Why I think from a Personal Experience Homosexuality is damaging to Faith, Morality and Society?

Question

How can a situation like this be good and moral?

First of all I DO NOT hate Gay people in fact I love some...
My 18 yr Step-Son recently told me he is Gay ...I said okay-how do you know? he's a child bright and brought up in a Baptist church by his mother.
He told me, because I have had relations with another guy...he stated he never has been intimate with a girl, I asked him, well do you want to Marry have children> he says no, I ask what about what your religion teaches you about engaging in that kind of behaviour

He says it doesn't matter anymore, because GOD made me this way, and I said, and who told you that> he says all the gay kids on my-space.... I asked him what do you think morality is all about, he said we (As in his generation of young gays) do not think that matters, we need to be true to ourselves, and I told him, even if that truth to yourself damages your relationship with GOD and your family? he said yes, and asked me to never tell his dad.

Answer 1

truth be told. "God did not make him that way". That is a complete cop out. That's like saying God made me a thief, liar, adulterer at heart, covetous, and completely depraved. We are born with a sin nature. Yet we are still accountable for our thoughts, words, and actions as God's created. Those who are called according to God's purposes have a war with sin. If we didn't, we would have nothing to do with God.

Answer 2

This isn't, as the "question" title proposes, an analysis of why homosexuality is anything. It's a confessional. You obviously needed to get this off your chest. But you explain nothing, to us or to yourself.

Like many Christians who have to come to terms with the fact of homosexuality when it lands on your doorstep, I hope you won't lose this opportunity to reflect on how someone you care for deals with a difficult situation (telling you has to have been difficult) and that the trust in which you have been placed is valued as he valued it. It is your chance to learn that homosexuals are ordinary, decent people and not as you have been told by the ignorant liars who have preached to you. And if they were wrong about that, perhaps you will be open minded enough to think about whether they might be questioned over anything else. Because when it comes down to it, your personal experience amounts to a whole lot more than a lot of blustery preaching.

Answer 3

Here is my two cents. God's laws stand forever and a mortal's behavior can't change any one of them, so everything remains perpetually perfect in spiritual light.
Now for your step-son, it will be best to accept him. You do not need to accept what God did not create, but see him as an idea of God. Homosexuality is not an eternal condition, and truth will correct all things unlike truth in its perfect time, so we do not need to get ourselves in the way, for this would only serve to hinder the process.
My cousin died years ago, and it is very clear that this mortal behavior is not sustained or blessed by God, and so then it must be changed by truth either here or hereafter.
Bottom line is that it is good to be there for him, because he has a real rocky road ahead.

Answer 4

It relies upon on whether you're defining morality in purely human words, or whether you have self assurance there is an outdoors stress, bigger capacity, or God, who makes the guidelines. If there is that this variety of being then the morals are those which that being communicates to us. in case you say you settle for the classes of a particular holy e book as being the divinely inspired words of that being, then the ethical regulations and rules diverse in that e book are those to stay via. If those rules state that homosexuality is incorrect, then for believers of that faith, it incredibly is incorrect. although, they could desire to stick to the guidelines for "a thank you to handle different individuals" the two. in case you do not have self assurance in any particular God or bigger capacity, then morality is so plenty extra versatile and you're able to be able to set it as you go with. i think of an excellent variety of the subject that non secular human beings have with homosexuality stem from the minority of very politically-lively gay rights campaigners who've compelled an incredibly specific expertise of the subject into the media, or perhaps faculties. possibly militant homophilia (if there is that this variety of observe) is an equivalent evil with homophobia!

Answer 5

I think your step-son's a much more mature individual than you if you see this as a bad thing. Your version of what's good and moral is obviously different from mine, I believe people have the right to live how they want to as long as it's consensual and doesn't hurt anyone, doesn't mean you have to like what they're doing. I'm not into S&M, but to each their own.

Answer 6

What you just said here does not, in any way, prove that your stepson's being gay damages faith, morality and society. Your stepson is gay, and that won't change, and what you said to him must have made him feel really bad about himself. He should know how he feels better than you. I can only imagine why he would never want his dad to know if this is how you handled it.

My heart goes out to that young man. He must have been very courageous to tell you what he did.

atheist

Answer 7

What could be more immoral than making someone who *is* (not *chooses* to be) gay experience the awful and hateful things you just did? What moral principle allows you to justify such hate? What makes you feel you have any right to belittle a human being for the way your god made him?

Religion and morality have nothing to do with sexual attraction. You have proved that in spades.

Answer 8

I can tell you that morality is much more than telling a homosexual relative that he is damageing his realtionship with god and his family.
He had the guts to tell you, did he not? He trusted you. Truth to ourselves can be tricky. I can give you a full account on how my being (not homosexuality, differnt story) affected my family, and how they decided to accept me through email if you like.

Answer 9

His church, and family make him feel he must "damage" his relationship to god because of his sexuality. If he could choose different, he would. No one can help who they are attracted to, but fundie Christians think it is okay to judge a behavior the homosexual can't help any more than the heterosexual.

I feel deeply for your step son who has to live with such judgment.

Answer 10

You're entitled to your opinion, but I think it would have been much more humane of you to accept and love him just as he is. The bible says that only God can judge, so why are you judging him? Homosexuality does not mean that a person is not good and moral. You, however, are damaging to society.

Answer 11

First of all go back and read Romans the first chapter. If people don't agree with the word of God your given over to believe what you want a reprobate mind. Then go and read Numbers, (laws) Leviticus (laws) God spells it out about a woman and a man.