Christian Worldview Concepts

A Case Against Gay Marriage

Scripture Condemns Homosexual Practice

First, it is not necessary to condemn people who have homosexual "desires" any more than we should condemn those who have heterosexual desires. Due to the Fall, perverse passions abound and they are not limited to homosexuals. However, Scripture clearly describes homosexual relations as immoral and subject to divine judgment. God is not indifferent to issues of human sexuality. Homosexuals pervert God's pattern for marriage at their own peril.

For example, Genesis 19 contains the first reference to homosexuality in the Bible. There is no doubt about the intentions the men of Sodom had for the two men who visited Lot's home; they intended to engage in sexual relations with them. Jude 7 provides an illuminating commentary on Genesis 19, stating that the sin of Sodom involved going after "strange flesh."

Leviticus 18 and 20 both call homosexuality an abomination, a term that is used five times in Leviticus to convey intense divine disapproval. Their intended purpose cannot be misconstrued; Israel was to have nothing to do with homosexual practice.

Several passages in the New Testament address homosexuality:

Romans 1:26-27
[26] For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: [27] And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
1 Corinthians 6:9
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind
1 Timothy 1:10
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind ...

All three passages clearly identify homosexual practice as deserving of divine judgment and outside of the boundaries of acceptable human behavior.

Despite aggressive attempts by various pro-homosexual commentators to explain these passages in a manner that treats homosexuality as morally benign, the tenor of Scripture is clearly and consistently against homosexuality.