My newly married niece, who
is gay, recently sent out invitations for a wedding celebration. I was
disappointed that one of the invitations, along with an RSVP, went to her 90
year-old grandmother. This older generation did not accept homosexuality and
grandma found herself in an impossible situation. Trying to run interference, I
discovered it was my sister-in-law who actually suggested to her daughter that
she send the invitation. At first blush I thought there was a terrible lack of judgment
all around. However, I then realized that God has already passed judgment in
sexual immorality, so the issue is not with the gay niece, her marriage, or the
invitation. The real problem is with those who encourage others to take part
and celebrate sin. Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people
to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they
come. (Luke 17:1 NIV)
1 comment:
Gail;
-----What’s the big deal with gay wedding celebrations and cakes and flowers? I’ve been noticing a lot of tar and feathering over these things going on lately. It’s just another sale of a cake or bouquet, isn’t it? It’s just another happy event?
-----The “looking glass principle” of the symbolic interaction theory of social psychology would not have passed its second century and be ascending into its third if it were not very, very real. In fact, that same principle forms the substance of other theories as well, some of which are being used as guides to destroy traditional Western culture and build into its place varieties of progressive utopian social experiments.
-----Every ordinary human being has a deep seated need for company. Man is both expressive and receptive. Fear strikes a person when his expressions deviate too far from those he has normally received from others. Everyone does want to be different, but very few want to be too different. So people watch the reactions of others to gauge the propriety of their own actions.
-----But that’s only a part of the looking glass‘ utility. Since it is a rather passive part, at least from the perspective of society as a whole, it’s effect upon social norms is slow and slight. Progressives, on the other hand, are individuals. Individuals are far, far less patient than is this organism we call “society”. Had gay marriage been left to the passive side of the looking glass, it would wait another half-century for it’s time in the sun. The useful, other part of the looking glass is the active side where activists strike fear into the hearts of people otherwise feeling quite comfortable in their aversion adversely to an activists’ desires. Scaring people into baking cakes, arranging bouquets, and nodding gleeful heads at gay wedding celebrations makes social images by which expressions and actions would be better guaged, by cracky!
-----That being said, let’s measure the real evil in gay marriage. I hate to say, it isn’t in the gayness part, or the marriage part. If there were no Holy God, homosexuality would only be another behavior. But since there is a Holy God, any and every misbehavior separates us from Him. And His Word says that everyone misbehaves. So admitting the truth, who has a chance?
-----It is interesting that the one chance we have been given is through the One whom God presented as the truth. This wasn’t by accident. The way to God is through the truth admitted about sin. One sin being as deadly as any other makes no scalar list of worse than or better than sins, except one. That one is blasphemy. Blasphemy is to judge God. Confessing our sins is to judge ourselves while acquiescing to God. Denying them is to judge God in acquiescence to ourselves.
-----The refusal to bake cakes or arrange flowers or nod heads of approval at gay weddings is not anti-gay. Everything in which we participate expresses into the social looking glass. It is our testimony. The person who has taken up a life of purposeful direction unto Jesus Christ is living his life in an ongoing statement of confessional truth about his own sins in order to shine the health of what God says into the social looking glass. That is his acquiescence to the God whom he fears. It has nothing to do with “hatred for gays”, whom he actually loves (another topic for another day.) It is that his whole life is being crafted by the love he is best learning from the truth making best sense. When it comes to love or hatred and the possessive control over another human being, that social ill of slavery, that extraction of gain from the dispensability of another, it is the “breaking of kneecaps” for coercing misrepresenting images into the looking glass wherein is real evil, not the marriage of two guys or of two gals.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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