I get asked about my position on homosexuality quite a bit. Here it is.
To clarify my response in advance, when I am asked about my position on homosexuality, I am assuming that I am being asked about how I feel about two members of the same sex entering into a sexual relationship. To be incredibly, and possibly ridiculously, blunt, I am talking about two women in a committed sexual relationship, or two men in a committed sexual relationship. To the casual observer, my definition may seem unnecessary. But I need to make distinction, because my answer would be slightly different if the circumstances were also different.
You may recall that when I founded this Church, I named it the Church of Global Love. The reason for that name was the fact that Love was the foundation upon which this Church was built. When you consider that, you understand that any answer to any question is going to be built upon Love. My answer about my perspective in homosexuality does not deviate from this. Your relationship must successfully answer only one question, which will tell me if it meets the ONLY standard: Is it built on Love? If you are in a relationship, built on Love, promoting Love, reflecting Love, expressing Love, then you live in Love. Living in Love is good. Living in Love is the objective.
If you are constantly involved in casual, uncommitted, homosexual sexual relationships based on ego or power, domination or control, aggressiveness or insincerity – if your relationship and intention is not based on love – you are sinning. You are sinning because you are using someone, affecting someone’s thoughts, actions and feelings in a way that is not good for them. I also believe that the argument of two consenting adults falls short, mainly because, despite what people say, someone always has some sort of a negative feeling or thought after such an encounter. That negativity, however small, does not bring us closer to God and therefore should not be created.
Guess what? That’s also my view on heterosexual relationships. Gender is not the deciding factor in the “goodness” of a relationship, just as it is not the determining factor in the goodness of an individual. Intention, feeling, love – these are the determining factors. So whether you love someone of the same or opposite sex, love is the goal.
I don’t know if homosexuality is genetic or a choice. I only know that everything we do must be based on love. That includes our relationships, especially our sexual relationships, as well as our tolerance and acceptance of the relationships of others we encounter. Base your reactions, decisions, actions and responses on LOVE. You can’t go wrong! Crazy, I know.