Since everyone else is talking about the recent rulings in favor of gay marriage in the Supreme Court, I figured it was time that I did as well. (I suspect the eye rolling and sighs of exasperation are starting up already... oh... just wait.... )
I think most of my family and friends know where I stand on the issues of gay marriage and homosexuality in general. I don't speak up a lot on the issue as I try to keep the things I talk about online and publicly very general and non-controversial. And there are people that I know personally who practice this lifestyle. "To each their own." But it still doesn't change the fact that homosexuality is a sin, even though this goes against pop culture philosophy today.
"As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it also be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man." If this isn't the truth of our time, I don't know what is! Things that used to be unacceptable to even non-Christian society; acts committed behind closed doors and in the dark and things we didn't speak of 75 years ago are practiced openly in the streets today and lauded as acceptable and even brave behavior. Should I change what I KNOW to be true, just because the world around me is foolishly changing? Should I accept things that I know dishonor God just because people I know personally are practicing them and living these lifestyles? Absolutely not! Only a coward abandons their beliefs to keep their peers happy. And I am MANY things, but one thing I am NOT is a coward!
So how do we, who are Bible believing Christians and who have traded places with the homosexuals and have now become the minority, behave ourselves in such times? First of all, you do not hate the person - you hate the sin. There is a fine line in this area and many people have crossed the line over into all out hatred against the people and not hatred against the sin itself. This is VERY important! People like Westboro Baptist Church - A CULT - have given good Christian people a bad name in this area in the ridiculous and WRONG ways they handle our modern day issues. I think people like that ought to be locked up and never see the light of day again.
I came across a post by Mike Huckabee - of all people - whom I'm not a big fan of. But what he said phrases exactly what I know in my heart to be true on the issue of gay marriage and homosexuality. And so there's no confusion to my friends and family where I stand on this issue, I felt it necessary to post this blog and also to paste his quote here.
"As much as I’d love to be loved and admired by all, I can’t defy the definition of marriage any more than I can defy the law of gravity. God created both and at the point I decided to follow Him in my Christian commitment, my life nor its rules belong to me any more. As for the argument that it’s a matter of equality, let me gently point out that the issue is not equality, but sameness. Equality means intrinsic worth and value and would guarantee one’s right to vote, rent or buy a house, go to school, or receive medical care. But equality of worth doesn’t create sameness. There are differences between men and women, and votes of Congress nor the Extreme Court can change that. After 39 years of marriage, I won’t pretend that I understand women, but I know there’s a difference. Courts said in 1857 that black people weren’t fully human and they were wrong. They said in 1962 that we couldn’t pray in school and they were wrong. In 1973, they said unborn children were disposable and expendable, and 56 million dead children later, they were wrong. And this week, for those of us who believe God created male and female, and who believe what Jesus said that a man shall leave his father and mother and a woman shall leave her home and the two will become one flesh, they were wrong again." ~ Mike Huckabee
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