In my last post talking about the HomoHeresy (the agenda to normalize homosexuality) having strong roots in the Catholic Church, I felt it important to point out that the HomoHeresy is infact far worse outside the Catholic Church. Things are particularly worse in Protestantism, since they have no good way to stop it. Just last month a prominent Evangelical Pastor of a large congregation came out in favor of gay marriage. The fact that homosexuality is such a central issue today is a clear indication of the failure of the Protestant-Enlightenment experiment in the West. The sin of sodomy has always been around, but never in the 2000 years of Christianity has it received public support on the popular and legislative level. Never has it been viewed as just as normal as a heterosexual marriage. What was unthinkable a generation ago is now mainstream and taking over fast, and there's no stopping it. In fact, the main reason why homosexuality is gaining ground in this country and the world is because of Protestantism, which is caving in more and more each day to this plague.
We all know the Liberal Protestants are already fully engulfed in supporting and even advocating for this agenda, but what most Conservative Protestants don't realize is that it’s becoming more and more difficult to make a case
against homosexuality from within a Conservative Protestant framework. The following are the main reasons why.
1. Natural Law is denied, particularly in light of Total Depravity.
Natural Law (natural revelation) is the moral law which God has encoded into creation and our conscience so that man is able to use his mind (Reason) to discern right and wrong even if he lacks divine (super natural) revelation. Apart from the Bible (divine revelation), all humans can have a pretty decent idea of right and wrong, and thus why Natural Law is supposed to be the basis for all human (civil) law. But Protestants deny there is such a thing as Natural Law, both because they don't distinguish between natural and supernatural revelation, and they believe after Adam fell man's use of Reason was so corrupt that he couldn't discern these things even if he wanted to.
The problem with rejecting Natural Law is that now there is no basis from which to derive moral laws without turning to the Bible. While turning to the Bible is a very good thing, this doesn't help because in a society where the Bible is unknown or not accepted as a basis for laws means the government cannot make laws that are based on objective moral principles. Instead, laws touching upon moral issues become based on popular opinion and other subjective criteria. This is why it's perfectly logical for Western nations to see no problem saying homosexuality is fine as long as it's popularly supported by the people. (See: This Article for a better idea of the role of Natural Law on this issue.)
2. There is no magisterium in Protestantism, so no pastoral body can rule definitively on moral issues. The result is a go-it-alone denominational mentality of joining whatever
“church” fits your tastes, which in turn leads to theological
indifferentism.
Within Protestantism itself, there are no Christian dogmas, strictly speaking. Instead, there only exists a scholarly consensus which amounts to a well educated opinions/theories on various theological and moral issues. And from this there is no clear line between what is an "essential" and what is a "non-essential" doctrine. So to add an even greater tragedy to the tragedy of #1 above, Protestants cannot technically base civil laws even on the Bible in any definitive sense.
Protestants are taught that you join a denomination based on what you
think is meeting your spiritual needs. This means that "church" isn't
about being a definitive guide, but rather about which pastor or community in town you feel most comfortable with.
The result is that doctrine really does not matter, paving the way for a
practical if not formal indifference to theology. This happens even
among Conservative Protestant denominations, who basically operate as if
only Sola Scriptura and Sola Fide are the only important doctrines,
with everything else from Sacraments to Liturgy to Ecclesiology to
Divorce all left up to individual preference. But if Baptism and
Eucharist and Sunday Worship and Divorce are all left up to personal
preference, then this signifies doctrine and morality in general are not
what make someone a Christian.
3. The Biblical testimony against homosexuality can be argued around or at least heavily attenuated given the inconsistent and erroneous approach Protestants have on exegesis and morality.
While there are clear Scriptural texts that teach homosexuality is a
sin, e.g. Romans 1:26-27, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, Mark 10:2-12, these
texts greatly lose their force when a Protestant espouses things that undermine this Scriptural testimony. For example, with a breakdown in a consistent sexual ethic within Conservative Protestantism regarding morals like divorce, abortion, masturbation, contraception, sterilization, and unnatural acts within marriage (e.g. sodomy of the wife), Conservative Protestants can no longer oppose homosexuality on the basis that there is something intrinsically wrong with it. In other words, Conservative Protestants permit sinful actions that are effectively homosexual in their essence, they just don't allow these sinful acts to be done between two people of the same gender. Instead, Protestants can only say homosexuality is wrong "because the Bible says so," which is akin to saying the Jews could not eat pork "because the Bible said so," and not because eating pork is intrinsically wrong. They can only oppose it for superficial reasons, such as that it sounds gross or that God hasn't changed his mind (yet). In fact, a Protestant could theoretically say that God someday could reveal that homosexuality is now acceptable, just we cannot make that conclusion until God first says it's allowed. In fact, this is precisely what pro-homosexual Protestants argue when they point out that the Bible changed the laws against eating pork and circumcision.
It is for this reason that liberal Protestants have already come to the logical conclusion that there is no good basis to stick with male-only clergy and male headship in marriage, since these are neither viewed as "essentials" nor anything more than "because God said so back then" situations.
4. The Protestant approach to morality has led to the destruction of the family, which in turn undermines marriage as an institution and desire.
As an add-on to #3, the Conservative Protestant view of marriage has so trivialized and tarnished Christian marriage that the institution of marriage is openly mocked and fewer and fewer people even find getting married desirable. Conservative Protestants deny the Sacramental nature of Christian marriage, and they deny any permanence to it. In Protestantism, marriage does not mirror the inseparable union between Jesus and the Church as Ephesians 5 teaches. Instead, marriage is no more than a human contract that can be negated upon various grounds. Taking this along with contraception, there's really no good reason to wait for marriage before engaging in sexual relations. Homosexuals argue that if marriage is this trivial and merely a human contract, then there's not that good of a reason to oppose gay marriage.
5. A "no sin can separate us from God" mentality in which no sin is grave enough to cause you to lose salvation.
Conservative Protestants don't agree on whether a Christian can lose salvation, which in itself is a serious problem. But those who teach "eternal security" have always denied that the doctrine of "eternal security" is a free pass to live in sin. So just because a Christian cannot lose salvation does not mean they should be free to sin, especially if a Christian's life is supposed to be transformed by the Holy Spirit such that they wont desire to live in sin. Fair enough, but in practice this sadly translates into the Christian letting their guard down and not avoiding grave sins. Take the case of King David when he committed adultery and fornication: many Conservative Protestants would deny David lost his salvation when he gave into those moments of temptation. If that's the case, then the Conservative Protestant should not fret if they unfortunately give into weakness regarding pornography or fornication. And with that it's not hard to see that homosexual acts are simply one form of temptation someone could give into. Now the Conservative Protestant who has an addiction to pornography is not so far removed from the Conservative Protestant with a homosexual addiction. Plus, any Conservative Protestants who are divorced and remarried and/or are using contraception are effectively in a permanent state of grave sin, even further undermining the idea of the need to root out sin, with most of these people living as if their salvation is secure and there's nothing to worry about.
In conclusion, I’d say a Protestant who affirms at least 3 of these, and all pretty much do, then there really is no good case “against” homosexuality. This is precisely why Protestants are caving in more and more each day. This is not to say that there is not a homosexual agenda and problem among Catholic ranks, because there is (largely because of cultural reasons), but these Catholics are dissenting from official Church teaching, and this Church teaching is robust and consistent enough that there is no place homosexual ideology can take root.
