Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 15 December 2005 — Page 39

The Muncie Times • December 15, 2005 • Page 39

RELIGION Homosexuality, lesbianism, same- sex marriages violate God’s law

By Bishop Willie J. Duncan, Sr. D.D., Ph.D What does the Bible say about gay-same sex marriages? There are two ways to examine the feasibility and the morality of this issue: 1) the law of sensible logic, and 2) the laws of biblical morals. The laws of logic

Bishop Willie J. Duncan

wild species this is restricted to the strawberry species. The lemon and orange were crossed to produce the oramon. The grapefruit and lemon produced the lemelo. They are derived from the fruit species. The lessons that should be learned from these are: though manipulation can be made from crossing the species, some may be made useful and some may be made to taste better, there is a danger in manipulating species. We never want to see a half man and a half ape, or a half woman and a half dog. We never want it to happen that a man will be made to produce a child without a woman. Anthropology is the scientific study of man. Almost all species have a male and female concept of reproduction, especially in the higher complex cell creatures. Many one-cell creatures may reproduce by the splitting of the cell into two separate organisms. Mankind is reproduced by the female concept only. Neither manner woman, has the ability to reproduce without one another. The man’s sex cell has 23 half-single chromosomes, while the woman’s sex cell (egg) has 23 half-sin-gle chromosomes. In scientific terminology, they are classified as haploids. They are at this point, non fertile. They cannot produce a

sustained life without coming together. The woman’s egg will perish within 24 hours of ovulation and unless, it is frozen, the man’s sperm will live in its half state for no more than 24-36 hours. From this, it seems that life cannot be sustained nor produced without male and female coming together sexually. The female chromosomes are classified as XX, and the male as XY. Every individual is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, which is 46: half from the female and half from the male. Of these 23 pairs, a female would have a pair of XX chromosomes, which signifies the female gender. The male, on the other hand, would have a XY pair of chromosomes, signifying the male gender. The concluding point is that same sex marriages should not be tolerated as an accepted life style, because this is not a lifestyle that produces life. There are built-in laws that govern the reproduction of the species. Anyone who violates these laws will cause the continuation of life to become extinct. We need diversity to have unity. We need the positive and negative to have motion. We need male and female to have continuous life.

Biblical Morals There are clear and plain teachings in the word of God against the immoral practices in sexuality. This includes adultery, fornication, incest, homosexuality, lesbianism and sodomy. These all belong to sexual immorality. Adultery, fornication, and incest are still considered immoral in our society but the sins of homosexuality, lesbianism, sodomy, are now being tolerated. There are legislations that have been passed, and some that are pending, to determine whether the sins of homosexuality, lesbianism, and sodomy are to be tolerated in our society. From a biblical perspective, this certainly is an abomination and is absurd. There are many scriptures in the Bible that plainly teach against these gross sins. For example: Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you. (Lev. 18:22-24) Please consider another scripture: If a man also continued on page 42

It is unfortunate that there should even be a question of what constitutes marriage. This thing has been settled from time immemorial. To have life existent today on earth requires the reproduction of the various species. This is true in the laws of Botany, Zoology and Homo sapiens. Life cannot continue without the act of marriage between male and female. To ignore this is to ignore life itself. There are times when simplicity should decide the rule of thumb. laws of botany Botany is that is the study of plants. Most all plants known have a seed or process of reproduction. Most plant seeds fall to the ground in the fall. This is the way for the seeds to impregnate the ground. The earth then becomes the mother and the plants producing the seed become the fathers. The result is that

other plants of their kind are produced. Those species are continued in the reproduction cycle. Sometimes man manipulates a seed and produces a hybrid. When a male and female of two different species or strains produce an offspring, the young is called a hybrid. The mule is one of the most famous hybrids. It is the offspring of a horse and a jackass. Hybrids were once considered unnatural, although the mule has been used as far back as the days of Homer in ancient Greece. However, the mule that is produced cannot reproduce because it is sterile. One limit of hybridization is that the more different the parents are from one another, the more difficult it is to produce offspring. In widely different species, it is impossible. Evidently, this is because they are not of the same family. Though man has been able to produce cultivated strawberries from two