Usually people respond negatively when you tell a lie. Cynthia Nixon found out the hard way that sometimes people hate you for telling the truth. In an interview for The New York Times Magazine, Nixon, a bisexual in a lesbian relationship, revealed that her lifestyle for her was a choice. Now you, like me, might initially question what exactly could be so volatile about that statement. However, according to an Associated Press story published last Friday Nixon has received quite a bit of backlash from her statement. From whom and for what reason? Nixon is receiving pressure from the homosexual community for stating that her sexual lifestyle was a choice rather than declaring it to be an inherent quality. In her words Nixon said, “A certain section of our community (homosexual community – AJB) is very concerned that it not be seen as a choice, because it it’s a choice, then we could opt out.”
Little is said publicly anymore about the idea of homosexuality being a genetic characteristic in certain individuals. In my optimism I believed it was because that theory had been debunked by science long ago (which it actually was with the disproval of the “gay gene”). However, apparently the reason it is rarely mentioned anymore is because activists want the public to assume it has been established as fact (which it most definitely has not). I understand this is a sensitive subject for many people who either have chosen this lifestyle or are closely associated with those who have chosen this lifestyle. However, the sensitivity of the subject does not diminish our responsibility in speaking out against it. This is much more than a social issue – it is a spiritual issue, and one that needs to be addressed from a spiritual perspective. But rather than using my own words that can be manipulated and spurned as “merely opinion” let’s just allow the Bible to speak and settle the matter once and for all:
“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…who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them” (Romans 1:26-28, 32).
These verses clearly portray homosexuality as a sin and worthy of God’s eternal judgment. Since that is the case can it not be firmly established that no man has ever been “made gay?” If any man has ever been “made” homosexual then they have been given a temptation beyond which they are able to bear which makes God unjust (1 Corinthians 10:13)! Couple with this is the fact that Paul told the Corinthians that some of them had been effeminate and abusers of themselves with mankind, thus implying that they had at one time chosen that lifestyle but since time had chosen to stop it. How is that an indication of anything but it being a choice and a sinful one at that? Those are the facts – but are we willing to be hated for telling the truth?