It’s one thing when Newsweak magazine makes the claim that the Bible supports same-sex marriage, as it does today.
It’s another when the chief lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals comes darn close to suggesting the same thing.
And that’s what happened nearly two weeks ago when Richard Cizik appeared on NPR’s Terry Gross show.
Everyone knows Cizik is not your typical evangelical. He admits voting for Barack Obama in the Virginia primary. I guess Hillary was too conservative for him. He also boasts about being “five years ahead” of his constituency. And he is what my friend and colleague Rush Limbaugh would charitably characterize as “an environmentalist wacko” – someone who actually believes man’s activity on the planet is causing it to heat up in a way that will lead to catastrophe if we don’t start reducing our collective carbon footprints.
But he really outdid himself in the NPR interview.
Asked if his own views on same-sex marriage were changing, he said: “I’m shifting; I have to admit. In other words, I would willing say I believe in civil unions. I don’t officially support redefining marriage, from its traditional definition, I don’t think.”
You’re right, Mr. Cizik. You don’t think, which is why you were forced to resign yesterday.
What on Earth is happening inside the church?
Does everyone fail to notice what is going on around here? People are being re-programmed. They are being indoctrinated to believe there are no moral absolutes. They are buying into the lie that the Bible doesn’t really mean what it says. They are being seduced the same way Eve was in the Garden of Eden. They are, as the Bible says, “doing what’s right in their own eyes.”
And the chief lobbyist for the NAE is right there with them – going the way of the world.
It is ironic that a lifelong newsman should have to lecture the chief lobbyist for the nation’s evangelicals about morality and the Bible, but that’s where we are today. If no one else will do it, I will stand up for the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the civilizing law He laid down for us.
Do not be led astray by ravenous wolves in sheep’s clothing like Mr. Cizik.
Here’s what the Bible says about homosexuality. I would like to hear what Cizik has to say in rationalizing his viewpoint against these harsh, intolerant and condemning words:
- Leviticus 18:22 (KJV): “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.”
- Romans 1:22-27: Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 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. 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: 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 recompence of their error which was meet.
Where are the words in the Bible that suggest homosexuality is OK?
Nowhere.
In fact, the best the pseudo-Christian apologists for sodomy can do is suggest Jesus never came right out and condemned it.
There are two glaring and fundamental problems with that assertion.
First, the Bible teaches Jesus came not to overturn the law but to fulfill it. It teaches that He is the Word – its living fulfillment. It teaches that He is eternal and part of the Godhead that created the Heavens, the Earth and Man. It teaches He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. It teaches Jesus never contradicted any of the law.
And Jesus never did contradict the law. He quoted from it. He taught from it. He explained it. He affirmed it. On the road to Emmaus, He gave two disciples a Bible study from the Torah, revealing Himself at the very core of it.
Second, Jesus did speak out, as recorded in Matthew 19:4-6: “And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
Here Jesus had a golden opportunity to explain any middle ground in this issue of men and women – if there were any. As if to underscore the point, he did later provide something of an exemption for eunuchs – men who do not have testicles. But he doesn’t suggest God made people to be homosexuals, lesbians, transgendereds, transvestites or bisexuals.
The Bible teaches us many things – not just about sex. It also teaches us that many false prophets will come in His name.
I think it’s safe to say there was one serving, until yesterday, as chief lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals.
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