Homosexual "Romance?"

The following review of Brokeback Mountain is provided by MovieGuide.org:

“BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, a homosexual cowboy movie, opens in Wyoming in 1963 where two young cowboys, Ennis and Jack, are hired to tend some sheep near the mountain. The two men become fast friends. One night, their friendship becomes an evening of lust, a scene that plays like a rape set in San Quentin Prison. For 20 years, the two men carry on a secret affair, despite the fact that they get married to women and have children. One of the wives finds out, but the other wife only suspects, until tragedy strikes. Though well-photographed and often well-acted, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is too long and at times twisted, laughable, frustrating, sadomasochistic, plotless, and boring. It's also politically correct. The main conflict is between the two cowboys. Jack wants them both to get divorced and tend a ranch together, but Ennis is too afraid of the scandal their relationship would cause. Secretly, however, Ennis, is also haunted by the corpse of a murdered, castrated homosexual cowboy his father made him see when Ennis was very young. Thus, America and its sexual repression of homosexual perverts is the problem. Clearly, John Wayne is turning over in his grave” (MovieGuide.org).

The same review lists the inappropriate content of the film:

“Very strong (but often implicit rather than explicit) Romantic, politically correct worldview with very strong pro-homosexual content, including explicit sex scenes that sometimes come across as sadomasochistic, a pro-Marxist or pro-Communist subtext seems evident, with some strong anti-capitalist sentiments against one protagonist's employer, although that protagonist eventually proves to be a good salesman for his father-in-law's company, and an explicitly anti-Christian scene where one protagonist mocks people who go to church and who sing hymns about Jesus Christ and an anti-American subtext that seems evident, as well as revisionist history of homosexuality in America in order to serve the movie's politically correct, Romantic worldview about homosexuality and its sexual perversions, including a Christian wedding scene with the Lord's Prayer, but it has an ironic tone in context of the rest of the movie; about 58 obscenities (including ,many "f" words), 15 strong profanities, one light profanity, and references to urinating; two extreme scenes of bloody violence include shot of castrated man and man's head is beaten bloody until he is dead, and scenes of violence where men fight and wrestle in a rough way, and homosexual sodomy scene plays almost like a homosexual rape; very strong sexual content includes depicted homosexual and heterosexual sodomy (with a hint of sadomasochism during one or more homosexual scenes), depicted homosexual kissing and groping, depicted intercourse between married couple, and implied intercourse and almost intercourse with women who are shown topless; upper female nudity in several scenes, full male nudity in bathing scene, rare male nudity, and upper male nudity; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking; and, lying, men cheat on wives, sexual "repression" is seen as evil, family arguments, divorce, and negative portrayal of heterosexual fathers” (Emphasis Mine. MovieGuide.org).

Where to begin … where to begin.

It goes without saying (but I’m going to say it anyway) that Brokeback Mountain is overtly anti-Christian. Two gay cowboys “fall in love” and have a lustful affair. The agenda behind this film is plain as day: to further denigrate the nuclear family and promote bisexual and homosexual behavior. I can already hear the outcry from the liberal secularists: “Brokeback Mountain does nothing of the sort! It is not our goal to promote homosexual behavior, but only to encourage tolerance of our growing bisexual and homosexual population.” What these liberals are really after are Super-Rights – rights to dominate all other less liberal (more conservative) positions.

As Mr. Callahan taught our adult Sunday school class this past Lord’s Day, one of the means by which we can judge the spiritual condition of a nation is to look at its entertainment. You might have guessed that America is not doing so well. Not only is the Land of the Free tolerating the existence of this perverted “romance,” but it goes a step further by commending it! The Fox News Channel had a story yesterday declaring that Brokeback Mountain is leading the Golden Globe nominations (click here to read the story)! Our society HONORS the proud sinfulness of this movie!

This soon-to-be Golden Globe winner appears to me to be the active judgment of God upon our land. Consider what the Apostle Paul wrote to the Church of Rome:

Romans 1:18-32: ¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, ¹⁹ because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. ²⁰ For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. ²¹ For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. ²² Professing to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. ²⁴ Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. ²⁵ For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. ²⁶ For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, ²⁷ and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. ²⁸ And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, ²⁹ being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, ³¹ without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; ³² and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them. (NASB).

Verse 18 says that the wrath of God is presently being revealed. What is God’s wrath revealed against? - All ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. This ungodliness and unrighteousness is a willful suppression of God’s truth. They (the ungodly) know about God and His Law through creation and having it written on their hearts. This leaves all men to be found without an excuse before the living God. But even though they knew all of this, they did not honor God or give Him thanks. They became fools and worshipped creatures in their own image. In the case of present-day liberals, their idols might be their own distorted sexual preferences. They refuse to acknowledge what God has said about the subject of human sexuality by mocking the clear message of Scripture.

At this point verse 24 becomes very relevant: “Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.” They exchanged God’s truth for a lie that says homosexuality is good and acceptable. Verses 26 and 27 need no comment other than to say that they do apply directly to homosexual propagandists. Because God has given these sinners over to their inappropriate passions, they became verses 29-31. Finally, verse 32 brings out an important point: homosexuals and other sinners know these crimes are worthy of death and give hearty approval to those who do such things! … Does this not take your breath away? They don’t simply perform these sinful deeds, but they heartily approve of those who do them. How true is this passage of our society and culture?

Mr. Callahan reminded our class that it is our duty as Christians to promote what is good and right in the sight of God. We should use every means necessary to preach the gospel, as well as uphold public morality. Might our message to the nations be as clear as the Apostle Paul’s when he spoke to the Athenians at Mars Hill:

Acts 17:16-32: ¹⁶ Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols. ¹⁷ So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present. ¹⁸ And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,"-- because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. ¹⁹ And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is which you are proclaiming? ²⁰ "For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean." ²¹ (Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.) ²² So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects. ²³ "For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. ²⁴ "The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; ²⁵ nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; ²⁶ and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, ²⁷ that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; ²⁸ for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are His children.' ²⁹ "Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man. ³⁰ "Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, ³¹ because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead." ³² Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, "We shall hear you again concerning this." (NASB).

The men and women in our land would benefit from such a message today. May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ grant repentance unto life to our land.

Saved by God’s free grace,
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