No quite true. If God says that a particular natural calamity is His way of punishing of someone, then it is. Take the ten plagues on Egypt, for example. For a mortal to deny their divine origin is hubris, to say the least. And if Romans 1:18-32 says that homosexuality is God's punishment on those who exchange the truth of God for a lie--and it does--then homosexuality is indeed God's punishment on those who exchange the truth of God for a lie.

"For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error." (Rom. 1:26-27)

CharlieSays repeats, "Why does someone's sexual preference hurt you? How?"

The question is wrong. It should be, "How does someone's sexual deviance hurt other people?" Sodomy and other forms of sexual deviance are physically unhealthy, and a sexually faithful spouse of a sexually promiscuous person (whatever he does) is at greater risk of disease. Sodomy and pedophilia are linked, and the homosexual propaganda in the schools also corrupts the children. They grow up to think that homosexuality is just a legitimate sexual alternative, merely a "sexual preference." They grow up to become promiscuous, whether homosexual or heterosexual (and what meaningful distinction any longer then exists?). They destroy the notion of a family, with a husband and wife committed to each other for life (spare me from the homosexuals' "true love" nonsense), and the children who learn the same healthy pattern again. Society itself ends up being destroyed. However, I will admit that homosexuality is not first of all the CAUSE of sexual perversion but the RESULT of sexual perversion. (Obviously it is a MANIFESTATION of sexual perversion.) Homosexuality is its own punishment as well as being the punishment for other forms of sexual perversion (e.g. adultery). A society that accepts homosexuality is probably circling in the drain.

You're generally right, Bob. We should note the spelling mistake in the title of this article. It should be, "Why CPAC Was a Millstone Weekend for Gays." See Luke 17:1-2.

What is a "gay conservative"? As a conservative, I refer to my 1964 CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF CURRENT ENGLISH for the meaning of "gay": full of or disposed to or indicating mirth, light-hearted, sportive; airy, offhand; *(sl.) cheeky, impertinent; (euphem.) dissolute, immoral, living by prostitution; showy, brilliant, bright-coloured, finely dressed (with).