Children in psychologically toxic environments are losers in the game of abuse as well.  The distortion of normative familial relationships is greatest in abusive homes.  The relationship of mother and father to child is distorted in homes where violence and intimidation escalates over the years.  Children see how things are in such situations and conclude that this is the normative situation in families.  I remember a little girl who at the age of ten was reading the newspaper about teen violence against peers that resulted in the death of a girl.  The case was on the news and in the newspaper for months of a girl who had joined a teenaged group of self-styled witches and did not gain acceptance fully.  The most powerful in her peer group became jealous because she thought this girl was hitting on her girlfriend.  The less acceptable girl was killed by a tire being placed around her neck then filled with gasoline and lit.  The little ten year old exclaimed that she did not want to live in such a world.  She had a plan to kill herself and although childish, it was never-the-less serious on her part.  The celebrated cruelty of the teens triggered the ten year old to conclude the world is basically unsafe.  The ten year old had been severely abused by her biological father for many years, although I did not know it at the time.  The whole story unraveled over time though.  That is just one story and there are many being lived out by children right now, some much younger.  Some children have their lives ended at a much younger age at the hands of a father and/or mother who has practiced abuse and the logical end to the game concludes.  Abuse is not a heterosexual or homosexual phenomenon although it is common.

Breaking with the belief that life has sanctity and that the Bible has moral authority leaves one open to many things on a personal, familial, and societal level.  Things are done according to what is right in our own eyes.  It is true that one can repent and have a true change of mind, reversing a course that is injurious to others.  In our country society has decided that homosexuality is acceptable for instance.  The psychologists have concluded that homosexuality is normal, reversing their former conclusions that is a form of a psychological disorder.  They did so mainly on the strength of a worker named Kinsey who flourished at Indiana University in the 1940's and 1950's.  Masters and Johnson came to bold new conclusions about sexuality in the country and social taboos seemed to go out the window over the past 50-plus years.  The religion of science is as thoroughly adhered to as any other religion, even in the face of objective evidence that is contrary to a "scientist's" conclusions.  The imprimatur of Kinsey who assured all that breaking the bonds of marriage or that homosexuality is normal was a signal of sorts.  He interviewed prostitutes to gain an understanding of female normative conclusions about fidelity and extrapolated it to housewives in suburbia and the farm.  He also practiced homosexuality and an open marriage freely shopping his wife around for other men to have sex with her.  It would seem his conclusions are suspect and his "norms" were a bit influential on his scientific practice.  A friend of mine who studied DNA at Indiana University in the 1960's observed that the "sexologists" conducting studies at Indiana University seriously recorded the responses of people in numerous settings.  In the interest of brevity, the scientists actually used grant money to record the behavior of people having sex on Astroturf versus naturally occurring grass.  The study of pleasure for the sake of pleasure gained scientific stature and therefore bore the mantle of truth, trumping moral truth. 

Homosexuality: Unnatural Affection

Scripture states that homosexual behavior is an abomination to God. Such perversion of God’s plan for marriage (Genesis 2:24) mars the image of God (Genesis 1:27), distorts the oneness God intended in the sexual union between a woman and man, and defies childbirth, thereby eventually terminating the generations.

In the Old Testament, homosexual behavior, which includes lesbianism, was forbidden, considered unclean, and was punishable by death (Leviticus 18:22; 20:13). Paul states that this deviant behavior, which is the antithesis of God’s design, falls under the judgment of God (Romans 1:18–32).

God offers the individual who has participated in this sinful lifestyle mercy and forgiveness (I Corinthians 6:9, 11), but homosexual acts are an abomination and cannot be tolerated by a holy God. Although some have claimed that homosexuality has roots in a genetic mutation, there is no substantiated proof of this. God will not create a person predestined to condemnation (Psalm 139; John 3:16).

Both the Old Testament and the New Testament eliminate the possibility of excusing homosexual behavior for biological reasons. In the Old Testament, the Creator of all life charges that no one caught in an act of homosexuality can blame anyone other than himself (Leviticus 20:13). He cannot blame the Creator. In the New Testament, God indicates that homosexuals can change and are not trapped by their genetic makeup (I Corinthians. 6:11).

Even if a case could be made for some sort of genetic predisposition toward an aberrant behavior, this cannot remove moral responsibility nor make such behavior right. All human action is subject to the individual’s will. If you make your own will subject to God’s plan for your life, any type of behavior can be changed. For anyone who has engaged in homosexual behavior, God’s forgiveness, grace, and mercy are always available.

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