Posted on 05/06/2008 1:13:12 PM PDT by americaprd
What am I overlooking?
Romans 1:25-27 tells us that same-sex sexual relationships are a consequence of idolatry. In other words, such relationships are a consequence of disobeying the 1ST COMMANDMENT, a major aspect of the GREATEST COMMANDMENT, to love the jealous God with all your being.
Homosexuals need to keep in mind, however, that the good news of the gospel is not about how God despises same-sex sexual relationships. In fact, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 indicates that certain members of that church had been slaves to such relationships but had been cleansed in Jesus' name. So these former homosexuals had evidently repented and accepted God's grace to straighten their lives out.
John 3:16
Revelation 3:20
Onwards! Rump Riders!
Bingo.
Now all we have to (keep doing) is call them out on the real reason.
My dissertation advisor was a man of the left in most things, but on this issue, he would always ask the question: “Would you want to serve on a submarine with one [a gay man]?” This inevitably obliged the person suggesting that homosexuality would not create morale problems to change the subject, or stammer something incoherent.
Maybe he’ll raise the matter with Congressman Sestak sometime. (We both know his sister—she was the business administrator for the Penn math dept for years—and my advisor was a big-wig in the ‘reform’= anti-Rizzo Democrats in Philly.)
Good point. I was on anuclear sub for 6 years. The thought of an openly gay serving on board is/was abhorent to me.
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