The Hypocrisy of Sexual Sins?

     One of the most consistent retorts that I have received about homosexual behavior and those in the gay community is that they are not repentant.   When it is pointed out that "even if" homosexuality is a sinful condition,  it is not the only sin listed in the Scriptures. Why is so much more made of it, than the sins of greed, lust, pride, power, hate, robbery and such?  The response is that those people acknowledge they are sinners and try not to do it again, whereas the homosexual does not repent and promise not to be homosexual.    

     Of course, the demand that gays repent and turn around and not do it again flies in the face of the science that acknowledges that they are born this way. It is their natural disposition and is not a choice. Even evangelical agencies which operated for decades trying to "reform" and "convert" have closed and acknowledged that homosexuality is a natural born disposition.

     But there exists one major glaring contradiction to the righteous charge that other sinners repent and promise to try not to sin again. There are clearly passages in the New Testament that describe divorce and remarriage as adultery.  That is a sin, by the way.  So there are thousands of couples in thousands of churches living in adultery who have not repented and changed their ways. They continue to live in adultery or they get divorced and do it again. 

     I am not advocating that churches dismiss all their divorced and remarried people.  Nor do I want the church to declare that divorced and remarried people cannot be ordained or be leaders. What I want to do is to point out that there is a major heterosexual sin that is staring the church in the face and it is not getting any noise or criticism, while the homosexual sin, if it is a sin, is being battered and attacked all over place.  This seems to be a log in the eye of so many Christians.