The besetting sin that has riven the two sides is homosexuality, more specifically pansexuality in the form of LGBTQI (I - the latest letter in the pansexual alphabet -stands for something called Intersex - the abnormal condition of being intermediate between male and female; hermaphroditism.).

It is important, therefore, for our orthodox Anglican brothers and sisters in the Global South to have a clear fix on why a shrinking orthodox minority of us in the Global North and West still maintain clear Biblical standards on sexuality and why they should, too.

No. 1 The seven instances where homosexuality is specifically mentioned in the Old and New Testaments publicly eschew homosexual activity as ungodly and likely to bring down the judgment (wrath) of God on those who practice it. Rom. 1: 26-27.

No. 2 There is no gene that proves anyone was born a homosexual. Some scientists have searched for a direct genetic cause of same-sex attraction and found little evidence, and science has not shown that homosexuality is an inborn or biologically determined characteristic. Most scientists today give genetic theories little credibility.

No. 3 Same-sex attraction is a behavior that can be overcome, just as alcoholics can stop drinking. There is overwhelming evidence that tens of thousands of men and women have overcome their same-sex attractions, often through reparative therapy, and gone on to live normal lives as heterosexuals. You would never know this by reading the secular press.

No. 4 The acceptance of homosexuality in North America has been a huge public relations success going back to the normalization of homosexuality when it was deleted from the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic and statistical manual. It was described as "the climax of a sociopolitical struggle involving what were deemed to be the rights of homosexuals." It had nothing to do with science.

Gay activist groups believed that prejudice against homosexuals could be extinguished only if, as homosexuals, they were accepted as normal. "They claimed that homosexuality is a preference, an orientation, a propensity; that it is neither a defect, a disturbance, a sickness, nor a malfunction of any sort." To promote this aim, "Gay activists impugned the motives and ridiculed the work of those psychiatrists who asserted that homosexuality is other than normal."

Until 1973, homosexuality was acknowledged by the DSM as a mental illness. That was changed in the interests of the still more severe form of mental illness known as political correctness. Now acceptance of homosexual depravity as normal is mandatory.

No. 5 On the causes of homosexuality. Dr. Irving Bieber, M.D., a psychoanalyst and professor found a close-binding, intimate mother who tended to interfere with her son's assertiveness, and tended to dislocate his relationship with the father, siblings, and peers. However, Dr. Bieber also found that homosexuality can develop without the frequently occurring close-binding-intimate, mother-son bond. Fathers. The most significant finding was that of the detached father. "The father-son relationship was almost the diametrical opposite of that between mother and son. The paternal portrait was one of a father who was either (emotionally) detached or covertly or overtly hostile. The father-son relationship, however, revealed uniformly an absence of loving, warm, constructive paternal attitudes and behavior. "In my long experience, I have not found a single case where, in the developing years, a father had a kind, affectionate, and constructive relationship with the son who becomes homosexual. This has been an unvarying finding. It is my view, and I have so stated and written, that if a father has a kind, affectionate, and constructive relationship with his son, he will not produce a homosexual son, no matter what the mother is like."

No. 6 Homophobia. Homosexuals and lesbians have thrown this word at ANYBODY who disagrees with their lifestyle. It is a HUGE lie. People are not homophobic, any more than parents who tell their teenage children not to have sex outside of marriage are heterophobic. Homophobia has been wielded as a big stick against anyone who dares to tell the truth that homosexual behavior goes against nature and the Word of God.

No. 7 The inevitable pandering to homosexuals is leading to other equally dangerous and deadly behaviors. It is a slippery slope. If a small group of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals have their way, pedophiles themselves could play a role in removing pedophilia from the American Psychiatric Association's bible of mental illnesses - the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), set to undergo a significant revision by 2013. Critics warn that their success could lead to the decriminalization of pedophilia. Child advocate Dr. Judith Reisman, a visiting professor at Liberty University's School of Law, said that a conference in Baltimore is part of a strategy to condition people into accepting pedophiles.

No. 8 The Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta confirms that Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) have been increasing among gay and bisexual men. Recent increases in syphilis cases have been documented across the country. In 2008, men who have sex with men (MSM) accounted for 63% of primary and secondary syphilis cases in the United States. MSM often are diagnosed with other bacterial STDs, including chlamydia and gonorrhea infections.

Gay and bisexual men can be infected with HPV (Human Papillomavirus), the most common STD in the United States. Some types of HPV cause genital and anal warts and some can lead to the development of anal and oral cancer. Men who have sex with men are 17 times more likely to develop anal cancer than heterosexual men. Men who are HIV-positive are even more likely than those who are uninfected to develop anal cancer.

The CDC has also estimated that homosexual men account for 61% of the new HIV infections in the United States while they only amount to about 2% of the country's population.

Homosexual men accounted for 29,300 of the estimated 48,100 new infections in 2009, and homosexual men aged 13 to 29 accounted for 27% of the new cases.

The only group in which new HIV infections is increasing, they say, is young homosexual men - driven by an alarming increase in infections from African Americans. They estimated that the new infections among young black homosexual men increased 48 percent in the period of 2006-2009 (from 4,400 HIV infections in 2006 to 6,500 infections in 2009).

No. 9 The Episcopal Church has totally bought into every aspect of pansexuality including rites for same sex blessings. As a result, it is losing membership, money, baptisms, and confirmations. The only thing going up is deaths and funerals.

No. 10 The Listening Process advocated and pushed by former PB Frank Griswold has had one, and only one, design - to desensitize and entice unsteady souls and orthodox Anglicans into darkness. "Mutual listening" opens the door to false doctrine, says Canon Dave Doveton http://tinyurl.com/3nge7p5 Underlying the clamor to listen to persons who experience homosexual desires and want to assert a "gay identity" is the assertion that we will discover something we did not already know. This is a lie. The Global South needs to know this and to complete its isolation and distance from an apostate and heretical Western church.

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