This letter is in response to Andrew Jenson’s column in the Sept. 24 Argonaut. Jenson claims the “Pope misses the mark.” It seems to me, it is Jenson who misses the mark. He implies that the Gospels forbid homosexuality. In fact, Jesus never said a word about homosexuals in any of the four Gospels.
Jenson goes on to say that homosexuals who have sex are sinners who lack self-control, but the Apostle Paul said that anyone, gay or straight, who has sex lacks self-control. If you are single, you should remain single and sexless, if you are married, you should not have sex either unless you are just a weak-willed wimp according to 1 Corinthians 7:8-9.
So real Christians should not have sex while here on earth. But what about after they get to heaven? Jesus Christ himself plainly said, “For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels in heaven (Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25; Luke 20:35-36).”
–Ralph Nielsen
Professor Emeritus
