Homosexuality

Leviticus 18:22 (homosexuality)

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Romans 1:26 (homosexuality)

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.

Numerous resources are available to the Christian who seeks to better understand this subject. The primary points that we wish to make about homosexuality are as follows:

1. God loves the homosexual. For homosexuals, He also died. We should regard them with the same dignity.
2. God hates the behavior of homosexuality. It is condemned. It is condemned because it is against His design of the family and the human body. Few homosexuals live into their fifties. This breaks God’s heart.
3. Homosexuality breeds in a society that is prosperous, lazy, and without compassion according to Ezekiel 16:49. A family would do well to provide an environment where children do not get all they want, are not lazy, and have compassion for the poor. Sadly, multitudes of parents today work two jobs, if not four between both parents. Yet, their sons and daughters do no more than go to school and complain about a possible chore. Parents are exhausted and cannot deal with child-training. But this is the environment in which sexual sin breeds.
4. A person who has a possible confusion or weakness in regards to his or her sexuality, or even a genetic or hormonal predisposition to homosexuality need not act out on this. In the same way that heterosexual young people must remain chaste until God provides the proper mate, so must those who think themselves homosexual. A person may remain successfully abstinent in this culture, regardless. This means, too, keeping a wholesome mind uncluttered with sexual fantasy.

Heterosexual Christians need to be educated to the struggles of the homosexual and the homosexually inclined. But although we remain compassionate, we cannot be tolerant of the behavior. God hates it. We must, too.