Regarding Gay Being The New Black

While watching CNN recently and more specifically the Larry King show, Joy Behar of The View who was sitting in for Larry King that night asked a question. She asked, " is gay the new black". This question was raised in response to the defeat of California's Proposition 8 which made gay marriages in the state of California illegal.

The question alludes to the mistaken notion that homosexuality is an acceptable lifestyle choice and that the defeat of this piece of legislation occurred out of blind hatred. This question also seeks to equate the gay rights movement with the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Although they may look very similar on the surface, they are in fact polar opposites.

While it is true that many homosexuals have been physically abused, ostracized, persecuted and even killed simply because of their sexual orientation, it is unfair and even an insult to equate the fight to openly live such a vile and unnatural lifestyle with a movement that fought for the right of a people to merely exist in a country that kidnapped them from their homeland and brutally enslaved them.

To equate the gay rights movement with the civil rights movement of the1960s is simply appalling. It is also extremely naive to think that because a black man is now President for the first time in the nation's history our struggle as a people is over. Surely the burden is lighter, but how can four years or possibly eight years with an African-American president at the helm undo more than two hundred years of injustice and oppression.

Please understand and know that I don't for a moment seek to antagonize anyone or that I condone violence against our gay brothers and sisters. I do not condone violence of any kind against gays or anyone else. Nor do I believe it to be right for my Christian brothers and sisters to hatefully and venomously condemn our gay brothers and sisters under the guise of doing God's will.

I do however believe as scripture says, "...neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man" 1 Cor.__ 11:9 I also believe that marriage one the most sacred of all institutions and the very first institution created and ordained by God himself was and is intended to be a divine union between a man and a woman regardless of their race. To this end scripture is clear, "Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled; but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge." __ Heb. 13:4 Careful study of this passage of scripture reveals that it is speaking to the sanctity of marriage and the marital bed and that all sexual immorality will be judged by God.

Let's face it, everyone knows there is a God and that his word ( the Bible) is true. Man's arrogant and foolish refusal to acknowledge him can not negate the fact that he is. It is written, " For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities -- his eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." ___ Rom. 1:20

It is also written that "... light has come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil." __Jn. 3:19 Because men would rather believe a lie than accept the truth of God, it is written, " God gave them over to shameful lust. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done." __ Rom. 1:26-28

To those in the homosexual community who would hide behind the most commonly misused passage of scripture in Matthew 7 1-5, Our Lord is not issuing a blanket statement against all critical thinkig, but a call to be discerning rather than negative. It is a warning to us all against the kind of hypocritical, judgmental attitude that tears others down in order to lift oneself up.

Homosexuality is nothing more than a counterfeit originating in the celestial and sinfully sick, diabolical mind of that old deceiver. It is a powerful weapon designed to disrupt, ensnare, mislead and ultimately destroy. It is a cheap knock off that hardly resembles the original.

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