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“SOME CENSORED FACTS ON THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE FROM LOCAL PASTOR”
Roger A. Richards
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Roger A. Richards is pastor of the First Baptist Church of Warrensburg, NY and is a 1984 graduate of Liberty University. He was a tentmaker missionary while in Korea 08/90 through 12/99 and had several hundred columns published in the two major English daily papers (The Korea Times and The Korea Herald). In addition to pastoring and writing, he substitute teaches in the local school systems. He is working on two novels and an issues book. He does creation and intelligent design seminars. Roger and his wife Naomi have seven children who are educated at home.

A recent Gallup poll indicating by a two to one margin that Americans would oppose a law legalizing gay marriage as court-mandated in Massachusetts has somehow managed to escape most liberal media outlets. A local paper, for example, chose to quote only gay marriage supporters. This critical wedge issue looms large in the presidential election, in some churches, and in society as a whole. It is time to stop censoring the truth in the media and our schools.

Activists for gay extra-rights audaciously compare their campaign to African American’s quest for basic civil rights. They face a daunting problem, public schools and universities, propaganda not withstanding; there is no real scientific evidence of a gay gene or any other physical characteristic.

There is, however, credible evidence linking it to environmental and abuse factors. The infamous twin studies tend more to prove environmental factors, according to Dr. William Byne in Scientific American where he also reported no credible evidence at all that there were any physical or genetic factors causing homosexuality. He was viciously criticized for this and he responded, “I’m told my criticism is not politically correct... What they’re saying, therefore, is that I should subjugate scientific rigor to political expediency.”

This is precisely what has happened today in our media and schools where none of this evidence is mentioned or allowed. Any who bring it up are shouted down or expelled.

We are told we must affirm the gay lifestyle as another normal, healthy choice for our young people. But is it? Would we encourage our children to equally consider a type of diet, for example, if we knew that medical research indicated it would lead them to have a life expectancy of only 40-50 years old?

A 1997 International Journal of Epidemiology study of gay men in Vancouver, British Columbia found the average lifespan for gay men to be between 40 and 50 years old. Recent critics of this study have attempted spin control by lamenting that it came out before protease inhibitors began to cut the AIDS death rate.

This is true, but, it is equally true that since then protease inhibitors have become much less effective as the AIDS virus mutated and gay men’s behavior veered back to high risk activity that caused the problem in the first place. Subsequent reports show an increase in the AIDS death rates among gay men once again.

Also taboo from any modern media reports are details of exactly what this high risk behavior entails. Small wonder when one considers having dozens of sexual partners in a weekend and hundreds or more over a lifetime for a large number of gay men are all part of the reason this lifestyle is anything but safe and natural.

Then there are the reports of large numbers of gay and bisexual men who refuse to disclose they are HIV positive and have unprotected, often violent sex, making matters even riskier.

That Dr. Susan Weller in a Univ. of Houston Medical School meta-research project involving 10 separate studies found the failure rate of condoms in preventing AIDS to be over 30 percent ought to be the last nail in the coffin, but it isn’t. This information is almost never allowed in our public schools and universities and it is a fact that people have died because of it.

Dr. Joe McIlhaney has had many AIDS victims come to him in tears telling him they always used a condom but had no idea their failure rate for AIDS was so high. (Natural openings in condoms are actually 50 times larger than the AIDS virus. Several studies have shown the virus does leak out, even if sperm does not.)

The Bible explicitly condemns homosexuality as aberrant behavior even while commanding Christians to love the homosexual as their neighbor. Hence hospice, the first real attempt at long term care for cancer and AIDS victims was begun by Christians.

It states plainly in Romans 1:20-30 that a citizenry given over to homosexuality is a direct result of their refusing to acknowledge God as Creator even when convincing evidence of His intelligent design and power are present in all of nature. Rom. 1:27-28 “Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting.”

There is evidence that homosexual activists are working to lower or eliminate age of sexual consent laws. The liberal media has chosen to ignore this and the statistical link between homosexuality and pedophilia, but the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy showed that homosexuals are 15 to 35 times more likely to become pedophiles than heterosexuals. It reported that homosexuals abuse an average of 7.5 times more victims (150 victims vs. 20) than do heterosexual pedophiles. No wonder the Boy Scouts disallow gay leaders or scouts. They’ve dealt with well over 500 cases of boys being abused by gay scout leaders.

It is relevant but rarely mentioned that 63 percent of all AIDS cases come from the homosexual community, according to the CDC. This doesn’t include statistics from the IV drug using community who are also gay or bisexual. At least two of three AIDS cases come from a segment of our population numbering no more than 1 percent exclusively homosexual, according to Family Planning Perspectives. Shouldn’t voters know this?

The Bible makes clear that there is a way out for those who have “come out,” and it is through salvation in Jesus Christ our Lord. Exodus International has well over 10,000 former homosexuals who have joined the ranks of those who once were, as the Apostle Paul said in Corinthians, but are now new creatures in Christ. And what a glorious joy to have all of one’s sins forgiven by the righteous Son of the Living God, Jesus Christ, who turns no repentant sinner away.

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