San Francisco Values, Modern Day Sodom and Gomorrah

When examining what the Bible says about homosexuality, it is important to distinguish between homosexual behavior and homosexual inclinations or attractions. It is the difference between active sin and the passive condition of being tempted. Homosexual behavior is sinful, but the Bible never says it is a sin to be tempted. Simply stated, a struggle with temptation may lead to sin, but the struggle itself is not a sin.

Romans 1:26–27 teaches that homosexuality is a result of denying and disobeying God. When people continue in sin and unbelief, God “gives them over” to even more wicked and depraved sin to show them the futility and hopelessness of life apart from God. One of the fruits of rebellion against God is homosexuality. First Corinthians 6:9 proclaims that those who practice homosexuality, and therefore transgress God’s created order, are not saved.

A person may be born with a greater susceptibility to homosexuality, just as some people are born with a tendency to violence and other sins. That does not excuse the person’s choosing to sin by giving in to sinful desires. Just because a person is born with a greater susceptibility to fits of rage, that doesn’t make it right for him to give in to those desires and explode at every provocation. The same is true with susceptibility to homosexuality.

Hotbed for Homosexuality

San Francisco has the largest population of homosexuals in the nation of America, located in the urban neighborhood known as the Castro (from Castro Street, named for Mexican soldier Jose Castro^[9]), which was usurped from families by an influx of many homosexuals in the 70s. It has become known as the “Gay Mecca”, in an offensive analogy to the religious pilgrims in Islam who are drawn to their holy city of Mecca.

San Francisco has been the location of many flagrant gay pride marches and other parades which have degraded into drunkenness, public nudity, public sex, and in recent years, stabbings (2002) and shootings (2006).^[10] All this has been tolerated by the police and mayoral government and many citizens have been left apathetic to the matter, desensitized through the frequently excessive displays. (See: Homosexual Public Indecency Tolerated in San Francisco)

Christianity Today states the following regarding Pastor David Innes regarding the Hamilton Square Baptist Church riot:

Pastor Innes then cites a September 30, 1993 letter published in the San Francisco Chronicle from a veteran police officer who was “highly embarrassed” when people asked him he was not making any arrests in regards to totally naked males engaging in lewd behavior at the San Francisco Folsom Street Fair. The officer stated that “At least a dozen times I had to painstakingly explain that we were to take a position of ‘high tolerance’ and not to create an incident.” ^[12]

In 1990 and 1991 extreme public lewdness was exhibited at the Gay and Lesbian Parades in San Francisco and when police authorities were asked why there were no arrests they offered various excuses such as the primary responsibility was to “reflect community standards and maintain crowd control.”^[13]

San Francisco’s mayor, Gavin Newsom ordered the city clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite the practice being explicitly illegal under California law. The marriages were nullified by the courts shortly thereafter, as the mayor and clerk were violating California state law.^[14]

In possibly the lowest level that the city has shrunk to, the historic National Guard Armory building was recently sold to a company that produces disgusting hardcore and specifically gay pornography; tellingly, only 50 people showed up to protest the purchase.^[15]

In 2001, the city of San Francisco extended its workers health insurance to cover sex-change operations for municipal employees.^[16][17] The Board of Supervisors and Mayor approved the measure which extended up to $50,000 in benefits to city workers who want to switch their gender.^[18] Such health benefits are supported by taxpayers‘ money.

Other values

There have been numerous anti-Bush, anti-military, anti-American, and anti-conservative protests and rallies in San Francisco.

San Francisco’s newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, is one of the most liberal in the nation, featuring many outspokenly liberal columnists and political cartoonists. Many believe it to be more leftist than the liberal standard, the New York Times.

San Francisco values in action. The first is to “decriminalize” prostitution, which creates a legal limbo where prostitution continues to be illegal on a statewide level, but the San Francisco police are legally forbidden to arrest prostitutes or charge anyone with crimes related to prostitution. Again, San Francisco has curtailed the polices ability to perform its crimefighting duties. The second measure would be laughable if it didn’t have the support it does. Proponents plan to rename a municipal sewage treatment plant after the former president, George W. Bush,^[20] which pushes their loud dissent to a thoroughly unpatriotic echelon.

San Francisco was one of the first cities in the country to ban trans fats, citing a need to promote healthy living.^[21] This ban was then extended to a statewide ban, the first in the country.^[22] Of course, the burden is placed on restaurants and businesses, who have to pay for more expensive and less tasty alternatives to use in their cooking. The ban absolves the blame from the consumer who chooses to eat a double cheeseburger with extra bacon and fries instead of a sensible sandwich and pickle. Chefs have been left wondering “how the trans fat ban will affect the bottom line”.^[23] The trans fat ban is another instance of the city’s anti-business policies.

San Francisco is also a “city of refugees”, which means they have passed an ordinance that it is against the law to report illegal immigrants to the United States authorities as they are required to legally do. In other words, anyone upholding the federal law will get in trouble with the city. This has led to a culture of underage drug dealers continuing their trade with impunity.^[24]

Ex-Mayor Gavin Newsom has made recycling one of his biggest issues, in a blatant attempt to appeal to his leftist constituency. Unfortunately, San Francisco already has some of the most restrictive recycling laws in the country, including mandatory recycling. Therefore, any new laws proposed have been intrusive and unnecessary. Newsom’s most recently proposed a $1000 ban for improperly sorted recycling. Garbage collectors would inspect the trash and issue tickets to “violators”, who will likely be regular citizens who made reasonable mistakes. The laws have been labeled Gestapo-like by the Canadian press.^[25]

One of the largest offices of the ACLU is in San Francisco, as is the headquarters of several other activist nonprofit organizations, including the Wikimedia Foundation.