Why is homosexuality so significant to religious belief and so closely intertwined?

Question

HannahJ Paul, The Christian interest in homosexuality has nothing to do with homosexual conduct, Christians condemn gays whether they frequent bathhouses and are totally promiscuous or whether they are monogamous and wish to marry. So I disagree with you there, the Christian obssession goes beyond gay sexual conduct.

Answer 1

It's not significant. It's just one of many sins mentioned in the Bible.

Answer 2

Because most homosexuals believe Christians single them out. They say Christians hate them....and there are many people who don't accept it but I feel if that's how I person wants to live their life then let them screw it up.

Also - when people say to hate the sinner not the sin it's crap. How do you hate the sinner and not the sin but hate is a sin so you're sinning which makes you no better than them. You can't HATE homosexual people or just their conduct because what they do is a sin and so is what we do. They commit adultery - so do heterosexuals..... Basically everything they do - so do we. The difference - they're doing it with the same sex as themselves. So we too are sinners but choose to turn the light on them because as I heard a pastor say "God didn't create Adam and Adam. He created Adam and Eve." and this takes the light off us meaning it helps take away the fact that we're wrong too. Hope this helped.

Answer 3

Because we judge it. If we just took things in and processed their meaning by how the people inside of the experience described it. It would be understood as simply another way of expressing Love and Communion between two people.

Today is my 17th wedding Anniversary. I've been with the same person for almost half my life. This relationship has everything to do with what the two of us have defined it as and has nothing to do with Church, state, other people....

People have judged it as "How do you make THAT work?" Simply because "THAT" isn't something they would find beneficial to them.

So, in answer to your question. It is simply the judgement of the church and belief that makes the relationship between the two of the same sex an issue at all. Understanding casts out fear and judgement...

When I thought for a second that I may not be as openly understanding (up against a teen who'se acceptance was more natural), I cast out my net and said "bring on ,gay people into my life!"

So, it be written in the book of Shaka La'har; they came down from off their mountain unto her and showed her friendship, acceptance, really good laughs. And a Cuisanart blender....

It's all good.

Answer 4

There is a certain variety of Christian whose greatest fear, as HL Mencken said, is that someone somewhere is having fun. They get caught up in the pelvic issues because most people have sexual desires and most people at least want to use them in ways beyond married man and woman, man-on-top, in the dark, for procreation only. Their own desires are disobedient. They distrust fulfilling desire, however, thinking they somehow get more points if they resist. (Anorexics and Buddhist monks who shun desire are the same way.) It is also a wonderful means of control to make people feel guilty about their desires.

That strain of Christianity is very anti-sex in general. But they have come to grudgingly accept that enjoyable sex for husbands and wives keeps them together. They see that their own teens have oral sex; they remember their own pasts. So they need to keep that last horse in the barn, so to speak. Lucky us, LGBT people are that last horse.

Answer 5

I hope that you understand that all Christians do not hate homosexuals. We want to give them the message that God loves us and that homosexual lifestyle is not something God made them for.

However, the main thing is that you understand that God's Word is the same for everyone. We all fall short from the glory of God and we get saved only by the mercy and grace of God. If one really cannot reject homosexuality, I advice to love Lord. We all have sins that we cannot kiss goodbye no matter how hard we try. When you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior and you love Him, and you believe He saves you, He will save you. All sins are the same in the courtroom of God and He is God who can forgive : )

Answer 6

For people who believe that the Bible or any other holy book is the inspired word of God, all human behavior becomes significant because it comes under the purview of that holy book. Having said that, birth is significant; death is significant; sexual conduct is significant; attitude is significant; drunkenness is significant; idolatry is significant.

Reasonably, attitudes and lifestyles are significant to religious people.

Hannah J Paul

ADDITIONAL:

I seem to have completely misunderstood your question, Scapegoat, even though I carefully read it before I responded.

In your question you made no mention of "condemnation;" neither did you reference "Christian obsession." As a Christian, I am not obsessed with gay sexual conduct. I neither condemn gays who frequent bathhouses nor gays who are monogamous and wish to marry. Gay people are human after all and fall in love just as countless millions of heterosexuals do. They wish to have - and many do have – long term relationships. Relationships fall under the purview of religion from the perspective of God. It is no different than if a man and woman fall in love or if a man falls in love with his half-sister or a mother with her son. For religious people who possess what you called a religious belief, relationships are governed by what is in their holy book; that book by which those religious people profess to conform their lives in harmony with what God requires.

Having said that, it seems rather unfair for you to categorize every Christian as "obsessed." I am not obsessed. I simply respond to questions concerning gays from the perspective of the holy book that is my barometer for acceptable behavior: the Holy Scriptures.

Hannah J Paul

Answer 7

Well, homosexuality was a good way to regulate the quantity of population in Biblical times... Nowadays it's way too inefficient.

Answer 8

It isn't.

There are people to whom genitalia is more important than anything else and to them the parts of scripture that deal with sexuality are important.

To me they compose a few lines that altogether take up maybe a page or two in a book with a lot of pages.

Answer 9

Closely intertwined? I don't think so. The gay and lesbian crowd think the Christians single them out. Not so. They are just getting EQUAL TIME. The Bible speaks out against ALL sexual immorality, not just gays and lesbians.
God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, along with the entire valley between them not because it was filled with gay people but because they were WICKED. There were all forms of sexual immorality and perversion.
contrary to popular opinion, ALL sinners are welcome to come to church. We come to church to repent (turn away) from our wicked ways.
So, to all the gays and lesbians, don't think you are special. you are not. You are getting EQUAL rights, not SPECIAL rights. Welcome to the crowd with the rest of us sinners.

Answer 10

Its not even a speck in the great scheme of things.

Its a great big drama to gays but to straight people its just the insane prattle of a few sex fiends.
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