JUST LIKE IN THE DAYS OF LOT!

Another modern trend foretold by Jesus that again underscores how much today's world is "without natural affection" is the prevalence and acceptance of male homosexuality. (It is also known as sodomy, named after the ancient city of sin, Sodom, where we are told, "all the men from every part of the city, both young and old" attempted to have sex with the male angels who were visiting the home of Lot the night before the city's destruction [Genesis 19:4-5].)

Sodomy is one of the few sexual prohibitions for which God never made any exceptions or allowance in the Bible. He makes it clear that it's something that is bad for those who indulge in it. (See Romans 1:27.) It's because of God's love and concern for us that He tells us to avoid sodomy, plain and simple.

So it's another sign of the times that male homosexuality is sweeping across the world. It is not only tolerated in most countries today, but is actively encouraged in many places, while numerous films, recordings and entertainers flaunt and promote it.

In 1992, The Sex Information and Education Council of the United States came up with national guidelines for sex education in America's public schools. These guidelines, from one of the most prestigious private educational groups in the country, teach that "no form of sexual orientation or family structure is morally superior to any other." This attempt to teach America's children to accept homosexuality received the official endorsement of the American Medical Association.

Parents frequently have no say in what their children are taught about sexual orientation. Insight magazine reported:

Five-year-old Johnny fidgets in the back seat of the family Volvo on his way home from school. "Mommy," he finally blurts out, "I think I'm a lesbian." This is how one mother in Washington state discovered that her son was being taught comprehensive sex and AIDS education in kindergarten.

Not all forms of education about homosexuality are based on the need for sex or AIDS education; some are based on the dubious notion of multiculturalism. Several new children's books have been written, for instance, that portray homosexual family life as completely normal. Daddy's Roommate is about the life of a little boy who lives with his father and his father's male lover. Heather Has Two Mommies is about a girl who was conceived by artificial insemination and lives with her lesbian "mommies." Needless to say, both these books present homosexuality as perfectly normal, natural, and healthy. [44]

The following clips are just a few more examples of how our day is indeed like "the days of Lot":

The cold stares and uncomfortable silence that greeted K.C. Barrow at a high school prom in 1992 were gone this year.

He and his male date joined about 100 other couples Friday night for what school officials said was the first gay and lesbian prom in the nation sponsored by a school district.

Barrow, who attends Central High School in West Hollywood, said he and another boy attended a prom together 2 years ago and couldn't wait to leave. [45]

The British Broadcasting Corporation will give homosexual workers who take part in "a formal ceremony of commitment" a week's paid holiday to go on honeymoon, a spokesman said. They will also give 75-pound ($110) gift vouchers as wedding presents for homosexuals. [46]

Three hundred senior Anglicans worldwide have backed a campaign to ordain practicing homosexuals as priests. The clerics signed an advertisement praising the campaigning work of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, which will appear in religious newspapers. [47]

France has extended medical benefits to non-working partners in homosexual couples. The order marks a milestone for homosexual couples in having their unions officially recognized. Court rulings in recent years have leaned the other way, with judges refusing to view homosexual couples as normal and thus eligible for state benefits. [48]

The European Parliament has ruled that the European Union should allow homosexual couples to marry and adopt or foster children. EU states should also set the same age of consent for homosexual and heterosexual activities, it said in a resolution calling for all laws that criminalize and discriminate against sexual acts between people of the same sex to be abolished. [49]

2Thessalonians 2:2,3: That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first.

Matthew 24:12: And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. (See also: Mat.24:5,11,24; 1Tim.4:1.)

Matthew 24:9,10: Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for My name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. (See also: Luke 21:16,17.)

Matthew 24:33: When ye shall see all these things, know that it [Jesus' return] is near, even at the doors. (See also: Luk.21:28,31,32.)

ARTICLES:

Minority groups put Hollywood on the defensive
By Terry Pristin Los Angeles Times

HOLLYWOOD -- Screenwriter and independent producer Jonathan Lawton didn't realise he was asking for trouble when he created a character in his script Red Sneakers who leaves her older female lover for a man.
But two prominent actresses rejected the role, saying the story line might be deemed offensive to lesbians.
Unable to get a star for the leading role, Lawton brought his script to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, one of several entertainment media watchdog groups that have sprung up in the last few years. He hoped the organisation would applaud the script for including some positive gay characters.
But to his dismay, GLAAD agreed with the actresses (whom Lawton will not identify), saying the screenplay promoted the view that a lesbian can be cured" if she finds the right man.
After a heated discussion, the screenwriter reluctantly agreed to make changes.
In the revised script, the heroine is clearly bisexual who relates to the older woman more as a daughter than a lover, and a romance between the older woman and another lesbian has been added. These modifications have improved" the screenplay, according to GLAAD executive director Richard Jennings.
Said Lawton: Without a doubt, there's an enormous pressure to be politically correct, but it's very misserved. It ends up hurting projects more than it helps."
First circulated widely on college campuses a few years back, the term politically correct" was used at first to disparage the movement to ban hate speech" or language offensive to women and minorities. Reaching far beyond academia, it is now a catch-all way to refer to anything that smacks of liberal pieties.
When it comes to political correctness in Hollywood these days, gay groups are perhaps the most visible but hardly the only advocates getting into the act. Among other recent developments:
* Producers of movies with American Indian themes are working closely with Indian groups to head off the kind of criticism heaped on the recently released Black Robe
* Dubbing Spike Lee a petit bourgeois negro," a prominent black intellectual declared that the black film-maker had no right to turn Malcolm X's life into a commercial property."
* An advocate for the disabled warned Steve Spielburg in a letter released to the press that Hook may heighten children's fears of amputees.
From gays to American Indians to Asians to the disabled to environmentalists, Hollywood at the end of 1991 seems besieged by interest groups clamoring to put in their two cents' worth.

British schoolchildren learning sado-masochism.
(CWN) A homosexual sex-education package which encourages children to enact sado-masochistic roles in the classroom has been condemned by British family groups. The project, which is being promoted in schools throughout Britain, offers pupils role-playing ideas including a married man cruising for gay sex, a transvestite cabaret artist, a bisexual granny, a sado-masochist, and a wheelchair-bound lesbian. The package includes a video which describes sado-masochism as "sexual gratification obtained by inflicting pain on another person and having pain inflicted on one by another person." Valerie Ritches, director of Family and Youth Concern, attacked the project. "This puts concepts into the minds of youngsters they would not normally think about," she told the London Evening Standard. "There is a big difference between being tolerant towards homosexuals and teaching children the kind of activities they undertake."

This is the century that changed our sex lives in many ways.
Sex not only changed, but people changed sex. Medical advances after World War II permitted Danish specialists to turn a man into a woman. In 1952, a U.S. soldier named George Jorgensen became Christine Jorgensen.
Then, in the 1960s, the upheavals in society brought about the sexual revolution, which swept around the world. Its symbol was the oral contraceptive—"the pill." The introduction of the pill brought with it more sex but less children, as the declining population growth rates in the industrialized countries confirm.
The outbreak of AIDS in 1981 took the glow off the sexual revolution. While no cure has been found, effective prevention techniques and therapy have pushed down the casualty count in richer countries. But in poorer countries the toll has kept mounting. This year, the World Health Organization put it at the top of the list of causes of death in Africa, with one in five deaths attributable to the AIDS pandemic.
Homosexuals, initially ostracized because of the public hysteria provoked by the first reports of AIDS, soon found themselves politically stronger because of the media attention. The gay lifestyle came out of the shadows and has been legalized in many countries, with homosexual "marriages" possible in some.
The closing years of the century brought two more developments in sex.
One was the advent of the male anti-impotence drug Viagra, which raised the prospect of elderly men continuing their sexual activities up to their death--and in a few rare cases, combining the two.
The other was the story of Bill and Monica, a president and his intern. The affair ballooned uncontrollably and for a moment it appeared quite possible that the leader of the world's most powerful nation might be brought down by a dalliance that he couldn't quite bring himself to describe as sex.