A Response - “Just what does the Bible say about gays?”
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004The following article appeared in the The Age.com:
Just what does the Bible say about gays? (The entire article - as cited November 2nd - is included at the end of this response)
We can cherry-pick biblical references to homosexuality, ignoring the message of love, writes Nicholas Kristof.
So when God made homosexuals who fall deeply, achingly in love with each other, did he goof? That seems implicit in US legislative efforts to oppose gay marriage.
So, when God made people who think homosexuality is desperately, nauseatingly immoral and wrong, did he goof? By Kristof’s logic, I could argue that serial killers who are deeply satisfied with violating and dismembering their victims should have every right to - “because God made them that way”. But we know better. God didn’t make us this way. Humanity’s rebellion through Adam and Eve in original sin made us this way.
