Hey all,
I seem to never be on the same page with other Christians when it comes to LGBT issues.
I see it as a disgusting sin that brings judgment upon the nations that accept its practice.
I agree , Rome’s cultural acceptance of sodomy and sexual debauchery was
a key factor in the destruction of its family life, and the fall of the nation.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon identified five major
causes behind the fall of one of history’s greatest empires. Declining demographics didn’t
make the list. Nor did insufficient technology or climate change. His first fundamental factor
was the breakdown of the family. Then he listed increased taxation, an insatiable craving
for pleasure, an unsustainable buildup of armaments, and the decay of religion.
According to Gibbon, the root cause of Roman societal collapse was their loss of civic virtue
and individual morality. Gibbon believed the laws of morality were as unchanging as the laws
of mathematics and physics.Sodomy was regarded as the last symptoms of a dying culture.
The 1833 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica refers to it as “the nameless crime, which was
the disgrace of Greek and Roman civilization.” Today such a statement is simply derided
as bigotry, regardless of whether or not it is true.
In the first edition of his famous Webster’s Dictionary,
he defined sodomy as “a crime against nature.”
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In his famous farewell address, Washington said, “Of all the dispositions and habits
which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”
To quote John Adams, “The foundations of national morality must be laid in private
families.”John Adams wrote in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, “The Ten Commandments
and the Sermon on the Mount contain my religion.”
Before 1962, every American state considered sodomy a felony. And before 1973,
the American Psychological Association considered homosexuality a mental disorder.
Throughout the English-speaking world, families were organized with each member fulfilling
his or her natural role. The father was the head of the family, the provider and protector.
A wife respected her husband’s authority, took pride in her role as helper, and excelled at
managing the household. Society viewed the wife’s role as complementary to the husband’s.
Together, a husband and wife formed a complete team—a well-organized family
in which children could be responsibly reared.
But in the 1970s, public opposition to homosexuality in America and Britain began to melt away.
As society embraced the notion that morality is subjective, evolutionary philosophers
spread the idea that fornication, adultery, homosexuality and even pedophilia were not evil.
They were natural results of the evolutionary process.
Without masculine fathers and feminine mothers to teach children about sex roles, gender
confusion reached a new height in 2014. That was the year the British Parliament legalized
homosexual “marriage.” The U.S. Supreme Court followed suit a year later.
These changes signaled a new era: an era where marriage was not defined as a divinely
sanctioned partnership between a man and a woman; an era where marriage could be
defined as any sexual relationship between consenting partners.
Instead of viewing homosexuality as a sin, the majority in the U.S. and Britain now consider
homosexuality a right. Broken homes and illegitimate children are now so common that it is
considered insensitive to even suggest that such individuals may be disadvantaged.
We have given public acceptance to the misnamed ‘new morality,’ which is gross immorality!
We have given public acceptance to homosexuality, premarital sex and perversion. We have
polluted the sacred institution of marriage, and through a constantly increasing divorce rate,
we have started on a course of destroying the home and family relationship—the foundation
of any stable society.”
The Prophet Isaiah wrote that the morality of the ancient Israelites deteriorated to the point
where they were actually proud of their sins. They “declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not”
(Isaiah 3:9). Sadly, you could hardly find a more apt way to describe society today.
Today, most people reject the law of cause and effect. They think society can discard marriage
and family and not suffer any consequences. But both the Bible and secular history show what
the fruits of family breakdown are—and will be!