The Price of Pride

    June first marked the beginning of Gay Pride month. I can't really tell the difference, for the last few years, every day seems to be gay pride day. I can't watch a 30 second commercial for a product that has no sexual connotation, without a flash of a gay couple in it. At the extreme ends of the spectrum, are Christians who react to homosexuality either by ranking it second after murder in our unbiblical Top 10 Hits of Sin, or they embrace it in an attempt to be more inclusive and contemporary. (As if one of the oldest sins in the Bible is contemporary.) Closer to the middle of the spectrum, are Christians who consider it just another sin like lying, stealing and adultery. That is true, although 1 Cor. 6:18 says "the sexually immoral person sins against his own body." Typically, sexual sins take two to tango so someone else's body is also involved. And lest anyone think Paul was catering his words to the sensibilities of the time, Rome had gay pride long before us.

    It is non-Christians who are making homosexuality not just another sin. Although our culture has huge tolerance for bad behavior, there is no Adultery Pride Month, Liar Pride Week, or even Thief Pride Day. Some could argue that Pro-abortion rallies promote the right to murder, but Planned Parenthood has not attempted to establish Abortion Pride Month. And although events like Carnival in South America, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and Sturgis week in South Dakota are inclusive about drunken debauchery, most cities realize a month long celebration would do too much damage, fill too many jails and cost too much money. Las Vegas might be accepting of prostitution, inebriation and many other vices, but even there you are not allowed to cheat at gambling. So why put Gay Pride Month on our U.S. calendar along with Black History, Hispanic Heritage, etc? Why promote this one sin over all the others? Because most people know adultery destroys families, lying is wrong and even thieves don't want others to steal their property. Even sinful societies know some things are wrong.

    Promoting homosexuality might make it more accepted by the masses, but not by the Master Designer. He has battled Satan over this throughout the ages because homosexuality is, by nature, sterile. Gay couples who get pregnant or adopt are totally dependent on heterosexual reproduction. If all humankind was homosexual, mankind would have no future. Satan's plan is to destroy people; God's plan is for man to continue. I believe the reason God assigned a death penalty for homosexuality among His people, the reason he has dealt with it so severely in the past (Noah's flood, fire bombing Sodom & Gomorrah), is because it defies God's purposes and no one can fight God and win. Our present day promotion of gay pride will peak and ebb as it has many times in the past, but it comes at a high cost for our culture, for our families, for our future. The price of pride has always been a fall.