I fear that this posting will lose me some supporters, but I hope that most of those who read here will continue to enjoy what I write, even if they dislike this posting. I do respect the fact that some of you will have have genuine and strongly held views on this subject, I do not wish to offend you but must express my own view.I really did not want to get into the debate about homosexuality, as it is not one of my issues, and is something I consider irrelevant by comparison to the serious problems we face. However, as since my posting last week regarding David Laws, a number of people have written telling me that I either have to condemn homosexuality or remove the Christian symbol from my blog. I do not accept that, so I guess I will now have to address the issue.
I find the suggestion that you can not be a Christian without believing in the literal truth of every line in the Bible and forming my attitudes and principles on every urging and utterance in a holy text, written by many men over many centuries, to be quite ludicrous.
There are people who can find support for any number of genuinely held belief's in the bible, the Jehovah's witnesses find a prohibition on blood transfusions, others believe the bible tells them to handle serpents. For many centuries people found support for slavery within the pages of the good book, none claim that now, yet the passages they once quoted have not gone away.
It is a confusing time when on one side so called Christians are telling me my political views exclude me from the church, whilst Nationalists are saying almost the same thing about my social views.
I am not a religious theologian and do not claim to be one, and it is certainly true that homosexuality is condemned in the bible, especially in the old testament. However, within for instance the intemperate rantings of Leviticus, it is possible to find condemnation for any number of human activities, and in any event if I am to live my life, and form my beliefs and attitudes on the teachings of the Old Testament, must I also sell any daughter I may have into slavery, and then slaughter an Ox?
When Christ came into this world he freed us from the Strictures of the old covenant, and the New Testament is significantly less preoccupied with the subject of homosexuality than the Old Testament was. Indeed, I would go further than that, there remain serious questions as to the accuracy of the translation to the references made in both Timothy and in Corinthians, leaving us really with the very clear statements in Romans I, where both gay and heterosexual promiscuity is soundly condemned.
It would be very easy to see that in isolation, and build beliefs on that condemnation, but that would be to ignore the fact that Romans I is followed by Romans II, the opening passage of which, urges us not to judge others lest we be judged, a sentiment repeated in Matthew 7.1, and one which I think is the issue.
I do not believe that sexuality is a matter of choice, if it were possible for someone to choose to be gay, then it would be possible for me to choose to be a lesbian, yet that is not possible. I know for certain that were I to be imprisoned or shipwrecked on a desert Island with the most beautiful and desirable of women we would, throughout our time together, remain just good friends.
I do know that men are different, but even those who indulge in same sex unions whilst for instance in prison for the need of human companionship and release, return immediately to a heterosexual lifestyle as soon as it is available. Yet other men, and women, live homosexual life styles despite the fact that a much easier, heterosexual, existence is available to them and they often do so in circumstances and countries where their lifestyle presents them with huge difficulties and huge dangers.
I do not believe they would do so if they had a choice.
In honesty do those who angrily insist that it is a choice, really believe that it is a choice which is open to them?
For guidance we could turn to the words of our Lord on the subject of homosexuality, but alas we find none, in the three years of His ministry on Earth, He never referred to the subject, had it been such a big deal surely He would have done so. The closest our Lord came to mentioning Human sexuality at all was His encounter with the adulterous woman at the well, John 4:7-41, when He urged her to “sin no more”. However, far more famously, once again in relation to adultery, He said to the Pharisees who were about to stone a woman to death “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” John 7:53-8:11
Others who came before and after Jesus, and who claim to speak in his name, have condemned this and many other things, but as far as sexuality is concerned, it was not a subject Our Lord found it necessary to address.
The same can not be said for Mohammed, who viewed sex as a major showstopper. The Qur'an, which Muslims claim was written by the Prophet himself, has a heck of a lot to say about sex, including many specific references to gay sex, such as the enchanting:
Qur'an 7.80 – 84 : For ye practice your lusts on men in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds.... And we rained down on them a shower (of brimstone)"
From the Hadith:
Abu Dawud (4462) - The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, "Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.".
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al-Tirmidhi, Sunan 1:152 - [Muhammad said] ""Whoever is found conducting himself in the manner of the people of Lot, kill the doer and the receiver."
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Abu Dawud (4448) - "If a man who is not married is seized committing sodomy, he will be stoned to death." (Note the implicit approval of sodomizing one's wife however).
It is in relation to their obsession with what consenting adults do in bed that some fundamentalist Christians sit at the same table as fanatical Islam, for it is sometimes hard to tell the difference in terms of rhetoric. Certainly the black bigots of the African Church, who claim to be Christians and who take their place at the Lambeth Conference seem to happily contemplate the active persecution of homosexuality to the extent even, in the case of Ugandan Christians of executing offenders, as occurs in Islamic lands.
It is when one finds one's self on the same side as those who cheerfully hang teen aged boys from cranes in public squares before baying and cheering crowds, as happened recently in Iran, it is time to start re-evaluating our beliefs.
I am a happily married woman, with one son, and another addition to our family due in November. I hope very much that my children will grow up to be heterosexual. However, if they do not, that will not be their choice, and I will not condemn then, neither will I condemn any other mother's son or daughter for something they could not change.
This blog has never promoted homosexuality, and this post does not do so either, it simply explains why I have also never attacked it.
Please do not write in telling me what I should think or what my views and my faith should be. You are entitled to your beliefs and so am I.
I shall answer to my maker for my view on this and many other things. Many will believe that I will have other, more important things, such as my views on race, to answer for. They would certainly view my racial stance as considerably less Christian.
However, that exposes a fundamental misunderstanding of me and what I am writing about. I am a Nationalist, not through hatred, but through love.
When libraries ban my blog for “promoting hate” they libel me, for I hate nobody.
I do not attack a black man for being black, say that being black is a bad thing and that he should cease to be so. I do not wish him ill in any way, indeed I wish that he and his culture thrive, for I believe that the world will be a lesser place without him and his culture, in his own land.
However, the difference is that I also care about my own culture and my own people who I also wish to thrive and live on, and that is not going to happen in the face of mass immigration and the lies which are being told about us.
That is why I oppose mass immigration and seek to correct the lies which are told.
My culture my people, and the future of my children are under deadly threat, I love them, so I fight for them, not because I hate anyone else.
That is all that matters, the rest is an irrelevance.
There are two threats which matter, one is Marxism and the other is Islam, they are the two political forces which are combining to destroy us, and their weapons are mass immigration and lies. All other issues blind us to that threat and are trivial because it is not they who will destroy us.
I am aware that some Marxists promote homosexuality as a further means of destabilising society, but I have yet to see evidence of large numbers opting for a gay lifestyle who do not already have those instincts, and anyway the left is doing that a lot less now they have buddied up with Islam.
Frankly, if I have gay readers, they are welcome here because we are all in this together and the God who would condemn them is not my God.
The others, who I also welcome, and who I hope will continue to read here, are entitled to their views, I respect their right to those views, please respect mine, and let me concentrate on the real issues we face, because they are what I write about.
