Monday, January 05, 2004

Grow Up

Arthur Silber correctly points out the childish reasoning of a BrothersJudd.com post entitled “Why God Made Closets" which comments on an article regarding homosexuality entitled “Before the Deluge," published in Christianity Today and penned by Andy Crouch.  Arthur’s comments, regarding the Judd brothers’ post rightly mocks their musings and I as read the Judd post, I wondered, in regards to this comment of the Judd brothers, ”...so long as you have the sense of shame to keep it hidden from God and the rest of us." whether they still accept as fact that you’ll go blind if you masturbate.

Crouch’s musings, which, fortunately, don’t look at sex as a closet or shameful activity, also bear scrutiny.  Especially, this,

"Some of us have been delivered by him out of the worst that sin can do. I have had the privilege of being friends with those who lived for years as gays and lesbians, who were adulterers, who were cross-dressers, who were consumed by pornography or obsessed with their own attractiveness—and who now joyfully live a different life thanks to Christ."

which, as it is written, can be interpreted as meaning sexual sins are the worst, specifically, homosexuality sins.  Which is so much claptrap I hesitate even to mention it.

Sex, sex, sex.  Homo, hetero, lesbo what have you, all sides in this debate, while trying to shoot down prejudices associated with sexual orientation, invariably end up shooting themselves in the foot.  The Christians by condemning sexuality of almost all kinds, the homosexuals by their indecision.  Meaning, in some instances they bear the term homo as if it is a Star of David, forced to be worn, in other instances, they flaunt their sexual orientation with the same proclivity of Vegas showgirls.  Does either side really understand that sex and sexual orientation are private, individual decisions?  If they did understand this, this wouldn’t even be an issue.  Each side would be better off if they would just shut up and keep their noses out of each others bedrooms and closets.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/05 at 07:59 AM
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