It's my orientation, give me a break!

Should I bother you if you have a gay orientation?

This is the buzzword nowadays. I was born this way. What does God expect me to do? I did not make me. You surely cannot expect me to act otherwise.

I invite you to think with me over this issue. It is so important that the record is set t straight.

So there was this man. A Kenyan. He was captured in a vivid description by the media as the man who derived pleasure in breaking the bones and killing human beings! He said he could not resist the temptation to kill, especially the young ones. Here is his confession found on Youtube:

Is it far-fetched to say the said serial killer has an orientation to kill?

This of course is not the only person who has described themselves deriving pleasure from heinous acts such as these.

What about Kleptomania? Ever heard of that? Wikipedia defines it as "is the inability to refrain from the urge to steal items for reasons other than

personal use or financial gain. First described in 1816, kleptomania is classified in psychiatry as an impulse control disorder." So we have people who have an orientation, if I may borrow that term, to steal!

You already know what I am driving at. Am I justified to live by impulse? Do we allow the serial killer and Kleptomaniacs to carry on with their trade u
ninhibited? Is it just to bring the serial killer to books for unwarranted killing? Aren't you infringing on his rights when you jail them for an impulse (read orientation) to steal or to steal?

The Book of Romans tackles this subject. Please read with me Romans 1:24-27:


24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their [own] hearts to sexual impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin],

25 Because they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, Who is blessed forever! Amen (so be it).

26 For this reason God gave them over and abandoned them to vile affections and degrading passions. For their women exchanged their natural function for an unnatural and abnormal one,

27 And the men also turned from natural relations with women and were set ablaze (burning out, consumed) with lust for one another—men committing shameful acts with men and suffering in their own [d]bodies and personalities the inevitable consequences and penalty of their wrong-doing and going astray, which was [their] fitting retribution.
Indeed, we have an orientation to sin. But we cannot justify this. Indeed, that is the very reason the Son of Man was manifested, to destroy the power of sin in our lives (1 John 3:5:

5 You know that He appeared in visible form and became Man to take away [upon Himself] sins, and in Him there is no sin [essentially and forever].

Won't you turn to Him to deliver you from your orientation?