I’m actually pretty confused. So many people posted that what Liberty Counsel said was inaccurate, but nobody’s really refuted it. We have one person who is apparently willing to strip down and sleep with men who may be sexually attracted to him, but nobody’s shown that the statistics Liberty Counsel used were inaccurate. I looked them up to see if they could be corroborated. They come from a Military Times Poll. Here’s a link:
http://www.militaryculturecoalition.com ... yTimesPoll
That website contains some other interesting polling and articles about homosexuals joining the military too.
I think it’s obvious that there are homosexuals who serve in the military. I have friends who have experienced having to go through boot camp with homosexuals. They’ve said it’s awkward and uncomfortable, but they’ve also said that they gain some comfort in knowing that the homosexuals cannot make overt sexual advances toward other people in their units because of the current law. That’s why, even though homosexuals, who lets be honest, don’t make up that much of the military, were able to serve openly, members of the military would be even less comfortable and even more likely to want out. I wouldn’t want to go through boot camp with a homosexual. I don’t mind ministering to them, but I think my ministry may be complicated a bit if they’d just seen me naked because of the communal showers situation.
Also, all (or most of us) agree that homosexual conduct is sinful, and if you question this, here’s Romans 1:24-27: “Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.”
Since we can agree on this, why can’t we agree that it should not be condoned by our government, our military, and our culture? I read Oswald Chamber’s My Utmost for His Highest this morning, and here’s a portion of it: “Our Lord's attitude to this man is one of severe discouragement because He knew what was in man. We would have said - "Fancy losing the opportunity of winning that man!" Fancy bringing about him a north wind that froze him and "turned him away discouraged!" Never apologize for your Lord. The words of the Lord hurt and offend until there is nothing left to hurt or offend. Jesus Christ has no tenderness whatever toward anything that is ultimately going to ruin a man in the service of God. Our Lord's answers are based not on caprice, but on a knowledge of what is in man. If the Spirit of God brings to your mind a word of the Lord that hurts you, you may be sure that there is something He wants to hurt to death.”
May I remind you all that, as Christians, we have dual roles on earth. We are to be the salt and the light. (Matthew 5:13-16) As salt, we are called to have a preserving quality. We are called to preserve our culture. This doesn’t mean calling what’s wrong right and what’s right wrong. (Isaiah 5:20) This means standing up as Christ did and condemning sin. People cannot know they are in need of a Savior until they know they are sinful men and women. Our laws should help direct people to the understanding of where they have sinned. As one commentator put it, “the law is a right/wrong message machine.”
This is a spiritual battle. It’s not about the homosexuals, it’s about a culture of sin. And though perhaps some homosexuals want to live their sinful lifestyles in peace (which they will never attain while remaining in those lifestyles), a vast majority of homosexuals belong to activist groups like the Human Rights Campaign. Understanding that nobody has a right to serve in the military, where have homosexuals ever been denied their rights? They have the right to marry, they simply must marry someone of the opposite sex, they don’t lose that right by being homosexual, they simply choose not to exercise it. Where have they been denied rights? It seems to me that they want more rights. They want someone who murders a homosexual to be punished more severely than someone who murders a 90 year-old grandmother. They want to be able to marry whomever they choose, but they certainly don’t agree with polygamy, incestuous marriages, or marriages to family pets or ficus trees.
Lastly, I’m concerned that religious liberties are losing ground to “gay rights.” Churches are now required to allow homosexuals to marry in their sanctuaries, Christian videographers are being forced to film homosexual marriages, transgendered persons are forcing doctors of faith to perform sex-changes on them, and there are so many other documented cases of people of faith being forced (through the court systems) to cater to the whims of homosexuals. This sounds shocking, right? Look it up. These cases are real and Liberty Counsel is simply trying to be salt unto the world – to secure the rights of Christians – to secure their rights to share the Gospel. If these types of liberties are being stripped of Christians in the civilian realm, do you not think that if the military allows homosexuals to join, that they won’t create policies that prevent military service members from saying things that may be offensive to the homosexuals (in the interest of unit cohesion, of course). Do you really think that military chaplains will be able to counsel service members struggling with homosexual attraction to turn away from the sin? Do you really think the chaplains will be able to preach on Romans 1:24-27?
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- By ECC29
- By Purple Haize