Chrsitians: Do you believe gay people should be allowed to have civil unions?

Question

If these unions give a gay couple all the civil rights of marriage but do not encroach on the religious sacrament of "traditional" marriage would you be okay with this?

Is it an issue of protecting what you perceive as a traditional religious marriage? Or is it about denying gay people civil rights becaus you believe your god doesn't like gay people?

Answer 1

Yes. I think you hit the nail on the head. The issue is marriage and the sanctity of it. Civil unions would be acceptable. I don't care what people do, they all are judged on their own life.

Answer 2

As a Christian, I believe we are called not to judge, that is what God is for. Is there evidence in the Bible that suggests that homosexuality was thought of as a sin, at least in the Old Testament? Yes. However, there were a lot of things considered a sin in the Old Testament that were wiped out by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, so homosexuality might be one of them. I don't claim to know God's thinking. According to the Bible, however, a marriage is a sancitifed union between a man and a woman. I believe marriage should stay that way. I am not opposed to civil unions for gay people because those are performed by the state and not the church, and gay people are just as entitled to benefits of the state as straight people are. The act of homosexuality, like I said, is for God to judge, not me.
Lastly, for those of you who stereotype the entire Christian religion as people who are closed-minded and bigoted, then you're guilty of exactly the same thing that you're charging us with. There are misguided, evil people everywhere, in every religion, in every walk of life. You can't write off a whole group for the sins of some. Humans are fallible but God is not.

Answer 3

There is nothing sacred about marriage. In fact, the Catholic church only took over officiating marriages in the middle ages (the council of trent is where the decision was made) in an effort to obtain totalitarian cradle to grave control over peoples lives. You can read the records on line, but they are in Latin.

I am not sure what god thinks of gay people - he made them after all, so he must have had reason. But I do know decent people respect human rights, and this includes gay rights, while many church goers do not. This is truly appalling.

We must judge people by their acts, and this failure of religious groups to recgnise very basic rights goes to the heart of proving that they are one of the truly great forces of evil on the planet.

I know not all churches are like this, and many go to great length to be more enlightened - but just look at some of the answers here and tell me honestly whether there is a single ounce of human decency in the people making the comments.

Answer 4

Don't get them wrong, God only mentions his disapproval of 'lieing with another man' in passing once or twice in the old testament, barely at all in the new (Jesus said 'I guess some men should be eunuchs' or words to that effect) even so Jesus retracted the whole 'stoning' issue, so honestly it doesn't count anymore, you could also consider wearing two types of cloth and eating seafood an abomination.

It's not their god that doesn't like them, it's them.

Society began to disprove and oppress minorities in the Victorian era, when sex was considered dirty if it wasn't done in the missionary position.

People don't like what isn't them, Christians get a hard time of it as they are so united as an 'us and 'them' mentality, but most people are homophobic, most people are racist or xenophobic, most people dont trust what isn't them.

Christians just have the mob mentality behind them so they can say what they think and let their homophobia run free.

Answer 5

I am not against homosexuals having the right to be together and have the right to insure each other or such things as that. I do believe that calling it a marriage is in direct conflict with what God spoke of as a union between a man and a woman and even a homosexual should agree that there is a definate lack of a male and female in a homosexual union. God will judge us all in the end and I am no less sinful than one who indulges in homosexual activities as a sin is a sin. I also do not think God does not like gay people. I think he loves the sinner but despises the sin.

Answer 6

No, and no.
It is a matter of faith, we adopted a code of ethics laid down by God.
It isn't an ancient codex carved in basalt by a dead king of Babylon. It is an actual command from God that the Christ did not take away. Any union between the same sex is not permitted in our faith. So we do disagree with any same sex union. We cannot enforce it but we don't have to condone it either. To agree to a secular union is a sign of acceptance to the union. We cannot do that. Otherwise why even bother with our faith?
We adopted the word of God. Now either we stand by it or we are just paying lip service to God, our Christian life without the act of the way is nothing but an "insurance policy religion" What good is that to God?
As for our perceptions that God does not like homosexuals? Well perhaps His love for them is scorned by the very ones who will not listen to Him.
There is no one that God wants to condemn. He does not like to sign the death warrant on anyone. But for crying out loud, if you don't know Him ...how can you expect Him to acknowledge you? Seriously. The homosexual community knows full well what is spoken in the Bible we Christians listen to, they know as well as we do. Here's the difference, we Christians are going to God on His terms as it should be. The homosexuals want to go to God on their terms.
It doesn't work that way, and it was shown to us quite dramaticly when the first high priests of God decided on their own volition to offer profane fire before the Lord. Nadab and Abihu were both killed for this act.
We cannot redact the Bible ...we haven't that wisdom, nor do the members of the homosexual community.
Civil rights; and the rights God gives us, are two different things.
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Answer 7

i'm an Atheist who has been married to my spouse for 14 years. We lived in "sin" for 5 years;) I see surely no clarification why any individual ought to have much less rights than the different individual. Marriage between same intercourse couples must be same to marriage between heterosexual couples. i will settle for that some clergymen have the dazzling to refuse to marry any couple they do no longer consider interior a similar way that any one who grants a provider can't be made to grant that provider yet then, i can't comprehend eager to be married by ability of somebody who feels which you deserve everlasting torment in a development packed with adults with an imaginary buddy.

Answer 8

Absolutely yes. Unfortunately, the gay community has rejected this option. Which shows that it is NOT really aboutt rights, but about gaining political power to change this country and the language.
I have no idea why they think it's important to own the language. Why 'gay'? They certainly don't ACT happy! Why 'marriage'? When Civil Unions would give them what they SAY they want.
I find them incomprehensible.

Outlaw - Unions are between a man and a woman??? Tell THAT to the Teamsters!

Answer 9

Even though one government after another legalizes homosexuality between consenting adults, does this make it right? Whether governments consider it a private matter or a public crime is something for which they must bear responsibility. But each individual must decide for himself his own attitude toward homosexuality. Lovers of God, truth and righteousness take the position of the apostle Paul: “Let God be found true, though every man be found a liar.”—Rom. 3:4.

Answer 10

Yes because Civil Unions are not religious. Where as marriages are.