Redefined Sex Part Two

A fourteen-year-old girl was performing oral sex for one of her classmates as a teacher rounded the corner, looking to buy a soft drink from the bank of machines in an alcove off the main hallway.  Of course, both the children were expelled.  Over the next several days our administration was assailed by students, teachers, parents, even the Mayor.  They were all saying that what the kids were doing is not that bad.  Most of them were saying that the kids were just doing what comes natural.  All of them were saying that the punishment was too harsh.  The one thing missing was outrage for what the kids were doing.  No one was saying that it was wrong.

Tiger Woods, Magic Johnson, Charlie Sheen, Madonna, Sex in the City, Playboy Mansion, Paris Hilton advertising a hamburger through sexual innuendo.  Just a small sampling of the sexual bombardment the average citizen endures on a daily basis.  Everything from a President claiming that oral sex is not really sex, to porn stars being exalted, our children are shown a world where illicit sex is running rampant.  Prostitution is overlooked, and in some cases, exalted as an honorable profession.  Online pornography is one of the fastest growing online businesses.  Married couples are engaged is this line of business to supplement their income.  Business people, teachers, ministers, and government officials are almost daily being exposed for their involvement in child pornography.  Human slavery is on the rise, where young people are sold to be used as sex toys.

Some will say that this kind of thing has always been around.  There is no denying the truth in that statement.  There have always been those who would abuse sex.  Just as there have always been those who commit murder.  The difference is that there are very few people trying to justify murder.  On the other hand, there are those who would justify wrongful sex acts.  In fact, justification is the norm.  Talk shows promote the concept that infidelity is not only normal, it is to be accepted.  We are to believe that abstinence is archaic and unreasonable.  Expecting people to be monogamous is silly, we just can’t have that kind of self-control.

While it is true that there will always be those who make mistakes.  It is equally true that our response to those who are penitent should be filled with grace.  The sad truth is that many are not penitent.  This is what needs to change.  None of us are beyond sinning.  However, the correct response to our sin is remorse.  Before the sin is committed, there needs to be a plan helping us to prevent the commission of the sin.  Yet, when that fails, and there are times when it will, one must repent, being sincerely sorry for what they have done.  Sex is an activity that is reserved for only one circumstance.  God offered this gift to a man and woman who are in a covenanted relationship known as marriage.  Sexual activity in any other circumstance is wrong – just as wrong as homosexual activity.  Neither should be overlooked, swept under the carpet, or justified.  We should be calling sin what it is . . . sin!

Finally, sex should be a celebration of our love for our mate.  We should rejoice in this joining together of man and woman in an act of pure love, given by God, created by God, ordained by God.  Let’s keep it unpolluted!

Redefined Sex

I have a degree in English, with a focus on Shakespeare.  For those of you who have studied Shakespeare, you have an idea of what I endured with my conservative views.  My mentor/teacher, Eugene Zumwalt, was an existentialist.  He believed that William Shakespeare was a homosexual.  The reason I respected Professor Zumwalt so much was that he allowed me to have a different opinion, and he even respected my opposing view.  One day in class we were covering love letters seemingly written from one man to another man.  Knowing I was a preacher, and that I held an opposing view, Mr. Zumwalt called on me to express my opinion.  My response was simple, but honest.  I said that I felt it to be a sad state of affairs that we in modern times have redefined love to necessitate sexual activity.  There was a time, not so long ago, that a man could love another man, or a woman a woman, without any sexual connotation.  It is a modern concept that distorts love.  From the beginning sexual activity has been an intended part of monogamous marriage.  The primary purpose to populate the earth.  God, in His infinite wisdom, made it pleasurable.  Thus, as a side benefit, it becomes an expression of our love to our mate.

However, love outside of marriage, is expressed in many non-sexual ways.  In fact, the primary function of love does not include sexual activity.  God is love.  To attach sexual activity to this primary basis of love is unthinkable.  We have a love for our children that causes us to sacrifice our lives for their benefit.  When sexual activity is attached to this love, we rightfully see it as perversion and prosecute these offenders without concern for the offenders welfare.  I love my brothers and sisters, both those biological and those in the Lord.  Attaching sexual activity to these relationships would not only destroy those relationships, but it would just be wrong.  From the beginning of time, men have loved other men without any sexual activity.  In fact, when men did engage in such behavior, it was rightly viewed as a perversion.  God destroyed two cities, Sodom and Gomorrah, primarily because of this kind of aberrant behavior.  He states plainly that homosexual offenders will not enter the kingdom of heaven.  When listing those things that are an abhorrence to Him, homosexuality finds its way to that list.

There is no good reason to redefine love in order to bring legitimacy to sexual perversion.  I understand that my words fly in the face of current thought.  Furthermore, I understand that some people are born with an inclination toward homosexuality.  However, others are born with inclinations toward violence, dishonesty, and other aberrant behavior.  We don’t justify this behavior because they have this inclination.  So, why do we do it with homosexuality?

In the early seventies I drove a Yellow Cab in Sacramento, working the night shift.  During my one and a half year tenure I hauled a lot of homosexuals in my cab, transporting them from one gay bar to another, and often back to their home.  Without exception, every single homosexual male that rode in my taxi propositioned me.  Now I ask, is that normal behavior?  If so, why didn’t every woman also proposition me?  Another little dirty secret that few want to talk about is the high percentage of homosexuals who are also pedophiles.  There are actually resorts in Mexico that cater to these homosexual men, bringing in poor young boys from the surrounding villages.  Instead of embracing homosexuality, we should be outraged!  Now, please do not get me wrong.  I am not advocating the mistreatment of homosexuals.  Quite the contrary, I believe we should love and have great compassion toward the homosexual.  They have a tremendous burden to overcome.  Having said that, it is no different than any other aberrant leaning that needs to be overcome.  Just as we try to rehabilitate thieves and those who suffer with anger management, we need to help rehabilitate the homosexual.  The one thing we don’t need to do, is redefine love.  Let’s keep love pure, the way God intended