Sex is Everybody’s Business!
Homosexual Behavior Has Become A Public Health Risk That Spreads AIDS, Destroys Traditional Marriage, and Prohibits Freedom of Speech
After Crystal Dixon’s editorial on homosexuality appeared in the Toledo Free Press, she was fired from her job as an associate vice president at the University of Toledo in Ohio. Dixon, an African-American who objected to a column that compared the gay rights movement to the civil rights movement, asked the paper to print her response. The Free Press agreed, triggering an explosive reaction from university officials that resulted in Dixon’s suspension. A couple of weeks and hundreds of protest emails later, the University has formally terminated her. Her attorneys, members of the Thomas More Law Center, say there is no basis for the firing, which they call “improper and potentially illegal.” As a private citizen, Dixon was well within her rights to voice her opinion on social issues regardless of how those views may be perceived by the University. Despite what UT President Lloyd Jacobs believes, Christians have just as much right to air their opinions as liberal secularists. And when they do, the U.S. Constitution is there to ensure that they are fully protected.
The majority of Americans want to preserve traditional sexual mores against the efforts of a politically powerful self-serving narcissistic minority attempting to revise those mores through laws, activist judges, and local dictators. Homosexuals cannot reproduce so they prey on our young innocent children. Therefore, Romer v. Evans (1996) in which the Supreme Court struck down so-called “special treatment” statutes aimed at gays and lesbians must be repealed!
To preserve traditional marriage and society, homosexuality can be singled out for disfavorable treatment because it is against nature and against traditional marriage. The Supreme Court has no business imposing upon all Americans the resolution favored by the elite class from which the Members of the Court are selected, pronouncing that “animosity” toward homosexuality is evil. Gays and lesbians are citizens, but they are not a certain or special class of citizens any more than adulterers, pimps, prostitutes, pedophiles, human sex traffickers, or drug peddlers. Laws against gays and lesbians are not about singling out a certain class of citizens for disfavored legal status or general hardships; rather, anti Sodomy laws are about established normal sexual behavior and lawfully acceptable social standards. The proposition that opposition to homosexuality is as reprehensible as racial or religious bias is patently false; this is like comparing apples with fruitcakes.
House bill H.R. 1592 and Senate bill S. 105 should be withdrawn because this unconstitutional bill would make negative statements concerning homosexuality, such as calling the practice of homosexuality a sin from the pulpit, a “hate crime” punishable by law. This dangerous legislation would take away your freedom of speech and your freedom of religion. The proposed law would make it a crime to preach on Romans Chapter 1 or I Corinthians Chapter 6. Or even to discuss them in a Sunday School class. If churches and individuals want to keep the government from telling them what they can and cannot preach and teach about homosexuality, they better get involved now!
Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the nation’s highest ranking military officer, rightly called homosexual acts “immoral” and likened them to heterosexual adultery. “I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts,” Pace told the Chicago Tribune on March 12, 2007. “I do not believe that the armed forces of the United States are well served by saying through our policies that it’s OK to be immoral in any way. “As an individual, I would not want [acceptance of gay behavior] to be our policy, just like I would not want it to be our policy that if we were to find out that so-and-so was sleeping with somebody else’s wife, that we would just look the other way, which we do not. We prosecute that kind of immoral behavior.” Unrestricted homosexual behavior is a military concern and a public health risk.
Jeff Buchanan, director of church equipping at
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Exodus International
, recommends that churches — and all Christians — embrace the issue of homosexuality “with compassion, not compromise.”
Melissa Fryrear, director of the gender issues department at Focus on the Family, agreed: “As biblically orthodox Christians respond to issues surrounding homosexuality, and more importantly to those affected by this difficult struggle, we must always hold these two points in balance and in complement — the inerrant truth of God’s word regarding sexual behavior and the compassionate grace of our Lord Jesus toward those living outside of it.”
Focus on the Family’s
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Love Won Out
ministry exhorts and equips the church to respond in a Christ-like way to the issue of homosexuality.
