Last week, an LGBTQ office was opened in Ghana and as expected, an open door of vehement opposition from the Christian community was reignited. Several arguments are being made in an effort that’s doomed to fail in opposition to same-sex affairs.
Almost all the arguments being made today were made all the way from the 80s by US Christians until the US Supreme Court granted same-sex couples the legal right to marry. What makes Christian groups in Ghana think that they will succeed against the same tactics that won in the US?
There’s no guarantee that any country will eventually be able to deny gays the right to marry. There’s a very high probability that by the turn of the next decade, same-sex marriage would have become the norm but there’s a guaranteed strategy, first proposed by God to His children in a world full of sin and determined to have its own way, that will shield Christians from the consequences of the world’s actions as well as keep the image of Christ intact—Indifference.
Indifference was taught to Lot and his family right before Sodom and Gomorrah were burnt to ashes. God’s command was, just go on ahead and don’t look back.
Far too often, Christians have sought to become the morality police of the world.
Christians are disingenuously positioned as the primary opposition to gay advocacy by those who strategize for these groups and guess what? The children of God fall for it.
Our job is to tell the world about God’s standards but it ends there. After we have told the world what God thinks about homosexuality and same-sex couples, we ought not to insist that what we believe should be done.
We don’t have to form advocacy groups to try and stop gays from getting legal victories neither do we have to make the issue political. We are required to leave the world to its own devices.
Open hostility, making ourselves the opposition and enemy to gays is very bad for all Christians in the long run. God’s long-run strategy for allowing things to happen is never clear from day one. Instead of trusting Him, Christians unwittingly accept to be targeted.
When we give gay advocacy groups opposition, we pour gasoline into the fire of their advocacy. Instead of quenching it, we fuel their success.
This does not mean a Christian politician can and should vote in support of or endorse any of the topical issues that the Bible is against. It does not mean a Christian in authority should openly endorse what God has forbidden. It means the Christian leader will not project his faith onto others and leave them to their own devices.
If you want an example of this tactic, Pontius Pilate did it best. He questioned Jesus, and when he had not found anything worthy of the charges brought against Him, didn’t go against the mob. He rather washed his hands and told the mob to do what they want.
It may sound cowardly but certain tides are set in motion by God Himself (sometimes to expose and destroy His enemies). When you realize that the tide against what is right becomes too strong, know that if God had not allowed it, it would not happen. Do not stand in the way of such a tide. You may be going against the will of God unbeknownst to you.
