There is a rising tide of homosexual activity in present-day America. Fifty years ago we whispered about perverted sexual practices. Now they are openly discussed everywhere, and with good reason. Homo­sexuals have become a major force in our society. They have the favourable sympathy of many churches, newspersons and government leaders. Even their political clout is staggering. A recent presidential appointee to the civil rights commission was pressured into withdrawing his name — to a great extent through the opposition of homosexuals with whom he was not sympathetic.

Most Americans sit by doing nothing about this alarming social change taking place around us. Some welcome the recent transforma­tion. But many are dismayed. What can be done about it? The first requirement is clear thinking on the issue.

The Myth of Gay Rights⤒🔗

Our constitution was written to protect the rights of all citizens. Decent persons, living within the law, should be given equal opportunity and protection regardless of race, creed or sex. Even the lawbreaker has the right of due process under the law, and of fair and just sentencing for his crime. 'Gay rights' activists seek none of the above! Homosexuals are subtly using the term 'rights' to mask their real intent.

What homosexuals are attempting to do is to eliminate laws which define their sexual practices as wicked and harmful to society. They are using the emotionally potent word 'rights' to redefine good and evil within our culture before we even realize that the issue is ethical. This ploy has succeeded remarkably well. Women and blacks who are decent citizens in search of legitimate rights have supported the immoral cause of homosexuals unwittingly. It is a shameful hour for the cause of real human rights.

Homosexuals are claiming that what the United States has labelled evil and harmful to society from the beginning of our existence is really normal and moral behaviour. They admit breaking the law but call the law 'unjust'. Their argument is similar to one that might be used by thieves accused of stealing. In court the thieves admit that they took what did not belong to them. 'But,' they argue, 'it is wrong for the community to condemn thievery'. They appeal to society to recognize that their acts are perfectly acceptable behaviour. They may cloak their arguments with words like, 'My rights are being denied,' or 'I am being persecuted' — not new claims for criminals. But they are seeking to reverse the moral direction of society.

In no other time during our national history has there been any doubt that homosexual practices are immoral, an ugly threat to social order and worthy of condemnation. Today a generation of Americans are calling their fathers prejudiced and unjust persecutors of the innocent. Why has modern America opened its arms to sexual perverts and approved of their evil behaviour?

Earlier in this century large church denominations filled their seminaries and then their pulpits with men who denied the authority of the Bible. It was considered the wise and mature thing to question whether the Bible is God's Word. Of course the result of that proud fashion was that a whole generation of people grew up never being sure that anything in Scripture could be trusted. The biblical standard of morals has been no exception. Having thrown God's moral law on the trash heap, it was up to every man to decide for himself what is right and wrong. If he was unsure, psychological experts stood by to pontificate that the vilest of men could not help themselves and therefore was unworthy of blame.

So advanced have liberal clergymen become in calling good 'evil' and evil 'good', that denominations are leading the way in changing our social conscience. Having abandoned the Bible, large churches are admitting known, practising homosexuals to membership and to the clergy. Never mind that the New Testament plainly says,

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived ... homosexual offenders will not inherit the Kingdom of God.1 Corinthians 6:9-10

These churchmen not only have no respect for the apostolic Word; they contradict it and lead the way in seeking to overturn the influence of God's law on the moral standards of our nation.

Is there nothing a man or woman can do about this blatant assault by the churches on the moral conscience of society? When an institution calls itself 'Christian' but throws its influence behind the basest moral elements in society, it is time to stop contributing your money and your backing to such morally corrupt groups. There are still many churches in our nation intelligently committed to the moral standards of the Ten Commandments. If only you had the moral courage to see that none of your money were spent for this denominational nonsense! If your head was not counted in the membership of groups that use their membership numbers to pressure for 'acceptance' of homosexuality, your influence would be felt. But that requires of you courageous action. You must stand up and be counted by your membership and giving.

Of course when 'respected' churches (unworthy of esteem) lead the way in desensitizing the consciences of men, how are schools, govern­ment officials or newspersons to stand? Schools and political institu­tions were not designed to shape the moral conscience of society. When a 'church' becomes the enemy of God on the most basic moral issues, it no longer deserves your respect. Is the Bible at all unclear on the subject? Absolutely not. Homosexuality is called 'unnatural' and 'perversion' (Romans1:26-27). The issue is not one of rights but of moral decency.

The Myths of Consenting Adults←⤒🔗

There is a growing attitude in America that so long as two adults agree to any behaviour whatever, no one should object to it, and the govern­ment should keep its nose out of the matter. This is a completely new mood when applied to moral issues. Anything goes — as long as all parties are adults and consent to the social behaviour. If this logic becomes the norm of American life, you will soon read in your news­paper of dueling. Two consenting adults may have a shoot-out or other combat to the death. After all we must not interfere with consenting adults.

When adults abuse themselves morally, it always harms society. Suicide is not a private matter. It cannot be. It publishes an attitude about the worth of human life. The loneliest suicide makes a profound impact on his fellow men for evil. Even so with homosexuality. Lewd and shameful sexual acts done in private have a moral influence on us all. Gross homosexual practices assault all human sexual dignity. They twist and debase the obvious intent of human sexuality.

How do adults come to grant their consent to such dissolute behaviour? Consent assumes that a proposition has been made! All sexual activity (good and evil) begins with flirtation. Subtle and tentative approaches are made and encouraged. Then advances become bolder and more explicitly sexual. All is leading up to the final proposal and consent. Before there can be consent, there must be solicitation, whether delicate or clumsy. If homosexual consent is permitted, then homosexual advances are approved. In every major U.S. city there are now numerous known places where homosexual solicitations are openly made and accepted. Many of these are public parks which have been taken from decent citizens while law enforcement agencies have turned their back.

But it is wrong to imagine that homosexual solicitations are restricted to 'gay bars' and public park hangouts. Increasing numbers of men and women have been embarrassed to discover that friendliness by someone of the same sex was romantic. Because they were 'straight' they did not recognize the amorous advances and flirtations at first. Such private instances are multiplying too.

Decent people rightly respond to homosexual propositions with shock and revulsion. But many are confused in the critical moment when clear thinking is essential. News media have conditioned minds to think that the noble thing to do is to 'tolerate' and 'understand' homosexuals. Schools have been teaching that homosexuality is different but not wrong. Normal men and women are being made to feel guilty for their abhorrence of outrageous perversion. It is being insisted that their attitudes must change.

Think of the position of your children. It is increasingly likely that they will be the objects of homosexual advances. The number of homo­sexuals are multiplying and their activity is increasingly public. Meanwhile your children's consciences are being actively undermined by churches, schools and government policy. From many sides they are being made to believe that this sexual perversion is acceptable and that something is wrong with them if they view homosexuality as sickening. The pressures upon your children and grandchildren are already immense.

We are even now not far from the point at which there will be no turning back to moral and normal sexual standards in our society. Churches are often on the wrong side of the issue. Political leaders are yielding to 'gay' political action groups. Schools carefully avoid any disapproval of homosexuality. Public school sexual education is not a neutral force in our culture. It is paving the way for homosexual increase. The issue is not about two obscure people in a backroom somewhere.

Homosexuals want you to believe that there have always been scores of thousands (or millions) of homosexuals. Now they are just 'coming out of the closet' where they have been hiding. Certainly it is true that America has never been entirely free of tragic and shameful homosexual practices. But it is evident that the practice and 'preference' is rapidly accelerating. In only fifty years there has been an explosion of this indecency due to a new atmosphere of 'tolerance' and lax law enforcement.

Everyone knows that no crime, however degenerate, can be stamped out by stringent laws. But strong law enforcement restrains evil and retards its growth. When filthy and contagious practices are driven underground, all of society benefits. Those who wish to perform evil and harmful practices ought to be driven into dark corners for the good of all.

In our day public and unpunished pandering of perverted sex has had a stunning effect. Sexual corruption is spreading rapidly. Law enforcement is immobilized. Political leaders cannot tell if the issue is one of morality or of rights. Liberal church leaders and educators smile and say that it is all very good. You and your children are the victims.

The Myths of Sexual Preferences←⤒🔗

Innocent-sounding words conceal the heart of the matter. Speaking of homosexual activity as a 'preference' makes it sound like a matter of private and personal choice. Sexual activity is, however, always social behaviour. It involves others. True liberty exists only within moral boundaries. When any preference at all is considered legitimate, then the wicked are free. The righteous are oppressed.

If a man chooses to murder, or prefers to steal or elects to lie he should not have the liberty to do so. If you liberate rapists or homosexuals to do as they please everyone else is enslaved. Practised homosexuality perverts the bodies of other human beings. It influences and corrupts the sexual attitudes of all society. Approved wickedness of any sort robs decent parents of the right to raise their children as they prefer — to choose noble and good sexual activity and detest homosexuality.

Is it an innocent matter to prefer sexual relations with young child­ren? Is it a legitimate alternative to prefer having a beast of the field for a sexual mate? Is it simply a matter of choice to prefer self-exposure for sexual thrills? It is obvious that all these choices fail to qualify as morally neutral and harmless selections. They are all unnatural, degrading to all human beings, and disgusting. They call for social condemnation and firm rejection. Homosexual practice does not differ from any of the above. The word 'preference' cannot hide its ugly and pernicious character.

Yet such words have blinded the public. If the governor of our State agreed to have a private meeting with Mafia leaders, everyone would object. That greedy and sinister organization undermines the safety of citizens, threatens the integrity of business and subverts the justice of government. The group is a threat to moral honesty in trade and in the commonwealth. But soon after our present governor took office, he agreed to meet with political representatives off homosexuals. He gave public credence to a group that lives and works to subvert the moral fibre of the commonwealth. Why have so few complained that he encouraged this base element of our society? It is time for citizens to speak out. It is time to insist that political and educational leaders take a stand for human sexual dignity and against this brazen drive to undermine moral decency.

This is not an issue of private preference. Homosexuals are organizing and marching to impose their perversion on our whole society. The subject will not fade into insignificance. It is thrust upon your nation and your town. Your schools have changed their tune in sex education. Your local newspaper is following the tide of the times. Liberal clergy have led the way very effectively. They have done all in their power to make homosexuality a present issue in your town.

Isn't it harsh and unloving to say that homosexuality is not an innocent preference but a vile perversion? Tolerance is not always noble. To tolerate greed, violence and tyranny is no virtue. Homosexuality is as destructive to society as the forces just mentioned. Criminal behaviour, anti-social behaviour, harmful behaviour must not be tolerated.

Is there no love for homosexuals? Yes, there should be a concern to deliver them from self-destruction as well as an interest to prevent their injuring society. It is possible to rescue homosexuals from their perversion. In the passage in which Paul said 'homosexual offenders will not inherit the kingdom of God' (1 Corinthians 6:10), the apostle goes on to say, 'And that is what some of you were. But you were washed...'

There is a love to be shown to the most depraved of mankind. But it is not love to approve of their crimes. It is not love to redefine the moral code so as to condone their evil deeds. Love calls them away from base practices and shows them the grace of God which can both forgive their sinful deeds and give them power to walk in purity. Looking at homosexual practice as a legitimate preference abandons homosexuals and all around them to their sorry condition. It does not rescue them but confirms their condition. Wouldn't it be convenient to call drunkenness a mere preference? Then we would not have to help recover the drunkard nor insulate our society against the ravages of this crime. It is not love to take this easy way out for homosexual sins.

The Myth of Nothing to Worry About←⤒🔗

Probably everyone has heard about Lot, a righteous man who lived in Sodom. That city became so filled with homosexual perversion that to this day the obnoxious acts of homosexuals are called by the name of the city (sodomy). For a long time Lot assumed that he could live with the vulgar civilization of Sodom. Of course Lot would never think of joining in with the homosexual 'preferences' of the Sodomites. Their unsavoury vices would not affect him, he thought. Still he would live among the homosexuals in peace and enjoy the good things to be had in that land cf. Genesis 19.

You perhaps recall the sudden and violent end of the city of Sodom. But do you recall the end of Lot's story? Since he was moral in his personal behaviour, did everything turn out well for him? Because Lot 'tolerated' his homosexual neighbours two great tragedies occurred to him.

When God's fury and judgment fell on Sodomite society, Lot lost everything but the skin of his teeth. The Bible teaches that his soul was safe, but his earthly possessions were lost and his life on earth is afterward a tragic tale. None of us has the right to live in selfish isolation. As a member of society, you have a responsibility for the moral tone of your community. God judges nations for flagrant immorality. And those who enjoy the luxury of silence and inaction in the face of evil suffer along with their nation or city. It is your responsibility before God to speak out and exert your influence against moral perversions.

Furthermore, Lot had the heartache of watching his children, every­one, become sexual perverts through the 'liberated' society of Sodom. Fire and brimstone burning up house and possessions was not the greatest tragedy for Lot. He lived to see his children burning with corrupt lusts. His descendants became the positive enemies of the God he worshipped — all because he thought he could quietly co-exist with the most obvious moral perverts. Can a mother or father afford to remain uninvolved with the educational system and political process and still hope to provide a decent life for their children and grand­children? It is so stormy and unpleasant to face the conflicts involved in speaking out on these issues. But do you care about the culture you are leaving to your children? Do you care about their futures?

'But that was the Old Testament', someone will say. The New Testament agrees with the Old that God is deeply offended with homo­sexual behaviour. It violates his moral law, the Ten Commandments. It provokes him to anger and he gives up to destruction societies which condone the practice (Romans 1:21-32). Homosexual activity is the evidence of God's wrath descending on America. Homosexual pro­liferation is the seed of social collapse. Already the foundation of our Western culture is seriously undermined by these obviously base practices.

What can be done? Each American must repent and call upon God for mercy! Turn away from the arrogant theologians and churches who still think they know more than God! 'Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools'. They got us into this mess. They turned from the glory of God displayed in the Bible and in God's moral law and worshipped and served the human intellect of the universities.

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. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.Romans 1:26-28

The starting point for sexual perversion was religious unfaithfulness. Return to the God of Scripture and to a stand for decency. Vigorously reject and manfully oppose every sinister attempt to identify homo­sexuality with 'right', 'sexual preference' and 'consenting adults'. Above all, fear the living God who casts soul and body into Hell for just such practices as are deemed innocent by homosexuals, neutral newspapers, sophisticated educators, and unfaithful clergy.