How has homosexuality effected your faith?

Answer 1

It has effected it quite a bit.
I have an aunt that is a carpet muncher, an old hometown friend is bi and, a late brother-in-law that was as gay as gay could get.
My faith has dwindled in my fellow man by how my family and friends are being treated when they came out.

My faith in a God was gone long before.

Answer 2

Oddly, it has made me more concerned about how flippant people have become towards the scriptures. Jesus talked so much about helping people, aiding those in need, talked about how the rich could not enter the kingdom of heaven, etc. And yet, people have taken some minuet passage and blown it into a full fledged war against people.

I decided to join a religious group that was accepting of all people and left a strict religious background/church because of this. I know that the Good of all is for everyone and not just a few select choices.

So, I guess prejudice against people made me take a stand and leave a dogmatic group. I hope others will follow...

Answer 3

It doesn't affect my faith at all. Why should it? We live by Gods word that homosexuality is wrong and those practicing it are deserving of death, we love all people and preach the good news of Gods Kingdom to all equally, it's the behavior that's bad that we do not accept. No homosexual can become a member of our congregation according to Gods word.

Answer 4

I believe it is a sin. While I hate the sin I try to love the person.

In Genesis 19:1-29 the cities of Sodom and Gommorah were destroyed because the people were so wicked. The men of the city wanted to have sex with other men. So God's judgement on the city was to destroy it by raining down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Leviticus 18:22 (speaking to men in Israel) "Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable."

Leviticus 20:13 "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."

Romans 1:26-27 "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."

1 Corinthians 6:9 "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexual offenders...will inhereit the kingdom of God."

1 Corinthians 6:13 "The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body."

1 Timothy 1:8-10 "We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers."

Answer 5

It hasn't effected my faith in the least. As far as catholics go (as I am one), I feel that they should be allowed to participate in all facets of the faith. Marriage and the Eucharist included.

Answer 6

Coming publicly out of the closet made it all too apparent that the Christian church was not willing to hear what my experience of love was, but instead interested only in imposing a morality that was irrelevant to me. Sure I'm willing to live a monogamous married life, but only to someone whom I am attracted to. For me, that's always been guys.

However, my awakening jarred me out of my complacently accepting frame of mind. I started looking at the full range of Christian thought, and it became easy to see that it is mythological, judgmental, and promotes self-righteousness.

Answer 7

Something would have taken me out of the Assemblies of God church and sent me exploring eventually--they were asking me to stop reading and listening to what I liked, too, and they pressured me to pressure my friends--but that's the issue that propelled me out of there.

Weirdly enough, when I entered Paganism, I didn't know how pro-gay it was for a while.

Answer 8

It has not effected my faith at all being wiccan I believe that it is their right to love who they want they are not braking any laws. I am not gay but it is their choice and thier right.

Answer 9

I still have faith that's it's something that needs to be overcome if the person has such tendencies.

Answer 10

It's actually done wonders for mine.