Why do MOST Christians have such a hate for gays?

Question

Did God actually tell them homosexuality is bad? Isn't it sort of hypocritical to judge others?

Answer 1

I will never get it either. My best guess is that maybe theyre sexually oppressed and pissed that others are gettin some and havin fun

Answer 2

I don't think it is the hate that Christians feel towards homosexuality, it is the sin. God is the one who hates sin. It is an abomination to God for a man to sleep with a man and a woman to sleep with a woman. He made man and woman for eachother.

So, yes...in God's eyes, it is bad and those that do such immoral acts will be judged by God Himself. No, it is not hypocritical to judge other. Read 1 Corinthians chapters 5, 6, and 7.

Answer 3

There are a lot of Christians who don't care about your preferance and welcome you into the fold. Jesus said, "Love your neighbor as yourself." God is LOVE and yes I think this sort of thing is hypocritical to judge others, "Let he without sin cast the first stone." Pray for your enemies. May God Bless You.
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Answer 4

As a spiritualist person, I think somewhere in the Bible it says that this is wrong,I judge people by how they act towards me wether they be Gay or not....maybe I am wrong to judge people, but I try not to generalise and stick people into groups apart from the group that we are all spiritual by nature.I dont even like to label people as Christians or not,

Answer 5

Repeating what God has already revealed is not being judgmental. God is the judge.
The complete annihilation of two cities is pretty serious evidence that something is wrong.
I don't hate homosexual people but I am disgusted at the things they teach are acceptable. Those actions should never be sanctioned by my government.

Answer 6

Christians have some problems with acceptance of many things. Gays bein one. Sex before marriage bein another. And dissin other religions bein another.

There's good stuff in christianity, but there's bad stuff too. Just like most religions.

I have a problem with any group who says only they are right and the other guys are wrong. If they are so right, then it would show to everyone without bashin other people.

Answer 7

It's because of how our empathy works. We have a neural system made up of "mirror neurons" that are responsible for empathy, language acquisition, and social skills. When you see someone lift their hand, you know what they are doing and how it would feel because of these.

Now when you see someone preforming a homosexual act, you empathize and, if you have a lot of negative association to the act, respond with more vigor because you, basically, humored the thought of being gay. There's more to it, like social reinforcement (if all your peers hate gays and talk often of it, then the issue has more weight in your mind, it is more taboo), but you get the picture.

In other words, because of self-loathing.

Answer 8

In Leviticus 18:22 and 24 homosexuality is described as an "abomination" and "defiling." It is reprehensible and unclean.

In Leviticus 20:13 it is again described as an "abomination" but here as one worthy of the death penalty!

Deuteronomy 23:17 forbade the presence of a "sodomite" in the land of Israel.

An incident similar to that of Sodom and Gomorrah is seen again in Judges 19. Again the sin of homosexuality is described as "wickedness."

In 1 Kings 14, 15, and 22 the removal of male prostitutes from the land of Israel is viewed as a sign of much-needed spiritual reformation.

The prohibition in Deuteronomy 22:5 of women wearing men's clothing appears to be a specific condemnation of transvestism.

In Romans 1:18-32 the apostle Paul condemns the practice in the severest terms. Homosexuality is "unclean," "impure," "dishonoring to the body," "vile," "degrading / disgraceful," "contrary to nature," "unseemly/ obscene," "improper activity of a depraved mind," "unrighteous," "wicked," etc. Of particular importance to the apostle in this passage is the fact that homosexuality is "unnatural"--contrary to nature. In other words, nature itself teaches that the practice is wrong; we all know it intuitively. Homosexuality is, then, a particularly rebellious sin.

In 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 the apostle Paul speaks of homosexuals as "effeminate" and "abusers of themselves with mankind" who "shall not inherit the kingdom of God." The terms he uses here seem to be specific references to both active and the passive participants in a homosexual relationship. Such people are "unrighteous," he says, and if they remain in that practice they will be condemned.

Answer 9

I don't hate the person, but the sin. Romans 1:25-27 (The Message)

24-25So God said, in effect, "If that's what you want, that's what you get." It wasn't long before they were living in a pigpen, smeared with filth, filthy inside and out. And all this because they traded the true God for a fake god, and worshiped the god they made instead of the God who made them—the God we bless, the God who blesses us. Oh, yes!

26-27Worse followed. Refusing to know God, they soon didn't know how to be human either—women didn't know how to be women, men didn't know how to be men. Sexually confused, they abused and defiled one another, women with women, men with men—all lust, no love. And then they paid for it, oh, how they paid for it—emptied of God and love, godless and loveless wretches.

Answer 10

It is not hypocritcal to judge sin......It is forbidden to judge one's eternal destiny(this is an exclusive right,that belongs to God)....Who are these Christians that claim to hate gays?...

Homosexuality is a subject that I seldom see Christians even bring up...Yet when we are confronted with the subject with questions and give sound biblical answers...we are accused of Hating Homosexuals.....I should ask a homosexual aquaintence of mine,what he thinks of this.

Answer 11

Who hates you?? Why must you always look for approval? Is it because you know that how you are living is wrong in God's eye's? We are not judging you, but rather, you who are condemning your self's. We love you, but that doesn't mean we have to agree with the way that you live your life.

God Bless You