Your children and grandchildren are born with the propensity to be right-handed or left-handed. Little Johnny has a cute cowlick on his hairline without any effort on his part. Both traits are just INNATE.
A big argument today, even among Christians, is whether or not human beings have homosexual genes and, therefore, cannot help themselves from being gay. They are just born that way. Let’s see some logic and research that refutes such a stand.
First, accountability.
A baby is NOT accountable if he is left-handed or has a cowlick. That is just how the package arrived. If a person cannot help being gay, he is not accountable to God or anyone else; that’s just the way he is.
On the other hand, if being gay is a conscious decision, then the person is accountable to God and others. “Others” would include the hearts he/she is breaking with such a lifestyle. Being accountable to God would have to include sending the message to God that His word is not true. It is agreeing with the current culture rather than the word of God that has been relied upon for centuries, relied upon by persons who have now decomposed or been cremated to dust or ashes, just as we will someday be if the second coming is delayed. That is, we are temporal; God’s word is eternal. He has strong statements against homosexual behavior in His eternal book; we need to be aware of them and to agree with them.
One prominent person who has shown us that being homosexual is a conscious decision is Rosaria Butterfield. (Photo above) She decided to be a lesbian at the age of 28 and decided to end the practice at the age of 36. This former English professor from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, has documented her decisions in her autobiographical book, Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert (https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Thoughts-Unlikely-Convert-professors/dp/1884527388/ref=sr_1_3?crid=214X59SF8AMOR&keywords=rosaria+butterfield+books&qid=1578614659&s=books&sprefix=Rosari%2Caps%2C146&sr=1-3.)
At 36 she came to grips with the nagging scriptures in Romans 1, which told her the truth about herself. She also listened to the Presbyterian minister who later became her husband, Rev. Butterfield. They are currently pastoring a Presbyterian church in Durham, NC.
Secondly, the practice of homosexuality tends to spread in epidemic proportions when the contemporary culture tends to condone it. Today, our culture even permits a gay presidential candidate. What would George Washington think?
Homosexuality is forbidden in some cultures and is subdued almost to zero. When it is approved, it rears its head. There, the plague of pedophiles encroaches on our children to scar them for life. This has been seen in the rise of homosexuality among Catholic clergy. Its occurrence there is an embarrassment among both homo- and hetero-sexual individuals.
Also, there are a number of Old Testament scriptures that specifically forbid the practice of homosexuality and transvestitism. There are three in the New Testament. (Romans 1, I Cor. 5:9, I Cor. 6:9)
Mike Winger on YouTube does an excellent job in tackling this controversary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpjg_JeAgw0. One of his videos deals with just the health and social issues that come with homosexuality, particularly male homosexuality. The results are truly tragic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGNgESz7e30&t=1270s
All three of our monotheistic religions (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity) are united in condemning the gay lifestyle. It carries the death penalty in some Islamic states.
Another universal argument against the gay lifestyle is the “natural order” argument, which is part of the reason the Catholic Church opposes it. Surely all of us have noticed that nature has set up male and female anatomies that are complementary, not so with same-sex anatomies. The natural order offers satisfaction in intimacy that no other arrangement can produce, a marriage between one man and one woman. Man-made arrangements of all kinds strike out—masturbation, bestiality, polygamy, divorce, or any other. Jesus said, “In the beginning it was not so.” (Matthew 19:8 NKJV) Look back to the way God set this thing up!
What is the solution? Jesus. Today many are embracing the message of the gospel and finding that they can be free from the sin that once entrapped them. See the multiple testimonies of those in ex-gay Christian organizations.
Thus, now is the time to take a stand against WRONG, to “weigh-in” on RIGHT. We are agreeing with the weightiest argument of all time, the Holy Bible.