Now We Don Our Gay Apparel

[dave c]

HEALING SHELTER MINISTRIES #129f Re-Written 28OCT08 http://groups.msn.com/AHealingShelter/welcome.msnw

Gatekeepers—Part Seven: Now We Don Our Gay Apparel

by rev dave c

Ten Commandments for the 21st Century: “There is no god, but us. Party hardy. Don’t miss The Next Big Thing. We’re open for business 24/7. Move the old folks out of the way. Abortion is a post-contraceptive. If it feels good, do it. Easy credit for bigger, better, brighter, and more, more, more. Truth is as you perceive it. My neighbor has one—so I need two. Go for it” (Exitus 20:666; Nu-Speak Standard Inversion). We live in an era of history when the 10 Commandments given to Moses by God (Exodus Chapter 20), the Bible generally, and the name of Jesus Christ specifically are held in contempt by too many of our Federal courts. Our U.S. Congress is continually faced with one bill or another that is intended to limit, if not eliminate, the open confession and practices of real Christianity. A good example are the so called “hate crime bills” continually being considered that would make it illegal for pastors (or anyone else, for that matter) to publicly read parts of Scripture that are deemed “discriminatory.” Five years ago a similar bill became the law of the land in Canada.

Romans 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith." 18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 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. 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen. 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 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. 28 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. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them (NIV).

The children of God are being told that we should (if not must) accept homosexuality as “normal” and the legally protected “civil right” of every individual. God has given every individual the power to choose how he/she spends life within the framework of when and where each is born and lives. If someone decides to practice homosexuality on a part time, or a full time, basis they certainly have the “right” to make that decision. That person/those persons, however, do not have the right to foist that practice upon me, or upon my children. My right to reject that lifestyle actually is guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. My Christian responsibility to the homosexual is to love the sinner and hate the sin in precisely the same manner as Christ loves me, but hates any, and all, sin in my life.

If I was Black, or Latino, or Asian, or Moslem, or Jewish, or Hindi—I would be having a fit over a group of people who choose to live out aberrant sexual proclivities by claiming legal privilege to practice and propagate that proclivity based upon their “minority civil rights.” To say that homosexuality equates to racial, ethnic, and faith issues is to say that child molesters, polygamists, rapists, and those who pursue bestiality should also be afforded legal protection and encouragement within our society because they constitute a minority. The very people who proudly stump in support of minority civil rights for homosexuals in our society are the same people who are destroying any and all real meaning for the phrase. These are the same people who scream it is a woman’s right to choose to murder the baby in her womb. In this, or any other country, it is pre-born babies who are the most helpless of all minorities. My friends, if they are to have a voice of protest for legal protection, it must be yours and mine.

There will always be “commandments” in effect within our culture as expressed by the laws of man. The question is: Do those laws reflect the commandments of God the Father—or do they reflect the commandments of the Father of All Liars? As the Christian basis for moral and ethical behavior is being systematically dismantled, we are witnessing a directly proportionate increase in practices and behaviors that destroy not only the individual physically, mentally, and spiritually, but they are eroding the very fiber of our nation collectively. God, grant us the courage to take a stand against all this evil. Amen.