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Homosexuality: For Christians, There Is No Debate
Obama’s recent announcement in favor of same-sex marriage caused a flurry of articles and blog posts on the subject across the reformed blogosphere.
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why.
It’s almost as if the verdict among Christians on homosexuality is still out and we’re all in the courtroom hallway waiting to be told what to think. Why is that? Has the Bible not made a ruling already?
Justin Taylor of the Gospel Coalition writes a post on A Proposed Compromise on the Same-Sex Marriage Debate where he quotes an article beginning with this:
A recent compromise on the same-sex ‘marriage’ debate granted too much to revisionists and too little to traditionalists. A better compromise will respect the societal importance of marriage while also providing for the real needs of domestic partners.
The real needs of domestic partners? And what is Justin’s thinking on the idea?
“It is unlikely to happen, but I think it’s an interesting idea to have on the table.”
Have mercy. Interesting it is not. Meeting the needs of ‘domestic partners’ is not anywhere on the radar for the Christian outside of goodwill and a clear proclamation of the Gospel with an emphasis on repentance and submission to the sovereignty of the Lord.
Seriously folks, I do not want to come across as crass or harsh in anyway, but let’s face it, for the Christian, there is no debate or controversy when it comes to homosexuality. There just isn’t. So, why continue writing articles and blog posts as if there are?
And Justin Taylor and TGC are not the only ones who framed ‘the discussion’ in that manner. There are dozens and dozens of articles across the net who’ve posited the topic in the same form – as a controversy, or debate.
Homosexuality, like any other sin, is damnable. It is an affront to God and His Church. For a Christian, it is not an ongoing debate or controversy, it is a biblically settled issue, one with eternal consequences. So why do we not present it in that same light?
It seems to me that the real problem in hashing out this topic is that many within the Church are refusing – and for political/career/notoriety’s sake – to take a solid, immovable stand condemning homosexuality altogether.
To quote Charles Barkley, “I could be wrong, but I doubt it.”
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I believe that this is an issue whereby the church has been mesmerised by the arguments of equality and justice, and in the process , have ignored the unambiguos direction of scripture , that homosexuality is an abomination . Sadly , christians are unable or unwilling to call out sin in their own lives, leave alone judging what is sinful in others. We may well be there already , but if not , the gospel of no offence looms large.
That I now pay about 40 times more for gas than the 10 cents a gallon in the 60′s during the “gas wars” in Texas – does not suprise me. That kids wear their pants with their funky rears hanging out doesnt much suprise me – every generation of kids tend to find new ways to be obnoxous. That 110 pound girls want to look like the Illustrated Man or a salty 33 year old Navy boatswain mates appalls me, but does not shock me because I understand the lemming factor. (How is it the pagans think Christians are such followers? We have nothing on them..) But one thing the culture has been drawn to like a dopey moth to a death ray is still makes me scratch my head: this unbridled love for all things homosexual. And I confess, I am constantly suprised as to both how enboldened these wicked folk are and how many defenders they have among the morally and ethically dead “American Idol” generation. Need I say – this is NOT the world I grew up in.
Homosexuality is a violation of God’s established moral order. It is a violation of one of the most basic and fundamental creation truths: that men and women were meant for one another in marriage and sexual union. This propensity of our society to slip it’s hands into the hands of the homosexual movement and go skipping off into the sunset is particuarily wicked because it does violence to this most clear and certain of God’s created order. It is a total and complete assualt by a wicked world on the moral reign of their Creator. Folks, unless God spares us, it’s going to get worse…perhaps much worse. Our society is not going to let you be passive about this. You are going to be expected to be on board with “homosexual marriage,” “homosexual adoption,” and pretty much anything that can accept the word “homosexual” as an adjective.
If you are one of these foolish, foolish Christians who are hasty to proclaim in your nasal, weasel voice: “but homosexuality is just a sin like any other sin and all sins are all the same,” I can only say you are very much part of the problem. Sodom was not destroyed for inhospitality, non-paid parking tickets or nose picking. It was a cesspool of homosexual depravity, and we are in equally bad standing today in our culture… if not worse, given the iight we have had and ignored.
Joel is correct. There is no ambiguity in Scripture. It is settled. God have mercy on our children and grandchildren. A very very dark world seems to be dawning.
sigh and gag. Was it Phil Johnson who said The Gospel Coalition was more focused on coalition than the gospel? He was spot on. Taylor needs to be rebuked by the board of directors of TGC for posting that with the comments he made. NO sin should be coddled by Christians; no matter the cry of the culture.
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