers (apart from Native Americans, my
politically correct friends) came for religious freedom, whose Bill of Rights
guarantees it, founded on Christian principles? Belief in the God of the Bible
was widespread then. Evolution didn’t yet exist. Those answers are explanatory
in part, but perhaps not sufficient. Have we ever considered that we need the
Bible in our country?
Let
me explain. Since the Bible and prayer were taken out of schools, teen
pregnancy rates have increased dramatically. The age of sexual activity has
decreased while the percentage has skyrocketed. The number of STDs among teens
has increased exponentially compared to the growth in population. Single-mother
homes, cohabitation, divorce rates, violent crime rates, and alcohol
consumption have all increased. Even SAT scores have decreased.
I
am for freedom of conscience because it is a fact: no one can make another
believe anything. That is why I am for religious freedom. But the Bible, aside
from its most important job of showing man the way of redemption through Jesus
Christ, is also a moral guide to people. You will scarcely find a founder of
our nation, as well as a number of Court justices, that believed otherwise.
When
a moral guide is taken out of the equation, what is left? People deciding
things for themselves. We may not realize it; who doesn’t consider themselves a
moral person (apart from those who have realized their sinful condition
through, alas, the Bible)? But if there is not an absolute moral guide- the
Bible and our God-given consciences- there is no other option. Sure we can try
to name something else. It’s what society feels is right. American society and
many others feel it okay to kill unborn children. Canaanite and Aztec societies
thought it fine to sacrifice their children. Nazi society felt it okay to kill
those different than them. Do we want to leave things up to society? Do we want
to leave morals up to laws that are written by society? Can morals change?
No,
morals must be absolute. We need something absolute, or else when the majority
decides to change its mind, it can make whatever it feels acceptable
“acceptable” in society.
And
when we realize this, along with the startling numbers when the Bible is
eliminated from much of public, we see that homosexuality and the gay agenda is
not the problem, but the consequence. The side effect to a very rotten illness
in America- that there is no room for God, at least not the true God.
What
happens when we decide to go against absolute morals? Suddenly more and more
becomes acceptable in our society. A while ago, it was taboo to be pregnant out
of wedlock or to cohabitate. Now it is quite common. Homosexuality was nearly
unthinkable- now there is an increasing push for not only allowing gays to be
married, but to force everyone to condone it. Call me an old-fashioned
Bible-thumper (please), but what it next?
We’ve
already seen the beginning of further movements down this slope. Pedophiles are
now using the same tactics as the gay movement, looking for the same rights
that homosexuals are seeking. It isn’t weird or wrong, it’s an “alternative
lifestyle”. They’re not twisted, they’re “minor-attracted people.” B4U-Act says
they are trying to “help mental health professionals learn more about
attraction to minors and to consider the effects of stereotyping, stigma and
fear.” Sound similar? The American Psychiatrists Association, which
declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973, issued a report over
15 years ago that said the “negative potential” of children having sex with
adults is “overstated” and “the vast majority of both men and women reported no
negative sexual effects from childhood sexual abuse experiences.” And this
agenda has been effective. Pedophilia is now a sexual orientation, receiving
protection under the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which the Obama administration
naturally praised.
“Pedophiles
are not simply people who commit a small offense from time to time but rather
are grappling with what is equivalent to a sexual orientation just like another
individual may be grappling with heterosexuality or even homosexuality,”
psychologist and former University of Montreal professor Van Gijsegham told
Parliament. “True pedophiles have an exclusive preference for children, which
is the same as having a sexual orientation. You cannot change this person’s
sexual orientation. He may, however, remain abstinent….If, for instance, you
were living in a society where heterosexuality is proscribed or prohibited and
you were told that you had to get therapy to change your sexual orientation,
you would probably say that that is slightly crazy. In other words, you would
not accept that at all. I use this analogy to say that, yes indeed, pedophiles
do not change their sexual orientation.”1
When
we begin to compromise absolute morals, there is no turning back. See cases in
other countries of people marrying their pets, their cars, and a myriad of
other things. We continue down the slippery slope.
Without
absolute morals, we are opened up to nothing more than relativism. If you do
something I think is wrong, it doesn’t matter because we are both human, and
there is nothing above us. What right do laws have to tell us we can’t steal?
Or rape? Or murder? Want to beat your wife? What right do I have to tell you
no? Want to walk into a school and shoot it up? Not my business. Kill those who
disagree with you? I’ll live and let live.
“That’s
absurd,” you say. Exactly. We are not the decider of our own morals. The belief
that we are puts us on the slippery slope to social anarchy. We must look to
the absolute morals that God has placed us under. To truly live this, one must
be born again into God’s family- you don’t have to look very far into my posts
to find an explanation of that. But even if you choose to reject God, you’ll do
society a favor by submitting to absolute morals instead of allowing an
every-man-for-himself morality.
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