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. Is
God only a God of Love?
- Leviticus 20:23 - "And ye
shall not walk in the manners of
the nation, which I cast out
before you: for they committed all
these things, and therefore
I abhorred them."
- Leviticus 26:30 - "And I
will destroy your high places, and
cut down your images, and cast
your carcases upon the carcases of
your idols, and my
soul shall abhor you."
- Deuteronomy 32:19 - "And
when the LORD saw it, he
abhorred them,
because of the provoking of his
sons, and of his daughters."
- Psalm 5:5 - "The foolish
shall not stand in thy sight: thou
hatest all workers of iniquity."
- Psalm 5:6 - "Thou shalt
destroy them that speak leasing: the
LORD will abhor the bloody and
deceitful man."
- Psalm 10:3 - "For the
wicked boasteth of his heart's
desire, and blesseth the covetous,
whom the LORD
abhorreth."
- Psalm 11:5 - "The LORD
trieth the righteous: but the
wicked and him that loveth
violence his soul hateth."
- Psalm 53:5 - "There were
they in great fear, where no fear
was: for God hath scattered the
bones of him that encampeth
against thee: thou hast put them
to shame, because God
hath despised them."
- Psalm 73:20 - "As a dream
when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when
thou awakest, thou
shalt despise their image."
- Psalm 78:59 - "When God
heard this, he was
wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:"
- Psalm 106:40 - "Therefore
was the wrath of the LORD kindled
against his people, insomuch that he
abhorred his own inheritance."
- Proverbs 6:16-19 - "These
six things doth the LORD hate:
yea, seven are an abomination unto
him: A proud look, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent
blood, An heart that deviseth
wicked imaginations, feet that be
swift in running to mischief, A
false witness that speaketh lies,
and he that soweth discord among
brethren."
- Proverbs 22:14 - "The mouth
of strange women is a deep pit: he
that is abhorred of the LORD shall
fall therein."
- Lamentations 2:6 - "And he
hath violently taken away his
tabernacle, as if it were of a
garden: he hath destroyed his
places of the assembly: the LORD
hath caused the solemn feasts and
sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion,
and hath despised in
the indignation of his anger the
king and the priest."
- Hosea 9:15 - "All their
wickedness is in Gilgal: for there
I hated them: for
the wickedness of their doings I
will drive them out of mine house,
I will love them no
more: all their
princes are revolters."
- Zechariah 11:8 - "Three
shepherds also I cut off in one
month; and my soul
lothed them, and
their soul also abhorred me."
- Malachi 1:3 - "And I
hated Esau, and laid
his mountains and his heritage
waste for the dragons of the
wilderness."
- Romans 9:13 - "As it is
written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau
have I hated."
We are to think
God's thoughts after Him. God
raises
up terrorists and tyrants to judge
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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):
It would
be closer to the truth to represent me
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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