The United Methodist Church (UMC) voted on May 3 to change its bylaws (called Book of Discipline), repealing its longstanding ban on same-sex marriages by its clergy or in its churches. The change allows clergy to be homosexuals themselves and to perform all homosexual ceremonies celebrating homosexual unions.

The decision followed a repeal of language banning homosexuality among the clergy two days earlier. The UMC had for 52 years labeled homosexuality as “incompatible with Christian teachings” but chose to remove that language as well. They also changed the marriage clause to read: “a covenant between two adults” rather than limiting it to heterosexual couples.

Some UMC churches have tried to remain neutral, but neutrality is a fallacy. There is no uncommitted zone here. Choosing a side on this sin or any sin in Scripture will be controversial to someone who wants to commit that sin, but that’s not how we decide. Any doctor can tell you cancer is still deadly, even if we all stop calling it a disease and start calling it “alternative health.”

There is no safe or “centrist” position on sexual perversion. There is never a middle ground between truth and lies (1 John 1:5-7). Not taking sides IS taking a side. Jesus said, “Whoever is not with Me is against Me…” (Luke 11:23). You side with God, or you side with sin; God never allows a muddy middle to avoid being involved in the controversy.

Sadly, instead of throwing off the sin that entangles and disables (Hebrews 12:1-2), the UMC chose to embrace and welcome the sin, effectively changing the label from sin to “a matter of personal conscience.” Did God change His mind?

We must confront sin in love but confront it clearly, repeatedly, and publicly. Love does not keep us silent or make us back down to perversion. Would you allow two people to speed over a cliff without trying to warn them because “they look so happy together?” Of course not. You would do your best to tell them the bridge is out. Speeding ahead is certain destruction. Failure to not warn about sin is also a sin (Ezekiel 33:6).

Is Homosexuality Sin or An Alternate Lifestyle?

Let’s be clear: homosexuality and every form of sexual immorality are always depicted as sin in the Bible. It is never an acceptable alternative or inability because “God made me this way.” That’s a lie. God’s position on sexual behavior and sexual perversion is consistent from the first book of the Bible to the last. God stated what is normal, healthy human sexuality in the first chapter of Genesis. Jesus confirmed it was God’s plan “from the beginning” (Matthew 19:4).

Homosexuality and every other sexual behavior is, was, and always will be a perversion of God’s clear and unequivocal design for humans from the beginning (Genesis 1:27, 2:24).

Anything other than God’s design is wickedness because it perverts God’s plan for humanity. Gay, bi-sexual, trans, lesbian, pedophilia, incest, bestiality, and any perversion that hasn’t been dreamed up yet; they are all evil and wrong. Never once does God suggest it’s an alternate form of love.

It is sin. It is condemned. It is perverse to God. He uses the strongest possible term in Hebrew: tobah, translated “abomination.” It means loathsome, detestable, vile, unclean, and vomitous. It literally means it makes God want to throw up!

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