Homosexuality

"The fact that we are even in the same genus makes me ashamed to call myself "homo"" Prof. Farnsworth - Futurama

I hope no one took offense to that; I figured we needed a good joke to lighten everyone up as this will likely prove very unpopular. Popularity, though, does not decide truth, nor do I. Therefore my own views, whatever they may be, must be put away, and God’s Word come first. It has been asked (by numerous people in numerous ways) what is the “Christian view on homosexuality?” Well, aside from simply quoting scripture, which we should do, but would probably make us look like we-dislike-anyone-different-Bible-thumpers, we would like to give a few thoughts (we hope are worthy of your consideration).

Homosexual Lifestyle and Christianity

First, it needs be noted that we do not condemn anyone for homosexuality, so please do not read this as an angry rant against homosexual behavior. However we cannot condone it either. What we can do is love and accept everyone equally, despise and repent from every sin equally. We love you no less, no more than anyone else; we are all in the same boat. All fallen, all sinful.

That said, it is frightfully hard for us humans to work out this thing called sexuality in all its forms of subtle interest and raging libidos. Give an inch, it takes a mile; try to reign it in, it might pull you down like an anchor dropped through the center of a boat. In short, for many of us our sexuality is monstrously and disastrously confusing. For some it is not (however those people are confused as to why others are confused – so, at least in part, it seems we are all a little confused.) God is fair though, fear not; He knows what shackles may bind our conscience and what effects the Fall may have had on our particular make up. I speak not on what “nature” should tell us, for “nature” may mean, either of two things: that which our body parts show to be seemingly simple Tab-A-fits-n-Tab-B (sorry if that is crude, no way to say it euphemistically) as well as that to which our inner emotion, rational, instinctive and attractive desires point us. Our sexuality is never so easy, nor is the position that argues we are either homosexual or heterosexual. That is fallacious bifurcation (because some are (ahem) “bi.”) Humans are a mass of nerves and issues, desires and longings that are confounding for the best of us (but who is judging “best?”)

Therefore, speaking on purely “Christian” terms, there is no more wrong in the homosexual lifestyle than in, say, a fully heterosexual person who fulfills his/her every sexual desire for everyone of the opposite sex. That loose person doesn’t need a member of the opposite sex, simply the body parts the opposite sex is defined by. He doesn’t seek a woman, only the thing that makes her woman. It is to look on another human as mere meat and ignore the divine image in which they are made.

There are many arguments for homosexual partnerships and lifestyles, we are aware, but they all cannot stand for long. For example, one argument says that heterosexual promiscuity is denounced by Jesus because it denies “love” whereas a homosexual couple’s relationship is argued to be founded solely on love and God is love, therefore it cannot be wrong. However that argument denies many (if not all) other qualifications that go into a Judeo/Christian martial union as well as God’s other defining attributes. Love is important, indeed foremost, but to deny fidelity, mercy, justice, honor, purpose and diversification denies His purpose for making us two separate creatures. There are aspects of a relationship that can only be experienced when paired to our biological counterpart, for we are vastly different beings yet the same. Man is made in God’s image; woman is not made in Man’s image, but God’s as well, therefore there are facets of God’s wonder we will never begin to comprehend – important facets – should we create a homosexual joining. And, of course, denying any of God’s attributes is to make a god in our image, not His. We need the opposite sex, no matter what Bono says of women and men, fish and bicycles.

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