According to a new survey by the Gallup organization, for the first time a majority of Americans—53 percent—believe that gay and lesbian relationships are morally acceptable. Only 43 percent of Americans call these relationships morally wrong...Could it be that, if your perception of the world is shaped by pop culture, you expect a lot of people to be gay? Could it be that after years of being told by elite media, like the Times, that being gay is “no big deal,” people treat the news that someone is gay as “no big deal”?
The elite molders of opinion have done their job well. We live in a world where moral qualms about homosexuality are regarded as bigotry. Today it requires more courage, as well as strength, to swim against the cultural tide and express any reservation about homosexual relationships.
But swim we must. What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t “democratic”—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.
Of course, that idea is even less popular than our beliefs about same-sex relationships. We in the West have elevated autonomy, which literally means “self law” into our highest value. Now listen to me folks, this is going to be a wake-up call. The tide has turned against Christian in the culture because we haven't been doing our job in the church. Culture matters. Politics follows culture. That's why we've got to start making a better case.
(Chuck Colson, "Bathing in the Rubicon," BreakPoint commentary.)
