Growing up on the west side of Detroit in the 70s and 80s, there was one gay guy that we knew of and maybe one tom boy in a 5 mile radius, which contained 1 high school, 3 middle schools, and close to 10 elementary schools. Today, there is an epidemic of gay lifestyle reaching kids as young as 6 years old all across the nation. Something is wrong.

Nature reveals one common thing, while societal standards stress another, and regardless of what politics, courts, or activist groups pronounce on society concerning any trends outside of traditional lifestyles, Black America always seems to get caught in the crossfire and emerge wounded in the end.

Such is the case with divorce in the 70s, drug use in the 80s, HIV/AIDs in the 90s, and now homosexuality. Whichever way the wind blows the immoralities of society, Blacks are tossed in the breeze along with whites, and as a result of racial emulation, we fight, we protest, and demand various rights all to the detriment of our own being.

The Black church and the men (and women) who lead them, are currently caught up in defending the politically correct lifestyles of gays. Never mind that the very Bible they preach from condemns such lifestyle yet at the same time offer deliverance. But because these people are caught in the cycles of social unrest, they defy the Word and the purpose of the Word, believing they are doing the right thing. In other words, they ignore God and choose to obey the world.

Even if one does not believe in God or the Bible, nature teaches us that there are only two species of human beings; male and female. And these two pro-create to bring forth another life. One can assume that without this natural function, life as we know it would never be. So to defy the absolutes of life in order to justify a behavior contrary to nature's function, again says something is wrong.

Love between two people is not wrong, regardless of the gender, but humanity would never advance if there were only two of one gender in the world: and common sense is the child of divine judgment.

The church must stay focused on the absolute and not bow to the seductions of political correct trends that lead society to undermine the truth of life. And Blacks who protest to gain rights to a lifestyle that leads only to the destruction of the Black community - or any community - should consider the fact that we (Blacks) have always ended up on the dying end of the social deal.

• For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
• Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
• Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
• Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
• Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
• 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:
• 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 recompence of their error which was meet.
• And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
• Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
• Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
• Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
• Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
-- Romans, 1:20-32

© May 2007 By CR Hamilton