SEXUALITY: Having the Right Doesn't Make It Right

Article By Dianna Hobbs:: The New A-list Author

I don’t do Twitter. I’m a Facebook kind of gal. I hope you’re already connected with me on my official page, because I just love sowing encouragement into your life as God gives it to me.

But anyway, someone actually sent me a tweet that Samantha Power, United States Ambassador to the United Nations sent out to see what I thought of it.

They wanted me to read it and weigh in.

So I did.

On May 17, Power wrote, “Love is not a crime. Sexuality is not a choice. No person should face discrimination because of who they are. #LGBT rights are human rights.”

After receiving the message, I scanned her Twitter timeline.

I would also like to note that, on May 15, Power sent out a tweet in support of the Christian Sudanese wife and mother who has been sentenced to death for refusing to renounce Christianity.

About that issue, the Ambassador compassionately said, we “must respect [the] right to freedom of religion.”

I find it intriguing that Power is able to support the rights of both homosexuals and Christians, though many people of faith disagree with the gay lifestyle. That tells me that, in her mind, it boils down to the question of freedom and what liberties everyone should have.  

Though her views on homosexuality are indeed different from mine, she is well within her rights to hold them as truth.

As a Christian person living in a pluralistic society, I realize there are many different viewpoints, ideologies and religions. There are varying perspectives that challenge my Christian ethos and yet, everyone has the right to live as they choose.  

But here’s a principle that I live by, which helps me remain focused and clear in a wayward society. Please, feel free to borrow it.

“Just because someone has the right to do it, doesn’t make it right to do it.”

That’s what I say.

God gives all of us freedom to choose.

Adam and Eve were given that liberty in the Garden of Eden. Sadly, they chose wrongly and ate from the forbidden tree, which led to their banishment from the utopia they had taken for granted. But God allowed them to act according to their volition, for better or worse.

We must also understand that people all over the world will do the same, whether their behaviors fall in line with our biblical belief system or not.

As an author, speaker and abstinence advocate, I share the truth as it has been revealed to me through God’s word.

Just as I believe homosexuality is sinful, I share the same views on premarital sex between heterosexuals.

Does the whole world embrace my views?

I’m sure I don’t need to answer that for you, but I will anyway.

Of course they don’t and yet, I feel compelled to continue speaking truth, but most importantly, living it, despite what others say and do.

You must be resolved to do the same thing, because your faith and morals will most certainly be challenged. But as long as you allow God’s word and not the passions, opinions and ideologies others hold dear to guide you, you’ll be alright.

Speak truth. Live truth.

If you don’t know what that is, in John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life.”

Your Abstinence Coach,

Dianna Hobbs

Comments

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Right on, Diana! James 1:22-25 in action, everyday, no matter what!