To My LGBT Friends

If you are reading this and you come from “the other side of the aisle,” please read this entire post. Please don’t stop part way. Please at least hear everything that I have to say before you give your verdict. I’m writing directly to you, my LGBT and leftist friends. I’m asking you to hear me out.

I’m gonna start by admitting that I do poke fun at the wokeness of the woke and the intolerance of the tolerant and the alphabet soup of the soupy. I do laugh at intellectuals who trip over themselves trying to explain how there are dozens of genders because- well, it’s pretty funny. And I will continue to do so. As long as the prophets of Baal keep dancing and prancing, I shall sit beside Elijah and provide some (far less authoritative) jocular commentary. (1 Kings 18)

Laughing at insanity is necessary because laughter is disarming and contagious. When the people of Israel see Elijah laughing at the prophets of Baal, it does something to them. They realize that this prophet of the Lord has absolutely no fear of this god that all the elites in their land worship so fervently. Elijah’s laughter refuses to even validate the showdown on Mount Carmel as a contest between gods. Elijah’s laughter says that this is going to be a complete shutout, and he knows whose scorecard is gonna have a big fat goose egg on it at the end of the game.

That gives the Israelites the freedom to look at one another and actually vocalize what they have perhaps thought many times before- “you know guys, it really is just a statue.” Those who already trusted in God, but had compromised and wavered, are reinvigorated by the sight of Elijah’s cavalier courage. Those who are on the fence are intrigued and impressed by the fearlessness of the prophet.

Those who are devoted to Baal, however, are enraged. And this is the primary reason why I want to not only rationalize my behavior but also to clarify it.

Firstly, I am not arguing that I am on the same authoritative or influential level as Elijah. Far from it. But it only takes a kid shouting that the king has no clothes on to get all the adults of the town to snicker and blush. If God can use me as that kid, then may it be so.

Secondly, the kind of laughter I’m talking about doing here is a heartbroken sort of laughter. And here’s where I really want to talk directly to those in the LGBT community, and in the broader leftist community as a whole- those who are quite possibly deeply offended and angered by the casual attitude I may seem to have towards their positions and arguments.

I love you.

I really do.

I’m not with those guys walking around at funerals holding signs that say “God hates gays.” I’m not interested in browbeating you or Bible-bashing you or berating you. I’m not, in fact, interested in making fun of you as an individual, despite the fun that I have at the expense of your ideologies. You aren’t my enemy.

On the contrary, I would heartily enjoy exchanging ideas with you. I respect you as a person made in the Image of God. I think you’re a somebody, with a story, with a brain, with an opinion. I know you believe what you believe for a reason. I don’t think you’re an evil maniac deeply intent on the destruction of all that is good in the world. (On that note, I’d appreciate it if you guys would return the favor.)

If you’re willing to talk with a Bible-thumping right-winger like me, I’m happy to talk with a lesbian leftist like you. Seriously.

I do believe that you are wrong. Of course I do. You believe I’m wrong too, so it’s only fair.

But you must understand that if I really believe what I say I do, for me to approve of your lifestyle would be unloving, in the same way that if I knew that someone was stopping for dinner in a collapsing building, to simply tell them to enjoy their meal would be unloving.

The Bible says that God made two sexes and that He approves of one sexual expression- one man and one woman within the covenant context of marriage. And the Bible says that His wrath abides on those who reject Jesus Christ. That would be all sinners, by the way, not just the LGBT ones. But it does include the LGBT ones. (John 3:36)

“Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual 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 shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.” Romans 1:26-27, NIV

If I really believe that that is true, what kind of person would I be if I didn’t warn you? How could I really say that I care about you?

I know you disagree with the Bible, and you probably think that I’m ridiculously bigoted and old-fashioned. I don’t hate you for that. Do you hate me for it? You are convinced of your view. I am convinced of mine. So let’s talk!

Again, I don’t believe that homosexuality is the only sin in the universe. I don’t believe that the LGBT community constitutes the entirety of the lost in our world today, and that if we could just get those people to start living heterosexual lifestyles all our troubles would be over. The problem is sin- sin of all stripes. Sexual perversion, yes. But also covetousness and greed, adultery, murder, rebellion against parents, gluttony, lust, pride, selfishness, discontent. Sin is wrapped in binding chains around the heart of every man and woman, and only Christ can break those chains.

So I do focus notably on responding to the advances of the LGBT community, but the reason for that is that y’all are kinda the most vocal sector of opposition to Christian doctrine in our culture. It is not because you are just evil and beyond hope and gross while the rest of us straight people are normal and our cute little sins are OK because they don’t make me uncomfortable.

According to the Bible, sexual perversion is a particularly unnatural form of sin, it is true. It’s farther down the slope of judgment. But it’s still just a sin. They’re all on the same slope. (Rom. 1)

And none of them put you outside of the reach of the Gospel. One of the primary messages of Christianity is that God came to rescue us from our sins. You’re a sinner… just like me. What crimes are on our rap sheet don’t make nearly as much of a difference as whether or not we are guilty. And we are guilty. All of us.

At least, that’s what the Bible says.

But the Bible also says we don’t have to stay guilty.

“…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” Romans 3:23-24, NIV

At the end of the day, I’m a leper that found Someone Who can heal leprosy. Well, more like He found me. I’ve got no business looking down on anyone else’s sores. You may not agree with me that you’ve got leprosy. But the Bible says you do- gay or straight, black or white, male or female, if you’re a human, your soul is sick with sin. So was mine. And then came Jesus, and He started me on a treatment program. One that is guaranteed to bring healing now and life forever.

Well, you can’t really blame a guy for spreading the word about a cure like that.

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