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Unisex
By Dr. Jack Hyles
Electronic Printing by FFEP
Sunday Evening Sermon December 2, 1973
“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.” Romans 1:24, 25
I am going to read now the
progression of man’s downward trend as we approach the end of the age.
Notice, first of all, that we do not glorify God and do not give thanks to
God. Romans 1:21 says, “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified
Him not as God, neither were thankful.” Second, we become vain in our
imaginations. “But became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish
heart was darkened.” (Romans 1:21b) Third, we become wise in our own
eyes. We go to school, read a few books, and think we’re smart.
“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.” (Romans 1:22) We get
a degree and think we’re smart. A few people call us intellectuals, and we
become wise in our own eyes; however, the Bible says we become fools. If
you ever say, “I just can’t see a God who would…” then you’re an idolator.
A person who builds his own image of God in his mind has built an idol just
like that one who has built an idol out of wood. Then, we make a false
religion. “And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image make
like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping
things.” (Romans 1:23) That’s false religion. Last of all, we worship the
creature, not the Creator. “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.”
(Romans 1:23,25) That’s the final step.
As soon as you get to the
place to where you think you’re smart without God and you can formulate your
own philosophy about God and who God is, then the next step is your worship
of the creature. Why? You’ve got to worship the creature if you think you
can figure out who God is. If you draw up in your mind your own concept of
God, you’re putting yourself before God. You’re worshipping your own mind
in the place of God, and the next thing is that you worship the creature or
the body.
Worship of the body is where
our nation is tonight. All this open sex, nudity, free love, and body
worship is the final step in the downward trend of our nation. “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.” (Romans 1:26)
Now, you listen to me! When a nation gets to the place where nudity is
prevalent, what else does it look for? One reason God intends for folks to
wear clothes is because the unknown gives you added property to explore.
Don’t snicker when I say that! However, when we get to the place where we
strip off our clothes and nudity becomes commonplace, then man begins to
search for something other than the natural man-woman relationship. To what
does he turn? First, he turns to sex perversion or unnatural acts. When
that runs its course, to what does he turn? He turns to women committing
sex with women and men committing sex with men. Now, that is as low as you
can get. Here is the order again:
1. We do not glorify god or
give thanks to Him
2. We become vain in our imaginations
3. We become wise in their own eyes
4. We make a false religion
5. We worship the creature instead of the Creator
Let me say a little more
about that third point- becoming wise in our own eyes. I’m not against
going to a university, but let me tell you something. If you went to a
university and got a degree and now think you’re better than your grandpa
who didn’t go past fifth grade, then you’re an idiot! There’s nothing in
this world any more sickening than for one hunk of flesh who’s worth only
$1.98 chemically, a sinner who ought to go to Hell; if you’re fortunate
enough to have trusted Jesus, then you’re saved by His grace.
There’s not one good thing in
this world about any of us. “There is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
(Romans 3:12b) “There is none righteous, no, not one.” (Romans 3:10) “For
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23) On and
on the Bible goes to tell us that there is not one good thing about any of
us for one of us to set himself up above the rest of us as being a scholar
or an expert or of a particular sphere or caste system. It’s heathenism,
it’s paganism, and it’s a result of turning from God. As soon as you do
that, you become wise in your own conceit. You think you’re smart. You’ve
been to college, you have your degree, so you think you’re above the common
man.
Next, you begin to worship
the mind and then you begin to worship the body. After that, you go into
sins of the body, and the last step is the step that Sodom and Gomorrah took
when God said He’d rain fire and brimstone on them. Let me tell you
something, and you hear me well! There are three people who wear britches
and have short hair and would be called men who sit in this room tonight who
are homosexuals, and I know it. You have said, “Don’t let Brother Hyles’
preaching upset you. God wouldn’t have made us this way if He hadn’t
intended for men to love men.” Oh, you pagan heathen! God didn’t make you
that way! Don’t you blame God for your sin! Don’t you blame God for your
rejection of God’s Word! You’ll burn in Hell forever and ever and ever
unless you get born again and get delivered of that wicked sin! It’s not
normal! It’s pagan! It’s iniquity! God hates it! God goes so far as to
condemn to everlasting torment the soul of every person who is homosexual!
Check your Bible! That’s the last step in man’s downward progression.
One of the great signs of the
end time is the fact that the unisex movement is sweeping this country. Dr.
Joyce Brothers said, “The melting together of the sexes is upon us.” Dr.
Ralph Greenson, of the Gender Identity Clinics, called it the “sexual
thinness.” Vance Packard calls it a “sexual wilderness in our country.”
Herbert Marcuse calls it “sexual desublimation.” In the Barton County
Community College in Kansas, enrollment cards were filled out. The question
was asked on the enrollment card, “Are you male or female?” Two percent
wrote “undecided.” Last year at Northeastern University, a 140-pound
football player was named the “Winter Carnival Queen.” Judith Anderson is
playing Hamlet. Mia Farrow plays Peter Fonda’s brother in “Some Like It
Hot.” Olivia Hussey has played Romeo. (A lot of other hussies have been
playing those parts, too!) There’s a TV show called, “My Brother, the
Bride.” If you haven’t got enough decency to turn that thing off, sell your
television set! Better still, break it in pieces! Some of you watch that
kind of garbage! Some of you even let your children watch it! You turn
homosexuality and pagan unisex programs on in your living room or den and
say to your children, “Watch it!” You’re asking for heartbreak as sure as
I’m behind this pulpit!
A book has been written by
Patricia Sexton called The Feminized Male. Half of America’s guns are owned
by women. Long Island has a firegirl in their fire department. The
military academy is now co-educational. There are now girls in the Boy
Scouts. On the board of the Y.M.C.A. there are four women. One social
expert has said, “By the year 2,000, Father will do the dishes and wash the
diapers while Mom washes the car and mows the lawn.”
Along with this trend is the
trend of naming boys and girls the same names. Now I don’t mean to be
unkind, but if you are going to name a girl “Jack,” put an “i-e” on it and
make it “Jackie” or add an “a-l-y-n” and make it “Jacalyn.”
When a little boy is born, we
let him grow long hair and look like a girl, (now I’m going to make someone
mad here) we name him Francis, (and one of the best friends I have in this
world is named Francis) we curl his hair and put him in what we call a
diaper shirt, (which is no more than a dress) and then we wonder why he
turns out to be a sissy! Brother, when a boy gets home from the hospital,
put him in blue jeans and cut his hair! If you don’t, he’s going to grow up
and look like some of you Samsons sitting here in this room tonight!
We are facing a concentrated
effort in this nation to try to de-emphasize the difference between the
sexes. People ask, “Brother Hyles, are you opposed to this or that?” I’ll
answer this way: You can name anything you want to name, but I am opposed
to anything in the world that de-emphasizes the line of difference between
the sexes. I believe that ladies ought to be feminine and sweet and lovely
and charming. I believe men ought to be strong and masculine and decisive.
I’m opposed to anything that makes a man and a woman act alike, look alike,
dress alike, or talk alike.
There are some of you whom I
don’t know how to describe. I want to say men, but that’s not right. I
want to say males, but that’s not right. You whatever-you-are who put “M”
under sex like you’re a male but you talk like a woman, I’m against it!
What is the Devil’s
strategy? What is the Devil’s plan of action for bringing about the unisex
movement?
1. The Devil is using
clothes to break down the barrier between the sexes.
Now, fasten your safety
belts; you’re in for a rocky ride for the next few minutes! If you want to
vote me out of this church when I get through, you just go right ahead, but
I’m going to tell you the truth. Some of you pants-wearing ladies, I hope
God will get you so under conviction tonight that you’ll hit the mourner’s
bench before you go home! Let me tell you something. You ladies who wear
your “britches,” don’t you laugh at me while I’m preaching the Bible to
you. The Bible says a woman should not wear that pertains to a man. In
this heathen generation, you ladies who wear pants have fallen prey to the
unisex philosophy. You are a part of the unisex movement! I’m going to
prove it to you. You won’t believe it because you want to go ahead and be a
part of it. You don’t want to be different. You’re not willing to buck the
trend, but you’re hearing one preacher tonight who is happy to buck the
trends even if he loses his job because of it. I started 27 or 28 years ago
what I believe, and I am preaching the same thing tonight. If you get my
sermons and listen to them, I preach the same things tonight I preached 28
years ago. I preached against ladies wearing britches 28 years ago, and I’m
not going to stop it just because you can’t find a skirt in a department
store any more.
It’s time for some of you
deacon’s wives to look like ladies instead of men. It’s time for some of
you deacons to yank them up and say, “Put a skirt on and take those
‘britches’ off!” It’s time for some of you who teach Sunday school classes
in our church, to look like ladies and not like men. The Devil is trying to
break down the barrier between the sexes. When you do anything to aid it,
you’re a part of his work.
You say, “Brother Hyles, I
heard you on the radio. I didn’t expect this! You come on saying the radio
saying, ‘A happy hello to all of our friends in radio land. It’s a great
joy to meet you this morning. Maybe the burden is heavy and load is light.
We come on the broadcast not with a kick in the pants but with a pat on the
back’” That the broadcast, honey. In the pulpit, it’s a kick in the pants
and not a pat on the back! The back-pattin’ is on Monday morning, but the
pants-kickin’ is on Sunday night! The Devil is using clothing. Whether you
believe it or not, the book of Deuteronomy is in the Bible and Deuteronomy
22:5 says it is wrong for a woman to wear that which pertaineth to a man.
“Well,” you say, “in those days, the men wore long, flowing garments.” I
don’t care what they wore, there was a difference between men and women. I
mean it’s up to the man to decide what he wears. You say, “My husband is
not going to do that!” Well, you Jezebel, I am!
Tell me why it is that the
unisex movement and the pants-on-women movement have been growing at the
same rate in our country? I’ll tell you exactly why. It’s because the
pantsuit movement and the pants-wearing movement in this nation is a part,
as sure as I’m an inch high, of the Devil’s desire and Devil’s efforts to
make one sex in this nation.
Faubion Bowers, in Saturday
Review, January 9, 1971, said this, “In Manhattan is a shop called ‘His or
Hers’ or ‘Two of a Kind’ boasting a stock of clothing wearable by either
sex, including panty hose.” Did you know you can buy panty hose for men in
shopping centers in the city of Hammond? I’m sorry; for males- I’m sorry,
for “its”? Hold it! Tell me a Scripture that says it’s wrong for a man to
wear panty hose. How many of you think it’s wrong? I do. Tell me why.
It’s wrong then because panty hose are ladies’ clothing; is that right?
Then the same philosophy will change your pants to skirts! If it’s all
right for a woman to wear britches, then it’s all right for a man to wear
panty hose is because it’s women’s clothing and a man’s not supposed to wear
women’s clothing. I say again if you teenage girls and ladies can wear your
slacks, then it’s okay for men to wear panty hose. It’s the same
philosophy. It’s the same logic. You cannot be logical and refute that
statement.
Let’s go a step farther. In
Manhattan, a boutique named “A Man and a Woman” offered multi-sexual
clothes. Designer Bill Blass is trying to get away from the unisex
connotation by referring to his fashions as “dress alikes.” Cerutti
euphemistically ascribes “the couple look” to his and hers cowboy hats.
Betsy Bliss wrote in the Chicago Daily News, February 3, 1968, “Perhaps
those look-alike fashions simply show that we’re all puppets of designers…”
(That’s what most of you ladies are tonight!) “…who want us to look like
their roommates. But it may be that, in fact, the sexes are switching
roles, the women getting too aggressive and the men becoming milque-toast
weaklings.”
Montgomery Ward in Munster is
selling panties for men! Oh, you’re shocked! Show me a Scriptural reason
why it’s wrong. There’s not one Scriptural reason why that’s wrong unless
that’s a woman’s clothing! Then, using the same logic, your slacks are
wrong!
There are people in this room
tonight who love me. You’re glad I’m here, you pray for me, you love me,
and you thank God for me, but you take lightly the fact that you let your
daughters wear pants. Your daughters come to see me and in practically
every case where you’ve taught your daughters not to agree with me on this
subject, your daughter has gotten rebellious and won’t agree with me on
other subjects too; that’s because you’ve taught your daughter not to obey
the preaching of this preacher.
Every trouble-making girl to
whom I’ve talked who has gotten in trouble and maybe has gotten expelled
from school, in almost every case, one parent or the other has said, “I just
don’t think Brother Hyles is God.” Well, may I ask you a question? Who
does? But I am the man about whom Hebrews 13:17 says, “Obey them that have
rule over you.” You’ll be a lot better off to tell your girl she can’t wear
her slacks because the preacher says it’s wrong- by the way, it won’t hurt
her not to wear them- than if you just go ahead and let her wear them.
I have an advertisement for a
unisex clothing store. It has a picture of a male and female- I guess- and
it says, “Hey baby, the big news is happening Tuesday! Experiment One sets
up shop on Lex and 57th. The same clothing for male and female!”
There’s an article in today’s
paper in the Parade magazine called “Rock Cosmetics.” “Rock stars exercise
a great influence on their followers.” For example, once the Beatles grew
long hair….” (By the way, that’s where the long hair fad started- with the
Beatles.) “In September, when the Rolling Stones appeared on American TV,
Mick Jagger introduced a new cosmetic look for young males. He wore heavy
blue eye shadow, bright red fingernail polish, and purple lipstick.”
Hold it now! If it’s okay
for ladies to wear slacks, then it’s okay for men to wear lipstick. You
say, “Don’t you get off on that?” I don’t intend to get off that for about
ten more minutes! Show me a Scripture that says it’s wrong for a man to
wear lipstick. There’s not one. Show me a Scripture that says it’s wrong
for a man to wear eye shadow. There’s not one, unless it is a woman’s
regalia.
Now, if it is all right for
ladies to wear men’s clothing, then it is all right for men to wear ladies’
clothing. (I came awfully close to putting skirts on every one of these men
on the platform tonight. If I could have found dresses big enough, I would
have done it! I just couldn’t find a size 63 waist for Brother Sully!) You
hear me! A man has as much right to wear a skirt down the street as a woman
does to wear pants. Sit still! When I see you ladies on the street and
you’re wearing pants, you know I treat you courteously.
I am never purposely unkind
to anybody who dresses contrary to the way I preach. But I’ll say this
much: You’re going to face God for being a part of the unisex movement just
as much as a man who wears makeup. Let’s read a little further. “How many
Rolling Stone fans will use makeup in the months to come is difficult to
tell. Jagger and his wife, Bianca, believe in unisex makeup. Several
months ago she prevailed upon Gucci, the Italian leather maker to come up
with a walking cane for both males and females. She carries it wherever she
goes. In Europe, it’s catching on with girls who say it offers a measure of
protection.” Here’s a picture of a male and a female, and you can’t even
tell which is which. Now hold it! A man wears makeup and lipstick and eye
shadow and from the shoulders up you can’t even tell if it’s a man or a
woman. Now let me ask you a question. Is it any worse not to be able to
tell which is from waist down? I mean, after all, who has a right to say
which end has to be different? Who has a right to say, “From the shoulders
up you can’t be alike, but from the waist down you can be alike.” You know
it’s true that if you’re walking down the sidewalk behind some couples, it’s
hard to tell which is the male and which is the female.
In Calumet City, on Burnham
Avenue, there is a unisex store called “Adam and Eve.” That is in our
area! It’s a place where male and female both buy the same type of
garments.
In tracing history, Agnes
DeMille puts such fashion shifts in a new perspective. She notes that 1890
was the first time girls, even infants, dressed like boys in pants or even
loose, sexless garments. The bare-legged sack look of the 1920’s marked the
first time adult women and their daughters emulated boys. Today, mothers
continue to work their way steadily back toward babyhood, trying on the
looks of baby doll, little soldier doll, and little boy doll.” Let me stop
and say a word about this. I don’t mind your boys having little soldiers to
play with, but don’t give your boy a doll to play with. She goes on to say,
“Simultaneously the teenage boy, the source of all this feminine emulation,
was revolting against his father in the strongest way he could find to
express disapproval- unmasculinity. Ornamented in fancy clothes, the young
men now seem to dress as young women, masquerading as boys.” That’s not a
Christian person saying that; that is the world saying that men and women
dressing alike is part of the unisex movement.
Some of you mothers are
saying right now, “Well, I just don’t see it and my daughter will keep
wearing her slacks in public.” Yeah, and you have a daughter who’s in
trouble, too. Nine times out of ten she’s in trouble about something else,
too. Girls come to my office in deep trouble, and practically every one who
does has been told by her mother or dad, or in some cases by both, “Brother
Hyles isn’t God. You don’t have to do everything he says.”
There’s a girl in this room
tonight who has been kicked out of school and she’s in deep trouble. I and
many others have tried to help the girl. The daughter has told me that her
mother told her, “There’s a swimming pool over here. Why don’t you go
swimming?” That was a mixed bathing pool and her mother wanted her to go
swimming there! The girl said, “Mother, you know that I can’t do that.
Brother Hyles doesn’t approve of mixed swimming.” Yet the mother encouraged
her to do so. You mothers and fathers had better listen to me. You’re not
going to go home, break down everything I preach behind this pulpit, and
keep your kids out of trouble. There is a reason why kids get in trouble.
You ought to go home and build up what I say. I’m trying to straighten out
your kids; you ought to build me up in their minds.
Dr. Ralph Grimson is a
clinical professor of psychiatry at U.C.L.A. School of Medicine; he told the
American Medical Association, “I believe one of the reasons that young males
and females wear their hair alike and dress alike stems from their fear of
the opposite sex. Long-haired boys and girls seek a twin, not a sweetheart
or a lover. They are only secure with someone who resembles themselves.”
This is not a fundamentalist preacher! It’s a U.C.L.A. psychiatrist who
says that the reason boys and girls dress alike is because they’re afraid
not to dress alike.
I’ll just say it again. It’s
time some of you Christians dress like fundamentalists. In fashion, men’s
magazines and clothing trade journals herald men’s mini-skirts- can you
feature it? Can you feature Jim Vineyard in a miniskirt? That would set
burlesque back two generations! Get this now. There are harem lounging
pajamas. Did you know that there are lingerie shops for men, where men can
buy silk, satin, and lace gowns and pajamas? You’re horrified, aren’t you?
Yet you wear your “britches” to the store tomorrow! Men’s magazines and
clothing trade journals herald men’s miniskirts, harem lounging pajamas,
earrings and necklaces. One manufacturer is showing men’s shifts- a rather
straight-line dress worn by women. Their colors, psychedelic prints, are
soft pinks. (Can you imagine Sully in a pink shift?) Fashion designers
admit they are using ladies wearing men’s clothing and men wearing ladies’
clothing as a part of the trend to make America one sex. You haven’t got
enough sense to know it! “Now,” you say, “Preacher, what are you saying?”
I’m saying that God wants there to be a difference between the sexes. I’m
saying, in our generation, ladies ought not to wear whatever men have worn,
and men ought not to wear whatever ladies have worn.
You know, I think I’ll just
go ahead and get really mean. I detest these lace shirts on men! I had to
have a tuxedo for a wedding and I went over to a formal shop. They brought
me a shirt that had lace right down the middle- I mean ruffles! They said,
“What size?” I said, “No size of that!” They said, “This is the latest
thing.” I said, “That’s one of the reasons I don’t want it.” Listen, Don’t
get mad at me! I know most of you boys who have worn a tuxedo have probably
worn on of those lacy things! You say, “Why?” You may not like me and you
many not agree with me, but you’ll have to admit one thing. For 14 years
and 3 months there has been a man behind this pulpit. I may be mean and
stubborn, and I may be bigoted, and I may be right-winged- in fact, I
happily plead guilty to all of those things- but there is one thing you have
had for all of these 14 years. You’ve had a fellow whose tail you couldn’t
twist! This country is in dire need of men!
You put ruffles, long hair,
and makeup on your boy, then you come to the preacher 15 years later and
say, “I don’t know what’s happened to my boy!” Nothing happened to him; you
never had a boy! You had a little girl! Young men have come to my office
who have had surgery and taken hormone shots to develop feminine bodies with
bosoms who have grown up in some of the finest families in this church!
This morning I was talking
about those kids who were fighting out in Denver. One little kid got
knocked down seven times, and I stood there and watched it as he said,
“Mister, don’t stop the fight because I’m going to get up and beat the fire
out of him in a minute!” I let him fight! Some of you ladies gasped when I
said that. One of the finest things that could have happened to your big,
18-year old punk would have been for somebody to have beat the living fire
out of him when he was about 8 or 9 years old. You don’t like that? You
have no choice. When I was a kid, if I didn’t have a fight before I got
home from school, it was an unsuccessful day! I’m not suggesting that boys
go out looking for fights, but I’m not suggesting that any boy run from one
either! I don’t believe anybody ought to be a big bully and go around
picking fights. I don’t believe you ought to want to fight. But I’ll tell
you one thing! I don’t believe a boy ought to open his purse and get out
scented tissue to wipe his tears because he is afraid of the big bully in
the school! In most of the cases here where your wives wear these slacks,
it’s very appropriate because she wears the other pants in the family, too.
Men! That’s the need of this nation.
2. The Devil is using long
hair on men to break down the barrier between the sexes.
It is considered by experts
that long hair is nothing more than a part of the unisex movement. In
Manhattan, there is a barber shop with a placard in the window that says,
“For men and women: unisex haircuts.” In this area, we have unisex barber
shops. What are those young men with long hair really saying? Marshall
McLuhan asked theoretically, “In what may seem a ludicrous statement, they
are sending a message to all who will listen: ‘We are no longer afraid to
display what you may call feminine. We are willing to reveal that we have
feelings and weaknesses’”
“Well,” somebody says, “what about
Jesus? He had long hair.” You’ve got to be kidding! “Well,” you say, “in
all the pictures I’ve seen of Him, He had long hair.” What kind of camera
was used to take that picture? Was it a Kodak? You know where we got those
pictures? We got them from sissy artist who had long hair. If I drew a
picture of Jesus, He would be balding! If Charlie Bell drew a picture of
Jesus, He wouldn’t have a hair on His head! Some sissy, long-haired,
effeminate, homosexual decided to draw a picture of Jesus and he drew Him
long hair. Brother, don’t think for a single minute that our Lord would go
against Corinthians 11:14. “Well, how about the Nazarite? Didn’t the
Nazarite have long hair?” No, the Nazarite shaved his head. Sometimes, he
would let his hair grow for a few weeks. However, when you’re bald, you can
let your hair grow quite a while before it’s long hair.
Did you know that false
religion is usually built on the breakdown of the sexes? The Greek
Hermaphroditus was divided at the waist; the top half was female, the lower
half was male, and both were worshiped. Heathen religions often worship a
god that is half male and half female, split vertically down the middle; one
side has a woman’s breast and the other side has a man’s body. In Asia, men
hold hands. Why? They do it because pagan religion is in Asia. In Russia,
men kiss each other on the mouth! Boy! I’d go to the electric chair
first! The latest rock hits have titles like, “Girls Will Be Boys and Boys
Will Be Girls,” or the Beatles’ record, “Girl, You’ve Been a Naughty Boy.”
I love you shaggy-headed males, but you are falling right into the hands of
the unisex crowd. You are pleasing this crowd that is trying to make one
sex. I was watching a basketball game the other day. The announcer came
on, and he was a doll! You men who cover up you ears with your hair, you’re
pitiful! It just curls around so only your beautician knows! Ladies, if
your boy doesn’t want to show his ears, cut them off!
Paul Jones, who portrayed the
tortured, young singing idol in the recent film “Satire of Pop Culture
Privilege,” actually looked lovelier at times than his film mistress, the
famous model, Jean Shrimpton. Paul McCartney, the choir boy of the Beatles,
has soft eyes, a full mouth and a page-boy look. By the way, a lot of this
stuff started with little old Twiggy, who came out as the idol of the
females with a physique that would make Wilt Chamberlain jealous.
Look, if you don’t want to go
to Indianapolis, why don’t you stay off of I-65? If you don’t want to got
to Munster, why do you want to travel south on Calumet Avenue? If you’re
against the unisex and homosexual trend in our country, why don’t you quit
participating in the things the Devil is using to further it? You high
school girls ought to go home tonight, take every pair of slacks you own,
and destroy them. A lot of them would if you mothers would keep you noses
out of their business in that respect. You grown women ought to go home
tonight and do the same. If many of you were to tear up all your
“britches,” you would have to wear a barrel to the store to get something
else to wear. The way you look in them, a barrel would fit you perfectly,
too! There’s not a man in this room tonight who wonders why it’s wrong for
a woman to wear slacks, unless he thinks it’s okay to examine a woman like
you would a pig at a county fair. You know it’s true!
It’s time you ladies decided
to look like ladies when you go to the bank or the grocery store. “But,”
you say, “Brother Hyles, it’s cold.” It’s no colder than it was in 1935!
There are people in this room who were shocked the first time you saw a
female in slacks. I haven’t changed; you have! You don’t want me to
change, do you? You don’t want me to compromise. You want me to preach my
convictions, right? All right, then why do you want to change?
I can tell you right now
there are some girls in this church who are never going to be feminine
enough to offer a boy love and tenderness. One of the main reasons is you
women. I love you, and God knows I do. I’m not trying to make you mad,
even though I know I do make you mad. In fact, I’m preaching on this
because I love you. I want these girls in our church to be as soft as lace
and as sweet and precious and feminine as they can be. Do you know what?
We ought to have more girls at this meeting on Thursday night to learn how
to be gracious and feminine than we have at any other activity in this
church, apart from soul winning. You mothers ought to insist that your
daughters get up here and let someone teach them how to walk and sit. I go
to Hammond Baptist High School sometimes an, even though the skirts are long
enough, you can see as much when the girl sits down as you can see when a
girl is wearing a miniskirt. Why? They have not been taught how to sit.
Let me tell you one reason
why I’m against a female wearing slacks. A female in slacks can sit like a
man with one leg up on the other knee, and they do it. No female ought to
sit like that! This pants-wearing crowd is sapping the femininity of our
girls. That’s why they show their thighs when they put on a skirt; they
don’t know how to sit because they wear pants most of the time. I’m saying,
“Go home and burn your britches!” You say, “Brother Hyles, I’ll just pack up
and go some place where a preacher doesn’t preach like this.” Well, good!
It will keep us from borrowing two and three quarters of a million dollars.
You can do it, but you know that the unisex crowd is pleased with your
trousers. It’s time we had an old-fashioned altar call about women wearing
britches, just like we do about drinking and smoking and gambling and
everything else.
You say, “Brother Hyles, I
don’t agree with you on this. What should I do?” Trust me. Let me ask you
a question. Is it a sin not to wear britches? No. Then you can’t go
wrong, can you? The safest route is not to it because you’ll never be sorry
if you’ll try to rear your daughters to be little ladies.
In this class, on Thursday
nights, they have the girls bring an encyclopedia. Do you think they study
that encyclopedia? No. They put it on their heads and the girls learn to
walk like girls. (Any boy who can take three steps without dropping is not
right with God!) A girl ought to know how to walk like a girl. Girls are
not “one of the guys.” Don’t walk like one!
While I’m at it, let me just
pay my respects to the women’s liberation movement. I think everyone in it
is right. They’re not women; they ought to be liberated! I think they’re
right; they’re not Miss or Mister or Mrs. They’re just Ms.! I’ll be honest
with you. I’ve seen that gal in charge of it on television and she is a
Ms.! She’s not a Mrs. or a Miss or a Mister; she’s somewhere in between!
You girls ought not to use language like boys. You ought not to say to
other girls, “Come on, you guys.” You’re playing right into the hands of
the unisex crowd.
Then you fellows, for Pete’s
sake, or Harry’s sake, or anybody’s sake, don’t walk like a girl- swinging
your hips and being prissy as you walk! If I walked like that, I would go
down to some Texas ranch and ride the wildest Brahma bull they had. You
say, “I might get thrown off!” That’s exactly what I had in mind! You say,
“He might stick his horns right through my gizzard!” You’ve got my second
idea too, but at least I would come back a man! I would rather my boy have
a bull’s horn through his gizzard and bury him tomorrow than for him to
priss across the platform like Miss America.
We have some young men coming
into my study now, and I thank God for them. I’m teaching grown men how to
walk. I’m teaching them that a man doesn’t lean back when he walks; a man
bounces when he walks and walks like he’s going somewhere. I wouldn’t have
to teach them if you moms and dads would teach them when they were kids.
Cut their hair! Take the makeup off of their faces! Take your dresses off
their bodies! Put some blue jeans on them! Let them get in a fight every
once in a while! Make boys out of them, and I won’t have to try to correct
them when they grow up! God bless these poor fellows who have been victims
of circumstance. Even if that happened to you, that’s still no reason for
you to be a sissy. Learn how to be a man! Our nation is crying out for
men!
Dear people, I beg you not to
be fooled by the Devil into helping further the unisex movement. Ladies,
dress like ladies. Men, look like men. Do what you know would please God
in this matter.
Let us pray.
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