Thu 1 Feb 2007
Mary Cheney and Her Pregnancy
Posted by Rev. Iovine under Christianity , Clergy , Real Life[2] Comments
It is no secret that Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter, Mary, is a lesbian, and she is pregnant.
This has caused certain "evangelicals" to criticize Mary’s lifestyle and that she is going to raise a child in a non-traditional "mom and dad" home. Even TV reporters have questioned the Vice President about this. He rightfully told the reporter that he was stepping over a line.
The church should always oppose homosexuality because God’s Word says so. This is not done because we hate, but because the God of love who created us tells us to. It is not hateful for the church to say that something opposes God. It is loving. We don’t want our brothers and sisters to live lives of sin. That is why we cannot water down our teachings or lessen our hold on the Word of God.
But what this topic boils down to is sin. The church is supposed to oppose sin, not matter the form. The church doesn’t promote pre-marital sex. We preach that it is wrong. Why? God’s Word tells us that sex between partners is only supposed to be between a wife and husband. Any kind of sex between a boyfriend and girlfriend is wrong. Sex between non-married partners of any age is wrong. And the church can’t change this teaching. However, we don’t throw couples out of the church who are having sex before marriage. We teach the importance of God’s Word and the importance of understanding of fighting our internal mechanism that causes us to sin. And when we fail, the church says, we sinners go to our God and repent and ask for forgiveness.
When we Christians oppose a particular lifestyle or action of our fellow sinners, we don’t oppose it because we hate. On the contrary, our opposition is one of love. God’s Word provides a blessed explanation of what sinfulness is. And as we read the Word, we find that all of us are sinners and are in need of a savior. We are to cling to the cross of Christ and ask our Lord for the forgiveness that Jesus won for humanity through His blessed life, death, resurrection, and ascension.
As Christians, one of the things that we aren’t supposed to do is stand in judgment of others. When Christian leaders go on TV or speak to reporters about Mary Cheney and her pregnancy and then be critical of her, they have lost sight of a most important aspect of our lives as Christians – we are to love our neighbor as ourselves. Or we are to love our neighbor as our Lord Jesus loved us when He humbled Himself to come to earth to die for our sins. Our Lord didn’t just come to die for the sins of those righteous, church-going, Bible-thumpers — He came to die for all the sins of the world, including the sin of homosexuality and sin of sex outside of marriage. Christian leaders, while being firm against sin, cannot attack the sinner. We are to reject the sin, but love the sinner.
How about this – today in your prayers, say a prayer for Mary and her unborn child. Ask our Father in heaven to guard and protect mother and child during the months of pregnancy. Most especially we should pray that when Mary’s child is born, she is led to the waters of Holy Baptism.
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February 2nd, 2007 at 10:15 PM
Evangelical right wingers spread hate by attacking people who don’t agree with them. They have to remember Jesus’s commandment to love your neighbors. You don’t have to agree with them. But you can’t hate them. Thank you for your post.
Greg
February 26th, 2008 at 11:28 AM
24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
The bible is very clear on this issue.
The wages are death for this sin. In these days of great falling away I see people trying to take away pages and pages of the bible who they don’t agree with or speaks of their sin. God says my word cannot be void.
This is not a sin to be placated and approved of, for with that also comes judgment.
1 Corinthians 12:9-13, “I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner–not even to eat with such a person. 12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”
It is not my word but Gods word. We are not to hate them, but hate the sin.