A DROMORE minister has this week reacted to the news that Boyzone have included a homosexual couple in their latest video.
The Rev. David McCullough, minister of Dromore Reformed Presbyterian Church, argues that it is an attempt to show homosexuality as a normal lifestyle.
Here, in a letter to the Leader, he outlines the Bible teaching on the issue of homosexuality.

DEAR Editor,
The latest Boyzone video that accompanies their newly released single 'Better' is far from good.
The romantic words and touching melody are accompanied by a video that features two young men staring into one another's eyes, holding hands, caressing one another's faces and at one point one man nuzzling his nose against the other man's cheek.
The video was the united decision of the group in support of band member Stephen Gately who 'came out' in 1999.
The message of the Boyzone video is yet another subtle effort of the homosexual propaganda machine. This video, that will be watched by millions, is sending out a deadly message to young people. It is stating that homosexuality is simply another norm. The video very cleverly interweaves softly lighted, black and white images of heterosexual couples with a homosexual couple. The message is plain and the often repeated drum beating of the homosexual lobby that says that homosexuality is a normal lifestyle.
The message from the God, who has made us, is very different. Despite the rising opinions of the masses, the unrelenting efforts of the media and sadly the compromised teaching of some churches the Bible is clear about homosexuality. It is a grievous sin against God, clearly condemned in the Bible. God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that were contrary to nature; and men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error (from Romans 1v26&27).
In spite of the message of some leading Anglican bishops the Bible is clear – homosexual desires and acts are rebellion against God, they are a perversion of God's good and perfect plan as outlined in the opening pages of the Bible, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife and they shall become one flesh'. Genesis 2v24.
God's perfect plan was not Adam and Steve, but Adam and Eve in a lifelong covenant of marriage where they could enjoy the good gift of sex. Homosexual desires and behaviour are a clear violation of God's law. They are inherently unnatural. It is not a genetic disorder, not a biological defect – but sin. A sin that is gripping the lives of an increasing number in our society, a sin that is destroying many lives and like all sin has eternal consequences.
No doubt some will see this article as another gay bashing rant. Please understand it is far from that. It is the desire of this minister of Jesus Christ that men and women would be released from the bondage of their sin, find forgiveness and new life in the finished work of Jesus Christ. The Good News is that it is possible for a homosexual to repent of their sin, just as it is possible for a fornicating heterosexual to repent of their sin.
When the apostle Paul was directed by God to write to the church at Corinth he wrote, Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practise homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. I Corinthians 6v9-11
In other words in the church at Corinth there were people converted from all sorts of sinful lifestyles. But in the love of God they had been wonderfully changed, ransomed, healed restored, forgiven. That is what the gospel offers to Stephen Gately and any others trapped in the heinous sin of homosexuality. As a church we are willing and glad to help any seeking the healing that is found only in the gospel.
David McCullough, minister of Dromore Reformed Presbyterian Church