Is protesting abortion and homosexual marriage?

Question

confronting sin in a personal, private, loving mannor? Isnt that how we are suposed to confront sin?

Let me clarify, does protesting go against how we are taught to confront sin by the bible?

Answer 1

No its not, and yes it is.

I dont agree with abortion, for my own personal reasons, but I would not stand outside a clinic and yell slurs and people going in, nor do I feel it is right to degrage someone for who they choose to love.

Answer 2

Personally I think what we do has a certain outcome. I will take abortion as an example and hopefully convey what I believe. O.k. I am very against abortion. I would never have one. O.k. that is ME. Do I believe it is wrong SPIRITUALLY? yes, I do. Now, how do I want to HELP in this situation? Well, standing on a corner with a sign and yelling is more likely than not, going to cause people to turn a deaf ear to what i say. If I attack women considering an abortion...this will not help them either, just make them angry and feel more alone. I would never condone it, but I would never hate or judge someone who has done it. Most of these women suffer emotionally from this, and in love, how could I not care about that and try and make them feel worse? I will voice my opinion if asked in a loving manner, because I care about both lives, mom and baby. There is a loving way to do things, and there are ways that turn people off. I strive to work out of love.

Answer 3

I read an article that suggested that all Pro-Lifers change their moniker to "Pro-Birth" instead. After all, do they really care what happens after a child is born? Are they present to make sure the child is raised in a loving home? Has proper nutrition and healthcare? Goes to school? Is allowing a human life to go to waste after it is born any better than terminating it at conception?

Homosexuals cannot breed with each other. That's simple biology. But they can adopt and undergo fertilization from sperm donation just like anyone else. There is no proof that homosexual couples raise anything other than perfectly normal children, just like "good" Christian families. Gay people love each other just as much as straight people do, and if God didn't save Ted Haggard from being gay then it's obviously not "a disease" to be "cured" by your faith.

So in reality, neither one is any more of a "sin" than what Christianity preaches. And to think, all this wasted energy could have gone towards something more useful, like curing cancer.

Answer 4

I am not gay, but I don't think homosexual marriage is a sin .

So that takes care of that.

As for the abortion part, I am undecided.

The only sins you really have to confront in my view are your own, other people's are, well... other people's business so just let them deal with it and don't worry your pretty head.

Christianism or any form of it I think has had its time.

Wake up and smell the roses, coffee and everything else. We live in a new world where that religious stuff just doesn't cut it.

Sooner or later you will realize this and it may hurt.

My heart goes out to you.

Answer 5

Protesting is usually a public confrontation.

You can confront sin in any way that you want to, but remember that two wrongs don't equal a right. Protest all you want, but when you cross the line of hurting others for your cause, you are no better than the "sinners".

Answer 6

Protesting abortion and homosexual marriage is wrong.

Surely you can find more positive things to do with your life.

For example, if you want to work to end abortion, you might work to promote contraceptive use, promote sex education etc. Surely that's better than protesting against people, particularly as those protests are very likely to have been organized by anti-American right-wing propaganda groups.

Same thing with homosexual marriage - if you want to preserve the family, do something good for your own family, don't abandon it to join some right-wing group in attacking Americans.

If doing good for someone doesn't appeal to you as much as attacking somone does, you need to reflect on what your real motivations are.

Answer 7

How about the fact that it is your OPINION that those things are a sin. Acting high and mighty would be more of a sin in most people's eyes. Don't confront people on the way they live unless it *personally* violates you. Otherwise, let them be.

Answer 8

most people find it intrusive to invade their private lives where most "christians " choose to select what sins to confront and which to ignore i.e. most christians know gluttony is a sin as a matter of fact one of the seven deadly sins but most christians won't protest old country buffet or bearing false witness which is in the ten commandments which no one really ever addresses so my point is if you want to say your addressing sin in its whole try addressing all sin not just the popular sin

Answer 9

How bout you just stick to things that matter like abortion. That actually makes a difference and it is an important issue. But leave gays alone for Gods sake, you are ridiculous. Just because YOUR god supposedly doesn't agree with gays, you're going to go protest? Give me a break. Why don't you go protest when a woman speaks in church. God said that was against the rules too. Its in the BIBLE so it must be true, right. God.

Answer 10

When it comes to those issues I believe everybody has to make their own choices with their own God. What may be sin to you may not be the same for someone else. Respect for other peoples beliefs, learning tolerance for differences is how folks come together. What has thousands of years of religious war in the middle east solved? Nothing.