If you're religious and against homosexuality?

Question

What is it that you can't stand so much about gays that makes you (if this is how you feel) want to make it illegal for them to get married? Isn't it enough for you to have your own beliefs or is it necessary that everyone see it your way? What about doing unto others as they would do unto you? If people would suddenly be trying to legislate your rights of marriage away what would you do? Please answer in your own words and don't just quote whatever whatever holy book you believe in:
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Answer 1

I am a Christian Pastor and I agree that you can't legislate morality.
I oppose gay marriage just for the plain simple fact that there can be no Christian family derived from this type of union.
If that is the lifestyle you chose then that's fine it's your choice.

Answer 2

Belief is what you are talking about. You, in the case of this question, are stating a belief about Homosexuality. Most people are responding from their beliefs. Marriage, is the ritual of two people who believe in each other through love, and wish to spend the rest of their lives together. Homosexuality has two people in love with each other, and is looked down on by Most religions. Homosexuals cannot produce their own offspring without outside intervention. This is looked at as not natural. I cannot plug a lamp into another lamp if both of the ends are the same. There would be no power to run the lamp. What does that have to do with Marriage, a lot. It is seen as what is natural verses what is not. Do unto others as they would do unto you is from the Bible. Matthew 7:1. You are using the very logic that is used against others. I can do this but you cannot. Love the sinner, hate the sin.

Answer 3

Well, first of all, homosexuals haven't historically had the right to get married, the legislation is just to keep that from changing.

Like it or not, certain religions have personal standards for behavior. My religion says that lying, fornication, homosexuality and many other things are wrong. Now, I have lied in my life. I have done many things that my religion says are wrong as have people in my family, I even have a couple of cousins who are gay. I work with a lesbian who is very sweet and wonderful. She and her partner are having a baby. I don't hate her or anyone in my family. What it does mean is that I acknowledge that some things that I do and the people I know do and how we live is often times wrong. It also means that I have to oppose legislation that would make the things that I believe are wrong from being made legal. My religion says that marriage is a holy union between a man and a woman. Therefore, I can't in good conscience support same sex marriage.

Answer 4

I personally would not say that I cannot stand gays. I think people who persecute gays are terrible. God loves all of his creation, including homosexual persons. But we have to call a spade a spade. It is natural for a man and a woman to be together in marriage. Just look at our sexual makeup. The man's penis fits easily into the vagina. That's the way it was meant to be. The product of their love, a new human being.

The fact that some people have attractions for persons of the same sex, doesn't mean that something is wrong with them. Feelings aren't wrong. How we act upon those feelings is where the sin comes in. Being a person with homosexual tendencies, doesn't automatically make you a sinner. Acting out those tendencies is.

Just like a person born with one hand or with two sexual organs or a lip cleft, sometimes out of the ordinary things happen. That does not mean that some persons have 'gay genes' or that being gay is just an alternative lifestyle. Two men or two women engaging in sexual intercourse is unnatural and wrong.

Now let us get this straight though: I am as much against homosexuality as I am against fornication. Both are against God's will and purpose.
The first purpose of marriage is to bring new life into the world. No one is denying that two gay persons can be loving and kind and supportive towards each other. Their relationship (minus the unnatural sexuality) may be one that can be admired. But man was made for woman and woman for man. Some things just have to be accepted.

If someone who is gay wants to be married, it's not unheard of for a person with sexual tendencies to ask God for grace to control his urges and live a single life or even relinquish a homosexual life and marry a woman - not denying that he has homosexual tendencies - but choosing to do deal with it in other ways while he has the love and support of a significant other to help him through it. I know of quite a few such cases. In fact these men actually make more caring and supportive husbands than men without homosexual tendencies!

Answer 5

I am not religious, I have a spiritual & personal relationship with God. I am not anit-gay however since I don't go around bragging that I'm straight why do homosexuals have to have parades and such? I would rather not judge, lest I be judged, but privacy is privacy and gay or straight it's private. I do believe it is wrong to be gay, pretty much based on the Bible, however I will not judge someone because they are. I also think that if the insurance companies and government would give partners the same rights as spouses there would be a need for same sex marraige. marraige in itself is traditionally a religious thing, God is against homosexuality, and if it's not done in a church then it's only done to get the benefits of a spouse.

Answer 6

I am a Christian and I can tell you that I do not hate anybody.

I do hate sin, my own and others. As for just taking the issue of homosexuality, it is a sin and I hate the sin, not the person with that particular weakness.

I understand that my own weaknessess are offensive not only to myself, but to others as well. I will continue to love all humans and also will continue to hate my sin as well as the sins of others.

As for governmental involvement, I do what the bible tells me to do, obey the laws of my country, unless they directly go against the bible, then and only then would I go against the rules and laws of my country.

Marriage is not commanded in the bible, so if it were outlawed, I guess I would never marry, have children or know a man. Its that simple. Although I have to admit, that I may look into living in another country where I would be permitted the choice of marriage.

Answer 7

Bro, here's the deal. I don't care if you are gay, that's your own choice and I don't neccesarily want everyone to think the same. But marriage is when two people stand in front of God and say, we want to be together forever. And to stand in front of God and straight up sin is just blasphemy. You see? If you want to have a civil union or whatever, that's cool, but marriage isn't. Marriage is a christian thing and it's sacred. Hope that answers your question!

Answer 8

Thank you so much for asking this question...
I am not christian, i used to be, but the closed-mindedness i received from some turned me away. In any case, I have nothing against homosexuality or homosexuals. Theya re some great people who, in my scope, are better than many straight folks i know. It is not a choice... in fact, it occurs naturally, not just in humans either... so... yeah.

It's fear that causes condemnation... fear and miseducation, or ignorance, and the inability to accept others of different mind. They can't handle the fact that people are complex and no two are alike.

Answer 9

The religious right views homosexuality as a sin. -- Fine.

Gays and Lesbians view same-sex marriage as a happiness of life. --Great, I'm not 100% for it (S-SM), but I like everyone to be happy in their lives, so I'll go along with it for respect of gays/lesbians' happiness.

Problem is the religious right hates to see anyone actually experiencing happiness in their lives while "engaging in sin".
It's a challenge to their paradigm.



And Strummin4him.....
......". Marriage is a christian thing and it's sacred. "
What planet do you live on? Are you saying Jews, buddhists, Hindus, Muslims & atheists don't get married? Or are not entitled to marry?

Answer 10

I'm a Christian and I have a a few friends who are Gay, I love them and I treat them as I would anyone else.. Do I agree with their lifestyle, NO but I don't say a word to them, I am not their accuser,,That is between them and God,, I am not God that I should judge them..But I still don't believe God created us Gay, because I stand on the age old argument, two men and two women can not conceive a child, Yes today modern medicine but in the natural sense,,,so to me its that simple.. its not how how God created us to be because if it was OK, two men and two women could produce a child, a life,, its still takes sperm and eggs to do that.