Pace Entitled to His Belief

 

Yesterday, a gay advocacy group Tuesday demanded an apology from the Pentagon’s top general for calling homosexuality immoral.

I can understand their consternation. General Pace was out of line when he shared his personal opinion in a setting where he was speaking for the military, not himself. After issuing a statement expressing regret, the advocacy group, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, is still demanding an apology for Pace’s statement regarding his beliefs.

If I were the general, there would be no apology.

“I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts,” Pace said in the interview. “I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.

“As an individual, I would not want (acceptance of gay behavior) to be our policy, just like I would not want it to be our policy that if we were to find out that so-and-so was sleeping with somebody else’s wife, that we would just look the other way, which we do not. We prosecute that kind of immoral behavior.”

The general is repeating a commonly held belief that sex outside of marriage is wrong. And as long as marriage retains the Biblical definition, homosexual relationships will remain adulterous.

Knowing that many homosexual persons are grieved by this, I’m eager to hear a scriptural foundation for redefining this simple definition. But until I do, General Pace has my full and complete support.