By Germaine Lynch
They say they feel male if biologically female, and female if biologically male. It is indeed a utopia that is logically impossible to explain. As a result, many allow themselves to become victims of the masters of greed, deception, physical mutilation, and dismemberment. After a time of reflection, having fallen for the scam, internal confusion and reality begin to take shape. Regret becomes the order of the day, social isolation becomes an unwelcome guest, with suicide hanging overhead like a cloud. They are often an embarrassment to family and friends who try hard to keep them a secret.
Feeling the pressure of social isolation and their refusal to accept self-blame for their behaviour, they resort to name-calling, blaming, and trying to shame others. They grab the most convenient negative word and weaponize it against anyone who does not subscribe to their nefarious behaviour. Their descriptive word of choice in their attempt to shame their scapegoats is “homophobic.” How infantile and alarmingly illiterate! To be homophobic is to be afraid of someone or something.
I have never seen a homosexual or transgender person with horns or teeth of a tiger. Therefore, the label “homophobic” is misplaced. No well-thinking, intelligent person should ever be afraid of anyone who chooses the path of an LGBTQ+ lifestyle. Instead, they ought to be repulsed by the behaviour and not be afraid to condemn it. Our God has condemned homosexuality. Therefore, those of us who are called by His name must abide by the standards He outlined in His rule book for us.
Like tumbleweeds, they have rolled into our space, desperately and aggressively trying to force a new “normal” that has no place among people of moral integrity. Their apparent intention is to indoctrinate, contaminate, and illuminate our created biological genome in favour of fakeism. Nothing fake can ever be “normal.” Obviously, there is a desperate attempt to make God’s creation obsolete or of no effect so that fakeism can flourish. This should be abhorred by every faith-loving and believing person everywhere. No true child of God should capitulate or bow to bullying, whether through name-calling or otherwise. We are called upon by the Word of God to be strong.
Daniel 11:32 declares, “The people that know their God shall be strong and do exploits.” Unfortunately, many of us in the household of God have allowed ourselves to participate in and enjoy the unsavoury meat of the LGBTQ+ camp, and our feet have been caught in their tumbleweeds of indecency. What a great shame. Fortunately, however, there are those of us who refuse to eat the contaminated meat of indecency from the king’s table.
For those of us who have not and will never bow to sinning against our God, we accept with humility and dignity the label “homophobic.” We are willing to wear it as a badge of honour for Jesus’ sake and in obedience to the dictates of our Father, God. Leviticus 20:13 says, “If a man lieth with mankind as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.”
I’D RATHER BE CALLED HOMOPHOBIC, THAN…
Therefore, taking each letter of the word “homophobic,” let me hereby, emphatically declare, I would rather be labelled “homophobic” than to be HEDONISTIC in disobedience to God and moral purity.
2 Corinthians 6:17 declares, “Wherefore come out from among them and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you.” I would rather be labelled “homophobic,” than be an OBNOXIOUS spectacle to the world. I am told in Matthew 5:16, “Let your light so shine among men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father, which is in heaven.”
I would rather be labelled “homophobic” than be caught in the MESSY swamp of sexual immorality with you.
I would rather be labelled “homophobic” than be an OBJECTIONABLE human being in the eyes of God.
1 Corinthians 15:33, “Be not deceived, evil communications corrupt good manners.” I would rather be labelled “homophobic” than be a PATHETIC participant on the road of debauchery. There is an old adage that says, “Birds of a feather flock together.” I refuse to be identified with anything that is against God’s commandments.
I would rather be labelled “homophobic” than engage in HEINOUS, repulsive behaviour that is intended to rob me of my God-given, natural biological ability to procreate.
I would rather be labelled “homophobic” than be OCCUPIED with a life that is at variance with the natural created order. Ezekiel 18:20 tells me, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.”
I would rather be labelled “homophobic” than BETRAY my Creator, who has formed me in His likeness and image.
I would rather be labelled “homophobic” than live an IMMORAL life.
I would rather be labelled “homophobic” than allow myself to be CONTAMINATED by your unsavoury lifestyle. Galatians 6:8 says, “For he that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting.
FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE
To describe anyone as “homophobic” signifies a guilty conscience seeking ease for its own misery. We have learned that we ought to hate the sin but not the sinner, as per Saint Augustine’s letter 211 (c.424). Scripture also declares in Romans 5:8, “But God shows His love for us, because while we were still sinners Christ died for us.” With such demonstrated love, I cannot but love you and hate your sin. It is your behaviour that we hate.
To be man-made is to be miserable and self-conscious. Fitting in becomes difficult. To wilfully tarnish God’s image is a sin. The Psalmist David, in appreciation for God’s created form, exclaimed in Psalm 139:1, “I will praise Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Marvelous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth quite well.” Instead of being appreciative of God’s complete image in you, you have tarnished it, believing you can do a better job than He has done. Therefore, you have deliberately embarked upon the ruthless route of dismemberment, mutilation, and disfigurement. Now you have come to the rude awakening that fitting in has become a herculean, if not impossible, task. This makes you angry at yourself and tormented by a guilty conscience. Dissonance has now become a permanent resident in your consciousness, and peace cannot be a welcomed guest.
To blatantly disfigure God’s likeness and image is to invite inferiority complexes, misplaced anger towards others, misery, and bullying.
Anyone who believes in resorting to bullying and acts of violence in an attempt to control what others think or say is stuck at the infantile stage of their psychological development. Your problem, therefore is within yourself. Until you are willing to connect with your true Creator to fix your moral and psychological code, fitting in will always be impossible.
Ask God to change your moral outfit and experience the joy of being confident in who you are and what you can become for God’s sake. Matthew 6:33 says, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.”
Remember, in spite of all you have done and continue to do, God still loves you. Only He can set you free and restore your peace.