The Born This Way Foundation announced that Kayleigh F. won their poster contest on bravery. The winning poster depicted a same-sex couple kissing with the slogan "Bravery is knowing that you can't change who you are, and that you're worth it." The foundation promotes acceptance of homosexuality, bisexuality, and transgenderism. However, some argue that while bullying should be opposed, certain behaviors described as innate cannot be accepted as right according to scripture. The debate centers around whether moral codes should be discarded or if certain desires must still be controlled.

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5. NEW YORK -- Lady's Gaga's Born This Way Foundation
said today that Kayleigh F. has been chosen as the
winner of the foundation's poster contest about
bravery.
The foundation is not releasing Kayleigh's last name.
"When we asked our community to create a visual
representation of bravery, we had no idea that we
would receive hundreds of amazing entries and
thousands of you would vote for your favorites," said
Cynthia Germanotta, president and co-founder of Born
This Way Foundation. Germanotta is Lady Gaga's
mother.
The winning poster featured a background of a same-
sex couple kissing, while one of the young men holds
out a tiny slip of paper that reads: "Acceptance."
The slogan reads: "Bravery is knowing that you can't
change who you are, and that you're worth it."

6. The Born This Way Foundation’s
emphasis is against bullying.
• We should all, as Christians be opposed to bullying
and treating others in a disrespectful way.
• However, the underlying emphasis is on acceptance
of homosexuality, transvestites, trans-genders, bi-
sexuality etc.
• We as Christians cannot accept as right those things
which God says are wrong.
• Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and
good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for
darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for
bitter!

7. Do You Know Any Homosexuals?
• I have friends and relatives who are
practicing homosexuals.
• I love them but I cannot accept their lifestyle
as being right.
• I have friends and relatives who are
adulterers.
• I love them but I cannot accept their lifestyle
as being right.

8. Romans 1:27-32 Likewise also the men, leaving the
natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for
one another, men with men committing what is
shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of
their error which was due. 28 And even as they did
not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave
them over to a debased mind, to do those things
which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all
unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness,
covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,
30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters,
inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31
undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving,
unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment
of God, that those who practice such things are
deserving of death, not only do the same but also
approve of those who practice them.

9. Bravery means living the life you want to
live and creating your own destiny despite
the "moral codes" society and others set
out for you.
• Should we toss out all moral codes simply because
we don’t agree with them?
• Do not kill is a moral code.
• Do not murder is a moral code.
• Do not bear false witness is a moral code.
• Do not commit adultery is a moral code.
• Judges 17:6 In those days there was no king in
Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
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10. Be proud of who you are because you
were Born That way
• If homosexuality, transvestites, transgenders, etc.
should be accepted because they were “born that
way”. They believe they were born with those
desires.
• Then what about others who have different
desires?
• Are Muslim Extremist born that way?
• Was Jeffery Dahmer born that way?
• Was Charles Manson born that way?
• Were pedophiles born that way?
• Were murderers born that way?
• Were thieves born that way?

11. We all have desires that must be
controlled…
• We desire to lie to cover and protect ourselves.
• We desire to hit someone who makes us angry.
• We desire to have things we cannot afford.
• We desire to cheat on our taxes.
• We desire to break speed laws, run red lights, etc.
• We desire to meet any and every sexual desire.
• We want to fulfill every desire we have but we
control those desires because of the effect
fulfilling them would have on our self and others.

12. Everyone Has The Right To Sin!
• However, we as Christians, have the right and the
responsibility to warn them of where that sin will
lead them.
• If we love them we will warn them.
• We’re Newly Born That Way.
• Ezekiel 3:18-19 When I say to the wicked, 'You shall
surely die,' and you give him no warning, nor speak
to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his
life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity;
but his blood I will require at your hand. 19 Yet, if
you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his
wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in
his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.