Gay Rights - Why is this an issue?

[appolose]

akuma587 said:

appolose said:
Hey guys, guess who it is? :)
I'll give the usual argument that any moral law enforcement is as equally "encroaching" as any other. The ones that stand are just the ones that have the most backers.

@Akuma
While I agree that a ton of Christian-professing people know next to nothing about their own Christianity, you're probably aware of the NT passages that do explicitly state homosexuality as wrong. Also, while Jesus never mentioned homosexuality, he never said anything about child molestation, either.

That may be true, (and it isn't totally clear what Jesus actually said in the New Testament either, some of the statements were more than likely just attributed to him), but child molestation was never addressed in the Old Testament either.  Its not like homosexuality had never been discussed before in Judeo-Christian history.  It was an issue that people were well aware of and had discussed repeatedly in a religious context.  It appears throughout the Old Testament.

That is what makes it more important that Jesus never talked about homosexuality.  And not only that, condemning homosexuals would completely contradict a lot of Jesus's other teachings.  Your child molestation analogy doesn't really work.

 

While it's true the OT (nor the NT) make no explicit mention of paedophilia, I was more going on the idea we'd both agree it's wrong (and Biblically deductible in some way).  In any event, things that Jesus did not mention does not make them true, for a Biblical Christian; if it did, we'd have thrown out all the NT books.  Furthermore, condemn homosexuality does not contradict Jesus' teachings any more than the condemnation of any other wrong act; He does say not to sin.  Jesus condemns sin, homosexuality is a sin, therefore, Jesus condemns homosexuality.