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BROKEN REEDS.

Stoning Sodomites with bullets is way too biblical for today’s self-professed champions of ‘moral-values’. While eagerly seeking donations from Bible-believing Christians, many are actually ashamed of the Bible.

“Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” (Mark 8:38)

Two so-called ‘Christian’ organizations that condemned the Sodomite Suppression Act are Save California and Pacific Justice Institute. Both refused to acknowledge the following:

1. God’s word says sodomy is a crime that deserves death (Romans 1:32); and

2. God will destroy nations that tolerate sodomites (2 Peter 2:6).

Both groups condemned the Sodomite Suppression Act without making any reference to those truths. In fact, both organizations officially voiced the exact opposite position, to wit:

1. Sodomites do not deserve death, and

2. We must live with sodomites in mutual tolerance.

What a shameful capitulation to the sodomites. Both those organizations now have their share of culpability in the deaths of all the people of the State of California who are surely going to be killed by God’s wrath.

“When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.” (Ezekiel 3:18)

CAN WE JUDGE? DEATH PENALTY?

A bewildering ‘Christian’ response to the Sodomite Suppression Act has come from those who seem to think that it dispatches souls into hell. They must think this is the case because they have objected to it by saying such odd things as, ‘Christ wants to save everybody‘ and ‘we are all sinners in need of forgiveness‘ and so forth.

Those are theological statements that pertain to the salvation of souls. They are inapplicable to the operation of a human criminal justice system so they are not valid objections to the Sodomite Suppression Act .

Those who engage in sodomy deserve death, just like those who commit any other capital crime. We can hope that criminals will get their souls saved, but even if they do, it doesn’t relieve them from the necessity of paying the penalty for their crimes.

This is common sense and good judgement. It is quite unfortunate that some mushy-headed Christians resist it, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness (Jude 4).

St Paul approved of the death penalty when he said, “For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die—” (Acts 25:11).

He also described the death penalty as being one of the essential duties of government:

“For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil—. For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.” (Romans 13:3-4)

Please again note the distinctions between different sorts of judgements. The teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ pertain to lofty principles of heavenly righteousness and teach us to be kind and forgiving in personal dealings with our neighbours. Christ’s teachings occur between individuals and God’s judgement of the heart. These things are a quite different subject matter than Moses’ law which was the legal system governing the Jewish people.

Compared to God’s own perfect righteousness we all fall short and have no basis to think ourselves worthy to judge other men’s souls; yet this objection is inapplicable to civil magistrates in the performance of their earthly duties in which they must judge criminals and punish wickedness in the name of the law.

You may turn the other cheek and nobly forgive personal slights, but a government that turns the other cheek to let criminals go free is neither pious nor holy – it is devilish.

“¶ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:17-19)

“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And 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— Who 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.” (Romans 1:26-27, 32)