Amanda, the Bible does say what’s wrong with homosexuality. The passages I quoted from Leviticus and Romans make that clear. Read them again to find out. In a more general way, the passages from Corinthians, Timothy and Jude classify homosexuality together with other sins that God will not accept.

Biblically speaking, there is no doubt about it unless you choose to veil your eyes or read with a bias against these certain passages. I know it’s hard to take in today’s society, where people strive to get just about any behavior or belief accepted as normal, but that’s the way the Bible looks at it.

I think where people get confused, and where I used to get confused, is in not being able to realize that what applies in a religious context doesn’t apply in a civic context. As a Christian, you can believe homosexuality is wrong, like the Bible says, but as a citizen of a democratic country, you also have to make sure everyone has equal rights under the law. That means not discriminating against certain groups of people if they obey civic law and are good citizens. It comes back to the principle of separation of church and state.

As for Jesus accepting homosexuality, I look at it in the same way that He looked at the adulterous woman that the Pharisees wanted to stone. He accepted her, saved her from certain death, but told her to sin no more. Have a look at John 8:1-11.

As for homosexuals being one of society’s condemned groups, I disagree with you on that. I think they’re pretty much on equal footing nowadays, and in some aspects, have rights that go beyond those of others. They have a strong lobbying arm and are constantly trying to introduce laws that set them apart as a special group with more rights. From a civic standpoint, that bothers me. It goes without saying that it bothers me from a religious standpoint as well. If you think they’re a condemned group, then go and attend a gay pride parade or some sort of gay event. I think it’ll change your mind. Any people that are allowed to do what they’re doing in public is not a condemned group. Others would be arrested for indecent exposure or worse, and yet they keep on doing it right under the eyes of the police. Makes no logical sense to me.

This is a response to Steven’s comment.

Steven, I’m sorry to say it, but you have a personal, not a religious bias, against homosexuality. As Christians, we should not proscribe, we should ascribe. There’s a big difference. One advantage of ascribing is that our beliefs become more attractive and approachable to a larger group of people. We should point people to salvation, not drive them away. Right?

Men and women are GOD’s creation, men and women joined under marriage in the sexual and emotional and spiritual is his creation. Homosexuality is anti-creation, and JESUS did not befriend those people, he forgave and set those people free before they became a friends of GOD. GOD don’t use you in your sin, GOD uses you when you repent are baptized in JESUS name and receive his spirit (HOLY GHOST) inside of you.

I’m not against a person who is homosexual wanting the rights to an extent, but I am when they want the equal rights of a real couple, or civil rights. Homosexuals are not a race they are a choice.

I believe through scripture that questioning GOD is ok but that don’t mean he’s gonna change his commands. I don’t think Amanda you’re taking their side, and I’m not trying to be harsh. You just have to be careful where the line of thinking is taking you, it should IRK!! you when someone doesn’t do what GOD’s natural order of nature is. It IRKS!! me when I hear people talk about who they slept with of the opposite sex outside of marriage, murder, rape, homosexuality, molestation all that stuff IRKS!! my spirit. We are through the looking glass now and it’s time to tell the Homosexual repent from that lifestyle, separate yourself and get baptize in JESUS name and receive his HOLY GHOST.

I’m also a devout christian.

But there are some things I would like to ask, and point out.

Firstly, does the Bible ever actually say what is WRONG with homosexuality? Most of God’s commandments are justified, and we are given reasons for them. Others are common sense.

If the Bible told you that all males were evil, and should get a sex change - would you do it? I don’t think it’s reasonable to accept anything we are told without challenging it. I’m not disputing God’s word, I’m saying He gave us opinions, and brains to think with for a reason, maybe we should use them?

Secondly, although Jesus makes no actual mention of homosexual people, he rectifies the problems with other discriminated against groups in society. Jesus went against many things the Old Testament said, one of His key teachings being that everyone should be heard, included and loved. He befriended lepers, whom people regarded as disgusting. He showed us this was not so. He befriended women, whom people classed as inferior, and sinners that no one else would talk to.

If Jesus were to return in a modern day setting, surely one of the first issues He would want to set right (shown by the way he went about things in his own time) would not to be praise all those worthy Christians. He did not praise all those “respectable” pharisees, who worshiped god day and night. He befriended those who society condemned, and in today’s day and age, homosexuals would definitely be in this category.

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