Adhering to my moral standards

It is my firm belief that Jesus and the Bible both promote to love your brother and neighbor as “Jesus loves the church,” and we do not believe “The Christian Response to Homosexuality” went against that idea or belief system at all.

We recognize that many would perceive it as doing just that simply because of the fact that people must boil things down to two sides, to black and white, so to speak. Therefore out of necessity we have fallen on the side of “hating gays” rather than the side of “accepting an alternative lifestyle.” This is incorrect.

I do not believe any of our officers or anyone that is involved with our organization would advocate hating homosexuals. I do think that most would agree that the lifestyle is mentioned in the Bible and is thought of by the Christian faith as a whole to be a sin.

This idea of homosexuality being a “sin” is the part that instantly incenses many people and leads them to call us a plethora of names. However, I fail to see the correlation. What I do see is that anyone who opposes something as morally wrong is put down as “small-minded” or “intolerant,” both of which are not necessarily accurate.

Maybe it can be more difficult at times to hold to a position and not let “popular opinion” sway you away from those beliefs. Some may even call this having a “moral standard.” If having a moral standard is something that necessitates being “small-minded” or “intolerant,” then I think I must include myself in that camp.

I have many beliefs on many different areas that I see going on around me both on the national level and on the more local level, and for me simply to say “well, a lot of people believe this, so I might as well follow suit” is to me very small-minded indeed.

I believe that there are many students who disagree with things that are promoted 110 percent on campuses around the nation and the only voice they have is to meet together in small groups and “build each other up.” Because all around them are influences, funded by their tax dollars and the tax dollars of their parents, that are pushing them more and more to abandoned their beliefs and creeds because it is the “politically correct” thing to do.

This is ridiculous and self-defeating. If promoting one side of an issue and one side only is the best way to get people to think independently, then I must admit that I disagree. If a “safe campus” is that which accepts and tolerates anything and everything, then I will once again have to disagree.

I think it is better for society as a whole to restrict certain actions that prove to be detrimental to society. And if religion or beliefs are not the way to go about doing that, should it be majority opinion or some other alternative? I would love to hear an answer for that.

Dustin Wales

President of the Apologetics Association

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