Bobby Dockery
(From a tract titled: "Homosexuality: Are Same Sex Relationships A
Christian Option?")
However, homosexuality is not new. It is as old as the Bible. It was one of the sins that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. (Genesis 13:13; 19:5-11.)
What is new is the popularity, publicity, and political clout which homosexuals enjoy in America. Homosexual groups have succeeded in winning passage of legislation granting them protected class status in 5 states and more than 90 cities across America. President Clinton touched off a political firestorm with his proposals to end the ban on gays from serving in the U.S. military.
In the 1992 election, voters in Colorado approved Amendment 2 which prohibited special status for homosexuals; The result has been a high profile boycott bringing intense pressure against the state led by several Hollywood personalities.
Recently a 1000 member "Gay" church in Dallas -- the Metropolitan Community Church -- dedicated a new $3 million Cathedral. (Metropolitan Community Churches are a national network of homosexual churches.) Nationwide there are probably at least 500 exclusively homosexual churches. Special Panels in the Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have recommended new guidelines which condone homosexual relationships and allow the ordination of practicing homosexuals.
Many have been confused by the Rhetoric! Not long ago an active church member, who has served as a leader in a congregation in another state, shocked me by saying: "I used to be hard against this homosexual business -- but now I don't know... It seems like they can't really help it and I've been wrong to oppose it."
Many of our children are being systematically indoctrinated in our public schools. They are taught that homosexuality is as normal as having brown eyes or blue. Many communities have already adopted a program called "One In Ten" or "Project 10" designed to teach students that "gay is good." (One in ten comes from the homosexual assertion that 10% of our society is gay.) Dr. Jocelyn Elders, President Clinton's former Surgeon General has been actively involved in efforts to introduce this program into Arkansas schools.
A speaker at a recent Christian College lectureship told of a large congregation in the South where the preacher presented a lesson on homosexuality to a teen group. Two boys reacted angrily, declaring that they were gay and proud of it! In the ensuing discussion, it turned out that not a single teen in the class thought homosexuality was wrong!