This guy should link this page to his article of points about the "gay" lifestyle. There is so much Biblical info, scientific statistics, and common sense information here to support him it's "obscene".
Make sure you look at the information and links above the link "tie in".
God bless!
Philip
GAY LIFESTYLE UNMASKED
http://www.faithfacts.org/christ-and-the-culture/gay-rights#bornLiberals accuse conservatives of being arbitrary by limiting marriage to a man and a woman. They don't like it when we draw lines. Our response is two-fold. First, our drawing of the line is not arbitrary. This entire article supports our view. But secondly, liberals themselves are the ones who draw lines and do so arbitrarily. Let's use simple reason. If you say that two men should be allowed to marry, why draw the line there? Why not 3 men, if that meets their particular pursuit of happiness? Why not polygamy? Why not allow a 35 year old man to marry an 8 year old girl? Where do you stop? Wherever the liberal draws the line it is arbitrary.
Sometimes we hear the objection that marriage is not about children, that many heterosexual couples do not have children either by choice or sterility. We respond that their sexual union is still the kind of union that God has intended for the procreation of children. So the objection has no force.
Only about 4% of gays, even when marriage is an option, actually get married. This is a strong indicator that gay marriage is not really about marriage, but about affirmation.
One can reflect on this in a different way. What would be the effect on society if everyone lived faithfully in a natural heterosexual marriage?
Born That Way
The issue of special rights for homosexuals hinges in part on the notion that the trait is genetic. To date there is no credible evidence to support this view, though many have been searching for a gay gene for years. There have been three "studies" which were once cited to suggest an inherited homosexual trait, but all three have been scientifically discredited. (One of these was the 1991 study by Simon LeVay. Another was a study by J.M. Baily and R.C. Pillard in 1991. The third was the Dean Hamer study in 1993.) See
•Video: Dr. Neil Whitehead
•Born Gay Hoax
•Ruth Hubbard
•No Basis in Science
•How the Public Was Mislead
The medical and scientific evidence suggest that indeed, there is no such thing as "homosexuality," in the sense of genetic determination. Indeed, some in the homosexual community are now acknowledging that there is no "gay gene." See
•Activist Acknowledgment
•Astonishing Column
Even the liberal-leaning American Psychological Association has reversed its previous stance on this. See:
•APA Reversal
•Answers
•Gay Gene Claim Suddenly Vanishes
Those who insist on a genetic cause must answer an obvious question. Whenever we hear of someone who says that so-and-so was "born gay," we ask, "Which parent did he inherit his homosexuality from?" Obviously, homosexuals do not propogate themselves. Wouldn't natural selection have eleminated any gene that resisted propogation from the population?
Then what does cause homosexual tendencies? Many who have counselled people who practice homosexuality are convinced that in most cases there has been a serious and extreme loss of confidence in own's manhood (or womanhood). This may have been the result of extremely detached parenting (especially from the father), from some other person who had a major influence at a young age, childhood sexual encounters, accusations from peers about one's lack of athletic abiltiy or sensitivity, etc. In the case of a female, a high athletic ability, overweight, or certain other physical features can also limit their ability socially with the opposite sex—and they may conclude that lesbianism is the only alternative. In this day and age when homosexuality is accepted in many circles, experimentation may actually lead to ingrained behavior.
These websites list potential variables for same sex attraction:
• Childhood Influences
• Environmental Factors
• Satinover
• Lesbianism and Upbringing
• Schumm's Studies on Gay Parents
•Facts about Youth
Does child abuse cause homosexuality? There have been various studies that show this link. Here is an article that discusses one such study, and the potential flaws in the study: Child Abuse and Homosexuality.
There may be other factors involved. For example, a boy may not have the talent or inclination to be successful in athletics, for which a high view is placed in our society. So, he may infer from this that he is not manly enough.
Cultural factors may also play a role. Historian Glenn Sunshine in his book Why You Think the Way You Do points out that during the Renaissance there was an increase in homosexuality, apparently due to a cultural hatred of women (misogyny).
But some admit the reason they got into the homosexual lifestyle was simply because of its availability. More and more, representatives of the gay community are acknowledging that homosexual behavior is simply a choice. Gareth Kirkby of Xtra West, a gay publication, said that there is no longer any need to lie about it. He admits that he freely chose the lifestyle. See also
•http://www.queerbychoice.com/
•Homosexual Activist Says No Gay Gene
•Actress Admits It's a Choice for Her
Those in the gay lifestyle can and do come out of it. Various studies show that success rates of those wanting to leave the lifestyle range from 30% to 70%. It is, no doubt, difficult to leave the lifestyle. One reason it is so difficult is because of its addictive nature. For stories of those who have left the homosexual lifestyle, see the Exodus International and International Healing Foundation links at the bottom of this article.
Even if it were shown that there is a genetic component to homosexuality, that would still not make it right. Compare, for example, alcoholism. It is generally believed that there is an inherited tendency for alcoholism. But that inherited tendency does not condone the behavior, nor does one who inherits the trait necessarily become addicted to alcohol. Society tries to compassionately help those caught in that addiction. While difficult, many people inflicted with alcoholism are successful in reforming their lives.
To take the view that we all have the right to act on our natural impulses would be to logically affirm even sociopathic behavior. Our natural instincts are selfish and often destructive to others. A functioning society demands that we put aside our natural tendencies in many cases.
Depression is another illness that is apparently often genetically related. But again, the source of the illness does not dictate our attitude toward it.
Consider the reasoning by this person who left the gay lifestyle: Born this Way but Reborn.
All human beings are faced with sexual temptation of some sort during their lifetime. Homosexual attractions and temptations are not exempted, just as adultery is not exempted from being sinful behavior. As heterosexuals, we argue that we ourselves have a tendency—which we are certain is genetically inherited—to want to cheat on our spouse. This desire is quite strong. Yet we do not act on this desire and are able to suppress it.
Many young people go through a normal period of examining their sexuality. If during this period society tells them that homosexual conduct is okay, they may be encouraged to try it. This experimentation may lead to a lifestyle that would not otherwise occur if the cultural mandate were not present.
Let's address here the objection that animals engage in homosexual behavior, implying that it must be natural for humans. But we respond that animals engage in many types of behaviors that we wouldn't want to copy. Some animals eat their own young, so should that be okay for us? Some animals eat their own feces, so should that be okay for us? Enough humans commit murder or rape that we could say that it is a natural occurance, so must something occurring naturally be acceptable? We have the capacity to operate on more than animal instinct!
Here are some interesting statistics to consider:
•Around a third of gays, and many lesbians, say that they were "seduced," "molested," or persuaded by either formal or informal association into becoming participants in homosexuality. Many males who engage in same-sex sex claim they were "made compulsively homosexual" by seduction/molestation.
•A far higher percentage of adopted children of gay couples become gay verses gays in the population at large (over 20% verses 2%), proving that homosexuality is learned rather than genetic. See Children of Gays.
•A boy raised through teen years in a city is three times more apt to engage in homosexuality than a boy raised in rural areas.
Here is an interesting testimony from a former gay activist: Testimony.
And here are additional links confirming that sexuality can be changed:
•Ex-Gays? by Jones and Yarhouse
•National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality
•Venus Magazine
•I Do Exist
•People Can Change
•List of Articles
•Politics of Truth
•Knight
•Twin Studies
•Thomas Project
•Ex-Gay Men
•Prideworks Admission
More links on causes of homosexuality:
•Is it a Choice
•Relationship Problem
•Child Molestation as Cause
•Incest as a Cause
•Shame and Attachment Loss
See also the links at the bottom of the articles, especially the various testimonies of those who have left homosexuality.
Ravages of the Lifestyle
But one may ask, "Why shouldn't gays be allowed to marry. After all, who does it hurt?" Today's society is lying to us about homosexuality. We are told that it is biblical—clearly incorrect. We are told that it is genetic—no evidence for it. And we are told that it can be a beautiful and loving lifestyle—wrong again.
Statistics show that homosexual behavior is marked by death, disease, disappointment, promiscuity, perversity, addiction, and misery. The real threat to persons in the homosexual lifestyle does not seem to be discrimination, but physical devastation.
Please note—the purpose of our web site is to present the testimony and evidence as best we know it. The statistics below are harsh. If you have contrary evidence, we would be glad for you to provide it. Here are a few of the available statistics:
•The best available evidence indicates that those practicing homosexual behavior have a 20% to 30% shorter life expectancy than the rest of the population, not even accounting for death from AIDS.
•25% to 33% of people in the homosexual lifestyle are alcoholics compared to 7% in the general population.
•60% of all syphilis cases are among homo and bi-sexual men.
•Homosexual men have an HIV infection rate 60 times higher than the general public.
•Most people in the homosexual lifestyle are loving and caring. But we cannot merely sweep under the rug the statistics that indicate that homosexuals are 16 times more likely than heterosexuals to molest a child and 15 times more likely to murder.
•In addition to increased molestation, empirical research shows that children of a homosexual couple have more frequent harms such as social difficulties, emotional turmoil, gender role disruption, etc.
•For further statistics, see the educational pamphlet Medical Consequences of What Homosexuals Do. (This pamphlet, as well as others available from the Family Research Institute, are excellent to distribute at your workplace if you are forced to attend an indoctrination on homosexuality!) They are available at this website: Family Research Institute (See "Pamphets" and "Scientific Articles" in the upper left hand corner of the home page.)
According to the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, a stunning 31 percent of lesbians in relationships had experienced physical violence from a partner within the past year. According to John Klofas of the Rochester Institute of Technology, "Trends suggest that as many as half of lesbian relationships experience some form of abuse." Meanwhile, gay males, according to the journal Violence and Victims, "are more likely to be killed by their partners than [by] a stranger." The increased potential for violence has been confirmed in numerous studies (see Conservapedia and John Jay College), as well as by gay advocacy groups such as the Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project.
Child Molestation appears to be staggeringly higher among gays. See Pedophilia.
Encouraging people to enter relationships so much more dangerous for them than marriage is not responsible behavior on the part of any government. Likewise, legalizing gay marriage hurts homosexuals in general. When the government says that gay marriage is fine, it teaches (often through public elementary education, see Spain), that homosexual behavior is fine. But unfortunately, these behaviors are linked to a number of serious health problems, including drug abuse. Gay men are infected 50 times more often than straight men, and and have a much higher incidence of anal cancer (among men), breast cancer and gynocological cancers (among women), and 4 times more likely to commit suicide.
The pathology of homosexual practice gives the reason for many of the ravages of this lifestyle. In a 1991 paper by James Holsinger Jr, a physician nominated for the post of Surgeon General, explained that the structure and function of the male and female reproductive systems are fully complementary. But the rectum is incapable of mechanical protection against severe damage. Not only is the rectum not lubricated, but the anal sphincters are designed for only the outward passage of objects.
Holsinger stated, "From the perspective of pathology and pathophysiology, the varied sexual practices of homosexual men have resulted in a diverse and expanded concept of sexually transmitted disease and associated trauma." Among items in a long list of problems listed by Holsinger are these: enteric diseases (infections from a variety of viruses and bacteria including a very high incidence of amoebiasis, giardiasis, and hepatitis, etc.), trauma (fecal incontinence, anal fissure, rectosigmoid tears, chemical sinusitis, etc.), sexually trasmitted diseases (AIDS, gonorrhea, simplex infections, genital warts, scabies, etc.).
The following link is an open admission from a homosexual male regarding the norm in this lifestyle: Self Destruction.
Also see this link concerning health of various lifestyle groups: Health.
The gay political movement largely follows the methods described in Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen's strategy manual After the Ball. This includes making themselves seem victimized in order to gain sympathy—carrying out a "conversion of the average American's emotions, mind, and will, through a planned psychological attack, in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the media," and marginalizing people and groups who oppose homosexual behavior. But the facts are that the gay lifestyle itself creates its own victims.
We should make a logical distinction between human characteristics. It is bigotry to oppose someone on the basis of race. But it is wise to oppose someone because they practice destructive behavior.
Here are some additional links:
•Lifestyle Risks
•Dr. John Diggs
•Center for Disease Control
•Sexual Orientation and Cancer
•Prostate Cancer Survival
•Catalogue of Health Effects
•Unhealthy Homosexual Lifestyle
A Loving Lifestyle?
Homosexual activists and often the uninformed media leave us with the impression that the gay lifestyle is filled with love and tenderness. No doubt this is often true. But statistics, again, show another reality.
Life-long monogamy is nearly non-existent among those in a homosexual lifestyle, including those who profess to be "married." Promiscuity is rampant. Many contacts are between strangers with 70% of gays estimating that they had sex only once with over half of their partners. Various studies indicate that gays average somewhere between 10 and 110 different sex partners per year. A 1981 study found that only 2% of homosexuals could be classified as monogamous or even semi-monogamous (having 10 or fewer lifetime sexual partners.)
One study showed that only 4.5% of homosexual males said they were faithful to their current partner, compared to 85% of heterosexual married women and 75.5% of heterosexual married men.
The website Meet Gay Couples notes, "[Surveys] all report that varying degrees of non-monogamy are fairly common among male couples." The gay newspaper Washington Blade reports that "three-quarters of Canadian gay men in relationships lasting longer than one year are not monogamous." The study's lead author, a gay professor at the University of Windsor, holds the opinion that "younger [gay] men tend to start with the vision of monogamy...because they are coming with a heterosexual script....The gay community has their own order and own ways that seem to work better."
Gay researchers McWhirter and Mattison studied 156 gay male couples whose relationship lasted from 1 to 37 years. They found that all the couples whose relationships lasted more than 5 years incorporated some provision for outside sexual activity. There was not a single long-term monogamous couple.
Gay marriage has been legal in the Netherlands long enough to gather data on it. A 2003 study found the average duration of "steady" male partnerships to range from .75 to 2.25 years. These "steady" relationships had an average of 8 casual partners in addition to the significant other each year.
The sin of promiscuity is an aspect of heterosexual behavior as well. But statistics indicate that it is a far greater factor in the gay lifestyle. Here is an article that seems typical: Fort Smith
It can be said with impunity that what advocates of gay marriage really want is not just marriage rights. They want a world without any sexual inhibitions or limitations.
The slippery slope is real. In fact, some advocates of gay marriage are advocates for the end of marriage itself. For example, gay scholar Nan Hunter argues that "legalizing lesbian and gay marriage would have enormous potential to destabilize the gender definition of marriage for everyone." Anthropologist Stanley Kurtz describes Norwegian sociologist and gay marriage advocate Kari Moxnes's views as seeing "both marriage and at-home motherhood as inherently oppressive to women." In Moxnes's article "Empty Marriage," she describes "Norwegian gay marriage [as] a sign of marriage's growing emptiness, not its strength," as "a (welcome) death knell for marriage itself."
Interestingly, only a few gay couples when given the opportunity to marry actually do so. The Family Research Council quotes a statistic from USA Today showing that in Vermont's first three and a half years of civil unions, only 936 gays or lesbian couples chose to take advantage of the opportunity—about 21 percent of the estimated adult homosexual population. In Sweeden, where traditional marriages are increasingly rare, gay union numbers are even lower, as reported by a 2004 Baltimore Sun article, "About 1,500 same-sex couples have registered their unions" out of an estimated 140,000 gays and lesbians—or about 2 percent.
A Way Out?
Many people in the homosexual lifestyle are saying that what they want is acceptance. But those who have counselled homosexuals say that they often reveal a deeper desire of wanting out of the problem.
What does our compassion as Christians demand? Our concern is marked by a broken-hearted grieving over the condition of the sinner. Shouldn't our mercy and love be to help bring the lives of everyone into conformity with the will of God? The evidence supports our confidence that God's commands are not arbitrary, but that they are for our own good. Studies consistenly support the idea that, on average, those persons who are living a biblical lifestyle have happier, more successful, and healthier lives than those who do not. This includes having a more satifying sex life!
If you are caught up in the homosexual lifestyle, we suggest to you that the loss of confidence in your gender was probably from someone who convinced you of such. But God does not see you that way! He sees you as the man (or woman) that he made you. If you have a problem, it is one of authority.
Jesus changes people from the inside out. There is no hope for a broken world or a broken life other than through Jesus. Through Jesus, there is hope for us all. We recommend visiting the following websites for further information:
•Exodus International
•Cross Power Ministries
•Homosexuals Anonymous
•Transformed Image
•S. B. Ministries
•Janet Boynes Ministries
•NARTH
•Parents and Friends
•Ex-Gay Teen
•Ex-Gay Stories
•More Stories
•Stephen Bennet Testimony
God loves each of us no matter how often and blatantly we have sinned against him and our fellow man. He loves us so much that he wants what is best for us. God does not lower his standards just because we fail so often. God provides perfection and pardon for us through his Son, Jesus Christ. To learn more see our
Christian Cram Course
Links about homosexuality:
Ten Myths about Gay Marriage
Americans for Truth about Homosexuality
Family Research Institute
Coalition of Conscience
National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality
National Organization for Marriage
Judaism's Sexual Revolution (This is a fascinating article about homosexuality from the perspective of historic Judaism.)
Wes' Testimony (Scroll Down)
MIke's Testimony
My Train Wreck Conversion
Dennis' Testimony
Real Stories
What to Say to a "Gay" Teen
Same-Sex Marriage Debate
Links about other aspects of sexuality:
How to Win the Marriage Debate
Living Together Before Marriage
Cohabitation by Mike McManus
The Downside of Cohabiting Before Marriage
Books for further study:
•Getting It Straight: What the Research Shows about Homosexuality by Peter Sprigg and Timothy Dailey, co-editors
•Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth by Jeffrey Satinover, M.D.
•Counseling the Homosexual by Michael R. Saia
•Informed Answers to Gay Rights Questions by Roger Magnuson
•Straight & Narrow? Compassion & Clarity in the Homosexual Debate by Thomas E. Schmidt
•God's Grace and the Homosexual Next Door: Reaching the Heart of Gay Men and Women in Your World by Alan Chambers and the Leadership Team at Exodus International
•You Don't Have to Be Gay: Hope and Freedom for Males Struggling with Homosexuality or Those Who Know of Someone Who Is by Jeff Conrad
•The Complete Christian Guide to Understanding Homosexuality: A Biblical and Compassionate Response to Same-Sex Attraction by Joe Dallas and Nancy Heche
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