Charmaine I.

Jala
LLB-3
Christian Ethics 3 – Reflection Paper 3

Homosexuality and Gay Liberation: Alternate Lifestyle or Immorality?

Homosexuality has been a topic in various fields in the society. In the field of science, the
debate is whether it is nature or nurture. In the field of religion, the debate is whether it is moral
or immoral. This has been a long standing question, an opinion of people vary according to how
they are raised or on what they see around them.

Looking at it from the point of view of a religiously fanatic person, homosexuality and
Christianity cannot be put side by side. The Scripture has been very clear as to its designation on
man and woman – on who should live together and who should engage in the act of procreation.
Homosexuality is obviously out of the picture in this context. It is not in the ordinary
arrangement of things and events.

However, if we look into a bigger understanding of things, I believe it is not at all

immoral. Being homosexual is a person’s perspective on things. He likes a man when he is
expected to like a woman. With this modern understanding, homosexuality must not be regarded
as immoral. They must also be respected and recognized as any other people choosing what they
prefer to practice. Respect in a sense that they do not want to people to wonder why they love
somebody who is physically similar to them and recognition in a sense that they do not have to
justify their existence in every any field in the society.

When it comes to marriage, people in love want their relationship to be blessed by God.
The same way with homosexuals, they are on loving. In the same way, if they wished to be
blessed by God, they should be allowed to do so. Like any other Christians, they believe in the
sacrament of marriage.
Charmaine I. Jala
LLB-3
Christian Ethics 4 – Reflection Paper 7

Homosexuality and Gay Liberation: Alternate Lifestyle or Immorality?

Christian Ethics 4: Lesson 7

Ninth Commandment “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”

Because our God is the God of truth, the One who sees and judges truly, the One who desires truth in
his people, we must strive for truth in our relationships with one another. Speaking falsehood can injure
our neighbor in two major ways. Untruths can rob someone of his or her good name and reputation. In a
court of law or even in private conversation untruths can also rob a person of legitimate privileges and
possessions. "A good name is to be more desired than great wealth" (Proverbs 22:1).

To rob someone of his or her good name is to injure someone no less than to rob that person of his or
her material goods. Willingness to pass on or listen to slander (misrepresentation and false statements)
and gossip (habitually revealing personal or sensational facts or rumors) is forbidden by this
commandment. So is the creation of untruths in our minds and hearts as well as the desire to hear
them. Our responsibility is to be as truthful as possible in order to promote the good name and
prosperity of our neighbor.

Questions to Discuss:

1. Have you ever been hurt by the untruthful words that someone spoke about you to
others? How did you feel? What did you do about it? Did you find it easy to forgive?

2. Part of how we treat people is how we speak about them. What have you said or
listened to recently that is destructive of another person?

3. Write down some ways you and your colleagues could obey this commandment more
completely.