Explaining Christianity and homosexuality
Last month we had the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras hitting the streets. It's a challenge trying to summarize the Christian opposition to homosexual practise in a way that makes sense, but is also short enough for a letter to the editor. Here's one I sent that missed out. Nonetheless, we should keep writing to newspapers about this as we have opportunity. Militant homosexual politics isn't going to go away in a hurry...
Dear editor,
Contrary to James Pilkington (Letters, SMH 4 Feb) Jesus does speak against homosexuality. He does so when he says of the Old Testament law, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law and the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them...not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished”. This includes of course the stern Levitical prohibitions against homosexuality. The Old Testament laws were indeed “fulfilled” by Jesus' obedience to them and by his death on the cross. As a result many temple laws, and laws about eating raw prawns, no longer apply. But no change with respect to the Bible's attitude to homosexuality is ever suggested—quite the opposite, in fact.
The reason Jesus didn't speak even more clearly on this issue is that no-one was promoting gay sex as a viable alternative to marriage as established at creation. If there had been an annual Jerusalem Mardi Gras, with floats featuring loud protests against well-known homophobe Pontius Pilate, we may well have heard more on the subject.
Yours etc...