It's about time someone presented the true Christian view of homosexuality. Sure it's a sin -- everyone sins.

We neither hate nor think less of gay people, nor want to deny them love.

The goal of Christianity is to spread the experience of true love as God gave it to us. Christopher West actually presented an amazing lecture on this topic Wednesday in the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center. We are to love as Christ loves the church, which is a free, total, faithful and fruitful love. We can love because God first loved us, and to love in His manner is a joyous and blessed foreshadowing of the eternal love we can all know in Him. To take away any one aspect of Christ's true love in our own lives is to destroy love and the foreshadowing of the greatest love.

The secular world works in exactly this way, by destroying the foreshadowing, calling a counterfeit love real and real love counterfeit. True, everlasting love is also characterized as doing what is to the highest good of our partner.

Outside of this true love, physical encounters are for one's own selfish desires and debase the partner to a tool for one's own use. Ephesians 5:3 teaches we must have not even a hint of immorality. So yes, Lee Langston, outside of true love, the Bible does condemn kissing as a selfish and lustful act.

And to Reid Meyer, I pose this question: In a world of sexually transmitted diseases, abortions, fornication and adultery, where does "enlightened modern society" fit in?