“I kissed a girl and I liked it,” was the lyric she sang (yes, she) from the rafters of Gold’s Gym. I had heard the tune before but not noticed the words. All I wanted to do was work out and drop a few pounds, but instead I got a hard core dose of homosexual propaganda.

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If you follow the homosexuality debate on the news, you will often hear someone slam the Bible because it says homosexuality is an abomination…along with eating shellfish. The basic angle is that because it is ‘ridiculous’ to say eating shellfish is an abomination to God, it is also equally as ridiculous to say that homosexuality is. The Bible is a foolish book because it makes such statements. But is it, really?

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(The following article recently appeared in the opinion section of one of the largest newspapers in the United States.)

“The Court Got it Right”

Last week, the Supreme Court made the right call: Excluding loving, committed adults from polygamous marriages harms them and their families and in the end doesn’t help anyone. Exclusion also violates the constitution’s command of equality for all. Americans, after all, value fairness and inclusion. Even if we don’t agree with the practice of polygamists, we can’t deny them the rights to legal marriage and recognition as equals in our society.

Many of these men genuinely love their wives and children, and these wives love their husbands. Alternative lifestyles are something our culture has been embracing for years now. And, polygamous families are only an extension of that inclusive principle. Besides, think of the harm it does these children to be taken from their mothers and father. One can only imagine how disorienting it must be for a child to live in a family with multiple mothers, only to have the ‘anti-polygamy’ industry, supported by the State, split up the family and attempt to ‘retrain’ them to believe in another definition of marriage.

When these polygamy-haters attack these judges for doing their job, they need to realize they are attacking the judicial branch of government meant to protect us from legislative and moral oppression. We should be thankful to have such brave and constitution-minded judges on the bench throughout our land.

What do you think?

So, what do you make of these arguments? Do they change your mind about polygamy? “Ludicrous,” you say. Indeed. Why? Because polygamy is wrong, and it doesn’t matter how you spin it. You can’t use a fairness and equality argument to justify something morally wrong. No matter how loving or devoted these parents are to their children or each other, their actions are still wrong and should be rejected by the culture. No matter how much we value treating people fairly and equally, we can’t sanction immoral, destructive behavior so we can be ‘fair.’

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Although the New Testament does not record an instance of Jesus meeting a person engaged in the sin of homosexuality, it does record examples of Jesus interacting with people immersed in other sexual sins. You may recall the adulterous woman of Samaria whom Jesus met at Jacob’s well (John 4), and the woman who washed Jesus’ feet with her hair, likely a prostitute (Luke 7). And who can forget the woman caught in the act of adultery in Jerusalem (John 8)?

From these examples, we can start to form a picture of how Jesus would respond if He walked into a homosexual bar or visited a homosexual marriage ceremony in our day. Here are a few of the things we can gather about Jesus’ behavior in such a situation:

1. He would not shy away from confronting their sin directly. The woman at the well is a good example. Although she did not want to talk about her life, Jesus dove in head first (John 4:17-18). We could learn a thing or two from this approach.
2. He accepted them, forgave them, taught them, and used them in His work. Read these stories and you will see that Jesus loved and received people regardless of the type of sin that plagued them. Sexual sins for Him were no more a barrier to relationship than extortion, drunkenness, pride, or idolatry.
3. He invited them to become true worshippers of God. The adulteress at the well was schooled in what it means to worship God genuinely and, it appears, she took Him up on His offer-as did many of her friends.
4. He didn’t make this sin any worse than any other for which He came to die. He didn’t ‘freak-out’ when He met a woman who slept with different men all night, or another who treated marriage like a disposable party plate.

A Startling Reaction

There is one other reaction Jesus had when faced with perverted sexual sin that is worth noting, and this one might make you squirm a bit. When the adulterous woman was brought to Him by the Pharisees, Jesus had a startling reaction. Instead of stoning her to death-which, by the way, is what many of us seem to want to do to homosexuals-He turned the tables on the religious ‘gotcha’ squad. Continue Reading »