CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JUNE 6, 2023
AT THE END OF THE MOVIE “THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE,” ACTOR AL PACINO, WHO PLAYS THE HEAD OF A LAW FIRM TRYING TO GET A YOUNG LAWYER TO FOLLOW HIM CLOSES WITH THESE WORDS: “AH, VANITY. IT’S MY FAVORITE SIN.”
VANITY AND PRIDE ARE OFTEN USED INTERCHANGEABLY AND YOU KNOW WHAT SCIPTURE SAYS ABOUT PRIDE. GOD HATES IT AND HE HUMBLES THE PROUD AND EXALTS THE HUMBLE. PRIDE CAUSED OUR FIRST PARENTS TO FALL AND INTRODUCED SIN IN THE WORLD WHICH SEEMS TO BE MULTIPLYING EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK.
IF YOU HAVEN’T NOTICED – AND HOW COULD YOU AVOID NOTICING – JUNE HAS BEEN NAMED LGBTQAI-PLUS MONTH. THERE ARE RAINBOW COLORED PRIDE SIGNS IN STORES. THERE ARE ANNOUNCEMENTS ON BROADCAST NETWORKS. PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMOSEXUAL ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ENCOURAGED TO SAY PUBLICLY THEY ARE PROUD OF THEIR BEHAVIOR. AND IT IS BEHAVIOR. IT ISN’T ONE’S IDENTITY, ANYMORE THAN I AM IDENTIFIED BY MY HETEROSEXUALITY, OR SKIN COLOR. I’M A CHILD OF GOD, ACCORDING TO JESUS CHRIST. NON-BELIEVERS WHO HAVE NOT REPENTED OF THEIR SIN AND ACCEPTED CHRIST ARE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL, AGAIN ACCORDING TO JESUS. AND THAT IS DEFINITELY SOMETHING OF WHICH NO ONE SHOULD BE PROUD. I’M CAL THOMAS.
Why is civil rights for gays separate from civil rights for blacks? Here’s my idea. Biologically differences along ethnic lines (German, Asian, Slavic) are incidental to the reproductive process whereas differences pertaining to sex are fundamental (requiring male and female). Theologically God created only two humans with ethnic distinctions a later development whereas sexual distinctions being fundamental to that creative order. Only with a humanistic religion (not the Bible or biological science) can you equate race and sex.