Pushing Perversion in Virginia

by T. C. Pinckney                                                                                                                      Vol. X, No. 4, April 1997

            State Sen. Patricia S. Ticer, former mayor of Alexandria, recently filed three bills which would (1) outlaw employment and housing discrimination based on sexual orientation, (2) outlaw hate crimes based on sexual orientation, and (3) allow companies and the state to provide health insurance coverage for employees’ live-in partners. [The Journal, Alexandria, 22 January 1997, p A7]

            These bills obviously presume that homosexuality is as normal a life-style as heterosexuality, a presumption contradicted by all the pertinent medical and social facts. The Journal article quotes Sen. Ticer as saying, “I personally view this whole subject as a civil rights matter.” It is far more than that, but it does impact the civil rights of everyone. Why should your right to hire or rent to whom you choose be taken away in order to encourage this most degraded and destructive life-style?

            Her second bill is unnecessary because redundant. Note that it would outlaw crimes! Excuse me, but if they are crimes, are they not already outlawed? Moreover, is it more heinous for someone to beat up a homosexual because he is homosexual than it is for someone to beat me up because they don’t like the way I drive, the way I trim my beard, or something I published in The Banner? An unspoken assumption behind this second bill is that homosexuality is peculiarly valuable to society and therefore worthy of special protection! It is, of course, equally wrong to commit a hate crime against a homosexual as against anyone else, but that is the point, is it not: equally wrong, not especially wrong.

            The effect of the third bill would be to require everyone to subsidize the horribly destructive homosexual life-style. In the case of homosexual state employees, our taxes would pay the tab. In the case of private companies, the cost of their products would have to be raised. In either case you and I would pay more.

            All my

 above argument is pragmatic, not theological. Yet there is clear biblical condemnation of homosexuality (see Genesis 18:6-19:29, Leviticus 18:22, 20:13; and Deuteronomy 22:5), and that must settle the matter once and for all for the Christian.

            We have a duty to let our state and national representatives know our position on these issues. The homosexuals are working continuously, energetically, and intelligently to further their perverse cause. We must make our voices heard loud and clear.