On Monday, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia University, much to the dismay of many of us. I would not object to Ahmadinejad speaking at Columbia, simply because he is doing great evil in the world. However, even though we are not at war with Iran, except possibly for some covert operations, they are clearly at war with us, as even the president of Columbia indicated when he introduced Ahmadinejad and mentioned that Iranians are very active in Iraq, directing their efforts toward killing as many Americans as possible, driving us from Iraq and attempting to cause the collapse of Iraq’s elected government. In a time of peace, it might have been OK to allow a tyrant with genocidal views to speak at an American university. The fact is, however, that Ahmadinejad is actively working on his destructive vision, a vision which includes the murder of all Jews and Christians, and many Moslems as well.
Even though the president of Columbia University harshly condemned Ahmadinejad when he introduced him, it seems only to have been meant to deflect criticism toward Columbia, which opened its doors wide to Ahmadinejad, but keeps them tightly closed to Americans who have politically incorrect ideas, including Christians, minutemen and former defense secretary Donald Rumsfield. If Americans can’t speak at Columbia, one wonders why those who are killing Americans can.
But those observations are not uniquely my own, and they have probably been expressed more eloquently by many in the alternative media, though certainly not by anyone in the mainstream media, which continues to flounder in its maze of deliberate ignorance, asking Al Gore and George Soros for direction.
What I found most disturbing on Monday was not Columbia’s invitation to Ahmadinejad, nor Ahmadinejad’s speech, which I only read portions of, but the reception Ahmadinejad received from Columbia’s students. According to the sound bytes I’ve heard, they booed him loudly, not because he is killing Americans, not because he wants every Jew dead, not because he is spreading terrorism throughout the Middle East, not because he is pursuing nuclear weapons with which he wishes to kill Americans, but only because he is not promoting homosexuality in Iran. We are raising a generation of airheads if none of these other things matter as much to the students at our supposedly finest universities as Ahmadinejad’s contention that Iran does not have a homosexual problem. I suspect that’s not true. But if it were true that Iranians don’t struggle with homosexuality, that would be a good thing.
As I listened to excerpts from Monday’s speech, what caught my attention is that this was a confrontation of two forms of evil. There were no heroes at Columbia on Monday, when the apostle of terrorism, who wants everyone dead except for his personal Islamic sect, met our homegrown American sodomites and their supporters. Unless Ahmadinejad and/or the students at Columbia come to repentance and a personal faith in Christ, all I can cheer for is mutual destruction. It goes without saying that it is not my job, as a human being, to persecute homosexuals, or to judge anyone for their sins, unless I’ve been given judicial or political authority, which I haven’t been, since I have my own sins to deal with. However, I am obligated, as a Christian, not only to believe the account in Genesis 19 of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, but also to support God’s judgment about it. I don’t think God is sorry, and I don’t think he made a mistake. That leaves me with no one to cheer for at Columbia this week.
On Wednesday, the retiring head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace, again stated before the senate that he believes homosexual acts are immoral. He was booed by protesters in the gallery, who called him a biggot, and the senate had to be closed temporarily.
The notion that it is just as good and appropriate for men and women to have sex with members of their own gender, rather than the opposite sex, is intuitively false, even if one only considers the nature of human genitals and the complimentary forms of male and female sexual organs. If one thinks from there to the essential nature of maleness and femaleness, things boys and girls tend to do differently even before society teaches them anything about gender identity, and the different preferences and complimentary nature and personality of men and women, the preference for homosexual sex become even more absurd. When I was a teenager, I discovered that I particularly liked women, not because of their bodies, but because of their emotional, psychological and spiritual makeup. If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, why would I, as a Martian, want to be intimate with another Martian? I’ve been to Mars. I’ve been on Mars all my life, and I can’t get off Mars by myself. I can only get to Venus with a woman’s help.
Then there’s the issue of producing and nurturing children. Anyone who has been loved and disciplined, even for a short period of time, by both a mother and a father, is better off than a child with one parent of either gender, two fathers, two mothers, or three or more competing parents of various genders. I once knew a woman who was raised by her mother and a succession of six stepfathers, and she felt her situation was quite unfortunate. That’s a heterosexual problem, which won’t be improved if the courts decide the number and gender of a child’s parents doesn’t matter. Two homosexuals cannot raise a child together unless the parental rights of a genetic parent are terminated, or the other genetic partner becomes a third parent, presumably a part-time parent.
The agenda of homosexual activists is to destroy the family and replace it with complete social, moral and legal chaos. Social, moral and legal chaos has become the primary mission of our supposedly great universities. If the powers that be in academia have their way, most college graduates will live out their lives in a complete moral vacuum, with no knowledge of their Creator and no idea what sort of lifestyle really benefits people they know personally or society in general.
Yes, there was much worth booing at Columbia on Monday, but it wasn’t just the guest speaker.
