The problem with the modern world, if we can be simple-minded for a moment, is that we don't understand it. And what is most perplexing, paradoxically, is our own human nature. None of our front line reporters or big city editors diminish in the least the incomprehensibility of man's inhumanity to man or his inability, on average, to lead a truly fulfilling life. The reasons for this intractability are not obvious. Human nature is, after all, a subject most of us are closer to than, say, nuclear reactor technology, and hopefully a bit less complicated too. Anyone who begins to live the examined life learns soon enough that familiarity and understanding are not synonymous, of course, and that sometimes the only way to make sense of a subject is to step away from it so as to escape the seductions of its surface (Dean Hannotte's 1986 Introduction to Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process [1971] by Paul Rosenfels)

Since the dawn of the post-modern era, the assimilation of homosexuality as part and parcel of Christianity has been a bitter pill to swallow by some religious denominations. The Catholic Church and some of its sister churches have slam-dunked on homosexuality vitriolically with outrageous statements and implications ranging from insane to its being evil. The Vatican’s official position condemns homosexuality as an objective moral disorder, and a 1992 Vatican statement called discrimination against gays not unjust.  The Baptist Faith and Message statement adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention in 2000, in Article XV, equates “homosexuality” with “sexual immorality.”  A 1992 SBC Executive Committee resolution stated: God regards homosexuality as a gross perversion and unquestioned sin. Isn’t it weird to see how some of us believe we can think for God?

The reason flashed to the forefront of their arguments is that the Bible, God’s revealed words, condemns homosexuality. They seem to be caught up in their own" logic" because they stubbornly shy away from some of the deep-seated faith of the Bible which is, in itself, hardly an authoritative book. Rev. Dr. Walter Wink avers that sexual issues are tearing our churches apart today as never before. He likens the blow black of this issue on homosexuality unto the church as the slave trade manifested itself fiftyyears ago. Dr. W. Wink clearly acknowledges the fact that when issues of homosexuality are raised in the church and in other arenas of discussion, most people obviously refer to the Bible for guidance, and we find ourselves mired in interpretative quicksand. Is the Bible able to speak to our confusion on this issue?

It is broadly accredited unto a multitude of historical archives that over the century’s people cloaked themselves in alignment with the precepts of the Bible to do awful things. The Bible has been misused, altered, distorted imprecisely, to defend gory crusades and hear-rending inquisitions. These precepts have been used ardently to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to persecute Jews and other non-Christian people of faith; to shore up Hitler's Third Reich and the Holocaust; to oppose hypothesis and analysis as produced by medical science; to censure interracial marriage; to execute women as witches; and to support the Ku Klux Klan. Shakespeare clearly stated it rightly when he said: Even the devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Some adamant persons will go further to deny this fact and advance beliefs by saying that the inspirations and revelations of the Bible are profound and reflective. They catapult their palpable yet superficial opinions, arguments and reasons of the Bible,saying it is of divine inspiration by God…(sorry to say, for this is such a reverberated mistake that sonorously continues to infest the fragile minds of those who critically, yet desperately, seek insightful reasoning to the latter statement) which could be correctly re-stated to be defined as an unauthoritative book of collective scriptural manuscripts, written by inspired men (sinfullike you and me) with reflective revelations from (as opposed to by) God. (Let us not forget that inspiration is gotten from someone or something that gives you ideas for doing something, as defined by the Cambridge Advanced Learner Dictionary) . Inspiration means that God inspired the human authors to write what they wrote, so the Bible is God's unassailable word to man.

In the 16th century, John Selden was interested in two words carved in marble in an ancient church in Rome: "Scrutamini Scripturas," which means search the Scriptures. "These two words," Seldon said, "have undone the world."His confirmation was true, for poor and premature exploitation of biblical scriptures has soaked the planet in blood and tears and caused lives to hang in balance.

Erroneously, Selden would be considered, to an extent, wide of the mark of his own statement because those people who misuse the Bible could be criticicized for not probing into the Scriptures. It is simple; just situate an apposite text that seems to support their prejudice. By so doing they increase the time they spend on quoting (and misquoting) that text. The result is that these non-thinking people merely repeat what they have read. They hardly do any analyzing or thinking.

It is complete paradox and, at the same time, very aching and distressingto see such ardent religious advocators continue to use the Bible as their billboard and placard to present their ideas againstagainst homosexuality. An ideal example is the technique employed to certain Bible verses to vilify and condemn homosexuality and homosexuals. For a very long time some gays and lesbians have felt and continue to feel mortified to say, “I am a Christian.” This feeling and situation seems to be insane at most times.Could it ever be for real?

In July 1999, two brothers, Mathew and Tyler Williams murdered gay couple, Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder in their home in Sacramento, California.Mathew’s mom was stunned at her son’s reply while on a visit to the CountyJail; she questioned her son about how he could perform such an irrational act, and her son faithfully retorted: I had to obey God’s law rather than man’s law. I did not want to do this. I felt I was supposed to. I have to follow higher law…I just plan to defend myself from the scriptures.

On September 22, 2000, Ronald E. Gay, 55 years old, was vexed because his last name was a call for ridicule. He walked into the Back Street Café in Roanoke, Virginia, a jamboree joint for lesbians and gays just a few miles from Lynchburg. Filled with convincing evidence that God's Word was in assuring connivance with his heartbreaking plan of action, Mr. Gay shouted, "I am a Christian soldier, working for my Lord." Declaring that "Jesus does not want these people in his heaven," he shot seven innocent gay and lesbian people, killing one man, Danny Overstreet, and wounding six others who still suffer from their physical and psychological wounds.

What about this happy young man called Mark B. who had willingly accepted his sexual orientation "until he became a Christian" but after coming across a text which said that he couldn't be both a Christian and a gay man, he committed suicide and wrote this suicide memo to God: "I just don't know how else to fix this."