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W.A. Criswell and his use of the term Sodomy There is a W.A. Criswell Sermon Library online. https://wacriswell.com/ At the library you can both listen to it and read a transcript. So, what do we find if we do a word search using the term “sodomy?” https://wacriswell.com/search/?wpv_post_search=Sodomy We find the arrogant attitudes of a person with vicious opinions about Lesbians and Gays. These are some excerpts from his sermons. All boldface is added by myself. Not all the sermons found using the search term are in reference to the present. I provide a list of links at the end of this essay. The quotes are somewhat longer than I would like, but I don’t want to hear whining that Criswell’s words were taken out of context. Also, in some cases, the full meaning isn’t clear without the context. I am including three quotes to show that I am not selectively choosing his sermons using the term, nor that one sermon was a fluke. In a June 27, 1977 sermon, “The Smiting of God’s Glory, this is what W.A. Criswell had to say: https://wacriswell.com/sermons/1977/the-smiting-of-god-s-glory/ In God’s sight and in the Christian faith, a thing is right or it is wrong. I cannot but be amused, almost, at the effort of these coming out of the wood termites, called sodomites, lesbians, and they are organizing for their rights and their privileges and their status before the law. And we have been caught up in reading about it in all of our magazines and of our newspapers. Does the Christian faith have anything to say about that? Just so long as the judgment of God fell upon Sodom and Gomorrah [Genesis 19:24-29], and just so long as the first chapter of the Book of Romans is in the Bible [Romans 1:17-32], just so long will the sodomite and the lesbian be an affront to God and a disgrace to the human race and an affront to the nation. Why don’t all of these murderers get together, and all of these thieves get together, and all of these violates who have violated the law, get together and say, “We demand status. And we demand our rights before the law.” [Boldface added.] Christianity, as long as there is a Christian faith, says that some things are right and some things are wrong. And God says sodomy is wrong! It always will be— always has been and always will be—until the Lord Jesus comes again. Now that is the Christian faith.