How did Sodom and Gomorrah become Sodom and Gomorrah?

By: American Decency Staff

How did Sodom and Gomorrah become Sodom and Gomorrah? Just look around and observe the day today news emanating even out of so-called Christian colleges.In other words, Sodom and Gomorrah became a land so destitute of standards of decency, mercy, love and righteousness and became a land of perversion, homosexuality and reprobation. I believe the answer is one person accommodating one at a time. Homosexuality became politically correct and little by little no one was willing to speak against it. Read Genesis 18:20 – 19:27 "… Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah. And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land. …" Genesis 19:24-25 Romans 1: "… Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, …" Romans 1:25-28 Here we live in 21st century America. The tactics to shove homosexuality down our throats is much different. Here is one of the latest – "Seven Passages". The subtitle reads: "Local play about gay Christians to be performed at international conference of Anglican bishops" See: http://blog.mlive.com/kzgazette/2008/07/western_michigan_university_ca_1.html "… The play, which critically examines Bible passages about homosexuality, sold out a three-week run. Stephanie Sandberg, Calvin College theater professor, is the director of 'Seven Passages.'" Calvin College, being one of those colleges that once held true to God's Word, is increasingly demonstrating before a watching world that it has lost its spiritual moorings. Now they give a free pass to a play designed to help foster accommodation to perversion. Quoting from an article in the Kalamazoo Gazette on February 3, 2008 we see that the premise of the production is to attack the Word of God and to make it say what they want it to say through seriously flawed translation practices. Quoting: " … The title refers to seven biblical passages that, according to Sandberg, 'have traditionally been used to oppress gays and lesbians and possibly transgender people as well.' Sandberg cites Jude 1:7, which condemns the residents of Sodom and Gomorrah for 'seeking after strange flesh,' and Romans 1, which describes 'vile affections.' The New King James translation of Leviticus 20:13 states that 'if a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.' Sandberg said she and her cast 'looked at those passages as an issue of translation equaling oppression. … I looked at different readings of them, as opposed to the traditional.' …" Contact: Calvin College Dr. Gaylen Byker, President 3201 Burton Street, SE Grand Rapids, MI 49546 phone: 616-526-6142 fax: 616-526-7069 Email: offcpres@calvin.edu *********************************************************** American Decency Association Bill Johnson, President P.O. Box 202 Fremont, MI 49412 ph: 231-924-4050 www.americandecency.org

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