ANOTHER GOSPEL ARTIST OUT OF THE CLOSET
- Anthony Williams, who performs under the name of Tonex and whose album Out the Box was nominated for a Grammy, revealed several months ago that he is a homosexual. In a recent interview he complains about being discriminated against and compared the discrimination against homosexuals to racism. The interviewer states, “These days, when he is not singing for his fans as Tonex, Pastor Williams travels across the country preaching a message of acceptance. Now his audience is a congregation and his stage a pulpit” (“Openly Gay Gospel Artist Preaches Acceptance,” thegrio.com, July 7, 2010). Williams joins a growing list of “out of the closet” Gospel and CCM performers, including Douglas Harrison, James Cleveland, Marsha Stevens, Kirk Talley, Clay Aiken, and Jennifer Knapp.
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
Contrary to popular belief, Sodomy (or homosexuality as the world refers to it as) is sinful, wrong, and an abomination in the eyes if God. Romans 1:24-28. and I quote. “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
1. “to dishonour their own bodies between themselves” —they choose this way of life. It is not “I was born this way” but they chose this way of life.
2. “receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet” —-aids and other diseases has been their reward
3. “God gave them over to a reprobate mind,” Reprobate means to abandon to punishment without hope of pardon. (from Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary)
Isaiah 3:9 says ”The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.”.
Knowing that this is what God’s Word has to say on the matter of Sodomy or homosexuality, or whatever you want to call it. IT IS SIN! It does not matter what you or I think. What the President or any other, it does not change the fact that it is sin.
“For the Bible tells me so…”
