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Some of you may remember back to the San Francisco riots in the 1970s when the homosexual-rights movement found its voice after members of their community were beaten and murdered. Many, including myself, felt sympathy for what they were going through. At the same time, one particularly vocal opponent of this movement, Anita Bryant, was mocked with signs like, "We don't want your children, Anita, just your husband." She was made to appear as an extremist idiot by the media.

I was in high school during this turbulent era – a time when Vietnam had closed down and the Watergate hearings had concluded. Other government institutions and politicians were being deservedly exposed for their own corrupt activities. Anti-communism had been equated with McCarthyism. Bizarre religious cults were thriving. And the U.S. Supreme Court had recently allowed uterine-infanticide if the mother chose to do so. Many things that people had generally understood as evil were newly pronounced as morally acceptable. It felt like our nation was being ripped apart. In reality, that was exactly what was happening.

Specifically, biblical values were being trashed in favor of more expedient and self-serving notions. The leading ethic was, "If it feels good, do it." Premarital sex, adultery, homosexuality, pornography, divorce, drug usage – all enjoyed a rapid rise in popularity. Forget the consequences. Forget God. Just do it. And we did.

And we still do.

Since that time, however, the consequences of these activities have also manifested in our nation. Venereal disease, herpes, AIDS, hepatitis, abortion, violence, and crime are destroying America from within. Many of our children are more capable of putting on a condom than they are able to do math or explain why the Constitution is important. We bow to the almighty dollar instead of God.

Anything goes these days.

Even our politicians are but a mere reflection of us because we are the ones who let them get into office either by voting for them or by refusing to vote at all. So, is it any wonder that President Bush is brown-nosing homosexual lobbyists? Does it amaze you that the U.N. is catering to homosexual activists trying to shut down our First Amendment rights and is unwilling to support Egypt's assertion that homosexuality is "irresponsible sexual behavior"?

Look, folks, I do not hate homosexuals, and I am not "homophobic." My maternal grandfather was a closet homosexual. Some of my favorite teachers were homosexual. Some of my friends and neighbors are homosexual. I count these individuals as decent, hardworking, loveable people who either are or were a valued part of my life.

But just because I care for these people does not prevent me from disagreeing with their behavior.

To be sure, homosexual sexual behavior is not any more "irresponsible" than premarital sex or adulterous sexual behavior – the Bible makes it clear that all sexual behavior outside of the bounds of heterosexual marriage is sin against God. Nor does the Bible say that homosexuality is a worse sin than other sins. Nor does the Bible teach Christians to be abusive and malicious towards those who sin – including homosexuals – but to love them as Christ has loved us and to invite them to consider following God instead of their path to self-destruction.

At the same time, let's also acknowledge that there is no evidence of a genetic basis for homosexual behavior. Nonetheless, in a society of victimology and dysfunctionality – where it is politically correct to be helpless and hopeless (to the point now where you no longer even are responsible for murdering your children because of your genetic makeup and upbringing) – the homosexual lobby has corruptly seized this mindset as their own.

But, the cry of "we cannot help what we are" implicitly acknowledges that even homosexuals themselves understand their behavior is immoral and that they are not willing to take responsibility for what they do. After all, why do you need to blame genetics for who you are if there is nothing wrong with your behavior?

Moreover, homosexual lobbyists have even tried to tie themselves to Martin Luther King's belt buckle by asserting homosexual behavior to be the equivalent of a civil right – a notion repudiated by King's niece – by suggesting that opposition to homosexual behavior is the same thing as racism. Hogwash. People are not responsible for their skin color, but they ought to be responsible for their personal conduct.

Just as those who are tempted to commit adultery or engage in premarital sex are instructed in scripture to not act on these primal urges, so too for those who are tempted by homosexual inclinations. There is a way to deal effectively with all of these troubling but illicit desires and that way is provided by God through prayer and forgiveness. For homosexuals seeking freedom from these desires, forgiveness often must be extended to a parent – usually the father – for some real or perceived breach in their relationship with that person from early in their childhood. A breach which they try to repair and restore subconciously by acting out that relationship through homosexual surrogates.

It's about time we got a grip on this issue.

The real problem here is not that homosexuals are sinners like the rest of us, it is that they flaunt – rather than repent of – what they are doing. They are trying to indoctrinate our children in their way of life through the public schools. They are trying to silence opposition to what they do through legislative bullying and intimidation. They are trying to destroy the long-standing institution of marriage. And they are trying to decimate entire church denominations which do not capitulate to their demands.

In short, they are trying to destroy our way of life – life that was given to us from the time of Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. And they are succeeding. Indeed, they have gone way too far. And we have let them.

What homosexuals do in their bedrooms is between them and God. But what they do on our school boards and in our legislatures and churches is all of our business and we had better come to terms with this nasty fact of life soon before we lose our rights – and our children – to this twisted perversion of life.

Vermont has already fallen prey to homosexual activists and malfeasant legislators. California is about to fall if people don't start calling Gov. Davis and their representatives real fast. And so will go the rest of the nation if we don't stand up to this evil now. Just as Joseph McCarthy has been proven correct about the threats of communism and socialism to our nation, so too have Anita Bryant and many Christian leaders been proven correct about the insidious, debilitating nature of the homosexual-rights movement.

Ultimately, just as the consequences for our immoral behaviors have manifested in destroying our nation, we are also going to have to come to terms with the sovereign God who created us. It's your decision, of course, but I would invite you to consider now whether your relationship with God will be one that is honoring to Him or one of contempt for Him and His ways. But this time, your choice will have eternal consequences.

Tom Ambrose is the assistant commentary editor of WorldNetDaily.

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