It is completely inconsequential to you. It doesn't help them. It causes the suffering of nice people. Your fictitious rule-book doesn't even say it's your business, it says God will deal with it. It is very silly that you even concern yourself with their lives, like banning them from the social contract of marriage. No one else is banned from getting married, like Jews, or a Jew to a Hindu, or a couple of atheists etc... Do you realize that? Do you realize that you hurt good people because of your irrational personal fears?
2007-02-06 05:12:51 · 27 answers · asked by dissolute_chemical 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Isn't it funny how christians have used the bible to deny equal rights to minorities, women, different-race couples...?
They claim christ's message is one of love, but you couldn't tell from the rest of the bible.
2007-02-06 05:16:47 · answer #1 · answered by eldad9 6 · 5⤊ 9⤋
I hope I am not the only one to tell you this, and I hope that you read it through, but I'd have to say you're wrong. Just because the Christians refuse to go against God doesn't make them mean and racist. Our fear are not irrational, nor are they personal fears, they're the fears of God, he fears that one day he may not see you. The behavior I have seen and heard about is sick, perverted and was not how God intended it. What's next a grown man marrying a little boy? Or how about that sheep and a man? All I know is that you people think it's cute but it's not. Sure the men may seem nice and state that they were born that way but this is not the case. What those people do when others are not watching is sick. Gays would not be loyal partners in a marriage, they cheat and they have sex with other people of the same sex. What you don't realize is that you're hurting me because of your beliefs and you're hurting God as well. I only hope that God sends you the right answers. I will pray for you, pray that God saves you. I have much much more to say but I will restrain myself, because starting an argument is not what I want to do with you. We do not hate gays, nor do we discriminate them. We hate their sins. I am very young and I can only hope by the time that I grow up that this will no longer be an issue. Take care
2007-02-06 13:47:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not silly at all
God says homosexuality is an abomination.
It would be silly to think otherwise.........like you are thinking
1sr Corinthians 6:9
Read it.......from our "fictitious" rule book.
You know, the one that has been the best selling book for several 100 years now.
The one that had all accounts witnessed by 1000;s and documented.
Why would the Bible speak out against jews and hindus getting married/.......or blacks and whites....or two atheists?....There is nothing wrong with that ...unless they are of the same sex
You wouldn't make a very good debater
2007-02-06 13:28:56 · answer #3 · answered by kenny p 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I do not think it is silly to keep society from propagating perversion.
Sex was intended to be enjoyed by one male and one female within the confines of marriage. Even nature demonstrates that propagation is only possible through male and female sexual contact.
What does nationality have to do with gender? Are you attempting to confuse the issue here?
What 'good' people am I supposedly having irrational personal fears of? Gays? What does scripture say?
Don't you know that those who do wrong will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, who are idol worshipers, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals, thieves, greedy people, drunkards, abusers, and swindlers-none of these will have a share in the Kingdom of God. There was a time when some of you were just like that, but now your sins have been washed away, and you have been set apart for God. You have been made right with God because of what the Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God have done for you.
1st Corinthians 6:9-11
2007-02-06 13:28:25 · answer #4 · answered by Jay Z 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Well, you raise an interesting point except that the Bible does address those other issues and is definitely "prejudiced" in that regard. Being gay is an abomination to the Lord, and why would anyone even want to seek membership in an organization that holds a majority view of frowning on this behavior? So the feeling should be mutual, you should not seek membership, and unless you are struggling against this behavior, the church will not accept you into their congregation as a communing member. Anyway, you have governments in different states that do support it, and as a churchgoer myself, I don't care one way or another what the state does, I have my own definition as a Christian as to what marriage consists of.
As for the other "sins" of being unequally yoked, there are problems that would naturally occur as a result of being married to someone of another faith, and many churches will not support uniting these people in marriage, especially since only one of the spouses would be expected to attend any worship services there.
So yes, it's discrimination in a way, but churchgoers generally look at themselves as struggling sinners, not "nice people" earning their own way into heaven.
2007-02-06 13:25:17 · answer #5 · answered by ccrider 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hello Dissolute,
Why do you blame all christian for the behavior of just a few?
What makes you any different at this point?
Think about how you sound. You are accusing all christian for the what a few are doing. Everyone involved with the gay marriage issue are not christian.
I believe a lot of that is coming from hate groups, all gay basher and gay haters are not out on the streets with protest signs. They are in political office.
Do you think only christian hold office in this country? If you do- you are wrong, because if we did this country of would be better off.
2007-02-06 13:31:48 · answer #6 · answered by Lil bit 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Each religion has their own stance on marriage, and a definition of marriage. Religious leaders see marriage as a religious issue, not an issue of the state. The government has no right to dictate who a minister can marry. The government should rather amend the laws so that gays are not unduly discriminated against in the tax code. Once that it done the government would no longer be involved in the area of marriage.
2007-02-06 13:18:43 · answer #7 · answered by Boilerfan 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Please read about marriage first.Ephesians 5, 1Peter 3, Matthew 19, Mark 10,Genesis 24, Deuteronomy 22,Ruth1,1Kings 11, Proverbs 5, Song of Songs 2 & 3 & 5, Malachi 2,Mark10, 1 Corintians 7, Ephesians 5, , Now read abour sexuel immorality 1 Corintians 6, 1Thessalonians 4,Genisis 19,
2007-02-06 13:27:44 · answer #8 · answered by channiek 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I didn't write the Bible.And it certainly isn't fictitious. Between your definition of "good"and the Bible's definition, I'm going to choose the Bible. And what the Bible says about homosexuality is there for you to read any time. I believe what the Bible says about marriage and the family and how it is defined. I'm not silly and I'm not afraid of homosexuals. Christians are people of the Book.
2007-02-06 13:27:31 · answer #9 · answered by Paulie D 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You obviously have never READ the Bible, because it DOES say that homosexuality is a sin, which in the OT was punishable by death by stoning. Even the NT says that "drunkards, adulterers, homsexuals, etc. etc.wll NOT enter the kingdom of Heaven. The only hope for gay people is for them to ask Christ to pay for their sins and forgive them so that they may be made clean in God's eyes, so they may then enter Heaven. After they accept Christ, they are expected to leave the old life behind, and Christ will make a totally new person out of them.
2007-02-06 13:19:58 · answer #10 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
They cannot marry because God forbids it.
The sacrament of marriage is a gift created by and given to us by God. It was given to a man and a women, not those of the same sex. Since God is the creator, the owner, of marriage, we have no right to attempt to alter or change it in any way. This is why gays cannot marry.
2007-02-06 13:36:11 · answer #11 · answered by Danny H 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋