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By Dr. Bill Bray

March 1, 2006

The producers of this most talked about film of the year created a psychological thriller—a film deliberately meant to play mind games with the young viewing audiences that fill our theaters.

I am sure the homosexual lobby continues to delight in the thought of twisting the virile image of cowboys by having them fall uncontrollable “in love” with each other, just as they have with other macho icons over the years.

However, Bible-believing Christians who have watched this gender-bending game played on our church and denominational leaders are not surprised. We have watched the victims of homosexuality pervert thousands of priests and ministers with the same devastating results as one sees played out in this sickening film.

"Gay love" or even "gay unions" are not love at all, but addictive lust. Thankfully, for reasons of their own, the producers of Brokeback Mountain have allowed the awful consequences of this addiction to play out on the screen.

The gay cowboys in this movie leave behind destroyed marriages and broken, confused children. They live-out their pointless lives in failed careers and businesses. This is exactly what gay clergy have left behind in American churches and schools where we allowed them to betray the trust of our denominations, missionary orders, and parishioners—destroying the faith of our members and betraying the innocent children we entrusted to their care.

For the last 15 years, Ivy and I have watched firsthand the homosexual experiment in revisionism play out its deadly dance of destruction in local churches and American denominations.

We as Americans must not export kind of heresy and schism this to new young churches and missions we influence overseas. We tolerated it in our leadership here and have reaped terrible consequences—spiritual death to millions.

I have hesitated to address the American gender crisis on this site because we have dedicated this space to supporting missions—and I have thought that our readers might think I have gone off on a tangent. However, opposing revisionism and homosexuality is not a tangent. Once or twice in every generation, there comes a strategic heresy or apostasy that is so immensely evil that it threatens to destroy everything else it touches – including missions.

Is tolerating homosexual practice in American and European churches one of those issues? Yes, homosexuality is a covenant-busting, church-destroying, missions-breaking cancer that cannot be allowed in leadership. The Roman Catholic Church has finally come to realize this, and the Pope is acting to restrict homosexual seminarians from even taking holy orders.

Let no one think that I am rejecting the victims of homosexuality. I am not homophobic; I write these words with love in my heart for any homosexual reader who is struggling with this sin. Christ will not only forgive your perversion, but also free you from the chains of your bondage if you will let him. There is hope for homosexuals. Christ died for your sins as well as mine; He is the savior and sanctifier. Homosexual Christians deserve pastoral care like any other sinner.

However, some things (such as marriage, the church, missions) cannot succeed if you separate your faith in Christ from your everyday lifestyle. Homosexual leaders and mentors destroy the institutions they lead by making it impossible to trust your leader or your partner at the most fundamental level. Once that trust is gone, everything else goes with it. That is the message of Brokeback Mountain and the warning we have to sound to Christians here in the USA and around the world who are flirting with this revisionist fad. We cannot be coy or look the other way when practicing homosexuals are permitted to lead churches or missions.

As desperately as American theologians want God to revise the Ten Commandments and forgive our more fashionable sexual sins, God has not changed his mind or reversed the laws defining His will for our lives.

(Dr. Bill Bray is writing three other essays on these subjects that chronicle his personal testimony confronting revisionism and homosexuality in the American churches. Click on them on home page under the heading “Church in Crisis: Gay Schism” to see his viewpoints on this critical subject.)