Nothing is more important than the
LGBTQ agenda to our world. Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire nailed it, “As everyone knows, June is African-American
Music Appreciation Month. It's also National Safety Month and National Smile
Month. And we can't forget that it is ALS Awareness Month, Alzheimer’s and
Brain Awareness Month, Cataract Awareness Month, Hernia Awareness Month,
Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month, National Aphasia Awareness Month, National
Congenital Cytomegalovirus Awareness Month, National Scleroderma Awareness
Month, and Scoliosis Awareness Month. But all of these holy observances must
take a backseat to the most hallowed of them all: LGBT Pride Month.”1
Interestingly, Matt Walsh claims
that the LGBTQ community is not persecuted in the USA, rather they are
privileged.2
The secular world worships the LGBTQ
community. Suddenly, the LGBTQ community has become a privileged community.
Why?
Oppression
could be the key reason.
An article in the USA Today
enlightens us:3
Canadian Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau recently apologized to the thousands of LGBTQ men and
women who were fired by government agencies, including the military, between
the 1950s and 1992. They were investigated and interrogated, some even forced
to undergo polygraph testing, then discharged because they were considered
threats to national security. It was a “gay purge,” and it was still happening
less than 30 years ago.
Visibility and equality
These fights
for acceptance and equality aren’t over.
Living proudly
and openly in societies where your well-being (emotional, physical,
professional) is constantly at risk is nothing short of brave. The fact that we
are seeing more people live openly and honestly despite these challenges is a
miracle.
Almost every
day, we see threats made against members of the LGBTQ community. The scaling
back of hard-earned rights and protections of LGBTQ people, particularly
transgender people, is difficult to ignore.
So when
straight people ask why there is a need for gay pride or wonder why there
aren’t straight pride celebrations, it feels a lot like they are saying
contributions by LGBTQ people — a minority group that faces constant adversity
— are simply not worthy of recognition. Further, they’re denying the importance
and significance of identifying as LGBTQ and achieving things — surviving, even
— when the odds are stacked against you.
The resilience
of the LGBTQ community alone is worthy of celebration.
Fair enough!
The laws that govern our world ought
to provide protection to everyone – offenders included. The innocent cannot
suffer and the guilty cannot not be punished. Even the guilty should be
protected, which is precisely why prisons or correctional centers exist.
This then is precisely the reason
for the divide – in supporting or opposing the privilege offered to the LGBTQ
community.
First, the secular world does not find anything morally wrong with the practices
of the LGBTQ people. For instance, they claim there’s nothing morally wrong
in practicing homosexuality. They claim
homosexuality is an accepted behavioral practice, for it offends none (God
excluded). On the contrary, most theists claim that homosexuality is a sin
against God.
Second, the logical second step for
the secular world is to protect those being [apparently] incorrectly
incriminated for their lifestyle. Thus the insulation-era of the LGBTQ
community was ushered. They are being insulated/protected from all means of
persecution. Thus, they are no longer persecuted in many progressive societies.
Those who oppose the LGBTQ agenda (hardcore conservatives excluded) would welcome the protection and the provision of equal status to the LGBTQ
community.
LGBTQ may not be morally wrong in
the eyes of our lawmakers. Our lawmakers act according to the forces that reign
in their era.
The practice of LGBTQ is an assault
on God. It is a sin against God.
Thankfully, an eternal and
omniscient God cannot be outdone by finite human forces. Hence, HIS commands
remain. HIS command that homosexuality is a sin remains irrespective of the
human era or the forces that rule. (Homosexuality is taken as a specific case
in point.)
Although the forces that rule our
era cannot outdo God, it has the power to vanquish susceptible humans. This is
accomplished under the deceptive guise of love.
Hence, they built a narrative to
make the LGBTQ community a privileged one. A narrative in which love
is the brand that sells the LGBTQ product. (But the adoration of the LGBTQ
community has nothing to do with love; rather it has everything to do with
moral blindness.)
Thankfully for these morally corrupt
forces, the Bible speaks much about love. Significantly, the two greatest
commandments of the Lord Jesus did not emphasize worship, obedience or belief
in God. Rather they emphasized love for God and love our neighbor. These
commandments were predicated on love.
But the Bible makes a very
significant distinction. Love of God and
of our fellow men does not relegate sins into the realm of endorsement or
acceptance. A sin remains a sin and love remains love.
In fact, sin mars/ruins the love
between God and man. When man sins against God, HIS relationship with God is
marred. Hence repentance, confession, and forgiveness become the order of the
day.
This is God’s economy.
Man’s economy is rather
atypical/different from God’s.
Since the progressive secular man
does not consider homosexuality as a sin or an offense against the law, he
rides the love-bandwagon and loves the LGBTQ community (and there’s nothing
wrong in loving the sinner). That love
ride blinds the moral senses of the secular man. When his love for his
fellowmen blinds his moral senses, the secular man commits a great blunder.
That blunder is his endorsement of
the LGBTQ practices. This is where he chooses to not realize that love for
someone need not necessarily lead to an endorsement of every behavior (only in
the context of legitimizing LGBTQ).
Elsewhere the secular man does not
conflate love and endorsement. He may love his neighbor, but when his neighbor
steals from another, the secular man imprisons his neighbor under the force of
his law. In this context, theft is an offense against the law of the land. Love
cannot, in any which way, override the law of the land to acquit a convict.
Therein the hypocrisy of the secular
man dawns into full-blown brightness/intensity.
On the one hand, he loves his
neighbor who practices homosexuality, and he even endorses homosexuality. But
on the other hand, he accuses his thieving neighbor and throws him behind the
bars, thereby condemning the act of theft and the subject/person who steals.
The reason for this hypocrisy is the
secular man’s choice to endorse homosexuality as an acceptable practice. The
secular man has no difficulty, whatsoever, to endorse a behavior that God
condemns because the secular man refuses to bend his knee to God.
Upon removing God from his horizon,
he has no difficulty whatsoever to legitimize homosexuality.
Or is it so?
When
God is removed from the moral equation, evidently the evolutionary paradigm reigns.
The secular man contends that homosexuality is perfectly acceptable within the
evolutionary paradigm.
This is where he goes blatantly
wrong.
It can be proved that homosexuality
is an aberration even according to the natural law theory. In an earlier blog
entitled Does Consensual and Harmless
Sexual Intercourse Legitimize Homosexuality? I emphasized the manner in
which the natural law theory debunks homosexuality:4
(1) The nature or essence of every biological
organ, according to natural law theory, involves its purposes (or final
causes). So the purpose of the eyeball is to make us see. Similarly, sexual
intercourse also has its own purpose, which is to procreate (bear children).
But I have
heard arguments that the final cause or the purpose of sexual intercourse is
the pleasure. This is wrong! Pleasure cannot be a purpose for sexual
intercourse.
Think about eating.
You may argue that eating is pleasurable, but the biological point of eating is
not to give pleasure, but to offer the body the nutrients it needs to be
healthy and survive. The pleasure of eating is nature’s way of getting us to
eat.
As Professor
Edward Feser states, “So, the final cause of sex is procreation, and the final
cause of sexual pleasure is to get us to indulge in sex, so that we’ll thereby
procreate…Notice also that nature makes it very difficult to indulge in sex
without procreation. There is no prophylactic sheathe issued with a penis at
birth, and no diaphragm issued with a vagina. It takes some effort to come up
with these devices, and even then, in the form in which they existed for most
of human history they were not terribly effective.”3
(2) Natural
law theory states that an action or a behavior, even if it does not harm anyone
else, need not be acceptable or need not be the normal way of living life.
The life of an
alcoholic is not acceptable, even if he/she does not harm anyone. Similarly, a
person – inclined to molest children (even if he has not molested children) –
who masturbates to pictures of naked children is living a sick life. Such a
person is not living the way a normal human ought to live.
Therefore, gay
sex cannot be justified even if it were harmless.
(3) In the
same manner, consensus cannot be a legitimate reason for an action/behavior.
Gay people cannot argue that consensual sex is always righteous.
Consensual sex
cannot be righteous always. A pedophile cannot argue that he had sex with a
child because the child consented. A parent cannot claim that he/she had sex
with his/her child (minor or major) because the child agreed to have sex with
the parent. In a marriage, consensus between the husband and the wife to have sex
with others outside the marriage does not justify their affairs.
I will
summarize now:
A. According
to natural law theory, the main purpose of sex is procreation through the
sexual intercourse between a man and a woman. Thus gay sex cannot be natural, but
it is an abnormal activity/behavior.
B. For reasons
mentioned in (2) and (3), consensual and harmless sex cannot justify gay sex.
So the reason behind the reverence
of the LGBTQ community is the failure to recognize the practices of the said
community as sinful against God and as an unnatural act according to the
Natural Law Theory.
While we should love every member of
the LGBTQ community, we still maintain that the practices of the LGBTQ community
are sinful and hence should not be endorsed. Although the secular world may
adore and revere the LGBTQ community, we Christians should remain committed to
God’s ways.
And yes, we do take pride in being
straight.
Endnotes:
1https://www.dailywire.com/news/48006/walsh-lgbt-people-are-not-oppressed-or-persecuted-matt-walsh
2Ibid.
3https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/06/01/why-we-have-lgbtq-pride-not-straight-pride-column/658306002/
4http://rajkumarrichard.blogspot.com/2018/06/does-consensual-and-harmless-sexual.html
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