Duck flap: Truth is 'hate' to those who hate Truth

As widely reported, Phil Robertson, the patriarch in A&E’s breakaway hit “Duck Dynasty,” recently ran a-fowl of homosexual pressure groups, ruffling “progressive” feathers throughout concentrated pockets of deep blue America. He remains suspended “indefinitely” for candidly summarizing, in a recent interview with GQ Magazine, the millennia-long “Love the sinner, hate the sin” biblical stance on homosexual practice.

“It seems like, to me, a vagina – as a man – would be more desirable than a man’s anus. That’s just me,” he bluntly opined. “I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes!”

Dudes worldwide – save self-styled “gays,” Pajama Boy and a few liberal men actually rumored to be heterosexual – responded: “Eww! I know, right.”

“You know what I’m saying?” continued Robertson. “But hey, sin: It’s not logical, my man. It’s just not logical,” he noted.

“The real “outrage” isn’t about homos being “sinful”, it was their fear of a collective gag reflex backlash over the cornhole comment.

They really don’t want people *thinking* about ‘what they do in the privacy of their own homes’.”

Honestly, if someone told me they had a gag reflex just from thinking about what I might be doing in the privacy of my own home, I probably wouldn’t respond positively.

Hey, Jeff, thanks for weighing in on this cultural battle.

I do have one question based upon your commentary:

You say that homosexuality is a sin like any other sexual act committed outside of a one man, one-woman marriage.

Excellent point.

Yet it raises a question in light of your Mormondom:

When your spiritual ancestors engaged in 19th & 20th century polygamy, were they, too committing such sinful sexual acts?

And, if so, have you ever weighed in against them?

If not, why not?

“Love the sinner, hate the sin.”

I can’t find this verse in the Bible.

God casts the unbelieving sinner into hell. Those who believe not the son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides (present tense) on him. (John 3:36). The wrath of God abides (dwells) on him right now. And when the unbeliever dies, he goes immediately into hell, a place of eternal fire and torment.

God sent his only begotten Son into the world to draw the sinner to belief. And to as many as receive him to these he gives the power to becomes sons of God, to those who believe on his name.

But there are some who God rejects outright. They are beyond salvation. Those who attribute the work of the holy spirit to demons have committed an unpardonable sin (Mark 3:29). Those who take the mark of the beast (Revelation 20:4) and those who add to or take away from the words of the revelation of Jesus Christ (Revelation 21:18,19), all these are damned .

In Romans 1 the Holy Spirit speaking through Paul reveals that the sodomite who rejects God is given over by God to a reprobate mind. These are the reprobate (rejected). If they are rejected by God, and it is God who does the drawing, what does that say about the possibility of subsequent conversion of the reprobate? Not possible.

In Chronicles 19:2 Jehu asks Jehosaphat “Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.” The answer: No, we should not love them that hate the LORD. Love some sinners, not those who hate the LORD.

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