homer said:
Mnementh said:
homer said: Sick of people shoving gay pride crap down people's throats. It's so stupid. Are people so low that they have to add a political message to cookies now? As a christian, I will never recognize their partnership despite what the government claims. |
Christian religion doesn't mean you have to hate gay people. This image is from the Christopher Street Day in Berlin, it shows the truck of the christian gays:
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Huk.jpg&filetimestamp=20060724085955
The banner on the left says something like: man-on-man, lesbian, confident, christian
(Beware, some of the photographs in the german CSD-article are NSFA - not safe for americans)
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No. The bible clearly states that being gay is a sin. Any christian who defends it as if it is not a sin is either not actually a christian or very mislead and ignorant of what their religion actually states. Sure, you can be kind and nice to others with different beliefs but you must draw a line and the sand and not stand up for something that is explicitly stated as wrong.
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The Bible also speaks of adultery, fornication, and also divorce (in a number of contexts) as sin also. If you want to go hardcore, no one is supposed to divorce period, for any reason. This is one reason why the Catholic Church grants annulments, and not divorce. You are free to do whatever preferences you like, but when you live in a pluralistic society that doesn't play Jesus first, then you need to decide what you will do. You are in no place to impose anything on anyone else, and those lines in the sand you draw are for yourself alone, because no one else will honor them for themselves, just in regards to you.
And you would be hard pressed to speak of the Bible declaring anything that is not an act, or intention, or thought, as sin. There is no sin by someone being something. Someone can be a sinner for doing things, but not being something.