Posted on 09/28/2014 6:45:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
This jaw-dropping revelation is based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest assessment of the homosexual lifestyle. The WSJ report further warns: “Gay and bisexual men represent an estimated 2 percent of the U.S. population but more than half of all people living with HIV and 66 percent of new HIV infections. They are the only population group in the United States for which HIV infections are rising.”
What do you say of an adult or adults who, for selfish political reasons, encourage sexually confused children to adopt a sex-centric identity and lifestyle laced with a 50-50 chance of HIV infection? I’d say they’re guilty of child abuse. Adults are supposed to protect children from touching the red-hot stove, not push their face down on it.
This is true hate.
Scripture admonishes, “The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). Unnatural behaviors beget natural consequences. It is hateful to promote a sin-centered lifestyle to children, to anyone for that matter, which leads to disease, death and, unless repented of, eternal separation from God.
It bears repeating: “[H]alf of all gay and bisexual men will be HIV-positive by age 50.”
The wages of sin is death.
Yet in today’s upside-down world it is we who are disingenuously accused of “hate” – those of us who remain compassionate and bold enough to warn our fellow fallen human beings of the spiritual, emotional and, yes, even the physical death that comes as a natural consequence of unnatural behaviors. A toxic cloud of political correctness distorts reality, choking off any honest appraisal of these self-destructive sexual behaviors. We truly live in a dark age that calls evil good and good evil.
Homosexual conduct is always sin. It always has been. It always will be. It is never good, healthy, normal or natural.
The wages of sin is death.
I’m honored to say that I’m one of those “haters” called by God to sound the alarm. While folks do send me positive and encouraging notes on a regular basis, I likewise receive a steady stream of hate mail – chiefly when I write (or speak) on the issues of marriage, God’s moral law and His natural order for human sexuality.
While the positive correspondence is always heartening, it is, believe it or not, the nasty stuff – the uglier the better – that especially lifts my spirits. Christ’s promises are true: “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake” (Matthew 5:11).
When God calls you to be an instrument of His truth, the biblical harmonies you play will often strike sour with those in rebellion against Him, sending them into blind rage and deep denial. This is a spiritual battle old as time itself. It is between good and evil. It is sublimely humbling to be used of God in this way. All we, all you, as faithful Christians can do is to speak truth in love and pray that those truths plant a seed that bears fruit in the hardened hearts of lost souls.
I have seen this happen many times.
One example occurred in October of 2009. I was keynoting a fundraiser for the pro-family group “Americans for Truth About Homosexuality” (AFTAH) in suburban Chicago.
Outside the event, and watched closely by police, was a mob of angry “LGBT” protesters. A young woman who claimed to be with the press was present at the banquet. It was quickly discovered that she was actually with the mob outside and had somehow managed to sneak in. Rather than kick her out, Peter LaBarbera, founder of Americans for Truth, asked her to stay and join us for the banquet. He requested only that she put away her video camera, which she did.
This young woman, who identified as a lesbian, sat at a table with some of the most loving and godly women I know. They showed her the love of Christ. Among them was Sandy Rios, my dear friend, Fox News contributor and AFR talk radio host.
After I gave my remarks, this young lady – we’ll call her Marie to protect her from being hanged for high treason by the “equality” crowd – rushed over to me with tears in her eyes. “They lied!” she exclaimed of the protest organizers outside. “You don’t hate us. You don’t hate me. You really do care. And you’re funny!” she added of some of the humor I typically, though not always successfully, weave into my writing and speaking.
“I’ll admit it,” she continued. “What you said was hard to hear. But they lied to me. You don’t hate anyone.”
A number of us then prayed for this priceless daughter of God the Father. She stayed around and visited with us until well after the event ended. Sandy Rios and I then walked her out, where we were greeted with scowls and profanity-laden taunts by the activists outside.
“What are you doing with them!” demanded one of the protesters of our new friend. To even my surprise, she ignored them, reached over and gave me a big hug.
She saw that we loved her. She saw that Christ, in us, loved her. He died for our sins, her sins, and for the sins of each of her fellow protesters.
We learned that her friends, her ride home, had abandoned her and, as I recall, Sandy drove her home that night, continuing to minister to her along the way and for some time thereafter.
Yes, they lied. We don’t hate you.
This is the true face of the vast majority of so-called “anti-gay” Christians. This story is but a microcosm for the larger movement.
It is truth.
And it is love.
But sadly, truth is hate to those who hate truth.
To you homosexual activists, I say this: We will not be daunted. We will not be intimidated. We will never quit.
We do this in obedience to the Holy Spirit.
Like He did before us, we are going to love you.
But, as did He, we are also going to tell you the truth.
And we’re going to do it whether you like it or not.
It is ridiculous. Tell your niece, “You feel like you, and you are a girl. Therefore, you feel like a girl. Anyone who tells you that a girl can’t be like you is not your friend.”
Maybe she could go back, if she chose to.
That's Satan's other ploy--to convince people who have taken the wrong path that they can't go back.
Human sexuality is complicated. To start with, human determination of sexuality is far more complex than that of other mammals, even though the same biological rules apply.
That is, about halfway through gestation, a normal male mammal fetus excretes a small amount of testosterone from its testes, that travels to its brain and tells it, it is a “male” brain. If that testosterone does not arrive, the brain is by default “female”.
However, this hormone can be chemically blocked, or artificially added. This means the animals genitalia will be of one sex, but its brain will tell it that it is of the other sex.
This is enough to determine sexuality in animals, BUT NOT PEOPLE. A boy with this condition may be effeminate, but the odds are he will be heterosexual, to the typical ratio, that is, a 2% or less chance of being a homosexual. Likewise, a girl with this condition may be a “tomboy”, but she will also likely be only attracted to men.
Scientists in the 1960s, and then again in the 1980s, did extensive animal experiments with this, even to the point of giving only one hemisphere of a fetus’ brain testosterone, so when it grew up it exhibited bisexual mating behavior.
So, where does this leave us?
Well, it’s a first step. But the next step is a scary one.
There are many chemicals, natural and artificial, that can mimic testosterone or block it. And this was where the research both times went.
Farmers have long used plant estrogen to stimulate growth and increase yield, and there was concern that it could block testosterone in male fetuses. This didn’t prove to be the case. Of greater concern are hormonal replacement drugs that are excreted in urine, which are then recycled as effluent and reused as drinking water, since water filters do not remove the hormone from water.
In any event, there hasn’t been a marked increase in effeminate boys or tomboy girls, but there are, quite likely naturally, cross gender children.
In the case of true hermaphrodites, with both male and female genitalia, there is no argument that surgery is appropriate to remove one or the other, as having extra can be extremely, medically bad as they grow older.
But when it is purely psychological, especially before puberty, there is a dilemma. A child with an opposite gender brain can be absolutely miserable, and once they reach puberty, frequently suicidal.
In such cases, there is usually no evidence of parental abuse or coercion, except to make the child conform to their physical gender. Psychologically, many such cases are so severe that gender reassignment surgery seems to be the only help available.
It means the child will be sterile, and for the rest of their life will have to take hormonal replacements, but for most of them, that is an easy choice compared to a lifetime of agony.
Even Saudi Arabia now agrees, that after extensive analysis and medical opinion, that such surgery should be permitted.
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good idea
That is so sad. It used to be that girls had the freedom to be tomboys. Now, if a girl shows tomboyish behavior, she is likely to be pushed towards sexual deviancy by "enlightened" liberals. That is child abuse.
My thoughts as well. Grew up with quite a few tomboys and by Jr High they turned into girly girls. No such thing anymore. Sad.
And we would want them to be sated if we could have them!
*scratches head*
“My daughter told me a kid in her high school, a girl, now ids as a boy”
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How do she and the other kids feel about this ?
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Yes, and a good portion of the other half are the innocent infected newborns who begin and will end life with AIDS acquired in the womb.
Just goofin’ with you. Re the topic of lesbians.
Getting the lead balloon of humor out of the way on a Sunday morning I guess. Sorry.
Yowsa!
This is tough ground to cover.
LGBT people have been hurt in real and imagined ways and I think I understand that now more than ever.
Heck, when I was teenager I was a country music fan, but when I heard Janis Ian singing “At Seventeen” there was an emotional connection with the drunk and crazy person I was, isolated socially from the opposite sex.
The gays and lesbians are my brothers and sisters with whom I feel kinship, but many are being used by the political machine and militant groups becoming modern day brownshirted stormtroopers.
Deeply hurting people are out to hurt others and get payback for wrongs, real or imagined.
A good number of LGBT people have been victims of sexual abuse as children. They are emotionally wounded people for whom those who claim to follow God must show more of GOD to.
There’s a need for LOVE in its real spiritual meaning to be shown here, along with a line to be drawn concerning what the Constitution says in its First Amendment.
Gay marriage, for instance, cannot become the stepping stone to a totalitarian society which I sincerely believe is the intent of those pushing it.
Already the hounding of people out of business with intimidation tactics over gay marriage as shown in the case of Brendan Eich resembles the circumstances of Jews in 1933 Germany.
Followers of God do need to start living as if they are followers of GOD.
I can’t do that for others, I can only do it for myself.
Excellent.
If one were to simply & logically examine "gender identity", they would find the notion silly. To declare - as a man: "I feel like a woman", is non-nonsensical in that I don't know what a woman feels like.
I appreciate your response; it puts a bow on the whole argument.
Which is not to say that it isn't understandable. Like catalysts in a series of chemical reactions, there are elements only understandable through the Hebrew, and then one must obey them in full to come to understanding. At that point, it becomes mind-blowing.
Many in the LGBT movement are being used and not just politically. When the bible speaks of fighting principalities and powers that is not just some fairytale but a reality. The LGBT movement represents a major assault not just in the seen world but also the unseen. It represents not just physical corruption but spiritual and the very corruption of reason. Outside of the very serious physical consequences stop for a moment to think about the consequences of believing the lgbt propaganda.
This propaganda represents a deconstruction of freewill. The foundation of the United States is built on freewill. The concept of self determination is central without which liberty is a naïve fiction. The core of the LGBT argument is now firmly rooted in the idea that people do not have a choice that they are “born that way” which indicates that if you have sexual desires and attractions that it is not reasonable to expect that they be denied no matter the physical cost or ridiculousness. This idea is not only unreasoned but it is also very dangerous and has further implications which can be used to deconstruct good society further and even the law. How can a rapist be held responsible for his natural desires? How can infidelity be condemned when it is just natural? Already there are very real efforts to soften stances towards pedophiles based on these very arguments. Once free will is no longer assumed the whole of our liberties are threatened and this of course is the chief justification for socialism. How can one not be a socialist if free will doesn’t exist and if people can’t really be expected to rise and better themselves?
This is also a direct attack on the idea of salvation. We already see churches and even some pastors embracing the decidedly non-biblical position of homosexual acceptance and gay marriage. This is with total disregard to the teachings of Christ concerning cleaving to one’s wife and a total disregard the biblical prohibitions towards the behavior. It also totally ignores the biblical prohibitions towards proud sin. What we end up with is a Christianity that means nothing. While I do see Jesus and the crucifixion as the supreme expression of Gods love I can not help but cringe when I hear a person say “God is love”. Now if I knew they meant in saying that “real love” which includes the full spectrum of protection, compassion, grace, and discipline which is what we find in the Bible then I’d not have such a reaction. The problem is that in most cases its clear that the person means “modern love” the no consequences, no regrets, fleeting, pleasant feeling, do what you like, smiling like your high love. Its a caricature of Gods love. Just as SSM marriage is caricature of Gods marriage. This modern version of Jesus who is more like a friend with benefits (FWB) than the Son of God.
She would have had to lose 100+ pounds first. Maybe the task was just more than she could do.
Credit goes to Mrs. Don-o. She observed that a girl does not know what it feels like to be a boy: she only knows what it feels like to be herself. Someone else, probably an adult, has told her that her feelings and thoughts, her "inside," is a boy's, rather than simply herself.
As others have remarked above, this is abusive.
Your post 23 is utter pseudoscientific nonsense.
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