When talking to atheists, they sometimes like to bring up the argument "The God of the Bible hates homosexuals because in Leviticus 18:22 it says that homosexuality is an abomination." They use this argument as some sort of magic bullet that they KNOW makes Christians uncomfortable when answering. Usually the Christian will squirm.

Well, yeah, it does. Homosexuality is a sin in the Bible. The Bible isn't anti-homosexuals, it's anti-sin.

I think what people don't understand is that homosexuality isn't just a sexual preference, it's a worldview. A worldview defines how you look at life, how you live your life, how you interpret laws, or whatever. It defines how you live.

The homosexual agenda isn't looking for "tolerance" because a lot of people are tolerant – what you do in your bedroom is your own business. What they really want is approval. They not only want you to recognize their lifestyle as valid, but they want you to approve of it as well and when the Bible or anyone dares to criticize that… well, watch out. They are very intolerant of people or things that are intolerant.

So how do you answer this allegation? Well, let's just look at the issue for a second.

Sure, the Bible considers homosexuality a sin (read Romans 1) but what's the message of the Bible?

Romans 3:23 – ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. We all have sin in our hearts. Jesus gave a sermon (Matthew 5) and in that sermon He said if you lust in your heart, you've committed adultery. If you hate in your heart, you've committed murder. If you covet, then you've stolen. All our actions come from our hearts, our outward actions begin from what we think and how we perceive the world.

According to scripture, if you sin, you die: Romans 6:23 (part 1) The wages of sin is death.

However, also according to scripture, if you sin God has the answer: Romans 6:23 (part 2) but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus.

Now, the whole purpose of the Bible was to demonstrate this one thing: Romans 5:8 that God loved us so much that even while we were still sinners Jesus died for us. The message of the Bible is that God loved you so much that He took on human form and died the death of a criminal for YOU and for ME.

God hates sin. Donald Barnhouse told of the time when he first saw Hoover Dam, it amazed him and he started thinking about God (as he was so prone to do). And he imagined God's wrath:

Man sinned and God poured out a little wrath, but He held it back with the dam of His patience. Men sinned more and more and God held His wrath back with the dam of His patience. Over the years, over the centuries, over the millennia, God held back His wrath. Until one day.

Jesus went to the cross and there, in that instant, God removed the dam of His patience and His wrath swept down and hit Jesus on the cross.

Jesus took the wrath of God for YOUR sin. God paid the price for YOUR sin. God loves you enough to provide a means of salvation from your state.

Now, Romans 10:13 if you call upon the name of Jesus you will be saved. Period. The wrath of God was poured out on Jesus and all you have to do is accept that.

Of course, God will give you the option, if you don't accept Jesus as your substitute, then you will have to face the wrath of God. One way or another, God will judge sin.

So, the Christian position: yes homosexuality is a sin, just like all sins and Jesus paid the price to get us right with God. God loves the sinner, has provided a way for the sinner, and God will judge sin (either in His Son, or in the sinner).

Now, let's examine the atheist position because it needs to be examined. How did life get here? By evolution of course. What does evolution have to say about homosexuality?

Humm, now here it gets very difficult. Evolution says that not only should homosexuals not exist, but they deserve to die – it's called "survival of the fittest". If you can't reproduce, then you die.

Evolution is very very cold and hard when it comes to things like this.

Now, once the atheist position has been examined, you can ask: Which belief is more tolerant?

With the weirdness in California going on, it got me to thinking about a story I had heard about several years ago.

We all have heard of Matthew Shepherd, MTV did a movie about him, HBO did a movie about him, he’s become an icon of the homosexual community. (If you don’t know, Matthew was beaten and killed because he was a homosexual.)

If you do a search on google you’ll find that: 501,000 pages refer to “Matthew Shephard” and about 6,5700,000 for “Matthew Shepherd”.

That’s huge.

Now, let me ask you how many of you have heard of Jesse? Probably not many. I even forgot his name and had to do several google searches to find him.

Here’s the thing, around the same time as the Matthew thing, Jesse was also beaten and murdered, but with a twist: he was raped, beaten and killed by two homosexual men.

If you do a search on google for Jesse you’ll get about 19,500 pages.

So here I am to post a reminder not to forget about Jesse so the next time someone brings up Matthew, please remember to bring up Jesse.

Links to Jesse sites:

Wiki: Jesse Dirkhising
Voices of Unreason
WorldNet Daily
Covenant News
Traditional Values Coalition

Note: I don’t necessarily approve of anything else on these webpages, I’m just linking to their article about Jesse.

I found this absolutely amazing: California law would remove sex-specific terms from books, mandate pro-homosexual lessons.

Basically there's a bill going around in Cali that wants to remove all gender specific words from textbooks, words like "mom" and "dad". This bill would also affect any other gender specific titles including "prom king" or "prom queen".

At the same time, the textbooks would require students to learn about homosexual contributions to society.

What I find fascinating is how a tiny fraction of the United States can push so much stuff through. After reading this story I went to the Census website and they said that there are about 600,000 partners of the same sex based on the last census. Sounds like a lot? Well, there are 4.9 million other unmarried partner households in the U.S. That makes the homosexual group a whopping 1.2% of just the unmarried category.

I keep hearing that the total population of homosexuals is 10%. That seems to be the standard number, but it seems like from the Census website, the number is probably closer to less than 1%.

So why do people submit to the voice of the few?