Posted on 11/01/2007 7:19:08 AM PDT by Woodland
My 19-year-old brother, Jared, recently shared his thoughts in a brief essay on today's politically correct, post-modern concept of "tolerance." I'm admittedly biased, but I thought he exhibited insight beyond his years. He did, however, open the door for a debate on whether Christians focus too much attention on the sin of homosexuality while giving other sins a pass. His musings and my response follow:
Tolerance?
Jared Barber
"Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all." – C.S. Lewis
It has become difficult to hold true to strongly held beliefs. The problem lies in the fact that behaviors, once held simply as sinful actions, are being lauded as definers of identity.
So, when one states that one believes fornication, homosexual behavior, or adultery to be wrong, the modern world calls this person an "intolerant oppressor" of "sexual freedom." Or they are called "hateful." The rationale is that they are oppressing "the way people love." Sexual behaviors, in particular homosexuality, are called "identity." "This is who we are."
This is a problem, grave and immense. This rationale seeks, in its innermost, to undermine the ability of others to challenge these beliefs. By setting themselves up as minorities, people in this realm make disagreement "hatred," "bigotry," "judgment."
In reality, it is statement of fact. Morality is what it is. To attempt to rationalize it away is lunacy.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
It’s not homosexuality, per se, that bothers me. I couldn’t care less about that. It’s the anal sex angle that I think is a little odd, peculiar, distasteful, and unhealthy.
I’m not so tolerant of things that get close to my butt, if you get my drift. I also have limits about teeth getting too close to me for that matter.
Dentaphobe!
;^)
Unlike the sin of homosexuality, the other sins you cite – the sins of adultery, fornication, racism, pride, jealousy, selfish ambition and drunkenness – do not have the benefit of a tremendously powerful and prosperous lobby that is blindly supported by people in positions of political influence, and other leftists in media and elsewhere who have been duped by the crafty and disingenuous rhetoric of “tolerance” and “diversity.”
There are no postive mentions of any homos in the whole bible, yet the bible is filled with positive mentions of other sexual sins. This particular sexual sin is the kind that can take a whole city and then get it nuked from Heaven.
I don’t single out homosexuals... they are singling themselves out. The “sin that dare not speak its name” now won’t shut the hell up.
Excellent article. Your point is correct—it’s the relentless assault on biblical morality and traditional values by the homosexual lobby that makes homosexuality a daily item of attention. If an equally powerful lobby was trying to force us to accept bigamy or pedophilia, we’d be talking about that just as much.
What’s up with sex in men’s rooms and public parks? Geez people, get a motel room or something.
Bwaaa, haaa, haaa, haaa, haaaaaaa!!!
Wha? I don't understand what you could be talking about.
Correct, all sins are bad but no other one sin( outside abortion ) has become a social and political money maker. You do not see murders, adulterers, wife swappers, or thieves lobbying congress to give them special voting rights and protection.
"[S]urveys have estimated that 4 to 5 percent of men and 2 to 3 percent of women have had same-sex sexual relations after age 18. Studies that count only people who identify themselves as gay or lesbian, however, come up with much smaller numbers: about 2.8 percent of men and 1.4 percent of women." —The New York Times
"The friend who forwarded this to me noted that though homosexualists made up only 2 percent of the population, they were nevertheless a very powerful 2 percent. A group representing only one out of every 50 Americans has such social power, I think, because they represent an extreme of sexual liberty that thereby justifies more "normal" immorality, e.g., rampant heterosexual fornication. The secular straight world listens to them and promotes their cause because it is sexually libertine itself and knows that a world in which sodomy is normal is a world in which no one will think twice about fornication or even adultery." —David Mills
I think the main reason sodomy is such a divisive issue is because the sodomites have been forcing it onto the rest of us.
Some People, who would pillory me for having strong views about homosexuality on the basis of “it’s none of my business” would be the first in line to tell me what I can eat, if I can smoke, what I can drink, how I should worship, and whether I can carry a gun.
I would say it’s exactly the other way around. Homosexuals are the ones transfixed on the issue and make a big deal about it, because they insist it is not a sin.
Christians are just plain made sick in the stomach, considering what homosexuality is and reject it. It’s not like Christians are ever going to say “oh yes that’s sweet.”
It’s like if I craved money so much that I insist robbing banks is not breaking the law. While the police keep insisting that it is breaking the law. Yet I keep insisting it is not breaking the law. Who then is making a big stink about it, me or the cops??
1. In Sodom and Gommora, the locals demanded to “know” Lot, violently.
2. God did indeed “nuke” Sodom and Gommora for the sins in which they openly engaged.
3. In modern times, the homos clamor for “inclusion” in the workings of the church, and many churches are embracing that worldly demand.
4. I don’t want to fill in the blank for this, but I don’t like the example of number 2.
All you homosexual equivocators need to go online, take your kid filters off and look up some movies on what homosexuals do to one another for pleasure routinely.
Then get back to me about how they are “normal”.
It is a perversion, one they may enjoy but a perversion nonetheless.
They are also neurotic as hell and need to project themselves on the rest of us.
They can deny it till the cows come home but they love turning out young boy-men. They are shamless about that in a way that straight men would never be with say a 14-15 year old virgin girl.
They can do what they want privately like I do as a heterosexual but that’s it. No special treatment like blacks. No teching their crap to my children. No watering down my church with their garbage.
Just live their lives with some restrained dignity if they can.
They’re mixed up....might even be genetic...doesn’t matter ...it just is.
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