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ings. It 's time we looked at the
Bible.
The Ultimate Source
The Bible is God's instruction
book to mankind.
It
reveals how
man ought to live.
Paul , John, Peter, Moses, and all
others who wrote portions of the
Bible did not of their own volition
decide what to write and what
should be part of the Bible as sorne
want to say. They were directly in–
spired and guided by the Spirit of
God to write and canonize what we
now call the Bible.
Scripture is "profitable for doc–
trine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righ teou s ness"
(II Timothy 3: 16).
The question is: Are we willing to
listen to what Scripture reveals
about homosexuality? What the
Bible says about the subject is un–
mistakably clear.
In both the Old and New Testa–
ments, from Genesis to Revelation,
male and female homosexuality is
condemned as an unnatural , abomi–
nable, vile perversion.
Read it yourselt1
"If
a man lies
with a maleas with a woman, both
of them have committed an abomi–
nation; they shall be put to death"
(Leviticus
20: 13,
RSV).
Sodom and Gomorrah
Who hasn't heard the story of
Sodom and Gomorrah? The entire
plain around Sodom and Gomor–
rah, including the cities, crops and
everything that lived, was destroyed
by fire because of the grievous sex–
ual sins and other vices of the in–
habitants.
The meo of Sodom and Gomor–
rah were so perverse sexually that
they would even rape other men.
See Genesis
19:4-9.
In fact, read the
entire detailed account in your own
Bible, Genesis
18:20
through Gen–
esis
19:28.
See for yourself what
God thinks about homosexuality!
This account was recorded for our
instruction. "And turning the cities
of Sodom and Gomorrah into
PLAIN TRUTH April 1973
Can Homosexuality
Be Prevented?
T
HE PREPONDERANCE
of re–
search already completed
lays most of the blame for homo–
sexuality on family upbringing.
The cause of homosexuality, par–
ticularly
in
males, is commonly
placed on a close-binding, over–
protective, excessively intimate, or
domineering mother, coupled with
a weak, distant, indifferent, with–
drawn, or hostile father.
A landmark study, conducted by
a number of psychoanalysts ,
headed by Irving Bieber,
M.D.,
en–
titled
Homosexuality: A Psy–
choanalytic Study of Male
Homosexuals,
reached this sum–
mation concerning the causes and
problems of homosexuality: "We
have come to the conclusion that a
constructive, supportive, warmly
related father
precludes
the possi–
bility of a homosexual son; he acts
as a neutralizing, protective agent
should the mother make seductive
or close-binding attempts."
After much study on the subject
of bomosexuality, Peter and Bar–
bara Wyden reported in their
book,
Growing Up Straight:
"This
much is certain; it is just about im–
possible for a homosexual to be
the product of warmly loving, sen–
sible parents and a sexuaUy well–
adjusted home atmosphere."
Homosexuality is fundamentaUy
the product of the lack of a warm,
loving, father-led marriage and
fa
mil
y.
The emphasis on unisex and the
disappearance of sex-linked occu-
pations are possible additional
contributing factors. When both
parents work and share household
duties, blurring sexual distinctions,
children increasingly are more
likely to become homosexual.
The media and the proliferation
of pornographic materials depict–
ing homosexual acts undoubtedly
play a part too, according to
an ímportant paper presented be–
fore the American Academy of
Psychoanalysis, by Dr. Lawrence
J.
Hatterer of Cornell University.
Dr. Hatterer concluded in bis
paper that homosexuality can be
triggered by environmental
in–
ftuences, chief of which are sugges–
tive homosexual literature, plays,
and movies.
Sorne researchers have studied
the effects of genetic aberration
and endocrine disorder on homo–
sexuality. But as
Dr.
Morris
Fishbein explains in his book,
Suc–
cessful Marriage,
though genetic
and hormonal factors may contrib–
ute to causing homosexuality, the
environment which leads to homo–
sexuality would still have to be
provided.
"In
other words," Dr.
Fishbein explains, " .. . the training
is the differential in the individ–
ual's ultímate behavior."
The best prevention against rais–
ing a homosexual child is ex–
plained in simple terms
in
Your
Marriage Can Be Happy
and
The
Plain Truth About Child Rearing.
Both are sent free of charge upon
request.
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