Homosexuals: Sick, Insane, or Something else?

"And such were some of you…” 1 Corinthians 6:11

In court of law, if you want to prove that you had no control over your actions… that your response to a situation, or to a certain environment was somehow predetermined… that it wasn’t your choice to make…  you have only two defenses:

You are either “sick”… meaning that something is physically, chemically, neurologically, etc. wrong with you…

Or you are “insane”… which means there is something mentally wrong with you… that you are not in your “right” mind.

In either case, you are claiming that you should not be held to any particular behavior… that it is OK because for some reason you “couldn’t help yourself.”

And unfortunately main stream society, without many realizing it, have by default judged people who live as homosexuals as being either sick or insane.

That it isn’t up to them… that they were born this way… that there is something wrong with anyone who would actually say anything to the contrary.

But…

If homosexuality is predetermined by some body chemistry… why aren’t the pharmaceuticals developing medications to change it?  They make them for everything else.

Hmmm, so it isn’t that they are sick and they need to take a pill.

And…

You would have a hard time convincing me that someone who lives as a homosexual is insane.  In fact, I might be more inclined to think you were if you held that position.

And I doubt that people who live as homosexuals would be fine with either one of those conclusions either.

So if it isn’t a sickness... and it isn’t insanity… it must be something else.

It must be the same thing heterosexuals face every day when they have impulses, desires, habits… dare I say it… temptations… that would cause them to go against the Word of God.

Ahh yes… it is called a decision.

A decision they have every right to make.

And just as we expect people to respect our decisions, we need to respect theirs… especially when we disagree with them.

I am not saying we should accept homosexuality…  AND… I am not saying we should judge homosexuals…

The first denies the standard of heaven… the second denies the value of man…

Both deny the power of the Cross.

Too often we forget that before, and since, we gave our lives to Jesus we make choices that we shouldn’t.  Who are we to bring the hammer down on others?

Really… it isn’t up to us to determine how they live…

But it is definitely up to them.

They are not sick… or insane… they are faced with a decision.

And they are loved by the One Who gave His life for them.

So when people say “they really can’t help themselves”…

Show them the love of the only One Who can.

SDG