Christian Concepts

Cory Booker’s Badgering of Mike Pompeo

During his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo was closely questioned by Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) if homosexuality was a perversion. Pompeo dodged the question and did not answer Booker directly. Booker’s demanding an answer from Pompeo on the matter has caused some evangelicals to cry foul.
Mike Pompeo has a reputation for being a conservative Christian and Booker was trying to get him to admit that he believes homosexuality is a perversion. Several evangelicals took exception because they believe Booker was badgering Pompeo on his religious views when the Constitution forbids any religious test for public office.
This very public exchange highlights the issue of what the Scriptures say about the practice of homosexuality and whether or not it is a perversion of the sex act. I hope to shed some biblical light on what is an already very heated subject.
We need to define what is meant by perversion.
I think it is important to define what is meant by the term perversion. Perversion is defined as “the alteration of something from its original course, meaning, or state to a distortion or corruption of what was first intended.”
When the Pharisees questioned Jesus on the matter of divorce, He pointed out to them what the intended purpose of marriage was from the beginning. “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh,’” Matthew 19:4-5 (cf. Genesis 1:27; 2:24).
An expanded explanation of this passage cannot be accommodated here, but at a bare minimum these verses show God intended for marriage to be between one man and one woman committed to one another in marriage. Marriage is a covenant of heterosexual companionship, biblically speaking.
From a solely scriptural perspective marriage was intended by God to be the place where physical and emotional intimacy was to be fostered and any sex act apart from what God intended it to be is a perversion.
So yes, homosexuality is a perversion of the sex act, but what many seem to so readily dismiss is that adultery, fornication, and any other sex act that departs from God’s intended purpose for sex is equally a perversion.
Our culture’s laxity regarding sexual practices has lead us to believe any and all sexual practices are okay.
The sexual revolution has seared our culture’s conscience into thinking that extramarital sex in its many forms is permissible as long as it is “normal” sex. But what many believe is normal sex is abnormal when defined by God’s intended purpose for sex in Genesis.
As is the case with all sins, sexual sins, whatever form they take, can be forgiven when one recognizes their sin, and repents, and turns in faith to Jesus Christ for forgiveness. But unbridled sexual passions and practices undermine the stability of the home, the foundational unit of any society, and thereby threaten the very existence of our culture.
Sexual immorality is a greater threat to our national security within, than a nuclear war from without.