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Issue Date: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 Issue: Volume 25, Issue 3 - December Last Update: Tuesday, December 26, 2006
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Is homosexuality right or wrong? According to the Bible, it’s wrong, and as a Christian it is my responsibility to share God’s truth. "We truly are not our own; we were bought with a price." (John 3:16).

Knowing this, we should not be cruel to anyone “different from us...including homosexuals.” We must respond to them in love, just as Christ did. Showing kindness, respect and love for others does not mean we have to agree with their lifestyle. But to share the truth, you have got to know the truth. God, the author of truth, has a few things to say about homosexual behavior. (I Corinthians 6:9-11, Leviticus 18:22, Romans 1:24-28, I Timothy 1:8-11, 2 Peter 2:6-10 and Jude 7.)

As a Christian, I have a standard that I must love by. Will I accept the so-called norms created by our society, or seek God and his word to guide me in my life?

We are led to believe by the homosexual community that you are born gay and it is not a choice. Let’s face it, science is meant to be fact...not theory!

Television glamorizes homosexuality, so when the media takes hold of false theories of genetic links to homosexuality and promotes it as science, people are misled and that is not right. Even if someday in the future, a genetic link could be proven, it wouldn’t suddenly make the behavior right or acceptable to God.

"God’s word still makes no provision for any type of sexual activity except that found within a heterosexual marriage between one man and one woman." (Mark 10:6-9).

Love is not enough to justify a relationship. An unmarried Christian couple may be very much in love, if they become sexually active before marriage, it will be sin, no matter how much love went into it. And it will still be wrong. A married man can fall deeply in love with a woman other than his wife, but that will never justify adultery. Likewise two men, or two women, may be in love. Their love may run deep; they may pledge fidelity and live as happily as any married heterosexual couple. Again that will not justify a homosexual relationship.

Scripture places boundaries on human relationships, offering no compromise, even if love is present and desires to cross those boundaries. It remains wrong no matter what degree of love goes into it. There is a place for love but never at the expense of truth.

Thankfully I live in the land of the free, where I still have the freedom of speech.

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