Posted on 03/16/2014 3:03:11 PM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Chris has a gay son. He neglected to mention that when I met him at a business event the week before last, when we talked a little politics, when he invited me to join him and his buds for their weekly golf game.
All was amicable on the golf course. As it turned out, two of the guys were fellow conservatives. And two others happened to be members of my church.
But things got twisted when our two foursomes sat down for post-round libations and conversation. That’s because Chris, a social liberal, an Obama-loving Democrat, insisted on talking politics.
And particularly about homosexual “rights.”
He made the pseudo-scientific claim that homosexuality was an “immutable” trait, like race or gender. And the church-going Presbyterian claimed there is no Biblical basis for declaring homosexuality a sin.
So I challenged him on both claims. And my fellow conservatives, my fellow church members backed me.
Having lost the debate he started, my golf host stood up and angrily stalked out of the clubhouse, leaving the other seven of us sitting there. That’s when one of the guys confided to me that Chris has a gay son.
His was the typical reaction by social liberals who have a family member or friend or business associate or even acquaintance who is gay.
The social libs not only delude themselves that homosexuality is perfectly “normal,” not only deceive themselves that homosexuality is perfectly acceptable to God, they also insist that those of us who are social conservatives, who are Bible-believing Christ followers, agree with them.
Otherwise, they slander us as “homophobes.”
But the word of God declares, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
Indeed, those of us who oppose homosexuality on Biblical grounds are very much like Lot, who lived in the ancient city of Sodom, who was visited by two angels of the Lord, whose home was surrounded by the men of the city who wanted to have to have their way, sexually, with his visitors.
“Please, my brethren,” Lot pleaded, “do not do so wickedly! See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish.”
Lot’s gay neighbors were offended. “He keeps acting as a judge,” they murmured among themselves.
They deluded themselves that evil was good, that darkness was light. Just like Chris, who hosted me for golf, who insisted his gay son is “normal;” that his son’s sexual preference for men was okay by God.
Well, I’ve never met Chris’ boy. But I think I actually love him more than his dad does. Because I don’t want him to befall the fate of the homosexuals of Sodom, on whom God rained brimstone and fire. They all died in their unrepentant sin and will spend eternity separated from God.
Indeed, even if I accepted the dubious, politically-motivated science that there is a supposed “gay gene,” that homosexuality is a supposed “immutable” human trait, I would continue to believe homosexuality a sin.
And to those attracted to men, like Chris’ son, I would urge them to “crucify the flesh” with its passions and lusts; to present their bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God. And I would encourage that they pray that God lead them not into temptation, but deliver them from their desire for “strange flesh.”
Those of us who are social conservatives, who are Christ followers, are not “homophobes.” We do not hate gays.
We speak the truth to them – in love – that homosexuality was and is and always will be a sin. And that the Bible warns that homosexuals shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
We also encourage them that the Lord desires that none would perish, but that all should come to repentance. And that if those who are gay confess their sins – rather than denying that homosexuality in a sin in the eyes of God – He is faithful and just to forgive them and cleanse them of all unrighteousness.
will have to one day bow the knee before Jesus and confess that He is Lord. The Lord won’t be impressed by his dancing or his Grammies. What will matter is if he is saved. Our first duty to everyone else is to make sure they’ve been warned and certainly not to feed their sinfulness.
As someone who lived in the gay lifestyle, I also have to say I know more people who you might say tried it briefly in their youth or flirted with the idea than who actually stayed with it, but for those who stayed, it’s a lot like being told by a bunch of drunk people to stop drinking yourself. Popular entertainment is like gasoline to the fire of our flesh, and it’s made Sodom seem upright next to how our society has become.
“Sad that this man’s son was indoctrinated to be a homo.
Bet the kid went to pulbik skool.”
1 Peter 5:8-11
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. 10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. 11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
We must pray for these people. Because what afflicts them, comes from the SAME enemy that afflicts US, which IS Satan.
We COULD continue to scoff at these sinners, but in return we will be the one’s scoffed at by the Lord for not praying for the sinner to be delivered from the darkness they are in.
The question posed was whether one would do business with someone who has a gay son, not with whether one would rent to an abortionist. Stay on point.
While not exactly on point, it is an extrapolation of author’s original concept that Christians should be informed of any moral pitfalls of people they meet or enter into business agreements.
With the fact being that Chris had a gay son and was himself an activist supporting objectionable issues such as gay marriage, gay adoption, gay employment protection and other assorted gay rights issues, then the writer of the article should have been immediately informed of Chris’ family issue.
What if you were to meet someone for business or personal reasons and entered into some type of relationship only to find out later that they in fact had gays in their family and advocated the gay lifestyle?
So you only do business with perfect people with perfect families? You require them to sign an affidavit to this fact?
Got it.
Is there a bisexual gene too?
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