Gary:
This is Search the Scriptures Daily, a radio ministry of The Berean Call. Still ahead, answers to your questions in Contending for the Faith, and in Understanding the Scriptures, Dave and Tom will resume their conversation on God’s salvation. In addition to this radio program we publish a monthly Newsletter which we make available free of charge. We also produce and distribute a wide variety of teaching materials including books in print, e-book, and audio book formats, CD’s, DVD’s and other items to encourage the serious study of God’s Word. For a complete list of materials, or to get a copy of today’s broadcast write to us at POB 7019, Bend, Oregon 97708. Call our toll free order number 877-882-4253, that’s 877-88Bible, or visit our website at www.thebereancall.org. If you would like a copy of this broadcast, ask for Program #4406, and be sure to mention the call letters of this station. And, now, if you would like to watch Dave and Tom, our weekly broadcast is available on DVD. Ask about a subscription when you contact us. You can also download both audio and video pod cast at our website. We’ll repeat this information at the end of the program.
RELIGION IN THE NEWS
Now, Religion in the News, a report and comment on religious trends and events being covered by the media. This week’s item is from Baptist Press, May 12, 2006, with a headline: California Senate Passes Gay History Textbook Bill. The following are excerpts: A landmark bill that would require public school textbooks in California to include gay history passed the California Senate. The bill, SB1437, would mandate that textbooks include the contributions of people who are lesbians, gay, bi-sexual or transgender to the total development of California and the United States. It would also prevent teachers from speaking adversely about homosexuality. Randy Thomason, President of California based Campaign for Children and Families, said it was ironic that the bill passed days before Mother’s Day, a holiday traditionally focused on the natural traditional family. This terrible bill forces local schools to go against parents by mandating trans-sexual, bi-sexual and homosexual education upon their impressionable children. Whose children are they anyway? This mental molestation of kids as young as kindergarten is very wrong. Children deserve academics, not sexual indoctrination. The bill was sponsored by Democratic State Senator Sheila Cool, a lesbian. All we’re saying is, let us also be reflected in history, Cool said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Bill supporters and homosexuals should be reflected in history just as blacks and other minorities are. But State Senator Bill Morrow, Republican, disagreed. If you are a black American you can’t help it, you were born that way, Morrow said, according to the San Jose Mercury News. There is not one scintilla of credible scientific evidence that suggests that homosexuality is biological in origin, it is behavioral, it is not racial.
Tom:
Dave, when I first read this article the phrase, gay history, came up, and I’m just wondering. Well, why don’t they take us back to Sodom and Gomorrah, to really get to the fix of this thing.
Dave:
That would be a good point, Tom. Or they could take us to the shores of--- a book out there called, The Fatal Shore, Australia. It was originally populated, it was a penal colony for England, and it was rampant with homosexuality. You ought to read that book and the letters of some of these guys writing back to England, saying how they were forced into this as sex slaves. They hated it, and let’s include that in the history. And let’s include some of the crimes and the horror of pedophilia and so forth, and the corruption of our youth. But the bill says you can’t speak adversely about homosexuality. Then what kind of history is this? This is not history.
Tom:
No, this is propaganda.
Dave:
Propaganda, it is a whitewash. And Tom, It is criminal because these people intend to force themselves upon the rest of society. First of all they insist upon being normal, that this is just a normal way of behavior, just an alternate way that those who do this are not wrong. Now, for centuries, thousands of years it was always looked upon as a perversion.
Tom:
As a perversion, Dave, unnatural.
Dave:
Absolutely, and now suddenly it is being changed and these people are forcing this on us.
Tom:
So, let’s rewrite history, I mean, let’s do that, Dave. Let’s present this as though---I mean, it’s really a bad joke, I mean, it a tragedy, it’s absolutely tragic.
Dave:
Well, it’s an attempt to brain wash with lies, as you say, rewrite history. Tom, Bill Morrow makes a very good point. He says there’s not one scintilla of credible scientific evidence that suggests that homosexuality is biological in origin. You know, they say, Well, it’s just like the racial thing, you know, we should have minority status. Well, wait a minute! This is something you chose, it wasn’t something you were born with, it’s something you chose. And Tom, you know the many arguments---for example, you were Catholic once upon a time. You know that some Catholic seminaries, you’ve got all men stuck in there together, and they have taken vows of celibacy, seventy percent some of them, homosexuals. Now, isn’t that amazing that all of these men who have these genes, who happen to be born with this tendency towards homosexuality, is the natural way for them to behave, they all end up in Catholic seminaries! I wonder how that could come about! Or, these people who were sent to the penal colony in Australia---probably ninety percent of them down there were into homosexuality. Many of them hated it, and they wrote home about it, we have their letters. Isn’t that amazing that these people who had these homosexual genes in their bodies, which they inherited from parents, they ended up down in Australia in such a concentration! Tom, I get really angry! This is a joke! Now furthermore, these people believe, most of them, believe in evolution. If you’re homosexual you don’t breed children! Evolution, this natural process of survival of the fittest and natural selection, would breed these people out. Instead of that it gets worse and worse as they continue to force themselves upon the public trying to insist that this is a natural way of life, in fact, a desirable way of life---Let’s teach it to our kids in grammar school so that they will know the options that they have. This is wicked, and they will be punished by God for this.
Tom:
And Dave, it’s really sad that many people buy into this. It’s not reasonable, it’s not rational. You would think that legislators would have enough common sense to see this. This is what really floors me.
Dave:
Well, Bill Morrow has.
Tom:
Yes.
Dave:
But, he would be in the minority. In fact, Tom, it wouldn’t even take evolution if they got their way, everyone adopted this so-called lifestyle, it would be the end of the human race.
Tom:
If they were consistent.
Dave:
Right. Are they going to be proud about that? Well, that would sure cut the population way down fast and eventually it would eliminate it. So, you’re going to wipe out the human race and this is good? And you’re going to have gay pride parades and you’re going to give us a corrupted history to deny the truth. Tom, this is a crime. It shouldn’t be allowed.
