Some remarks on the topic of homosexuality, which I think Tucker bungles pretty badly here.
Are there people who are "born gay"? The question itself is actually malformed, because it presupposes so many facts not in evidence. It assumes that sexual intimacy is some kind of uncontrollable reflex, like a sneeze, and anyone who has some kind of "predisposition", whatever that may be, is somehow compelled to act upon it at all times. Thus, if someone is "born attracted to donkeys", we would have to give them a pass on bestial sex with donkeys because, after all, "they were born with it." Well, even if they are born with it, so what? If it's wrong, it's wrong, it doesn't matter whether you were "born with it".
When we analyze human sexuality from a biblical Christian standpoint, the question is not whether you were "born this way" or not, the question is whether you are in line with God's pattern for sexual intimacy, or not. All forms of heterosexual sins are equally repugnant to God as homosexual perversions are -- fornication, pornography, adultery, swinging, and so on. These are all abhorrent perversions to God, and they ought to be abhorrent to us, as well. And all forms of homosexual sin should also be repugnant to us, on exactly the same basis. Heterosexual sins don't get a pass -- it's all sin, and God abhors all of it. Someone "born with attraction to FFM threesomes" doesn't get a pass from God because their fantasy is heterosexual. All deviations from God's pattern of sexual intimacy are perversion, and sin.
Poor Christian teaching on God's view of sex has played some role in this state of confusion. God established the pattern of sexual intimacy in Eden -- Adam and Eve were
commanded by God to be fruitful and multiply, and to fill the earth and subdue it (by populating it). Their sin in eating the forbidden fruit was, in part,
rejecting God's command to be fruitful and multiply. Instead, they ate the forbidden fruit and after this, they were prevented from eating the tree of life and becoming eternally separated from God in sin. The importance of sexual intimacy points to the importance of the sexual pattern itself, that is, it points to the importance of God's commands about this area of life. Everyone who is not psychotic is emotionally sensitive about sexual matters. The pro-homosexual argument is leveraging this very fact, namely, "My sexuality is a private matter of extreme delicacy, how dare you barge in to my private affairs and dictate to me how I must/should feel about such things." This is a declaration that the inner life of the individual, in respect to sex, is a
sacred space. And it is. Both Scripture and reason affirm this. But that very sacredness is itself a testament against
all forms of sexual perversion.
And what is that sacred thing that the sacredness of sexual intimacy points us to? It points us to the intimacy of
divine worship. I won't turn this into a pearls-before-swine discussion, but the point is that the supreme emotional delicacy of sexual intimacy (to any ordinary person) is parallel to the extreme emotional delicacy of proper divine worship. It is
for this very reason that the devil has weaponized all forms of sexual intimacy to the maximum degree he possibly can. In this present, evil world, even marital intimacy is weaponized, although God provides special divine protection for this relationship (only). And therein lies the thing itself -- by virtue of sheer ignorance of the reality of spiritual warfare, the carnal mind of the unbeliever is easily led astray into viewing sexual intimacy as a matter of natural accident, like taste preferences in ice cream. John likes Chocolate, Susan likes Rocky Road and Jerry likes Strawberry. But this is not at all comparable to sexual intimacy, because eating and sexual intimacy are spiritually very different things. They are physically different, but their spiritual difference is even greater.
The essential point, here, is that
you don't own your sexual action, God does. And he has decreed just one pattern -- the family. Intimacy manifests in two primary ways. There is marital love and there is brotherly love. Marital love is between those who are married. And brotherly love is between those who are not married for whatever reason, whether that be because they are widowed or choose not to marry (celibacy). The choice not to marry is perfectly allowable, but it is not a license to sexual sin (fornication, licentiousness, etc.) On this particular point, more than perhaps any other, American culture is at war with God and Scripture. You do not own your sexual action, God owns it, and God has determined that sexual intimacy is shared only in the marital union.
"But what about the rest?" Well, the biblical answer to this question is contained in the observation of its
supreme importance -- clearly, no matter whether you are married or not, the question of sexual intimacy is of supreme importance to most people. The reasons why people cannot or choose not to marry vary widely. God knows all those reasons and has decreed for them to be so, in this life. If this condition is a burden (which is the case for anyone who is not truly a eunuch or "asexual" as it is called nowadays), then God's deliverance from that burden consists in the transition from this Age to the next, that is, in the process of sanctification and glorification of the believer. The point is that there isn't "just one answer", there are many different answers, and God is the one who will provide those answers (John 6:45). This is why the Bible doesn't contain a menu of options for the Age to come -- the first step is to
know God and, once you begin to know God, he will begin to provide his answers to your quandaries, including the quandaries related to sexual intimacy.
The question of men being sexually attracted to men is much more complex than it appears on the surface. The short answer to all of this is to point people upward to God. I don't know why people have so many particular kinds of sexual quandaries. I don't know why the devil is able to cause so much devastation, especially in this department. What I do know is that 100% of it is against God's will, and wholly out of step with God's revealed nature. "Be fruitful and multiply,
fill the earth and subdue it." That's what God commanded Adam and Eve to do in the paradise of Eden. And everyone who believes in Jesus is going to the New Eden, that is, the world recreated. There, all the answers to the things that burden us here will be provided. Until then, however, we are obligated to conform to God's revealed pattern of sexual intimacy,
particularly in the public space. The questions we might have in our own minds are questions that can be wrestled through with God in prayer. I can't tell you how to do that, in general, but there are Christian support groups for this kind of thing if that's something that troubles you. But what we absolutely cannot and must not do, is openly agitate against God's established pattern of sexual intimacy, in the public square. This is the very pride of Lucifer, it is raising oneself to God's level, and beyond, and asserting that you know better than God and the fact is: you do not.
To explain a bit further
why you do not know better than God, let's look at the underlying spiritual warfare surrounding marriage. Jesus explained to the Jews in
Matthew 22:23-33 that marriage will be abolished in the resurrection. Adam and Eve were one flesh, but they were not married in the sense that we practice marriage. This shows that marriage is actually a covenantal institution that God established as a
protective vehicle for sexual intimacy. The primary purpose is to protect intimacy from total destruction by the devil. "If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened." (Matt. 24:22) Satan's attack on God's creation is the most extreme attack which any creature could conceivably make -- it is so extreme that God has taken (and will take) the most extraordinary measures to prevent the worst-case scenario from occurring. This puts the nature of marriage in proper context. Its primary purpose is
protective, both to protect the process of procreation itself, as well as to protect the intimate union of man and wife. Scripture says a great deal more on this point, I'm only providing the most abbreviated summary in this paragraph. But I'm willing to bet that you didn't know anything about this -- probably less than 5% of bible-believing Christians understand what I have explained here, that might sound harsh, but it's just the facts.
The point is that the nature of spiritual warfare surrounding marital intimacy is of the
utmost supremacy. This is one of the most extreme areas in which the devil is attacking creation and God's institution of marriage for the duration of this Age is primarily oriented toward protection and preservation. Individual sexual satisfaction is not the primary object. It clearly has a role in intimacy itself, but it is not the object being protected, rather, it is a means to the protection of the object itself, which is the eternal intimacy of divine worship. This is why the covenant sign given to the Israelites was the cutting of the foreskin -- the great war of this Age is
all about spiritual warfare surrounding sex, marital intimacy, procreation and the eternal worship of God. Don't get it twisted: there is absolutely nothing haphazard about any of this. This rabbit-hole goes deeper than you can possibly imagine (Isa. 55:8,9)
Homosexuality is sin and, even more importantly, it is a manifestation of spiritual wickedness. In ancient times, temple prostitution was a lucrative business, and one of the primary activities of certain temple priests was the breaking in of war captives for their new occupation as temple prostitutes. How was this done? The same way it is done in modern prisons: through unimaginable brutality. I will not attempt to venture an estimate of what percentage of homosexual men are forced into it in this way today, but it's certainly not 0%. As a rule, you will never be able to tell which is which just from outside observation. This is, again, part of the supreme depravity of the spiritual wickedness surrounding this area -- some evil is apparent, but the most supreme evil is not. You cannot recognize it just by looking. You can look right at it, and not see what it actually is. And this is one way to see that it is abject cruelty to sweep all self-described homosexuals aside as "their choice". You don't actually know that. And even if they say, "It's my choice", that doesn't prove it. Maybe it's true in 99% of cases. But there is certainly some percentage for which it is
not true, and "it's their choice" only affirms the power of the demons who brutalized them in the first place. The right path is to affirm God's truth in the face of this wickedness, so that those who are seeking escape are able to find it.
This pattern is very general, so this isn't just about homosexuality. Heterosexual sins lead to the same kinds of bondage (prostitution, pornography, etc.) and so do substance addictions and many other psychological (spiritual) disorders that are positively affirmed by modern dysfunctional society (wokism, body-positive crap, etc. etc.) Scripture tells us that
the whole world is under the control of the wicked one (1 John 5:19). "The whole world" means
exactly what it says --- the
whole world. The devil's nuclear weapon is the fear of death itself (Heb. 2:14,15) from which springs all other forms of fear (and, thus, control). If you're in a debate with someone like Piers Morgan, don't allow them to focus the debate down to just one issue, like homosexuality. Homosexuality is just one branch in a giant, sprawling tree, whose root is the fear of death. It is from this root -- death and the fear of death -- that the devil holds the whole world in his sway. It is this weapon that Jesus shattered at the Cross, and this is why we are all freed from death and hell by salvation in Jesus, regardless of the particular sins and fears by which the devil seeks to chain us. For some of us, it is addiction, for others, it is fornication, for others, homosexual sins, and for others, it is many other carnal sins (wrath, envy, hatred, ambition, etc. all the deeds of the flesh, Galatians 5:19-21, etc.) The Gospel isn't "conversion therapy" or, to say it another way, it's the Original(TM) conversion therapy through the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit. The only way back to God is salvation in Jesus, which entails the eradication of sin by sanctification (which is a divine miracle that God does to us). Focusing only on one kind of sin is just a demonic tactic to try to wedge against the Gospel. Believers should not give in to this tactic, but should push back directly and stand boldly and humbly for the truth of the Gospel, which is true, self-sacrificial love...
