Job 9:10 He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that
cannot be counted.
The Gay marriage banquet at Berjaya Times Square in
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on 04 Aug 12 went ahead without any fanfare. So
too would legalization of homosexuality and gay marriage will be one day
in South East Asia.
The Malaysian State Minister, Datuk Seri Jamir Khir
asked for Malaysians to protest against same sex marriages and said that
even Christians in Malaysia prohibit such practices.But there were no police presence at the wedding banquet or any
protest by the well wishes.
With the echoes of gay marriage reaching the shores
with news that Vietnam (of all places due to their poor human rights
record) may soon be legalizing gay marriages, the legalization of
homosexuality is all but certain. The next battle is on gay marriage
which may already be lost if US, Europe and South America were a guide.
The
Christian Post SG article “Breakdown in Morality due to Gender Lostness:
Professor “ on 08 Aug 12 quoted from a Professor Dale Kuehne who defined
traditional morality as a “heterosexual monogamous marriage” which he
claims has been the Western consensus for the last 2,500 years
unchallenged even by the Greek and Romans and went on to blame gays for
the apparent breakdown of sexual morality.
This is an unsupported argument for the history of
traditional sexual morality has been profoundly immoral. Paul was so
angst by the thousands of prostitutes in the port city of Corinth and
which was prevailing in Jerusalem and Rome where heterosexual adultery
was rampant that he said it was better not to marry.
Jesus Himself was particularly critical of the
hypocrisy of the religious Pharisees who were divorcing their wives at
will whilst claiming a moral stand. Heterosexuality was the issue and
not homosexuality.
The hypocrisy by people of faith will be one day
outed in the secular courts. How can the unrighteous judge the
righteous? For even the unrighteous has become more holy.
We are reminded the royal protector of faith of the
Church of England, Henry the VIII didn’t lose his gender identity when
he divorced each of his wives and had them killed for failing to bear
him an heir. Going back further, King Solomon had 300 wives which
corrupted his religious faith in God. Quoting traditional morality is
delusional.
Biblically and historically, the concept of
marriage is ownership of women by the men with one man having many wives
and concubines if he could afford it and was sufficiently virile and
certainly not the monogamous practice. The setting was a patriarchal
male dominated faith setting.
Contrary to the Rev Professor’s assertions, the
Greeks and the Romans have had no problem with same sex relationships as
seen in their writings only modern day Christians who got it confused
with religious practices of the ancients where sex was used to unite one
with the spiritual deity.
Blaming gays for causing Gender “lostness” is
delusional when our sexual morality being dominated by straight alpha
male bulls and equally curvaceous females. They know their gender roles
tool well with the prevailing adultery, and large scale abortions. The
news stand filled with pictures of half-naked women certainly has no
gender confusion.
It is not “gender lostness” that the church will be
facing, but a lost of morality, an unseen lost of righteousness. Unlike
many other faiths, we claim we have the truth and the only way to God.
Our standing will be compromised for if we could have been so wrong on
homosexuality for which we have made into a religious dogma, the Gospel
message is shamed.
Pastor Derek Hong, the famous anti-gay church of
Our Saviour in Singapore was not wrong when he said that “Homosexuality
will destroy Christianity”, for the church is liable for judgement. When
gay marriage comes, and nothing happens, it would destroy the churches’
soul and spiritual standing.
We have denied gays the basic rights of existence
and relationships which we have taken for granted. We have robbed them
and blamed gays for our own sexual immorality. It is not only a false
witness, but stealing and killing of their lives and dignity.
Professor Kuehne in Christian Post sees the beauty
of democracy has a safe space to raise his views on homosexuality as a
subject of debate and varying opinions in a democracy, but we are
talking about the lives of people. We cared about our own dogmatic
religious faith construction. On
the contrary, it is in the public forums, that the church will receive
due judgement.
The people of faith may see history, tradition, and
orthodoxy as their defence. But it is the point of judgement. For 2,500
years, gays have been denied justice and freedom by the church whilst
the church engaged in the vilest of sexual immorality and child abuse
from the Catholic to the Protestant churches. We are judged by the
weight of history. The law will not pass away for history seals our
fate.
As the gay wedding banquet at Berjaya Times Square,
Malaysia, came to an end, it only highlighted what we have lost and the
relationships and the living of lives stolen from us. It was not just
the living who attended the banquet, but listen closely and you would
hear the echoes of gays gone past. They are also looking for closure,
for justice.
There is now no more fear in Christ Jesus. Let us start living and
be not ashamed in who we are. The miracle has happened.