American television giants NBC have created a new TV show
called ‘The New Normal’. I have not
watched the programme but I have seen the trailers recently on British
Television. The general plot of the show
relates to the challenges a couple of gay men face in adopting a baby.
It goes without saying that the general plot is sickening
to me, not to mention sinful. However, I
was struck by the title chosen by the writers Ryan Murphy and Allison
Adler. There has been a serious push by
the media in the past couple of decades to ‘normalise’ the activities of
homosexuals in the eyes of the general population. This can be evidenced by the
increasing quantity of homosexual characters in all major television
serials. I suppose the writers must
believe that their goals have been reached in the use of their title ‘the new
normal’.
I had a look in the Oxford English Dictionary to see the
definition of normal.
Normal = Conforming to a standard, regular, usual,
typical.
It’s fair to say that the homosexual lobby has done a
good job on re-defining the standards of morality in western civilisation to
accept homosexual practices as normal and even something to be celebrated. Homosexuals are certainly regular characters
on our TV screens, and so it no longer seems unusual to hear of people coming
out, you could say it’s now fairly typical.
So what are we to make of this new normality as
Christians? Should we adapt our views to accept the “new” reality or the “new” normality? Should we understand our Bibles relative to this
new normality?
CERTAINLY NOT!
Sin will always be sin no matter how normal or unusual its
occurrence may be! God says what He
means and means what He says! God’s
truth is not decided by a majority vote within humanity. God Himself, who never changes, determines
truth and standards. It is to Him that we all have to answer.
‘There shall be no whore of
the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.’ Deuteronomy 23 v17
I don’t care if its normal, its evil!!!
