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 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.”

“No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”

 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom —both young and old—surrounded the house. They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”

Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. ⁸ Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”

 “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.  Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.

The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,  because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”

So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry^[a] his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city! ” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished. ”

 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them.  As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”

 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords,^[b] please!  Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you^[e] have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.  Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”

 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.  But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar. )

By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.  Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah —from the Lord out of the heavens. ²⁵ Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.  But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.  He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.

So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

There has been a lot of controversy lately with the very blunt stance Chick Fil A has taken in regards to their belief in homosexuality. Many people seem upset by this because they believe everyone should think like them. That everyone is equal. The truth of the matter is that we are all created equal in God’s image and all sin is undoubtedly equal. However, no matter which way you look at it the Bible is very clear in many areas that Homosexuality is a sin and it is wrong! I do not support people who lie, cheat, steal and murder. I do not condone couples who live together prior to getting married ( I know a little backwards since I committed that sin huh? Thank God for forgiveness and a righting of my ways) I believe that just as I sinned by having relations with my husband prior to getting married people who sleep with someone else of the same sex also has committed a sin. Does this mean it is unforgiveable? No that is not by any means what the Christian world is saying. What we are saying is that it is a sin, one that was paid for when Jesus died on the cross. However it does not mean that we have to support homosexuals.

 I have friends who are homosexual and honestly they know I am against it but I also choose to let them make their own choices just as they let me have my own rights and beliefs. Just as I let them make their own choice because it is their life, each person has a right to disagree with someone else’s life choices and if need be, even be against them to the point of thinking it is wrong. Do we really as American’s want the punishment in the story above which is a very true story. God chose to destroy Sodom and Gomorra because of their terrible choices and all the abominations in which they were committing with each other and to others.  Do we think that we are so far high up on God’s list that we are not going to reap the consequences of our actions? God destroyed cities young and old alike because of this sin being so offensive to him.

So just because you believe that homosexuals should be allowed to do whatever they want as a normal couple I also have a right and a religious obligation to God to not support it or even defend the choices of others.  If Chick Fil A wants to not support them that is their choice and a brave one. I give them several props for being so open on the stance. I think it’s about time Christian’s stop pussy footing around about it and come right out and say what the Bible says about it. It says Jesus came to  pay for the punishment of the sins of the world and that includes homosexuality.  The old testament is very very clear that men are not to sleep with men and that women are not to sleep with women.  Leviticus 18:32 and Leviticus 20:13 are both great examples of what God says about it and he says it is “an abomination.” Verse 20 makes it very clear that they shall be put to death. God has made it very clear on how he feels about it.

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.  And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God. I Corinthians 6:9-11

This last verse says it all. Even though all are punishable by death when you are washed in Jesus your sins are forgiven and you become clean. 

Personally your choices are just that if you want to support it or not stand against it that is your own personal choice. But for those of us who believe it is wrong and stand against it should not be judged either for having our own beliefs, we are not saying those people should die and go to hell we are simply making a stance that we believe it is wrong.  There is nothing wrong with having a belief there is something wrong with laying down and playing dead when you believe someone is wrong just to go along with the rest of the crowed because you don’t want someone to be upset with you for not agreeing with them. Would you do the same if someone came up and started convincing people it was ok to walk around and kill whoever you felt necessary that day? Would you stand your ground that all murder is wrong or would you cave under the pressure of those around you who do not believe as you do?

I am sure there are a million people out there who would love to smack me for writing what I do. But the point is I have an opinion just as you do and I should be allowed to have my rights and opinions heard just as much as the people who don’t agree with me have their right.  So yes, I stand with Chick Fil A and if there was one around here I would go eat there all day long today!  Everyone has a right to their own beliefs and to stand their ground and make their opinions known and it’s time to stop worrying about who we offended as most of the people we offend have offended our God with their words and actions.