Jun 22, 2008 | 10:22 PM
Category:
Faith
Gay marriage vs. Reproduction
by Richard C. August
In light of the recent issues concerning the States of California and Massachusetts legally recognizing homosexual marriage, here's a good idea.
How about we give homosexuals their own State in the USA, and allow them to marry, provided they do not repopulate the State by recruitment, or artificial insemination, or adoption of children? They must repopulate their own State only by means of sex with their same gender spouses. Let's see how long it takes before the gays finally realize that it still takes one man's sperm to fertilize one woman's egg to produce at least one child. I'd give the better part of two generations before most of the gays there would die with no replacements, and the remaining rest of them would realize that straight sex leads to reproduction, period, even if the act is "begrudging." At least that would mean that moral, upstanding, concerned persons would not have to exact revenge with Bibles, bombs, bricks, or bullets. The gays and lesbians would do that to themselves, with the exceptions of those who straighten up and fly right.
But why would any self-respecting gay man want to put his precious manly fluids into some woman, anyway? And why would some self-respecting lesbian want some funky man-goo in her pristine pubic region?
In that case, why would God Almighty, our loving and holy CREATOR, call on us to BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY, and then turn around and arbitrarily manufacture gays and lesbians as a means of population control, especially when HE told us to fill the Earth and subdue it in the Book of Genesis??
Dear readers, homosexuality, transgenderedness, transsexuality, and bisexuality are all L-I-E-S. They are LIES!! Leviticus chapter 18, in the Holy Bible, calls homosexuality -- lying with man as with woman -- an ABOMINATION. The same Bible reflects in Romans chapter 1 that homosexuality of both genders is a selfish, self-serving denial of God and His Word, and that those who practice it not only know that they are committing sins worthy of death, but they also receive that same punishment in their own bodies, not only in the forms of AIDS and other STDs/STIs, but with failure to reproduce a newer generation of persons.
Homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderedness, transsexuality, bestiality, pornography, adultery, fornication, bigamy, and polygamy ALL STEM FROM THE SAME SATANIC SOURCE AND ALL END UP WITH THE SAME SATANIC RESULTS. The wages of sin is death, but the GIFT (unwarranted, undeserved present given out of unconditional love) of God is ETERNAL LIFE.
"Wait a second, August," you might say. "Aren't you starting to sound like that 'God hates BLEEP' crowd?" First of all, the Westboro Baptist Church are totally unrepresentative of the Christian faith. If God hates BLEEP, then He would hate straights too, for all have sinned and come far short of God's glory. We're all in that same boat. Their "pastor" isn't even properly ordained, but was a seminary dropout. All they are is a hate group who spew their hatred and anger in the Name of God against everybody but the Westboro Baptist Church. They offer absolutely NO redemption, NO healing, NO help out of sexual sin, period.
Jesus Christ is the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE, and no person at all can come to God the Father except through HIM. St. John 14:6. HE makes absolutely no bones about His Person and Station in the Universe. He is the Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, the Rose of Sharon, the Redeemer of humankind on the CROSS. His perfect atonement for our sins provides the sole means of spiritual and physical and mental and emotional healing we all need. Sure, we have to work through it, and we go under the Cross because of it, but when Christ Jesus heals us, it's from the inside out, and it's for real, and it's permanent for eternity. He will cast our sins as far away as the east is from the west. There won't even be a scrap of carbon paper or a bit of data on that hard drive called your life once Christ removes it.
Dear readers, any kind of sexual sin is a choice you make. You make your bed, and you have to lie in it. If that bed is pure and clean, and only involved in marital relationships between ONE man and ONE woman, it's clean. Involve anybody else in any other manner, and it's your mess. Sometimes, those messes don't get cleaned up so easily. The diseases contracted thereby alone are mostly incurable, but are made more tolerant through medications taken for the rest of one's life.
I am proud to say that though I have been divorced since 1997, I was married to only ONE woman and have not had extramarital pubic-to-pubic sex with another person. Yes, I have played around, and fondled, and been fondled, but thank God, JESUS CHRIST has released me from that. I am also a recovering pornography addict, but again, that is an addict in recovery. Face it, pornography is a huge lie, too. Christ Jesus relieves addictions, and makes them so that they hold no more pleasure for us, but only pain and suffering compared to His grace.
Anyone, man or woman, who commits sexual sin sins against his or her own body, PERIOD. The sexually transmitted diseases so rampant today should be enough to scare anyone back to morality and monogamous marital sex, but unfortunately, so many persons worship themselves and their sex organs as their gods that they are too far given to sexual pleasure and are too far gone. Until they hit solid steel rock bottom, they will not recover. Christ offers them the means of recovery while they are yet alive, but once they are dead, it's over.
The road to Hell for eternity is paved with pleasure and an easy life. The road to Heaven is strait, and narrow, twisty and rocky, hilly and arduous, and few there are who find it, but those who find it through JESUS CHRIST reap rich rewards in Heaven and sometimes on Earth as a result. Living a life of real faith in Jesus Christ totally flies in the face of living the way of the world, but as you walk OUT of the world, you really begin to see the fallen nature of humankind, as one walks in the Baptised nature of the Christian believer.
It is my hope that as you read this, if you are a homosexual, or are practicing any kind of sexual sin, that is, outside of the marital bed between ONE man and ONE woman, that you come to know Jesus Christ as God, Lord, Savior, and Redeemer before you die. If you are not following this kind of sin, then please do not go the way of the Westboro Baptist Church and scream and yell and rant your hatred, because we are sinners, too, though in Jesus Christ we are redeemed by grace through faith.
Meanwhile, let those who are openly gay and lesbian practice whatever they will, and let other sexual sinners debauch themselves, for until they come to Jesus Christ and HE washes their sins away, they will destroy themselves; we do not need bullets or bricks or bombs or poison or other lethal means to do that.
Find a good Christian church whose pastor and leaders and laity believe, teach, and confess that the Holy Bible is the authoritative Word of God, Holy and without error at least in its original manuscripts. Find a good translation of the Holy Bible for you and read it every day. Learn from it. Pray and believe.
LOVE in Jesus Christ,
Richard C. August