Who is Keith Lewis, and why should we listen to him?

Ok, I have been totally fed up with the controversy over Miss California's comments in the Miss USA pageant regarding her feelings that marriage is between a man and a woman, and the subsequent totally uncalled-for controversy that followed, generated by pageant "judge" Perez Hilton. (Why is a gay man judging a woman's beauty pageant, anyway?)

Now comes comments from someone named Keith Lewis, identified as a "Los Angeles talent agent and gay activist," who expresses his negative opinion about her speaking at a church that "promotes homosexuality as both unnatural and abnormal" (um, isn't any true Christian church supposed to do that? The Bible plainly teaches this. If a church believes in the Bible, this is what they are SUPPOSED to teach, and certainly anybody, public or private, has a right to stand up in a church and express their agreement with what that church teaches - or has that right been revoked?) He goes on with the absolutely outrageous statement that "we (apparently meaning the gay community) stand by our concern for her individual image and look forward to a time in the near future when she can put down her personal agenda."

Um - like YOU don't have a personal agenda in attacking and belittling anyone who openly believes in and professes the Christian faith? Like YOUR personal agenda isn't trying to get homosexual behavior approved as being "normal and natural," which is the opposite of what the Bible teaches? SHE has a "personal agenda" and YOU don't???

And, Mr. Lewis, do YOU care about your "individual image" in front of a holy and just God who loves you but cannot help you if you don't first admit that homosexual behavior is a sin in His eyes? I think you better start worrying more about yourself and less about Miss California, sir! If she is wrong, God will deal with her. If she is right, that means YOU are wrong, and she then has not only a right, but a responsibility, to proclaim the truth, whether you and the rest of the gay community like it or not.

And yes, I have a gay family member, and she knows how I feel about her lifestyle, and while she doesn't like to hear my opinion, she absolutely respects me because she knows I'm not going to be an "enabler" and tell her that she can live any old immoral way she wants to, that I will take a stand against whatever she does in her life that is harmful to her in any way. I do that because I care about her, not because I hate her. (I would do the same if she were smoking cigarettes, doing drugs, if she were an alcoholic, if she were married and cheating on her husband, etc. etc.)

Well, Jesus did warn his followers that "if they hated Me, they will hate you too, and they will persecute you for My sake."

Funny, isn't it, how if Christians speak out against any form of immoral behavior, we are told we are indulging in "hate speech" and encouraging hatred against those who "disagree" with us. Yet the gay community can indulge in the most virulent and vitriolic diatribes against someone like Carrie Prejean and even call her a "bitch" and worse, and somehow, this ISN'T "hate speech?" Please explain the difference to me, because I don't see it.

Finally, my message to Carrie Prejean is - you go, girl!! You are my heroine!!!!