Right-wing Women

Houston. He was full of love for the Lord, love for his neighbors,

the love of Christ; it was sin he hated, especially when it was embodied in the filthy lesbians who had come to Houston to destroy the work of God. He kept preaching to the feminists converging on

the Coliseum that nothing was as loathsome as homosexuality; but

in women! to contemplate the abomination in women whom God

commanded to obey their husbands as Christ was so repugnant to

this minister that he predicted God might call down the walls of

the Coliseum then and there. I approached him alone to talk as

other women ignored him entirely. I asked him what he thought of

the high-spirited, vital women going in: did they all seem evil and

loathsome? could he tell which were lesbians and which were not?

what kind of harm did lesbians do to other people? if lesbians did

no one harm (for instance, did not murder, did not rape), w hy was

he, a minister, called on to denounce lesbians? was not this particular sin, so singularly lacking in malice, better left to God to judge?

why did lesbians provoke not only God’s judgment but also the

minister’s wrath? He referred to these passages from Romans: *

*The translation quoted is the King James Version. However, the phrases

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an

image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-

footed beasts, and creeping things.

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 g a v e them up unto vile affections: fo r even their

women did change the natural use into that which is against nature; *

And likewise also the m en, leaving the natural use o f the w om an,

burned in their lust one tow ard another; men w ith men working that

which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence o f their

error which was meet. (Italics mine)

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; t

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, t deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, convenant breakers, without natural

affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Who knowing the ju d gm en t o f God, that they which com mit such

things are w orthy o f death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in

them that do them . % (Italics mine)

Romans 1: 22-32

indicated by a footnote reference are slightly different in the Revised Standard Version and are perhaps clearer in meaning, as shown in the following notes.

* Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and men likewise gave up natural relations with women. . .