Homosexuality Views?

Question

What are your views on homosexuality? If you don’t approve of it why, if you do why?
Would you be in support of a civil union, if not marriage?
Do you think they are able to raise children? What’s your “God” honest opinion on homosexuality?

Answer 1

I don't really have any opinion on homosexuality - the thought just doesn't occur. It would be like asking me what I thought about people with fringes, I'd just think whats the difference? I'm in support of equal rights, and that civil union and marriage should both be open to every partnership wether homosexual or not. I don't think homosexuality affects the abilty to parent - some gays are bad parents, but then again plenty of straights are!
I'm a Taoist (philosophical not religious) and I don't have a 'god' as such, but in all that I've read on Taoism, I've not seen any opinions on homosexuality. It is also thought that men high up in the Taoist 'church' took male consorts, so I don't think they have a bad view on it!

Answer 2

I'm gay.

I believe marriage needs to be returned to being a religious concern, and union should be a legal concern. I should be free to join in union with my partner, but unless we join a religion or church that supports same sex marriage, we should be outta luck there.

I believe gay pride parades should be renamed what they really are -- "Look at me and how pervy I can be!" parades. They make me sick. Worse, when fundamentalists do the same thing and have bible parades, homosexuals start shouting foul at having the Bible shoved down their throat when just the previous weekend they were shoving their orientation down everyone else's throats.

There has never been a psychological study that shows that homosexual parents make unfit parents. In fact, most children show remarkably high functionality in the areas of tolerance, empathy, and self-esteem. Their school lives can be affected, but this is generally only a concern in the "bible belt states," elsewhere it's a nonissue.

There has never been a psychological study that showed higher incidents of homosexuality in children raised by homosexual parents. In fact, every such study showed that the children followed the overall expression ratio as the general populus.

Answer 3

Why is there anything wrong with homosexuality? It's natural. Been around longer than Cristianity. Of course they can raise children. If a single parent can, then why would it be different for a couple, no matter what gender? Hey, if they want the tax disadvantage of marriage, let them have it. God has nothing to do with it.

Answer 4

Definitely against. It doesn't make me hate, but rather makes me pray the more. Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them over to vile ( or morally worthless ) affections, For even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature; and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust one towards another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet ( or suitable ). I Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not enherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate(qualities marked more for a woman than a man), nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetious, nor drunkards, nor revilers( to abuse verbally), nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God..Sorry... thats Gods honest opinion on homosexuality. Remember the homosexual when you pray !

Answer 5

In and of itself it is merely a tempting desire that some people have that others do not have. We all have temptations, mine could be to not eat just a piece of cake but the whole thing. There are times I resist successfully and times I sort of resist and times I abandon reserve and go for it.

Various parts of a woman's body can 'rev my engine' but there are limits to what I can do in response. I can't just grab and go with every pleasing woman I see. There are legal and more limits. One of those limits is age. If she is really young, I'm not interested, but what if someone else is? I would expect that my wife would somehow occassionally be interested in looking at me, that the sight of me would 'rev her engine'. But what if she got 'revved' by the sight of other men? What if she got 'revved' at the sight of young men or boys? What if I did? What if she became interested in the same way, or more so, with the sight of other women?

What do we do with our appetites? Some of our appetites are not good things and need to be controlled. Having sex with dogs or horses, having sex isn't really fun unless the subject of your urges is filled with pain and terror or first dead? Sometimes we have seemingly simple things that we twist. If having our partner smeared over with whipped cream, or jelly, or chocolate heightens the fun of the copulative moment, what if we expect excrement to be the fun extra for adornment or consumption? Male parts fit nicely into female parts, for that matter there are three common places where people commonly fit them. If that were my appetite that I fit my male part into another male, after all he has two of the three orifices that the woman does, is that automatically the same? If a woman does similar with another woman as she would normally expect a man to do, or if she would instead do her female response with another female getting her motor 'revved' simply because she is a woman and distinctly not a man, how is that different?

There are times when just because I can do a thing or want to do a thing, does not automatically mean I could or should do that thing.

Answer 6

homosexuality is a sin, in 1 Corinthians in the bible, it places homosexuality in the same category as murderers, adulterers, and the sexual immoral. I don't mind homosexuals but i'm sad for them because they are homosexual and when they are gay/lesbian then they have lost their place in heaven unless they accept Christ as their personal savior and turn from their ways. you aren't born gay/lesbian, it's a choice, you can choose to be a homosexual, just like you can choose to sin. When i look at a gay person, i don't look down on the person, i look down on their behavior and their actions. God says it's a sin and it is wrong, He still loves them all no matter how bad they are, but he wants everyone to turn from their wickedness and come to Him. Everyone has their views, like the others who have answered your question, but that is their opinion and this is mine. God Bless
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Answer 7

I have no negative views on homosexuality.
I feel civil unions are necessary to protect the rights of a partnership.
I know many homosexuals that are fantastic parents. So I know for a fact they are able to raise children.

Blessings )O(

Answer 8

Sexuality of any kind outside of marriage goes against just about every religion that exists, except Satanism and Paganism.

Marriage rites or civil unions are determined on a case by case basis by governments and religious groups, who are free to set their own rules.

God has no formal rite of marriage other than one person taking another, although it is for life.

The Bibles views are opposed to all forms -- ALL FORMS -- of sexuality outside of marriage. Even excessive lusting counts under this doctrine.

Some forms of sexual behavior are specifically forbidden, including fornication, fornicators, keeping the company of fornicators, men who sleep with men in the same way a man sleeps with his wife.

Jesus said love your neighbor as your love yourself. You have no choice in a neighbor.

As for God, directly, God is not that direct. There was no specific commandment aginst either fornication nor any other sexual action, save for adultery, which can be considered broadly as to cover any action of "adulteration" or impurity.

God makes the blind, the deaf, the mute, the brilliant, the idiot and geneticis is starting to show that homosexulaity, at times, can be "predestined" by the genes. Hence if it is God's creation one should not question.

Free will choices are another matter. Bi-sexuality, for example, is simply all about willfull gratification. Gratification for the sake of gratification, even if it's jsut over eating on a regular basis, is not Godly.

Everyone gets to wear the shoe that fits!

Answer 9

I'm an atheist, and I see no reason why homosexuals shouldn't enjoy the same rights as everyone else. And I see no reason as to why they shouldn't be allowed to raise a family.

Homosexuals happen to be people, but a lot of others don't seem to realize that.

Answer 10

Homosexuality is a consentual Love that makes the world a better place just as all Love does. they should be able to marry and raise children, and God does not exist.