This web page was
created in response to criticisms of
Kevin Craig's position
on homosexuality. The claim was
made that the belief that
homosexuality is contrary to "the
Laws of Nature and of Nature's God"
is "hateful," that
articulating the belief that
homosexuality is a sin is "hate
speech," and public expression of
views which are critical of
homosexuality constitute "hate
crimes."
- The Bible plainly says that God
hates unrepentant homosexuals,
just as He hates unrepentant
murderers and embezzlers.
- For the
wrath of God is revealed from
heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who
suppress the truth in
unrighteousness . . . . For this
reason God gave them up to
vile passions. For even their
women exchanged the natural use
for what is against nature.
Likewise also the men, leaving the
natural use of the woman, burned
in their lust for one another, men
with men committing what is
shameful, and receiving in
themselves the penalty of their
error which was due.
And even as they did not like to
retain God in their
knowledge, God gave them over
to a debased mind, to do those
things which are not fitting;
Romans
1:18-32
- God commands us to lovingly
reach out to those who hate God
and firmly invite them to repent,
and God lovingly grants
repentance, enabling them to
reject that which is shameful and
embrace that which is healthy and
holy.
This page explains why it is
necessary for Christians to engage in
"hate speech" against
homosexuals, and why this is a loving
thing to do.
This campaign follows America's
Founding Fathers by engaging in
"hate speech" toward the
following:
If you're a homosexual, you hate
the God of the Bible. If God grants
you repentance, you'll be glad someone
committed a "hate crime"
toward you by telling you that God is
angry with you. |
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Imagine that one of your employees embezzles $10,000 from
your company. You don't find out about it until it's too late:
it throws your small business into turmoil. Your creditors have
been stiffed. Your competitors use this information to their
advantage. Like the domino effect, like the snowball effect, you
eventually have to close your business and declare bankruptcy.
Your entire life is turned upside down.
Your unethical employee feels no remorse. He says he needed
the money. He says he was "worth more than you paid
me." He is a Darwinist and says he can't be held
responsible for the collapse of your business, which was worth
nearly a million dollars, since he only took $10,000.
"Survival of the fittest," he says. He doesn't even
say "I'm sorry." He never offers to pay you back or
make restitution in any form. The thought of trying to undo the
damage he did never crosses his mind.
He is, as the Bible would describe him,
"unrepentant."
What is your attitude toward this employee?
You hate him.
You're a Christian, so you leave vengeance
to God (Romans 12:19ff.). You do not steal from him, attempt to
seduce his wife away from him, or poison his water. You believe
the Bible:
{Romans 13:8} Owe no one anything, except to love one
another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
{9} The commandments, "You shall
not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not
steal; You shall not covet"; and any other commandment,
are summed up in this word, "Love your neighbor as
yourself."
{10} Love does no wrong to a neighbor;
therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.
One day as you drive by his house, you see him playing
baseball with his son. It's easy to imagine that his son loves
his father. Many sons don't have fathers to play baseball with.
Generally speaking, he's probably an above-average father. Would
you re-hire him? Not a chance. He's got an unethical streak that
ruined your business and turned your life upside down. You hate
the guy.
Years later you learn that your embezzling former-employee
has developed severe emphysema. The driver of a truck carrying
oxygen tanks asks you where your former employee lives so he can
deliver life-saving air. For a split-second you're tempted, but
you tell the truck driver exactly how to get to your former
employee's home. Jesus said, "Love your enemies." You
obey.
Would you re-hire that employee? Not a chance. You hate him.
What he did to you disgusts you. What he did to you is,
objectively speaking, disgusting.
Can we use the word "disgust" and
"objective" in the same sentence? Are ethics objective
or just a matter of subjective tastes? Is morality absolute, or
merely relative? Can we say that you are absolutely right and
the embezzler is absolutely wrong? After all, he apparently
believes that he wasn't paid what he deserved. He sincerely
believes he did no wrong, even though you lost your business and
had your entire life thrown into turmoil. Who's to say?
God.
The Christian believes God has the right to say some things
are wrong.
God created human beings as males and females.
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish
of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth.
{27} So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he him; male and female
created he them.
{28} And God blessed them, and God said
unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth,
and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that
moveth upon the earth.
Hebrews 13:4 Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let
the marriage bed be kept undefiled; for God will judge
fornicators and adulterers.
Proverbs 5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and
running waters out of thine own well.
{16} Let thy fountains be dispersed
abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
{17} Let them be only thine own, and not
strangers' with thee.
{18} Let thy fountain be blessed: and
rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
{19} Let her be as the loving hind and
pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and
be thou ravished always with her love.
{20} And why wilt thou, my son, be
ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a
stranger?
Homosexuals attempt to embezzle sexual satisfaction from
God's business.
The entire creation is God's enterprise.
God is the Boss.
Homosexuals are disobedient employees.
God hates them.
God still delivers their air, and we should too:
Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless
them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray
for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
{45} That ye may be the children of your
Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on
the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on
the unjust.
But we must hate evil.
Revelation 2:6 Yet this is to your credit: you hate the
works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
2 Chronicles 19:2 Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to
meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you help
the wicked and love those who hate the LORD?
Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the LORD.
Psalm 139:21 Do not I hate them, O LORD,
that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up
against thee?
{22} I hate them with perfect hatred: I
count them mine enemies.
Psalm 101:1 I will sing of loyalty and of justice; to you,
O LORD, I will sing.
{2} I will study the way that is
blameless. When shall I attain it? I will walk with integrity
of heart within my house;
{3} I will not set before my eyes
anything that is base. I hate the work of those who fall away;
it shall not cling to me.
{4} Perverseness of heart shall be far
from me; I will know nothing of evil.
{5} One who secretly slanders a neighbor
I will destroy. A haughty look and an arrogant heart I will
not tolerate.
{6} I will look with favor on the
faithful in the land, so that they may live with me; whoever
walks in the way that is blameless shall minister to me.
{7} No one who practices deceit shall
remain in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue in
my presence.
{8} Morning by morning I will destroy
all the wicked in the land, cutting off all evildoers from the
city of the LORD.
Psalm 26:4 I do not sit with the worthless, nor do I
consort with hypocrites;
{5} I hate the company of evildoers, and
will not sit with the wicked.
Christians must obey God's commandments with respect to
homosexuals. Love is the fulfilling of God's Law. Homosexuals
living in a Christian society will be better off than those
living in pagan societies. God's Law is the source of cultural
blessings, and these blessings fall even on those who violate
God's Law. But one of those commandments is to hold their
immoral acts in disgust. We must hate embezzlers and
homosexuals. The Bible says so.
Genesis 19:4-9
{4} But before they lay down, the men of
the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round,
both old and young, all the people from every quarter: {5}
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men
which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that
we may know them. {6} And Lot went out
at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, {7}
And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
Leviticus 18:22
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is
abomination.
Leviticus 20:13
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both
of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be
put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a
sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Judges 19:22
Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of
the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about,
and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house,
the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine
house, that we may know him.
1 Kings 14:24
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did
according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD
cast out before the children of Israel.
1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed
all the idols that his fathers had made.
1 Kings 22:46
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days
of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
2 Kings 23:7
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by
the house of the LORD, where the women
wove hangings for the grove.
Romans 1:24-27
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the
lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies
between themselves: {25} Who changed the
truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the
creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
{26} For this cause God gave them up
unto vile affections: for even their women did change the
natural use into that which is against nature: {27}
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the
woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men
working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves
that recompense of their error which was meet.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom
of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters,
nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with
mankind, {10} Nor thieves, nor covetous,
nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit
the kingdom of God.
1 Timothy 1:9-10
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man,
but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for
sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and
murderers of mothers, for manslayers, {10}
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with
mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and
if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound
doctrine;
"Homophobia" is as ridiculous an accusation as
"embezzlerphobia" or "murdererphobia."
Embezzlers and homosexuals disrupt God's creation. They bring
pain into the lives of others. Embezzlers and homosexuals are
not happy. Christians must hold their nose and compassionately
help the wicked out of the sewer.
Why Christians should become more "judgmental."
Everyone sins. My commitment to win sinners to Christ is much
higher than my commitment to punish sinners. I completely reject
violence against sinners.
There is an egregious "gay-bashing" which is obnoxious
and unChristian even if it is not overtly violent. But
belief in the Christian account of the creation of male and
female, the Christian ordinance of marriage, and the immorality
of homosexuality is not "homophobia."
Some
of My Best Friends are Gay
Homosexuality
| Stand to Reason Commentaries
"Homophobia"
| Pyromaniacs
Christians should go out of their way to be gracious,
inviting, charitable, and hospitable to homosexuals. I have
extended hospitality to homosexuals in my home. Even those
diagnosed with AIDS. One died while a guest in my home. I spent
hours with him in the hospital before his own family could be
notified of his condition and come to his side. Christianity
teaches love
for enemies, not hatred (where "hatred" takes the form
of making
sinners suffer, violence, vengeance,
or "vigilante
justice").
But we must take up "sides," and not be on the
"side" of those who are dedicated to rebelling against
God's commandments.
We are commanded to be at
their side, even if we are not "on their
side."
Hospitality
Recent activity in the "blogosphere"
Five years ago I had to deal with
homosexuals who unfairly represented my position. More recently,
I responded to an email here.
I got some responses which are catalogued here.
Some of the comments on my blog are from "drive-by"
bloggers, who don't really want to know the facts or engage in a
dialogue, they just want to . . . I don't know what
they want, really. I don't think they want to be informed of the
facts. I think they prefer to publicly "anathematize"
the "unbelievers" so that their readers are impressed
with their courageous stand for their "truth."
The surprising thing is that the vast majority of the
hostility directed at this campaign comes from Libertarians!
Instead of investigating all the facts and trying to put this
campaign in the best possible light, to help defeat the
Republican incumbent, they want to destroy a libertarian
candidate.
When I first created this website, I followed the CATO
Handbook for Congress, each chapter of which begins with
recommendations for Congress. Hence, nearly every webpage on
this website begins with recommendations for Congress. When I
created this particular webpage (which obviously does not
correspond to any chapter in the CATO Handbook), I got a little
sarcastic, suggesting that Congress should "hate"
homosexuals (where "hate" is believing what America's
Founding Fathers believed). Some "libertarian"
bloggers have actually represented me as demanding that Congress
pass some form of legislation implementing "hate"
toward homosexuals. This is ridiculous for three reasons:
First, Congress has no Constitutional authority to legislate
on the issue of homosexuality at all, in any way. On dozens
of pages
I emphasize the concept of "enumerated
powers": that Congress only has authority to act in
areas that are specifically enumerated in the Constitution --
and sexuality is obviously not one of those areas.
Second, even if Congress had been delegated authority by
"We the People" in the area of sexuality (as it had
been in the area of "post offices
and post roads" [Art.1 sec.8]), as a radical libertarian I
disagree with the Constitution in many places, preferring that
the issue be sorted out in the Free Market.
Third, I believe both the federal government and the Free
Market are bound by the same rule of non-aggression: a
prohibition on the initiation of force. I explain this rule
here:
What
is the Libertarian Party?
and here:
Persuasion, not
Coercion
I am among the most radical of libertarians in this respect,
applying the non-aggression axiom comprehensively and
consistently, regarding both war and
personal behavior.
This means I oppose the exercise of the following government
powers against consenting homosexuals (and just about everyone
else):
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It would be closer to
the truth to represent me as being
opposed to all Congressional
legislation, period.
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Fines
Prisons, and
Capital
Punishment
One
blogger still insists
that I favor anti-homosexual legislation. I can't imagine what
that legislation would look like, given my radical libertarian
commitments.
My position on homosexuality is roughly parallel to my position
on heroin:
- It's no good.
- Legalize
it.
Since intoxication
is a sin, I "hate" drunkards, as the Bible commands.
My actions toward them are to lovingly
free them from their addiction, as the Bible commands.
Heroin addicts are not blogging against me like homosexuals
are. Perhaps that's because heroin addicts are not as
well-organized, politically powerful, and "politically
correct" as homosexuals. Or maybe heroin addicts are more
concerned to fairly represent the position of their opponent.
I admit I'm a "bigot."
Why I Sympathize with Bigots: Hatemongers - a movie by Steve Drain