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Do Christians ‘Obsess’ about Homosexuality? 7/26/2004 Commentary: If so, there are good reasons for enhanced concern.
A reader raised a valid complaint about my recent column that pointed out the U.S. Embassy had suggested Christians who protested a gay cruise ship arriving in the Bahamas were denying homosexuals the right to go where they want in “peace.”
The reader didn’t dispute the facts, but did complain that Christians are disproportionately concerned with homosexuality, expressing less righteous indignation for other sins like pornography and adultery.
It’s true that Christians may be disproportionately bothered by homosexuality. But there are good reasons for that.
Homosexuality may be no more vile in God's eyes than pornography, adultery or any other sexual sin.
But as evil as those other sins are, their practitioners don't pose the overt threat to our society that the homosexual agenda does. No one insists on teaching 5-year-olds that adultery is just another lifestyle. No one demands that unrepentant adulterers be ordained. No one threatens legal actions against people who call adultery a sin.
I don't know any Christians who engage in those other sins who have the audacity to claim that what they do is not sinful. Homosexuals claim what they do is not sinful.
Neither do I know of any who engage in adultery and insist on normalizing the behavior for society, or recognizing it as a constitutional right. Homosexuals insist their behavior is normal, and that they have a constitutional right to engage in it.
Neither do I know of any other sinners who seriously demand that Christians refrain from criticizing their behavior, or who threaten to impose laws that would imprison or fine Christians who do criticize the behavior. Homosexuals aggressively pursue so-called "hate laws" that would criminalize Christian beliefs. This is not paranoia. These laws already exist in many jurisdictions, and in other countries have resulted in fines and jail sentences for merely preaching against homosexuality, even from the pulpit.
Denying the need for repentance
It is one thing to sin. We all do. Christians, however, repent, seek forgiveness and try to do as the Lord commands, "Go and sin no more."
It is quite another thing to sin and then claim it is not a sin. This is to be willfully unrepentant, compounding the original sin.
It is another thing yet to sin and then persecute those who call it a sin. This is even more egregious, compounding yet again the willful unrepentance.
The homosexual movement seeks to make what is an abomination in God's eyes (you can look it up, it's in the Bible) into a right that increasingly cannot even be spoken against.
There is little else that has turned morality on its head in our society to the degree that homosexuality has. The homosexual agenda has made giant strides in normalizing perversity. Even abortionists, who maintain that killing innocent babies in the womb also is normative behavior and constitutionally protected, at least haven't yet threatened to imprison or fine Christians who call their sin a sin.
I pray that those who find Christians’ complaints about homosexuality to be excessive will give this matter prayerful thought. The Lord tells us that we are either with Him or against Him. (Matthew 12:30)
He isn't kidding.
Excusing and normalizing sin certainly is not being with Him.
And excusing or condescendingly approving of another's sinful behavior is certainly not what Jesus meant when He said we must love our neighbor. If we love our neighbor, the last thing we should want is to encourage him to persist in unrepentant behavior that will send him directly to hell for eternity.
Mark Landsbaum is a Christian freelance writer, member of the Evangelical Press Association and former award-winning Los Angeles Times writer from Diamond Bar, California. He writes periodically for Concerned Women for America’s Culture & Family Institute.
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