With Obama’s selection of Rick Warren to perform the invocation at his inauguration, activist gays have responded with the expected lable of “homophobic”, as if it’s a disease or “cause of concerned”, or perhaps even a mental disorder.

This from those who have sex with their own sex?

Nevertheless, we have to understand the term was created by Psychologist and gay activist George Weinberg in his 1972 book Society and the Healthy Homosexual, for just this purpose, to force those who refuse to accept their lifestyle to either “repent” or begone.

As I said on the MacRanger Show last night, the subject of homosexuality is covered by the Bible in detail and never in a positive sense. Any other suggestion that it is is either dishonest or ignorant, and please spare me that “it’s a matter of interpretation”.

No Biblical Scholar worthy of his Strongs Concordance subscribes to that view, and only those of the so called “non-literal” progressive set do. But then that same group denies fundamental Christian doctrine such as the deity of Christ, the resurrection, sin and death, hell and heaven.

As I’ve said on many occasions, anyone can make the Bible say anything they want to support their belief system. But the fact of the matter is that Biblical interpretation is not a matter of happen chance, but of skillful study and reading.

The Bible teaches about sin, of which homosexuality is but one. There are many, many others. Sin – in the Biblical sense – is the violation of God’s law which was laid out in the Old Testament. Homosexuality was expessly forbidded in the Torah, or Law of God, and called in fact an “abomination”.

The meaning of sin didn’t change with the coming of the messiah in Jesus Christ, but the remedy did. That remedy provided a once for all sacrifice for all sin, and an unction to live a new life by the Spirit of God.

Rick Warren is a Christian minister and as such must speak out against sin even if it upsets the sinner. This is true whether it’s homosexuality, or gluttony, lying, stealing or whatever else is a violation of God’s law and purpose.

To call Warren “homophobic” implies that he is scared of homosexuals – thus “phobic”, and nothing is further from the truth. On the contrary Warren, as any minister of God’s word fears – or reverences God, and so must faithfully stand again wrongdoing and sin – again – even if it’s not “politically correct”.

Now saying this let me say that I have two members of my family who are gay. I don’t fear them, nor am I necessarily offended by them. I have my own sins and shortcomings as well. Yet I also know that their design for “love” and “relationship” is not of the idea that God has for them. I know this because I know what he has said in his word. I speak to my siblings, exchange gifts during the holidays, and yes pray for them that perhaps one day they see the truth behind their behavior.

Now I know that it might not matter to anyone what I believe, or even what Rick Warren believes, but the fact is that I nevertheless believe it, and it’s not because of some phobia or hate of those who are gay.

It is said, and it’s true, that God never hates the sinner but the sin which entraps him. God is not homophobic, and neither are those who speak in his name. They are simply honoring God who called them.