Homosexuality

God loves homosexuals as much as anyone else. I think homosexuality is a sin, but no greater than idolatry and adultery. In my judgment, it’s not that big.

Billy Graham

Homosexuality is mentioned eight times in the Scriptures (four in each testament), and lesbianism (homosexuality between females) one time. In no instance is it commended; instead it is always described as wrong and unnatural. The first instance, the account of Lot in Sodom, is debated as to whether or not it refers to homosexuality (Gen. 19:4–11). With the growing prominence of the homosexual movement, it is now being said that the sin was not homosexuality but inhospitality and gang rape.

Charles Caldwell Ryrie

By Paul’s day homosexuality had been rampant in Greece and Rome for centuries.

John F. MacArthur

Notice the words Paul uses to describe lesbianism and homosexuality: “degrading,” “unnatural,” “indecent.” Even though homosexuals and lesbians say that such conduct is not degrading or unnatural, that does not change the character of these sins in God’s eyes. Lesbianism and homosexuality are in themselves wrong.

Charles Caldwell Ryrie

Unfortunately, they take a path of exegesis or interpretation that is seriously flawed. Such interpreters begin with a goal; they seek to show that the Bible has had little influence on Western attitudes toward homosexuality.

James B. De Young

Contemporary homosexuals insist that these verses mean that it is perverse for a heterosexual male or female to engage in homosexual relations but it is not perverse for a homosexual male or female to do so since homosexuality is such a person’s natural preference.

John A. Witmer

Our generation is watching the death of marriage and the family as we know it. Among the many factors contributing to its destruction are immorality, adultery, fornication, homosexuality, abortion, sterilization, women’s liberation, delinquency, and sexual rebellion.

John F. MacArthur

Some forms of homosexuality today are of a similar nature, in that they are not just homosexuality but a philosophic expression. One must have understanding for the real homophile’s problem. But much modern homosexuality is an expression of the current denial of antithesis. It has led in this case to an obliteration of the distinction between man and woman. So the male and the female as complementary partners are finished. This is a form of homosexuality which is a part of the movement below the line of despair. In much of modern thinking, all antithesis and all the order of God’s creation is to be fought against—including the male-female distinctions. The pressure toward unisex is largely rooted here. But this is not an isolated problem; it is a part of the world-spirit of the generation which surrounds us. It is imperative that Christians realize the conclusions which are being drawn as a result of the death of absolutes.

Francis Schaeffer

There is nothing right about homosexuality. It is all wrong.

John G. Butler

We have become so sophisticated that we think homosexuality should be considered normal in our society.

J. Vernon McGee

Homosexuality is not physically natural because two people of the same gender are engaging in sexual activities for which they are not anatomically created, whereas male and female bodies fit together naturally.

June Hunt