My mom says it all the time in reference to homosexuality, and I think it would be rather hurtful if anyone said it about me, so I was wondering how it makes you feel.
2006-11-02 02:54:12 · 22 answers · asked by mountain_laurel1183 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
I guess the statement is accurate in how Christians are supposed to be treating others. But my personal belief is that homosexuality is not a sin, the Bible has been misinterpreted to make people believe it. If you read the whole sections of the Bible instead of individual verses, and not taking these items out of context, it seems to me to be pretty clear what God wants. Since what I am doing isn't a sin, I would object more to that than the saying itself, and I would work with her to show her where her beliefs are incorrect.
2006-11-02 03:04:06 · answer #1 · answered by Tikhacoffee/MisterMoo 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's how all Christians should see things. The bible says you shouldn't judge people, but it also says that being a homosexual is a sin. Isn't that judging someone? Um, yeah!! So I think this is a good statement, because you might hate what I do, but you still don't hate me, because I am a human just like the rest of you.
2006-11-02 04:07:58 · answer #2 · answered by LynetteG84 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, it's honestly all foolishness and simply an attempt to hold on to negative biases while maintaining a "Good PR" relationship with the GLBT community. It is hypocrisy in the highest order. They are "wolves in sheep's clothing" smiling in our face and undermining us at every opportunity. While being a homosexual is not the entirety of "our" existence as a human being, it IS a part of who we are as a person. Those that "hate the sin" will smile in your face but have no problem with using their rationalization of "sin" to deny "us" the rights of marriage, the right to adopt children should we choose to do so, and so on.
I would wonder, how would someone like that feel if we were to say the same thing about Christianity? Love the person, hate the religion? Voting on little issues like"sure they can be Christians but I don't want them spreading their misguided beliefs around MY children" and "Sure I know it's part of their beliefs and all but Marriage is a Religious right, I don't see where they need or deserve tax breaks because of their choice".(and YES Christianity is a Choice). Do you think they would accept that? Why should we put up with their judgments of "us"?
Being the aggrieved party here, exactly why is it that we are being chided to "be the bigger person"? I'm sorry, when you start messing with my life, especially when the way I live doesn't affect you at all, I'm not going to take it lying down.
2006-11-02 03:24:35 · answer #3 · answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
God got here to earth and died so as that sins may be forgiven. He did that because of the fact He loves the sinners. yet, the Bible is obvious that God hates sin (as you are able to assume in the event that they have been nailing you to a bypass for them). people who have self belief that Jesus became all-loving seem to overlook that he's the comparable God because of the fact the wrathful God defined in some element interior the previous testomony. the completed Bible is the written revelation of God to guy. Ignoring the wrathful nature of God is a intense blunders. asserting that the absence of the phraseology interior the Bible shows that the belief isn't interior the Bible is obviously no longer genuine and is a reasonably obvious lapse in good judgment. Why might God ought to forgive something He does no longer hate besides?
2016-12-09 01:19:47 · answer #4 · answered by mckinzie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is a hurtful thing to say. Someone's sexual orientation is such a fundamental part of their being, that to claim to not hate the person, only the parts of the person makes no sense. You can't love someone without loving all the important parts. Could you love someone but hate the fact that they were disabled or black or a different religion? I dont think so. Any kind of love that is conditional on the love-ee only being what the love-er wants them to be is not real love. Real love is unconditional.
Your mom should just come right out and say she hates gay people instead of trying to disguise it in a load of bullshit.
2006-11-02 06:48:29 · answer #5 · answered by dani_kin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mother-in-Law actually uses that statement to refer to my wife and I. I like it. It basically means that she does not agree with how we live our lives, but she loves us anyway and will always be there for us. She was originally a bible thumper who would not give her daughter's girlfriends the time of day. Her heart has melted and she treats me like the girly daughter she never had. Even though her faith tells her to hate what we do - it doesn't mean that she has to hate us as well. It goes along the same lines of "judge not lest ye be judged" and "let the man who is without sin cast the first stone"
2006-11-02 03:15:18 · answer #6 · answered by Alexis 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It basically means "everyone makes mistakes". In reference to homosexuality, the statement treats homosexuality as a "mistake" when it's NOT. Your mother is mischaracterizing gay people as all "making a mistake" in being gay. What she apparently doesn't know or doesn't WANT to know is that homosexuality is not a mistake in any sense of the word. It is a normal healthy sexual orientation the cannot and should not change. The sooner she realizes that, the sooner she can stop disparaging an entire group of people.
2006-11-02 03:38:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't phase me really. I've posted this before and I'll post it again. I am a Christian, I am also in a same sex relationship. I know where I come from and I know what I believe. If being with my partner is a sin then I am prepared to stand in Judgement before God and accept the consequences. I do not believe, though, that I will go to hell.
2006-11-02 04:12:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone in life has committed some sort of sin but what bothers me is when they are committing their sin of choice whether its lying, stealing, cheating, etc. its not all that bad. Now let someone else, God forbid be gay or something that should not be labeled as a sin but most true sinners (the hypocrites, liars, cheaters, etc...)are not in agreeance with, all of a sudden they want to be saints. So when your mother is saying that phrase maybe she is saying that she does not accept the sin but all sinners deserve to be loved and that would include her (The hypocrite that she is).
2006-11-02 03:26:47 · answer #9 · answered by Kendra J 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i personal do not care about god or the whole religion stories and what not
the bible dose not say in it anywhere homosexuality is a sin not that i care about a book writen by man not god
i do not believe in speading hate
as to me
god is love so how can, i love some one and be hatred by god for it
people seem to speak for god with out asking god to do so
and without him replying
i wonder it might be god /it dose not excits
i believe we should live in this world and theat it as our heaven we all know it excist so believe it
what happens when we die we will only know then but it am sure it is just nothing you live then die no one can prove this wrong either
so i feel teaching your children that you judge others for what they do in there own bedroom and to be judgeing is a sin
2006-11-02 03:39:33 · answer #10 · answered by Zara3 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋