Most readers
will probably be familiar with the old, but popular, game of “charades,” where
one person will act out a word or phrase (without speaking) and the others try
to guess what that word or phrase is. It
is a game about acting. Most of us enjoy some form of acting now and
then. But sometimes in real life people
will fool us by acting one way, but
their actions are hiding what’s really going on. Their lives are simply a charade - an act or
pretense.
We believe
that such is often the case in the life of the gay person. The gay crowd will often portray themselves as
enjoyable, well-adjusted, happy and fun-loving people, often the life of the
party. According to them, the future of
the homosexual lifestyle is bright. But Jason
Hill, author and Professor of Philosphy at De Paul University in Chicago,
portrays gay life in a different light.
Hill, himself gay, is an intelligent and observant man who has written
an article that is brutally honest about certain problems in the gay lifestyle. His rebuke begins with the title of the
article: “Loveless, Narcissistic Sex
Addicts: A Gay Man Critiques His
Community.” See the article here:
Even though
Hill believes that homosexuality is not immoral, he states:
“I also
believe marriage between two men in our contemporary culture is a colossal
waste of time, a hopeless undertaking doomed for failure, and, fundamentally, a
naive endeavor profoundly at odds with the hypersexual, broken, and ethically bankrupt
ethos [guiding beliefs] and nature of gay male culture.”
Since Hill
himself is gay, why would he say this if it weren’t true? He seems harsh when he says that the gay male
culture is “ethically bankrupt.” In the
article, he asserts that “most gay men are sexual addicts,” and that
“promiscuous sex and drug use… are an omnipresent force in every register,
crook, and cranny of the gay world.”
Hill continues:
“If
civilization were left exclusively in the hands of gay men and heterosexuals
were eliminated from the earth, it is not only obvious that the species would
die off – that is putatively obvious.
What is less obvious is this: we would live in a state of moral ferality” (Emphasis his) - [“ferality” means “relating
to, or resembling a wild beast.”] Compare 2 Peter 2:12 with his statement.
These are
not very flattering words for a gay man to use about his own community. But even further, he calls the gay culture
“nihilistic” (a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and
that existence is senseless and useless).
No wonder
that, according to Hill, there is so much “disproportionate drug use, sexual
promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases, depression, and suicides” within
this gay culture. He describes today’s
gay culture as an “age of loneliness” where they are trying to “fulfill an
obvious emptiness at the epicenter of such individuals’ souls.” Does this sound like happy, well-adjusted
people?
Hill is
brutally honest about the state of his community. He recognizes the charade. But why he still remains a gay man is a mystery after revealing all these things. According to his own assessment of his
community, there seems to be no happy ending for gays. Hopefully, the “crossroads” mentioned by
Jason Hill will cause him to look to God to escape this dead-end lifestyle and
the heartache it brings. The Corinthian church,
in the time of the apostle Paul, had members who had previously been involved
in wicked and vile sins (including fornication, idolatry, adultery, drunkeness
and homosexuality), but Paul said, “…and such WERE some of you” (1
Corinthians 6:9-11). You see,
Jesus Christ had changed their lives
and set them free. They were no longer trapped in these wicked and
self-destructive lifestyles.
By the way,
we ran across this interesting quote from a gay person:
“Marching in the gay pride Parade is less
exciting now that my parents support my sexual orientation.”
This is very
telling. Apparently, this person’s core
reason for marching in the gay pride parade was to rebel against his / her parents in the first place. But their excitement had deflated now that
the parents had approved. Perhaps the
parade seemed to ring hollow now. There
was no more resistance or reason to rebel now.
And rebellion it is. A person is not born gay. If he were, God
would have never called homosexuality a sin.
A person’s beliefs, opinions, sexual orientation, and feelings are
shaped by his experiences. He is not
born with sexual desires – that comes at puberty, not earlier, and it is
established over time.
But
throughout Scripture, homosexuality is clearly condemned, Old Testament and
New, alike (Genesis 18:20; Leviticus 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1
Timothy 1:9-10; Jude 7, etc.). When the Pharisees came and questioned Jesus
about divorce, He settled the issue by taking them back to God’s pattern at the
beginning and showed them His original plan for marriage in Adam and Eve (Matthew
19:3-6). This also answers the
homosexual issue, since this pattern clearly shows that God’s intention is for
one MAN and one WOMAN to be united in marriage.
Homosexuality has no place in God’s will, except that it be punished.
All sin is
evil, but Scripture seems to indicate that homosexuality (or society’s
acceptance of it) may very well be the “last straw” in a downward spiral of
that society. (Genesis 18:20; 19:13; Isaiah 3:9; Romans 1:18-27) There comes a time when God will no longer
tolerate certain evils in society.
The
conclusion is that no one has to be
homosexual. No one has to live the charade. If
you are one of those who are seemingly trapped in this lifestyle, there is only
one way out… you must trust in the person of Jesus Christ and in His work on
the cross, where He paid the penalty for every single sin. He will change your heart and make you free
indeed (John 8:32).
See also
this article for some interesting statistics on the children of gay parents:
