Our military faces the threat of compromised security, increased friction in personal and professional relationships, and poor discipline. This threat looms not from the figure of an enemy in a foreign nation, but its shadow is cast by some of our country’s own citizens. This threat comes from the possible legal authorization and permissiveness of homosexual activity within the ranks. Some within our nation would prefer to accommodate the immoral and indecent actions of a few to the detriment of our servicemembers and the safety of our citizenry.
Homosexual conduct contradicts the laws of nature and of nature’s God. It, like other aberrant forms of sexuality, condones unbridled passions that lead to mistrust, failed relationships, the spread of disease, lack of discipline, and other irresponsible personal behavior. Men can only thrive under liberty ordered by moral law. The moral law of Western civilization clearly tells us that sexual immorality is offensive to God, to our fellow man, and repugnant to the survival of our culture.
Before we lay aside the longstanding laws and policies of our nation, we should take a long, hard look at the reasons that such laws and policies were codified. Every culture known to man has affirmed the intrinsic value of sex within heterosexual marriage. In fact, history has proven, time and again, that a society that approves of immorality and sexual permissiveness is doomed to failure—perhaps slow and treacherous failure, but failure to be sure.
At this moment, leaders in the White House, the United States Congress, and the military are considering repealing the law that prohibits homosexual conduct in our military. We face one of the most critical decisions affecting the good order and discipline of our nation’s military and its military readiness. Will our elected and appointed officials make the right decision? I encourage all citizens of the United States to contact their Congressional representatives and other government leaders about this matter. We cannot afford to have a military in which discipline and national security are compromised by authorized homosexual activity.
[The views expressed herein are my own and are not those of the Department of Defense.]
I’m so sorry you feel that way. I beg you to seek God’s true feelings on this matter. there is so much more to being “homosexual” than just “immoral” sex. Uneniably there are those who simply lust after one another the same as Heterosexuals. There is very little difference between a gay dedicated faithful soldier and a straight dedicated faithful soldier. As an African-American lesbian called into the Army chaplain ministry I pray that one day you will see that there is no difference. We are ALL made in God’s image. Not one of us is better or more “Holy” than the other. We are all creation, in a way we are all the same.
Jessica,
I’m so sorry you feel that way. If God has revealed Himself in the word of God, which I believe that He has, then it is clear that God does not condone homosexual relationships because they distort God’s design of male and female and exchanged the glory of God for the images of man (Rom 1:23-24). Therefore, homosexuality is not compatible with the Christian life-style. While it is true we have all been made in the image of God, that very image became distorted at the Fall in the Garden. It is only by salvation by grace alone by faith in Jesus Christ alone that the imago dei begins to be restored. Now if you don’t believe in the word of God that’s a different story, but then what you believe is only based upon what you think and feel, which means its not objective. Subjective and relativistic experiance has no answers for soldiers who lose limbs or their families who mourn their loss.
Chaplain Sparks,
Thank you for sharing your views. Will you be allowing a similar article sharing opinions from the other side?