The following article appeared on the WRAL.COM website today -
SAN FRANCISCO — Actress Cynthia Nixon is trying to clarify her earlier remarks that got her in hot water with some fellow gay rights activists.
The "Sex and the City" star's personal life became an exercise in the politics of sexual orientation last week when The New York Times Magazine quoted Nixon saying that for her, being gay was a conscious choice. Nixon has been in a relationship with a woman for eight years. Before that, she spent 15 years and had two children with a man.
After some gay rights activists complained that Nixon's remarks could be used to deny a biological basis for homosexuality, the actress on Monday released a statement to The Advocate magazine explaining she is technically bisexual, and not by choice.
Nixon told the magazine: "What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship."
First, I find it funny that these "we should all be free to live as we like", gay rights folks, found it necessary to censor the words of one of their own - not free to speak your mind evidently!
Beyond that irony, I think we may be on to something here. If the argument is that some people are born with deviant/sinful sexual desires, whether they be bisexuality, homosexuality or what have you, I am in full agreement. We are all born sinners and desire things that we should not! What is also true is that we should not "choose" to act on our sinful desires and are guilty before God and due His judgement for doing so. Further, it is true that we are bound and enslaved by our own sin nature to the point where we can never live up to God's standards or live righteous lives on our own strength.
However, there is hope!
Gal. 5:16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. (NKJV)
There is forgiveness for our sin and the power to overcome sin, in a relationship with Jesus Christ! We need to implore those suffering the enslavement of homosexuality and other sins to believe what we all know as Christians, it isn't defending our sinful lifestyle that we need, but rather acknowledging it is sin, turning from it and following Jesus!
"Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.Used by permission. All rights reserved."
SAN FRANCISCO — Actress Cynthia Nixon is trying to clarify her earlier remarks that got her in hot water with some fellow gay rights activists.
The "Sex and the City" star's personal life became an exercise in the politics of sexual orientation last week when The New York Times Magazine quoted Nixon saying that for her, being gay was a conscious choice. Nixon has been in a relationship with a woman for eight years. Before that, she spent 15 years and had two children with a man.
After some gay rights activists complained that Nixon's remarks could be used to deny a biological basis for homosexuality, the actress on Monday released a statement to The Advocate magazine explaining she is technically bisexual, and not by choice.
Nixon told the magazine: "What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship."
First, I find it funny that these "we should all be free to live as we like", gay rights folks, found it necessary to censor the words of one of their own - not free to speak your mind evidently!
Beyond that irony, I think we may be on to something here. If the argument is that some people are born with deviant/sinful sexual desires, whether they be bisexuality, homosexuality or what have you, I am in full agreement. We are all born sinners and desire things that we should not! What is also true is that we should not "choose" to act on our sinful desires and are guilty before God and due His judgement for doing so. Further, it is true that we are bound and enslaved by our own sin nature to the point where we can never live up to God's standards or live righteous lives on our own strength.
However, there is hope!
Gal. 5:16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. (NKJV)
There is forgiveness for our sin and the power to overcome sin, in a relationship with Jesus Christ! We need to implore those suffering the enslavement of homosexuality and other sins to believe what we all know as Christians, it isn't defending our sinful lifestyle that we need, but rather acknowledging it is sin, turning from it and following Jesus!
"Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.Used by permission. All rights reserved."
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