He will rescue some LGBTQ people from the domain of darkness (Colossians 1:13) and qualify them “to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light” (Colossians 1:12). When that happens, and when those who once proudly draped themselves in a rainbow flag are now clothed in the righteousness of Christ, will you be ready to minister to them? To teach, train, and disciple them? To spur them on in their newfound faith? To walk alongside them?

For the past two decades—a relative blip on history’s radar—a new month of celebration has been forcibly entered into our digital calendars, splashed across our screens, and slipped into our common consciousness. That month is the month of June, which LGBTQ advocates have called “Pride Month.”
Now, as the clock prepares to strike midnight each May 31, an angsty mix of emotions sweeps through churches, homes, classrooms, boardrooms, businesses, and government agencies as decisions have to be made about which side of the fence to sit on, how much virtue signaling to engage in, how not to be accused of saying too much (or too little), and how many colors of the rainbow flag should be flown.
In the midst of all the hand-wringing over concerns about being canceled, and the politicking involved in what has become a hot-button issue in our day, a very simple question is often overlooked: what does God think of all of this? What is the Lord of Heaven’s take on the whole idea of “Pride Month”?
This article presents ten truths about God’s perspective on the LGBTQ movement as a whole, and His assessment of our culture’s wholesale devotion of an entire month each year to worship at the altar of “Pride.”
First, God has given us clear directions and prohibitions on a variety of subjects, and related to a variety of sins, in His Word—the Bible.
God has made no mistakes in anything He’s said in His Word. He wasn’t half-in and half-out when He gave us His Word. He didn’t stutter when He gave us His Word. He hasn’t moved on from what He has said in His Word.
On the contrary, God has spoken clearly, directly, and timelessly in His Word. And this means that each of the behaviors, practices, tendencies, predispositions, attractions, and feelings that any of us have—no matter how societally accepted they are or have become—must be held up to the penetrating light of God’s Word.
What God says, goes. What we want, what we feel, what we crave, and what we desire, ultimately doesn’t matter. What matters is what God says, what He has said, and how He wants us to live. “O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me.” (Psalm 43:3)
Second, God has clearly outlined His design for marriage, sex, and procreation in the Scriptures.
His design is laid out with simplicity and clarity in Genesis 2:24, which says: “a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.”
That is, a man, a biological male (the only kind of man there is), and a woman, a biological female (the only kind of woman there is), are to be joined together in marriage. They then will grow their family through the addition of children, playing their part in fulfilling God’s mandate to populate the earth (Genesis 1:28), and then their kids will go on to start their own families and do the same.
These God-honoring (not to mention species-preserving) cycles of procreation may not be in keeping with what is being taught on college campuses or through the mainstream media these days, but going back to the first truth mentioned above, ultimately it makes no difference what professor so-and-so or a talking head or Elon Musk thinks. It’s God’s perspective—and His alone—that matters.
Third, God has clearly condemned as sinful any corruptions of His design for sex and gender and marriage.
And contrary to the arguments of those who would like to argue that God was grumpily anti-gay in the Old Testament, but that by Jesus’ day, He had evolved into a more friendly, more LGBTQ-affirming “god,” consider the divinely-inspired words of the Apostle Paul, who wrote the following in the New Testament:
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Fourth, “there is no partiality with God” (Romans 2:11).
Or as it says in the King James Version, “God is no respecter of persons.”
So, while the sin of homosexuality is, in fact, enumerated as a sin in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, it isnot the only sin listed there. It is not the unforgivable or unpardonable sin.
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The church must proclaim the mercy of Christ who came to live, die, and rise again to save hell-deserving sinners by faith in Him — forgiving all of His people’s sins, including the sin of abortion. However, the state’s role is not to show grace but to do justice: to praise those who do good and to punish evil (1 Pet 2:14).

Christians of Alabama: In gratitude for God’s grace in the Gospel, you need to be the modern-day William Wilberforce.
No, not someone else — you. Yes, you. God commands us: “seek justice, correct oppression” (Isa 1:17).  What did that mean in Wilberforce’s day? The most heinous injustice in his time was the slave trade. So Wilberforce preached against that evil and sought for it to be outlawed.
What is the most barbaric injustice of our time? Worldometer statistics report that abortion is the leading cause of death in the world today, accounting for about 40% of all deaths. Abortion is also the leading cause of death in the United States, where there are “1,500 to 2,500 abortions per day. Nearly 20% of all pregnancies in the USA … end in abortion.” One out of five. This is a crisis! Christians ought to be speaking out against this evil and seeking to outlaw it.
The church must proclaim the mercy of Christ who came to live, die, and rise again to save hell-deserving sinners by faith in Him — forgiving all of His people’s sins, including the sin of abortion. However, the state’s role is not to show grace but to do justice: to praise those who do good and to punish evil (1 Pet 2:14).
Many people think that abortion is illegal in Alabama, but it is not. By way of analogy, imagine there was a crisis of 13-year-olds being killed. So a law is passed that says you cannot hire an assassin to kill your 13-year-old, but you can kill your 13-year-old if you “do it yourself” (DIY). If that was the solution, we would all agree that is not going nearly far enough. We need to make it a crime for you to kill your 13-year-old.
Well, that is what has happened in Alabama with regard to preborn babies. In the Human Life Protection Act, Alabama has passed a law that basically says you cannot hire an assassin (an abortionist) to kill your baby, but you can kill your baby if you “do it yourself.” DIY abortion is not a crime in Alabama. Of course, it would be a crime for you to kill your 13-year-old child or your 40-year-old child, but it is not a crime for you to kill your preborn child. That means the preborn do not have equal protection under the law. According to attorney Bradley Pierce, there are an estimated 3,500 DIY abortions on Alabama soil annually.
This lack of equal protection for the preborn is unjust. It is showing partiality toward those who are born and discrimination against those who are preborn. This is in direct violation of God’s Law: “You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial…” (Lev 19:15).
In Wilberforce’s time, there was a law against kidnapping and enslaving white people, but there was not such a law regarding black people. That was an “iniquitous decree” because it showed partiality, and Wilberforce let the magistrates of that day know, “Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression” (Isa 10:1). In theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s time, there was a law against killing non-Jewish Germans, but there was not a law against killing Jews. That was partiality. In our time in Alabama, there is a law against killing born people, but there is not a law against freely, willingly, knowingly, and intentionally killing preborn people (as long as you do it yourself). That is an iniquitous decree because it shows partiality.
“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality…? Give justice to the weak and the fatherless” (Ps 82:2-3). Christian, that is what we must say to our magistrates today in Alabama who are practicing partiality by not giving equal protection to the preborn.
For this reason, Rep. Ernie Yarbrough (R-Trinity) is putting forth the first ever bill of equal protection under the law for the preborn in Alabama.
How can you be a modern-day Wilberforce?

You can pray. Pray for our leaders (1 Tim 2:1-2). Pray for “justice [for] the fatherless and the oppressed” (Ps 10:18).
You can inform people that the murder of babies in Alabama (DIY abortion) is not illegal. Do so peacefully, but speak out about this evil. “Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute” (Prov 31:8). If we are doing nothing about the bloodshed in our land, then God is disgusted with our worship (Isa 1:11-15). As Bonhoeffer said: “Only he who cries out for the Jews may sing Gregorian chants.” Are we crying out for the preborn?
If you take a stand for life, prepare to be rejected. “Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Tim 3:12). If you speak out, then you will be maligned as evil. It will harm your reputation. But the life of the preborn matters more than our reputations (Matt 5:11-12).
You can speak of God’s Word not only to your family and to your church, but to your civic leaders. “I will also speak of your testimonies before kings” (Ps 119:46). You can tell them that partiality against the preborn is evil. You can tell them to promote equal protection for the preborn. One way that can look is you can tell your state representative to support Rep. Yarbrough’s first ever bill of equal protection under the law for the preborn in Alabama.
You can make this article available to others, encouraging them to act for justice for the preborn. As Chuck Colson put it, “Wilberforce… knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.”

Allan Bledsoe is a pastor at First Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Prattville, Alabama. The views and opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the policy or position of 1819 News. This article is used with permission of the author.

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It was around 150 years after the birth of Christ that the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy determined that the earth must be at the center of the universe. If the earth was at the center, then the sun and the moon and the stars and the planets must orbit around it. Though many people had observed and assumed such geocentrism in the centuries prior, it was Ptolemy who standardized the view and who proved it to the satisfaction of very nearly all of humanity.
It was not until nearly 1400 years later that Copernicus first posited and then proved that it is not the earth but the sun that is at the center of our solar system. The sun does not orbit the earth, but the earth and the other planets the sun. This finding was met with a mix of curiosity and censure and, eventually, for Copernicus’ successors, outright persecution. But over time everyone came to understand and admit that it is heliocentrism rather than geocentrism that properly describes the position and the movement of the stars and planets within our solar system.
I once read the words of an old preacher who was indicting Christians for too easily falling into Ptolemaic tendencies when it comes to matters of disputed theology between believers. Christians are prone to take a relatively minor point of doctrine, one we might identify as second- or third-order, and set it like the earth at the pivot point of Ptolemy’s universe. Their love of this doctrine and their conviction that it is key to a right understanding and practice of the Christian faith means that soon everything begins to orbit around it.
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