The attack on common sense, morals, and ethics continues to take its toll on society, especially the family. Folks appear to have forgotten their roots, where they came from, as well as the values taught to them by their parents and grandparents. For some unknown reason, many people are abandoning their traditional values and mores, trading them for an anything goes attitude or life style. Forgotten is mother's pleas to be good, stay straight, don't drink and don't smoke.

Take the issue of homosexuality and the gay agenda that's winding its way through one community after another. Over the past few days, Methodist Church leaders have met in Cleveland to discuss a wide variety of issues, including that of homosexuals in the church.

One of the things to be discussed is whether Methodist pastors should marry two individuals of the same sex. The other is whether homosexuals are suitable for pastoral duties in the church. Perhaps the greater question is how the church as a whole should view homosexuality.

The conference's 992 delegates will vote on resolutions concerning the Bible's teaching on homosexuality, the conducting of same-sex unions, and other related issues. The bulk of those resolutions is expected to come up for a vote later in the week, possibly on Thursday. (Newsroom, May 7, 2000)[1]

According to an AP news story, a committee at the General Conference already voted to maintain the church's traditional standing on the subject.[2]

After reading that the deligates were to vote on the church's standing on homosexuality, my first thought was, "What is there to vote on?" Let's be honest here and realize that the very idea of a practicing homosexual as a church pastor is in contradiction with God's own Word:

Romans 1:24-28 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. A-men. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use in that which is against nature: 27 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. 28 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...[3]

Intellectual Terrorism?

So, homosexuals want to demonstrate outside the convention center to force the Methodist Church leadership to ordain men and women who have changed the natural use of their sex organs? Or, should non-practicing homosexuals be allowed to minister to God's Church? Where do you draw the line? For centuries the line was drawn in the very same spot. Then came the homosexual agenda of the 20th, and now 21st Centuries. They want to uproot it, tear it up, change it, moving that line ever closer to godlessness and sin.

Why would homosexuals even bother to go to church if their perversions act as an aversion to an overwhelming majority of Methodist church goers? Why go if we do not recognize that our sins are, indeed just that, sins unto God? Why not establish a new church, a New [World Order] church where all perversions unto God are accepted with open arms and gladness? One where they can rewrite the Bible and make it say anything they want.

I'm not saying that ministers are absolutely perfect in God's eyes, but I am suggesting that they must be as near to the mold that God provided by way of His Word and Son, Jesus Christ. If the Methodists allow practicing homosexuals to be pastors, who's next:

• pedophiliacs,
• murderers,
• robbers,
• second-story thieves,
• rapists,common burglars,
• extraterrestrials :-) ?

Virtually anyone, whether they qualify or not, will be able to wrangle their way to the pulpit. If we are not willing to accept heterosexuality as one significant element of God's intended perfection, then why bother to sit in the congregation and listen to the pastor harp on what it means to be approved under God? Perhaps this is why some homosexuals want the church to allow their own to minister, so they no longer have to hear what God says about homosexuality.

I've said this before, but allow me to make it absolutely clear. I have nothing against homosexuals, no more than I do any other group of folks. However, this whole thing has been blown out of proportion. Not only that, it has resulted in the loss of freedoms and the right to self determination by traditional groups, such as churches and the Boy Scouts of America.

It has also resulted in the production, promotion, and showing of a pro-gay videotape in our public schools, which I am totally against. Those who promote this videotape are quick to point out that its purpose is to reduce gay bashing by teaching young children to be non-violent where it comes to homosexuals. However, what this tape actually does is teach little kids that it's okay to be gay. Most of the parents don't even know that their children have seen it. By planting this seed at such an early age, is it more likely that these children may one day choose the gay life style?

Homosexuality=Sex Act?

While debating the homosexual issue on various news groups, I have been struck with the fact that so many tote this practice as anything but an act of sexual perversion. In fact, heterosexuals quite often speak up in defense of the homosexual life style by pointing out that it's more a matter of heart-felt love between two individuals and not sex.

Is this right, that homosexuality is more about heart-felt love between two people of like sex and not the sex act itself? Well, I wonder how many of us have actually seen what many gays do in public when surrounded by others of like mind and sexual preference. I, for one, have never been near it. But, there is someone in the audience who has, and he was so shocked by what he witnessed that he penned the following story, vividly describing all that he saw.

So, I warn you, what you are about to read, if you decide to click on the following link, might be shocking to you, if you're a heterosexual. It's certainly not for mom and dad to read to their little children before going to bed tonight, that's for sure. Remember to pray for our leaders, our homosexual brothers and sisters, and add the Methodist leadership to your prayer list. --Al Colombo

UNDERCOVER: THE GAY AGENDA

Bibliography

1. Methodist unity threatened as conference debates homosexuality, Newsroom, Redlands, California, input@newsroom.org
2. Gays Plan Protest at Methodist Gathering, Associated Press, May 10, 2000
3. The Marked Chain-Reference Bible, King James version, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, ©1963