THE HOMOSEXUALIZATION OF AMERICA

Pastor James J. Barker

Text: II PETER 2:6-9




INTRODUCTION:


  1. I am going to speak on the homosexualization of America. I will try to choose my words carefully.
  2. I went to Google and typed in "the homosexualization of America," and over 9,000 websites appeared. That is a large number, but frankly I thought there would be even more.
  3. The last few days we have been bombarded with pictures and stories about the notorious pervert ("the new normal") Bruce Jenner. Do not refer to him as a "her," because no matter what he thinks, he is still a man -- a mixed-up crazy man, but nevertheless, a man.
  4. The other day, the president congratulated Mr. Jenner, saying, "It takes courage to share your story."
  5. No. It takes courage to be a soldier or policeman or a fireman.
  6. But when a pampered millionaire celebrity tries to transform himself into a woman, that is not courage, that is foolishness!
  7. A CNN political commentator named Sally Kohn said, “I Want My Daughter to Copy the Caitlyn Jenner Model of Femininity.” Kohn said she imagined a day where parents would counsel their little boys and girls to “be more like Caitlyn Jenner.” What foolishness!
  8. Minutes after his initial post congratulating Mr. Jenner, the president went on to encourage other perverts to "share their stories with regards to LGBT equality." He posted on his Twitter account, "Your story matters in the fight for LGBT rights."
  9. When our leaders do things like this, they are leading our country to ruin. A few years ago, they repealed "don't ask, don't tell," enabling homosexuals to serve openly in the military. This is destroying our military, at a time when we are facing threats from the Muslim terrorists, Russia, China, and other dangerous enemies.
  10. Dr. Paul R. McHugh is a professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins University Hospital, widely regarded as one of the best hospitals in the world.
  11. Dr. McHugh has recently said that transgenderism is a “mental disorder,” and that sex change is “biologically impossible.”
  12. He said that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder. “People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women. Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder.”
  13. Dr. McHugh also reported on a new study showing that the suicide rate among transgendered people who had reassignment surgery is 20 times higher than the suicide rate among normal people.
  14. Dr. McHugh said, “And so at Hopkins we stopped doing sex-reassignment surgery, since producing a ‘satisfied’ but still troubled patient seemed an inadequate reason for surgically amputating normal organs."
  15. Up until recent times, everyone understood that homosexuality was abnormal. It was considered shameful and disgusting. But then in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) was pressured to no longer classify homosexuality as a mental disorder.
  16. Dr. Charles Socarides, a psychiatrist who was an expert in the area of homosexuality, having treated homosexuals for more than twenty years, described the political atmosphere leading up to the 1973 APA vote. He writes that during this time, “militant homosexual groups continued to attack any psychiatrist or psychoanalyst who dared to present his findings as to the psychopathology of homosexuality."
  17. Elsewhere Dr. Socarides stated that the decision of the APA trustees was “the medical hoax of the century."
  18. It is not my intention to elaborate on the insanity of sexual perversion, but rather on the sinfulness of it, and why we as Christians must oppose it.
  19. The sin of Sodom and Gomorrah is described vividly in the book of Genesis. We are told in Genesis 13:13 that "the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly."
  20. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is recorded in Genesis 18 and 19.
  21. In Genesis 18:20, the LORD said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous."
  22. God's judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah is repeatedly presented in the Bible as a warning. This warning is given in the books of Genesis, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Amos, Zephaniah, Matthew, Mark, Luke, Romans, II Peter, Jude and Revelation.
  23. Unfortunately, these warnings are being ignored, not only by the homosexuals and their liberal allies, but even by many professing Christians (II Peter 2:6-9; Jude 7).

 

I. A WARNING TO THE UNGODLY (II PETER 2:6).

  1. People ask, "What difference does it make?" It is the difference between God's favor and His curse; between freedom and bondage; between happiness and misery; between heaven and hell.
  2. "What difference does it make?" In Canada, freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of religion, and freedom of association have suffered greatly due to government pressure. And we're next.
  3. Because of legal restrictions on speech, if a Canadian says or writes anything considered “homophobic” (anything questioning the validity of same-sex marriage), he could face discipline, termination of employment, or prosecution by the government. And now it's happening here in America.
  4. Defenders of homosexuality insist they are "born that way," but that is not what the Bible teaches. Genesis 1:27 says, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
  5. If God created homosexuals, then why did he destroy Sodom and Gomorrah? Why did God describe their sin as "wicked" and "very grievous"? God does not say they're "gay." He says they are wicked.
  6. The Bible repeatedly condemns homosexuality as a wicked sin. Leviticus 18:22 says, "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."
  7. Leviticus 20:13 says, "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."
  8. Romans 1 refers to homosexuality as uncleanness, lustful, dishonorable, vile affections, against nature, unseemly, reprobate, and not convenient.
  9. The Center for Disease Control has reported that sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV, syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea, are on the increase among homosexuals. So is anal cancer and throat cancer.
  10. The Bible is clear -- this immoral behaviour brings disease as well as the judgment of God (Romans 1:27, 28).
  11. Many people (even many professing Christians) are deceived by all of the homosexual propaganda. But the Bible says, "Be not deceived."
  12. "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homosexual men who act like women), nor abusers of themselves with mankind (homosexuals), Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God" (I Cor. 6:9, 10).
  13. Satan has blinded peoples' minds. He has tried to blur the differences between men and women. Satan wants to wipe out sex roles (cf. Deuteronomy 22:5).
  14. I heard a preacher say the devil is turning men into women, and women into men, and he's turning the whole country into hell.
  15. I find it nauseating that people use feminine pronouns like "she" and "her" when referring to perverted men like Bruce Jenner.
  16. President Lincoln once asked a man, “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?" The man said, "Five." President Lincoln said, "No -- four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”
  17. Well, calling a man a woman does not make him a woman!
  18. And calling a woman a man does not make her a man!
  19. U.S. Army private Bradley Manning was sentenced in August 2013 to 35 years in prison for giving hundreds of thousands of secret documents to Wikileaks. But under the terms of the sentencing, he could be paroled in as little as nine years.
  20. This traitor now calls himself "Chelsea." Our tax money paid for him to have a sex-change operation at Fort Leavenworth Prison in Kansas.
  21. In fact, prisoners all over America are having these perverted surgeries, and our tax money is paying for it.
  22. And Medicare also pays for a lot of it. God help America!
  23. Homosexuality destroyed the great Greek and Roman Empires. Referring to homosexuality, Albert Barnes said, "It is well known that this vice was common among the Greeks -- and particularly prevailed at Corinth" (cf. I Cor. 6:9-11)
  24. John MacArthur said, "Fourteen out of the first 15 Roman Emperors were homosexuals. Socrates was a homosexual. Plato was most likely a homosexual. He wrote his dialogue called "The Symposium on Love" and the basis of it is homosexual love. Nero, who was reigning around this period, took a boy named Sporus and had him castrated and lived with him as wife. And when Nero died, Sporus was then passed on to Otho," another emperor."
  25. Men -- act like men. Women act like women. Men -- dress like men. Women -- dress like women.
  26. Parents, teach your children God's Word!

 

II. A WARNING ABOUT THE FILTHY CONVERSATION OF THE WICKED (2:7, 8).

  1. "The filthy conversation of the wicked" (2:7) refers to their filthy conduct. Homosexuality is "filthy."
  2. There are two different Greek words used to translate "vexed" in II Peter 2:7 and 8. In verse 7, the word literally means, "to tire down, to exhaust with labour; to afflict or oppress with evils; to make trouble for; to treat roughly." Lot was worn out, having to endure the filthy behaviour of the Sodomites.
  3. The Greek word translated "vexed" in verse 8 means, "to be distressed; to be tortured; to be tormented; to be harassed."
  4. Doesn't this sound like what is happening to Christians today?
  5. Christian businesses are being targeted for lawsuits and legal fines in order to expand case law in favor of so-called "same sex marriage." There have been countless stories from all over the country about Christian merchants being harassed, threatened, vilified, and dragged into court.
  6. Here is a quote from the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal organization: "Redefining marriage is at odds with religious freedom, as we see more and more that those who believe in marriage are politically, culturally, and legally persecuted for those beliefs. Countless people – from small business owners to Catholic hospitals, school counselors, professors, and students, to chaplains and churches – who will not promote or condone the redefinition of marriage are already under serious legal assault for their faith."
  7. Last November, the city of Atlanta fired its fire chief (a devout Christian) because he opposes homosexuality. The fire chief, Kelvin Cochran, was one of the nation’s most decorated firefighters, until he wrote a book that supported Biblical morality, and identified homosexuality as a sin.
  8. Mr. Cochran was attacked by the City Council and the mayor, and then fired. What has happened to our Constitutional right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion? We are losing these rights in the new homosexualized America!
  9. Many Americans have caved in to the homosexual bullies because they have no strong Biblical convictions. Many have been brainwashed by the media and the public schools and colleges.
  10. Many Americans (even some who claim to be Christian) have gradually come to accept homosexuality. This is largely because they do not read the Bible. And they do not attend a good church. And they watch television programs and movies that promote homosexuality, etc.
  11. Michael Green says, “It is customary for Christians today, living in a secularized society, no longer to be shocked by sinful things which they see and hear. They will, for example, without protest sit through a television program presenting material which a generation ago they would never have contemplated watching at a theatre or cinema. But when a man’s conscience becomes dulled to sin, and apathetic about moral standards, he is no longer wiling to look to the Lord for deliverance” (Tyndale Commentary).
  12. It is sad but true -- America is no longer a Christian nation. America has become a wicked, sin-loving, heathen nation.
  13. America has become homosexualized.

 

III. A WARNING OF GOD'S JUDGMENT (2:9).

  1. If a man does not believe in a literal hell, then he has no fear of God. If a man has no fear of God, then he engages in wickedness. Proverbs 8:13 says, "The fear of the LORD is to hate evil." Homosexuality, and all sex outside of marriage is evil. Adultery is evil. Fornication is evil. Sex change surgery and transgenderism is evil.
  2. "The fear of the LORD is to hate evil."
  3. Proverbs 16:6 says, "By the fear of the LORD men depart from evil."
  4. Jude 7 says, "Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."
  5. "Eternal fire" (Jude 7). The Bible warns of sodomites "suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."
  6. And not just sodomites, but all lost sinners (cf. Rev. 20:11-15).

 

CONCLUSION:


  1. Advocates of so-called “gay marriage” claim they are “on the right side of history," and those of us who oppose homosexuality are “on the wrong side of history."
  2. This is just another lie from homosexual advocates. I have already mentioned how homosexuality destroyed the great Grecian Empire and the powerful Roman Empire. That is history.
  3. It is also well documented that Adolph Hitler's Nazi movement was controlled by homosexuals. A few years ago, homosexual activists claimed that homosexuals were victimized by the Nazis just like the Jews were victimized and imprisoned and executed.
  4. Then in 1995, Scott Lively and Kevin Abram published a book entitled, The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party. This book refuted the lies of the homosexuals, and proved that the Nazis did not imprison or execute homosexuals. In fact, many of the Nazis were themselves homosexual.
  5. Auschwitz executioner Ludwig Tiene was a homosexual. He strangled, crushed, and gnawed boys and young men to death while he raped them. Though his grand total is uncertain, he often murdered as many as 100 a day.
  6. The modern world record for serial killing is held by a Russian homosexual, Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted in 1992 of raping, murdering and eating parts of at least 21 boys, 17 women, and 14 girls.
  7. The top six American serial killers were all homosexual:
  1. Donald Harvey claimed 37 victims in Kentucky
  2. John Wayne Gacy raped and killed 33 boys in Chicago, burying them under his house and in his yard.
  3. Patrick Kearney accounted for 32, cutting his victims into small pieces after sex and leaving them in trash bags along the Los Angeles freeways;
  4. Bruce Davis molested and killed 27 young men and boys in Illinois;
  5. A homosexual sex-murder-torture ring (Corll-Henley-Brooks) killed 27 Texas men and boys;
  6. Juan Corona was convicted of murdering 25 migrant workers (he had sex with their corpses).
  1. Rather than focus on secular history or recent events, let me refer instead to the Word of God. First Kings 15:11 says King Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and the next verse says, "And he took away the sodomites out of the land" (I Kings 15:12). The LORD commended King Asa for driving out the sodomites.
  2. And his son, King Jehoshaphat, did the same thing, and God commended him as well (I Kings 22:46).
  3. Later on, King Josiah did the same thing. Second Kings 23:7 says "he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD."
  4. These godly kings knew that if they allowed the sodomites to continue to practice their wicked sin, Judah would eventually be contaminated and destroyed like all of the heathen nations.


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