Homosexuality A recent article in the Birmingham News dealt with the subject of homosexuality, featuring two homosexual "deacons." The article was predictably biased, and very obviously designed to push and promote homosexuality as normal and acceptable. It said the Bible contains "fewer than a dozen, mostly ambiguous references to homosexuality, with Romans in the New Testament and Leviticus in the Old Testament frequently cited by traditionalists." My first reaction is this: How many times does God have to say something for it to be accepted as truth? Would two dozen be enough, or perhaps three dozen? I have an idea that if one will not believe when God says something is wrong in a dozen verses, that he would not believe if it were stated on every page. The author reflected either on his intelligence or his integrity (I say that in all kindness) when he said that those references were ambiguous . But let God's word speak for itself: Speaking of the homosexuality of Sodom and Gormorrah, God said, "their sin is very grievous" (Gen. 18:26). Is that really ambiguous to you? Ambiguous means that which is unclear, vague, or indefinite. This passage says homosexuality is a sin, and it is very grievous. There was nothing "ambiguous" about the punish- ment: "Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the heavens" (Gen. 19:24). Then again, God gave the following law to His people Israel: "If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. There blood shall be upon them" (Lev. 20:13). I really don't have any trouble understanding that, do you? The Romans passage to which the news article referred says, "There- fore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie....For this reason God gave them over to degrad- ing passions; for their women ex- changed the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error" (Rom. 1:24-27). I would be ashamed to say that I couldn't understand that, wouldn't you? 1 Corinthians 6:9,10 plainly says that neither "homosexuals, nor sodomites" (NKJV) "will inherit the kingdom of God." Would it not be more honest and honorable for a person to just say that he is stub- bornly refusing to accept what the Bible teaches than to say that the Bible is "unclear"? Let God be true but every man a liar. -- Leon Mauldin