Though I did glean this off the web in an editorial at a Christian newspaper the other evening:


[color:"blue"] I serve on a Christian web site that answers questions like this, and here’s how I answered one atheist’s charge of ‘prove to me homosexuality is bad without using the Bible’:

First, one interesting method for determining the morality of a particular act is to apply Kant’s categorical imperative to it. This says take the particular moral act in question, apply it on a global scale, and view the end results (note: this is for moral decision making only). So, for example, lying – what happens if everyone in the world consistently lied? First, rational and trusted communication becomes impossible. But even more interesting is that it defeats itself because for a lie to be “productive” it relies on its target to be expecting the truth.

So what happens if everyone in the world practices the loving, committed homosexual relationships that the gay community declares is their goal? The human race ceases to exist in a generation and the practice defeats itself because it eradicates the very ones who are following the mandate.

Any sex outside of the marriage institution that God established is considered sinful, not just acts of homosexuality. It’s not a matter of society progressing and becoming more enlightened to the practice of sex either. For example, it’s important to remember that Paul wrote in a day when homosexuality was practiced very openly in society. As educated as Paul was, he would have been quite familiar with the homoerotic love that was celebrated during this time and would certainly be familiar with the “marriage” of the emperor Nero and Sporus, who was a man that was altered via first century surgery to become Nero’s “wife”. Paul’s message against homosexuality was as counter-culture then as it is today.

Finally, the cry of being born that way is an irrelevant argument. I wasn’t born monogamous and I haven’t met a man who really was. If I wholly gave in to my “natural” inclinations (my fallen nature), I’d have sex with as many women as I could, but instead, I choose to live within God’s established boundaries and celebrate sex only with my wife.

Christians are always asked who they are to say homosexuality is wrong, but who are you to say it is OK? Are there any sexual practices you consider immoral (e.g. sex between adults and minors) and do you believe such practices will *always* be immoral? If so, why? Where do you draw that line and how do you determine it? And do you think your line could be re-established at some point in the future and if so, by what authority? How is your standard/foundation of morality in this area determined?


I serve on gotquestions.org. Feel free to also link to my website that contains apologetic materials - www.confidentchristians.org. My site is still pretty young, and I'm still creating content, but there's some good stuff there now you can likely use. [/color]


Sayonara, chaps.