by Aleggs Sander

Created on: May 21, 2010   Last Updated: March 27, 2011

The world seems to be oriented towards heterosexuality and homosexuality. Heterosexuals are no less sinners than homosexuals. But gay people are no more sinners than straight people. It is not one’s sexual orientation, but rather the lifestyle that one chooses to live. It is in this area that straight people get it wrong. All of humanity is bound under sin. Straight people do not need less of the blood of Jesus Christ, and gay people do not need more. We all need the blood and we all need the same amount.

Romans three makes it plain that all of humanity has sinned and all of humanity is on death row but for the death of Jesus Christ on mankind’s behalf. To single out the practice of homosexuality as though it were worse than heterosexuality is to miss the concept of the lost state of the whole human race. As a matter of fact, if all we had to worry about were homosexuality then humanity would have no problem at all, for the race would eventually die out (no role for evolution here).

With the above being said there must be a definite distinction between homosexuality and being gay. A person who is gay has made a choice to live a particular lifestyle. That lifestyle is one in which the individual will practice sexual intimacy with someone of the same sex, on a fairly regular basis. Homosexuality, on the other hand is the inclination to be drawn to the same sex, in a manner in which one would have been drawn to member of the opposite sex. Homosexuality may very well be related to hormones, but again, one has the power to choose. Homosexuality may not be a choice, but practicing it, indulging in homosexual behavior, being gay, is a choice. It means that what would normally be shared with a person of the opposite sex will be shared with someone of the same sex. And that someone may be a series of partners, or one lifetime partner. The lifestyle idea is found with heterosexuals as well. They may have a series of partners, or may have a lifetime partner. And in both lifestyles, there will be love, sharing, caring, and all the features that make us human. It is not the generalized features of our human nature that are cause for concern; rather it is the sharing of the sexual intimacy. It is there that there is a problem for someone deciding to be a Christian who is gay.

Sexual intimacy was created by God for the purpose of procreation and pleasure and intimate communication. Heterosexual intimacy fulfills all three. Homosexual intimacy fulfills only one,

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