Gay Pride or
Homosexual Pride is a term we think was coined in modern times, but Scripture
points to it as being much older, over 4000 years older as we shall see in this
study. The modern homosexual movement began in New York City in June of 1969, and
as we enter June of 2011, we will see the observance of the 42^nd anniversary
of the Stonewall Inn Riots. Those riots, in the minds of many, marked the
beginning of the homosexual rights movement. For a brief history lesson: on the
early morning hours of June 28^th 1969, New York City police raided the
Stonewall Inn with a search warrant investigating reports liquor was sold
illegally at the bar. The Stonewall Inn was also frequented by homosexuals many
of them underage. As a result of the raid, three days of rioting by homosexuals
and those who sympathized with them erupted and hence, we have the beginning of
the gay rights movement.

During the last 42
years, this movement has captured much cultural, political and legal territory.
Proof of this fact is in the following: Beginning in 1961(8 years before
Stonewall), Illinois became the first state to decriminalize homosexuality, and
for the next 40 plus years until 2003, 37 more states had decriminalized
homosexual behavior also. In 2003 when the Supreme Court overturned all state
laws forbidding homosexual behavior, only 13 states had sodomy laws still on
the books. In 1999 President Bill Clinton became the first ever president to
declare that the month of June 1999 was Gay and Lesbian Pride Month; he also
went on to place the Stonewall Inn, where the riots occurred, on the U.S. National
Register of Historic Places, because of course, that is where they say the Gay
rights movement began. In 2009 President Barack Obama added ‘transgender’ to
his Proclamation of the month of June being, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgendered Pride Month. Five states and
the District of Columbia now recognize homosexual marriage, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and New Hampshire. As of May 20^th 2011 a
Gallup found 53 % of Americans now favor same sex marriage. The fact that our
culture has been corrupted that much in 40 plus years is incredible but true,
and an indication of how little effect the Body of Christ has on our culture.

During these last
42 years, this movement has also, sad to say, captured much ecclesiastical
territory. The Episcopal, United Methodist, Presbyterian and Lutheran
denominations are in turmoil over this issue. In 2008 the Episcopal church
split over homosexuality, and in May of 2011the Presbyterian Church USA began
allowing practicing male and female homosexuals in their ministry. How could this happen in the church? I use to
ask that same question until I began doing research into it in the early
1980’s. I found that a corruptive and perverted form of theology that centers
on homosexuality has gained a foothold in these denominations. Homosexual
theology is a system of belief that rejects the clear meaning of what Scripture
teaches about homosexuality and replaces it with a twisted, distorted
interpretation.

One of the
arguments used in this twisted interpretation is the false teaching that
homosexuality was not at all a factor in God’s decision to destroy “the cities
of the plain”, but other sins were the cause for such a violent reaction from
heaven. To prove this, the advocates of homosexuality say that of all the
references to Sodom in the Bible, only the passages in Genesis chapter 19
specifically mentions any form of homosexuality, all the other passages, they
say, point to other sins. As I began to study the Scriptures that point out
these ‘other sins’, I found out that although these Scriptures do mention
‘other’ sins that Sodom was guilty of; these ‘other’ sins are also
characteristics or behaviors of the contemporary homosexual movement. These
revelations totally blew me away. I saw clearly for the first time that
homosexuality in 20^th century B.C. Sodom was no different than
homosexuality in 21^st century America, or of 7^th century
B.C. Israel or of 1^st century A.D. Corinth. In their perverted effort
to shift the sin of Sodom away from homosexuality, these devil’s advocates (and
I mean that literally), have ignorantly pointed us toward a Scripturally revealed
glimpse of the homosexual movement in ancient Sodom that gives us a bigger
picture of what life was like in Sodom and shows us that Gay or Homosexual
Pride is not a recent phenomena.

Ezekiel 16:49 is
one of the passages homosexual advocates point to that they say does not
mention homosexuality and although they are correct, they conveniently fail to mention the ‘abomination’ that is
attributed to Sodom in Ezekiel 16:50.

In Ezekiel 16:49
(KJV) the prophet writes the following, “Behold, this was the iniquity of thy
sister Sodom, pride…” The first sin
listed in this scripture is “pride”. Now pride itself is sin, but Sodom’s pride was in its sin; Sodom was proud of its sin. In Isaiah 3:8, 9,
the prophet says, “For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their
tongues and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His
glory. The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they
declare their sin as Sodom,
they hide it not. Woe unto their soul!
For they have rewarded evil unto themselves.” The NIV reads, “The look on their faces testifies
against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it.” The use of the word “parade” in the NIV is
extremely interesting because he is describing the citizens of Jerusalem and
how they are exactly like the citizens of ancient Sodom, they parade their sin!
The Hebrew word for “declare” in the KJV and “parade’ in the NIV is ‘nagad’, and it means “to stand boldly
out against, to manifest, to announce (by word of mouth), to proclaim, to
celebrate with praise.” Remember that the context is sin, particularly
homosexuality, so the various definitions back up the NIV’s translation; “To
announce (their sin) by word of mouth,” “to proclaim (their sin),” “to
celebrate (their sin) with praise”, and finally, “to boldly stand out (in their
sin).”

Anyone who has
witnessed a Gay Pride Parade has seen these definitions literally come alive
before their eyes. In these parades the homosexual is celebrating the “pride”
he or she has in their homosexuality. In their blind ignorance, the homosexual
movement’s use of the word “pride,” indicts them as a prophetic link to ancient
Sodom in Ezekiel 16:49 and Isaiah 3:8, 9. According to these verses, the
homosexuals in 20^th century B.C. Sodom and 7^th century
B.C. Jerusalem exhibited the same behavior, they boldly stood out to proclaim
and announce and celebrate their homosexuality. Truly the Scripture declares in
Ecclesiastes 1:9, “there is no new thing under the sun.”

The first
homosexual “pride” parade was held in 1970 in New York City, celebrating the
first anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riots that occurred in June of 1969.
Thirty years later, in 1999, Interpride: The International Association of
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Pride Coordinators listed 108
homosexual celebrations in 108 U. S. cities and 15 others in Canada, Australia
and South Africa, while a group across the Atlantic, the European Pride
Organizers Association listed 53 homosexual celebrations in 19 different
European countries. In the total of 176 worldwide celebrations listed, 146 have
the English word “pride” in the official title. Five years later in 2004, I
searched 5 different websites and found 310 homosexual “pride” celebrations.
Here in 2011 the websites featuring homosexual pride events are too numerous to
mention and it would be worthless to put forth the effort to count them, though
not doubt there numbers would see an increase. In 21^st century
America, just as they were in 20^th century B.C. Sodom, homosexuals
are proud of their sin.

In the first ever Presidential proclamation
concerning homosexuality in 1999, then President Clinton wrote, “Now,
Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do thereby proclaim
June 1999 as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. I encourage all Americans to observe
this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that celebrate
our diversity…”It is not a coincidence President Clinton used
the word “celebrate” in reference to homosexuality; the President was
encouraging us to celebrate homosexuality with a sense of pride in
homosexuality as they did in Sodom also.

All these
developments are just part of the fulfillment of a prophetic word spoken by
Jesus in Luke 17:28, 30: “Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot…even thus
shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.” The profound
revelation in this is only grasped as I said earlier, when we look at these
other Scriptures that mention Sodom’s other sins, where a much bigger and
clearer picture of life in Sodom immerges. An ugly picture I am fully persuaded,
that has been seen in isolated places, but will appear more common in 21^st
century America.

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About Don Costello

Name, Don Costello. I live outside Cincinnati Ohio in a city called Batavia. I am 58 years old, married with 5 children. I have been a born again  Christian since November 10th 1976. Some people like to fish or hunt, but my passion is studying God’s word and writing about it.

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