Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank recently called Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a "homophobe." The Democratic lawmaker, who since 1987 has openly flaunted his homosexuality, was discussing same-sex marriages and his expectation that the high court would some day be called upon to decide whether the Constitution allows the federal government to deny recognition of homosexual marriages.

I do not know how Justice Scalia reacted to the term—or if he even cared—but I can hope he will embrace the word if it reflects his fundamental aversion to such an aberrant lifestyle. In fact, I hope that all good and decent people will want to take up the term and embrace it with honor.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary a person who is a homophobe has an "irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals."

While I object to the word "irrational," if having an aversion to homosexuals constitutes being a homophobe than God Himself stands justly charged—and that of course is blasphemous. Man does not stand in judgment upon God. Rather, God stands in judgment upon men and God has judged homosexuality in particular in the strongest of terms.

To God, homosexuality is detestable behavior. Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination [detestable].

From a divine perspective homosexuality is a manifestation of God’s divine judgment upon a society. "Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet" (Romans 1:24-27).

To be afraid of God and His judgments is a sign of wisdom and righteousness. Psalms 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

To be afraid of or to have an aversion for those who practice homosexual behavior is also a sign of wisdom and righteousness for three reasons.

First, since homosexuals do not reproduce they must recruit and that recruiting will come for your family members and mine.

Second, no nation has survived when its military and political leaders engage in this behavior. Some like to point out that the ancient Romans and Greeks encouraged homosexuals in their armies but that notation only proves the main point under discussion for the Roman Empire and its once grand armies now lay in the dustbin of history.

Third, America cannot hope to survive as the nation she was once for a simple scriptural reason—America is a nation under judgment. We are living in a post-Christian society. America is a nation that has been given "up to uncleanness." What we are witnessing in the gay rights movement is the outworking of a judgment that has already been passed. It is to our peril that we are NOT afraid.