America's Love Affair with Homosexuality
"Modern man's love affair with the homosexual is really a hatred of God and a love affair with himself." R.J. Rushdoony (1)
A nation full of professed Christians continues to pursue its love affair with homosexuality, with help from church, state, and assorted "experts." This week the romance got big boosts from the Episcopal Church U.S.A., a handful of Congressmen, and the usual panderers among the sciences.
As reported by Reuters (Monday, June 19), the newly-elected leader of the ECUSA parted company with God's word by proclaiming that homosexual behavior is not a sin, contrary to everything said about it in the Bible. Bishop Katharine Jefforts Shori, the first woman ever elected to head the denomination, said, "God creates us with different gifts... Some people come into this world with affections ordered toward other people of the same gender."
Uh-huh. And others come into this world with affections ordered toward children, animals, their own siblings, other people's wives or husbands, or lots of sex partners at the same time but no one in particular. Why does the bishop grant a "Get Out of Hell Free" card only to homosexuals? Or does she plan, at some future time, to bless others kinds of strangely "ordered" affections?
What she's really saying as that whatever "affection" we are "ordered" with when we're born is not our fault, it's what's only natural for us, and therefore it's good. Rushdoony identified this kind of thinking long ago as a pornographic worldview, pioneered by the Marquis de Sade: "In a purely naturalistic world, de Sade saw everything natural as normative. What Christianity termed fallen and depraved, he proclaimed ideal." (2)
While the bishop was rejecting the Bible's teachings on sodomy, an alliance of gay activists, liberal politicians, and "experts" took the Pentagon to task for listing homosexuality as a mental disorder and grounds for dismissal from military service, as reported June 20 by the Associated Press.
Nine Congressmen fired off an angry letter to the Dept. of Defense, demanding an overhaul of its policies on homosexuality. They got backup from the American Psychiatric Assn., whose president said "scientific and medical evidence," and all the findings of all the scientific "experts," require that homosexuality be "declassified" as a mental disorder--a step taken by the APA in 1973. No mention was made of the riotous demonstrations by gay activists that kept breaking up APA meetings until the activists got their way. If you want to call it "science," you can. We call it intimidation.
Why this incessant campaign to force society to embrace sodomy as morally, culturally, and medically acceptable? Why has America let it go as far as it has?
We find the explanation in the Bible, in Chapter 1 of Paul's Epistle to the Romans: a fascination with aberrant sex is only the symptom of a deeper spiritual illness. Discussing Romans 1, Rushdoony wrote:
"Man-centered worship, Paul says, leads to idolatry (which can mean worshipping graven images, or enthroning our own will, tastes, and wants as supreme). Such worship also leads to moral degeneracy which culminates in homosexuality..." (3)
America has been worshipping itself for many decades, while maintaining a facade of Christianity: and this is what has left us defenseless against the march of sodomy. The Bible says God's law is holy, and just, and good; but we say man's nature, man's worldly wisdom, man's money and machinery, man's lofty intentions, and man's laws are holy, and just, and good.
Apostasy is its own punishment. Having rejected the Creator and given our worship to created things, we have no God to turn to when our inventions fail us. Our own ideology of human moral sovereignty has landed us in the absurd position of trying to justify sodomy in the age of AIDS.
We need God's laws. We can't live coherent lives without them, let alone carry on a civilization. Someday, everyone will see that this is true.
1. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law, Vol. III, pg. 80 (Ross House Books, Vallecito, CA: 1999)
2. Rushdoony, Noble Savages, pg. iii (Ross House Books, Vallecito, CA: 2005 reprint)
3. Rushdoony, Leviticus, pg. 185 (Ross House Books, Vallecito, CA: 2005)
A nation full of professed Christians continues to pursue its love affair with homosexuality, with help from church, state, and assorted "experts." This week the romance got big boosts from the Episcopal Church U.S.A., a handful of Congressmen, and the usual panderers among the sciences.
As reported by Reuters (Monday, June 19), the newly-elected leader of the ECUSA parted company with God's word by proclaiming that homosexual behavior is not a sin, contrary to everything said about it in the Bible. Bishop Katharine Jefforts Shori, the first woman ever elected to head the denomination, said, "God creates us with different gifts... Some people come into this world with affections ordered toward other people of the same gender."
Uh-huh. And others come into this world with affections ordered toward children, animals, their own siblings, other people's wives or husbands, or lots of sex partners at the same time but no one in particular. Why does the bishop grant a "Get Out of Hell Free" card only to homosexuals? Or does she plan, at some future time, to bless others kinds of strangely "ordered" affections?
What she's really saying as that whatever "affection" we are "ordered" with when we're born is not our fault, it's what's only natural for us, and therefore it's good. Rushdoony identified this kind of thinking long ago as a pornographic worldview, pioneered by the Marquis de Sade: "In a purely naturalistic world, de Sade saw everything natural as normative. What Christianity termed fallen and depraved, he proclaimed ideal." (2)
While the bishop was rejecting the Bible's teachings on sodomy, an alliance of gay activists, liberal politicians, and "experts" took the Pentagon to task for listing homosexuality as a mental disorder and grounds for dismissal from military service, as reported June 20 by the Associated Press.
Nine Congressmen fired off an angry letter to the Dept. of Defense, demanding an overhaul of its policies on homosexuality. They got backup from the American Psychiatric Assn., whose president said "scientific and medical evidence," and all the findings of all the scientific "experts," require that homosexuality be "declassified" as a mental disorder--a step taken by the APA in 1973. No mention was made of the riotous demonstrations by gay activists that kept breaking up APA meetings until the activists got their way. If you want to call it "science," you can. We call it intimidation.
Why this incessant campaign to force society to embrace sodomy as morally, culturally, and medically acceptable? Why has America let it go as far as it has?
We find the explanation in the Bible, in Chapter 1 of Paul's Epistle to the Romans: a fascination with aberrant sex is only the symptom of a deeper spiritual illness. Discussing Romans 1, Rushdoony wrote:
"Man-centered worship, Paul says, leads to idolatry (which can mean worshipping graven images, or enthroning our own will, tastes, and wants as supreme). Such worship also leads to moral degeneracy which culminates in homosexuality..." (3)
America has been worshipping itself for many decades, while maintaining a facade of Christianity: and this is what has left us defenseless against the march of sodomy. The Bible says God's law is holy, and just, and good; but we say man's nature, man's worldly wisdom, man's money and machinery, man's lofty intentions, and man's laws are holy, and just, and good.
Apostasy is its own punishment. Having rejected the Creator and given our worship to created things, we have no God to turn to when our inventions fail us. Our own ideology of human moral sovereignty has landed us in the absurd position of trying to justify sodomy in the age of AIDS.
We need God's laws. We can't live coherent lives without them, let alone carry on a civilization. Someday, everyone will see that this is true.
1. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law, Vol. III, pg. 80 (Ross House Books, Vallecito, CA: 1999)
2. Rushdoony, Noble Savages, pg. iii (Ross House Books, Vallecito, CA: 2005 reprint)
3. Rushdoony, Leviticus, pg. 185 (Ross House Books, Vallecito, CA: 2005)
