HOMOSEX AND THE CHRISTIAN

The Making, and Breaking, of Homosexuality

Miles J. Stanford

PSEUDO-MARRIAGE

Bisexualism is usually carried on under the camouflage of marriage. Some lesbians even go so far as to marry [male] sodomites; there is an understanding between them, and they live together for mutual cover, or for social and economic purposes. Convenience marriages.

But it is the bisexual woman who usually marries, and is able to enter into the relationship on a more normal basis. She may be able to enjoy heterosex with her husband, but it still amounts to an alibi marriage for her. Her preference, her bent, is toward lesbianism.

She may bear children, but not as a rule. If she is aggressive, she dominates her husband, has a penchant for more or less masculine attire, etc. Usually she has one or more "close" female friends, or she is constantly cultivating companions at work or at church, ever seeking emotional if not actual sexual satisfaction to one degree or another as opportunity affords.

If this bisexual wife is passive there is usually more marital harmony, although she tends to attract lesbians and other married women who have a bisexual bent. Many bisexual women never become involved in actual homosex, although they are constantly caught up in a series of crushes and too intimate friendships, mainly with single women or widows who are lonely, or married women who are frustrated and emotionally starved.

A wife with a bisexual bias may not be an actual lesbian, but if she participates in part-time homosex she is certainly guilty before God of the sin of homosex. Even if she refrains from actual lesbianism her close female friendships are a sin against God, her husband, and others. "It may be a secret sin on earth, but it is an open scandal in heaven." "Mortify, therefore, your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire" (Colossians 3:5).

CAUSES -- The bisexual woman is probably conditioned for her dual sexual role much the same as the full-fledged lesbian, but to a lesser degree. Many married women have only been affected in their upbringing to the extent that the bisexual condition is incipient, or latent. They are only vaguely aware of it, if at all. If all remains more or less normal in their lives they may never awaken to the inversion.

But there is usually an effect in the life, however deeply buried the tendency. Ordinarily it is manifested in a masculine attitude toward men, marriage, and family life. It is there in insidious incipiency, and can flare into both fantasy and fact under certain provocations.

There are a number of circumstances that can bring this sexual inversion into play. Her lack of spiritual growth could be the main reason--walking after the flesh and not after the Spirit. And often the husband is at fault through failure to provide spiritual leadership, love, security, and adequate sexual satisfaction for the wife. When a husband fails a wife who has a latent bisexual penchant, the resultant frustration and disillusionment may cause her to seek consolation love with a "sympathetic and understanding" female friend.

Other fostering factors may be more external in nature, such as the enticements of an aggressive lesbian. This is something that a husband has little or no defense against if the wife has a latent tendency to respond. There is also the powerful influence of the present-day de-feminization thrust that is permeating the Christian home and church. How easy it is for dormant bisexuality to rise and relate to this masculine monstrosity.

THE LASCIVIOUS LESBIAN -- Most of the homosex among Christians is both initiated and maintained by the experienced lesbian. Through the years she has been all too free to spread her plague and ruin lives at will. Her covert course of action and conquest is universal. She is an employee and employer in every type of Christian organization; she is a student and faculty member of Christian schools; she is a member and on the staff of the most fundamental churches, camps, and conferences.

There are three basic factors, or weaknesses, that make such a strange thing possible, i.e., deep-dyed sin maintained in the midst of a comparatively high Christian culture. Shades of Eden!

The first shameful weakness concerns much of our Christian leadership, as to their responsibility before God for the welfare of His own. So many leaders are able to discern the slightest doctrinal deviation, but they can watch a morally deviant lesbian "love" affair festering right before their eyes day after day and never see anything amiss.

Or, worse still, they simply observe "a beautiful spiritual friendship." "Why, those two are inseparable; they dress and act like twin sisters!" It must be admitted that the full blame cannot he attributed to lack of discernment on the part of those in the position of responsibility; much is due to the deviousness of the deviates.

The second factor is that deceit is the most effective stratagem in the lesbian's lair. She simulates a pseudo-spirituality both as a cover for her clandestine carnality, and as a means of carrying out her conquests.

The third weakness that contributes to this sinful state of affairs is the vulnerability of the average Christian girl--and that mainly due to problems on the part of her parents.

To illustrate: If the parents' marriage is inharmonious, coupled with little or no sexual instruction for the children, the daughter may well be rendered susceptible to sexual problems. Even where she is given sexual instruction, there is usually an over-protection as to normal sex, with no inkling as to the abnormal! Thus, either way, she is inadequately fortified against homosex.

PREDATORY PERVERT -- Consider a typical instance. The setting is a Bible conference, where a lesbian can easily strike up a friendship with the girl of her choice. The companionship they begin to enjoy is warm and "spiritual" as they attend the meetings, eat, study, talk, pray, and, if the lesbian has her way, sleep together.

It is all so very innocent and subtle, and extremely compelling to a lonely young woman who is yearning for friendship and fellowship. Under such conditions she is no match for the experienced lesbian, who is deftly and deliberately taking her beyond the warmth of friendship to the heat of homosexual licentiousness. The predator rarely makes her ultimate move until she is certain that her victim is thoroughly conditioned and virtually unable to resist.

It is the insidious, ethereal, almost irresistible beginning that must be brought to the light and exposed for what it really is. So often those first steps on the lesbian path can seem to "shine with a special beauty and exotic spirituality, even with an aroma of sanctity." Too late to warn, even that early!

It is a shame to have to sound the alarm against the dangers of Christian fellowship, is it not? But preventative measures are a must when a trap is involved that rarely relinquishes its captives; indeed, a trap that transforms its prey into trappers.

Nevertheless, the lesbian solicitation may trigger a traumatic shock that disgusts and frightens the prey to freedom. Or there may be actual sexual involvement but upon her return home from the brief conference experience the initiate sees the sin for what it is and is convicted to the point of getting right with the Lord about it. Moreover, she has learned a life-long lesson of tremendous importance.

However, tragically often, the conquered quarry enters the growing ranks of lesbianism only to contribute to that growth by her own criminal conquests. An immoral pattern is established, an abnormal fleshly hunger is developed, a moral degeneration sets in.

The neophyte lesbian may leave her home church and move to another area where it will be less complicated and safer to exercise her "enlightened freedom," i.e., licentious license. In almost any church she can attach herself to one or more young working women in sharing an abode.

Within a few weeks or months of careful cultivation it is quite likely that she will bring one of those Christian girls down into the "well of loneliness" that she occupies. If not, she will at least have exercised a strong influence upon her roommates against men and marriage, and in behalf of women's "liberation." If she should be finally rejected, all she has to do is move on to another area.

This poor miscreant has become somewhat reminiscent of those so terribly described by Jude: "clouds they are without water, carried about by winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever" (vv. 12,13).

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