"If I were a clergyman and a homosexual couple asked me to marry them, I
would accept with gladness and insist on being prepaid in cash. I would
then begin the service with readings from the Bible -- a routine part of
Protestant worship. I would read Leviticus 18:22, Romans chapter 1, 1
Timothy chapter 1 and Jude verse 7. That would be a great witness to Bible
teachings for people who most likely have never heard them. If the wedding
party then stormed out, I would not be at fault for quoting my holy book and
homosexuals thereafter would stop bothering clergy with their nonsense."
John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) Brisbane, Australia, Dissecting Leftism BlogSpot.
For your convenience and reading pleasure, here are the passages from the
Bible that J. J. Ray refers to. From the New International Version (NIV)
Bible.
"'Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is
detestable."
Leviticus 18:22
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave
thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts
were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and
exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a
mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to
sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They
exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created
things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women
exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the
men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust
for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in
themselves the due penalty for their error.
28Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the
knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do
what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of
wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters,
insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they
disobey their parents; 31they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love,
no mercy. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such
things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but
also approve of those who practice them.
Romans 1:22-32
We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. 9We also know that the
law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the
ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their
fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10for the sexually immoral, for those
practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers-and for
whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine 11that conforms to the
gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.
Timothy 1:8-11
Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one
time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did
not believe. 6And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority
but abandoned their proper dwelling-these he has kept in darkness, bound
with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. 7In a similar way,
Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual
immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the
punishment of eternal fire.
Jude 1:5-7
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