Do you support the legalization of same sex marriage?
Let people love people as long as they aren't hurting them! Gay rights are HUMAN RIGHTS!!!
He loves all of his children, even the those in sin, and you are doing more harm than good by discouraging them from having a relationship with God. As someone who has always been gay, I loved going to church and I still believe that I have a strong connection with God. However, I don't understand why other Christians turn people like me away. It may be a sin, but everyone sins, and God already knows what we will do. Also, if you have your own beliefs about the LGBTQ+ community, you do not need to accept us; that is not what we are saying. However, you should respect us as individuals. As stated in one of the Ten Commandments respect your neighbor, we should not allow politics and the opinions of others to corrupt us as a community; instead, we should unite and set aside our differences.
Churches have a duty to speak the Truth of God's Word, without respect to the orthodoxies of fashionable opinion. The TRUTH is that God has condemned homosexuality as a moral abomination, and as such, Churches have a duty to preach that. God commands you to turn from your sin. You are 100% right that he still loves you, but that does not mean that you are given permission to sin, nor that all other persons ought to be forced to accept or even celebrate your immoral choices. I hope sincerely you will one day repent.
@9SNTNGF1yr1Y
I don't care about God. I don't care about the Bible. It's a bunch of fictional nonsense written to control, suppress free thought, and kill joy. God genocided almost the entire Earth once, including innocent children. God murdered a man for pulling out. The omnipotent God unleashed suffering on innocent Egyptians rather than simply solving things peacefully. This is not a God of love, this is a God of hatred, pain, and oppression. God has done all of these terrible things and he wants to dictate how consenting adults may love each other "unnaturally", what a frivolous thing to do when homosexuality occurs in nature. The concept of original sin is the same concept as karma used to punish people for things they never did, establishing an unfair hierarchical society.
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“It's a bunch of fictional monsense written to control, supress free thought, and kill joy.”
Can you find proof that the Bible is fictitious? I want to see that.
@9TFWSTW1yr1Y
Innocent until proven guilty, false until proven true. The Bible is full of contradiction and superstition. The belief in the Bible (and Christianity as a whole) is done on the basis of faith, which by definition is the belief of something without solid proof. Only an idiot would do to such a thing.
@@1876-Elbert 12mos12MO
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Do you believe in evolution then?
@Renaldo-MoonGreen 11mos11MO
Its impossible to prove the Bible true using logic, as the only way to requires you to assume its true first.
(I can explain in detail if needed)
@7J9K9KSTechno-Progressivism12mos12MO
Well, there’s carbon dating and the timeline of the Bible, but how can you prove something to someone who rejects the most accurate and universally accepted way of proving facts (the scientific method)?
@9SNTNGF1yr1Y
@9ST7HGX1yr1Y
Let's assume your premise is true for the moment. Why does god condemning homosexuality give you the same permission? Whether or not gay folk have god's permission to sin is irrelevant to everyone except the gay person and god. You, the outsider, don't have to accept or celebrate anything except your own relationship with god. If you're gay and ashamed, that's on you and your religion to work out. Trust me, gay people have enough societal shame, made worse by religious zealots, and do not need all these nobodies trying to make them bear the burden of their shame too.
@B6K9PKWProgressive4wks4W
Your belief doesn't matter.
Freedom of Religion allows you to believe whatever you want to, but it also allows me to not have your beliefs impact the laws which influence my life.
I don't believe in your imaginary friend god. Your belief in him and his laws mean nothing to me. Your religion has 0 part in my life and should have 0 part in my marriage since marriage is a legal right.
@MandateCakeRepublican2yrs2Y
That is a heartfelt perspective. However, one could also argue that the essence of respect means acknowledging and honoring others' deeply held beliefs, even when they differ from our own. For instance, while some Christians indeed embrace the LGBTQ+ community, there are others whose interpretation of their faith leads them to a different viewpoint. It's not about turning people away from God, but a conscientious adherence to what they believe their faith mandates.
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These Christians who believe that the LGBTQ+ people are not sinning have been influenced by false teachers, namely the worldly people. True Christians do not try to push people away from God, but rather we try to get them to recognize their sin and repent.
@Renaldo-MoonGreen10mos10MO
And forcing your opinions on them by refusing to allow them to get married by federal law is NOT doing that in the way you are supposed to...
@MAGA_Deplorable10mos10MO
Homosexuals can't get "married" because marriage is between a man and a woman. They are forcing their opinions on us by demanding that the government sanction their immorality even when Christian taxpayers disagree with it.
@Renaldo-MoonGreen10mos10MO
Most **** would be perfectly happy to allow religious institutions to deny same sex couples. i mean why would you want to be married in a place that doesn't like you?
We want a legal marriage and the benefits that come from it. We are happy to leave religion out of it if the religion stays out of our relations.
The Christian taxpayers are a minority here its about time they kindly stepped down and admitted it.
@9Y9MYBKRepublican10mos10MO
Yes everybody sins but you know this and are still choosing to constantly live a sinful lifestyle.
@HelcovichEmireRepublican5mos5MO
If you know your lifestyle is wrong, you need to change it. Being too stubborn to change it is bad.
Ok, here's the thing. I believe strongly that people have a natural disposition as to whether they are attracted to people of the opposite sex or people of the same sex. And regardless if a person is heterosexual or homosexual, they should be entitled to unite and spend their lives with the partner that they love. But it's undeniable that in the Bible, marriage is a sacrament that is defined as being between a man and a woman. So my question is...why are gay couples not happy with the categorization of being in a civil union ? You are still under governmental recognition of being united to another person.
@9CJ6CB62yrs2Y
They want equal treatment, in many ways, it’s being viewed as a second class citizen, so instead, either all legal marriages are civil unions, or we have two definitions of marriage. (Legal and religious).
They don't want equality, they want license, they want to force everyone to celebrate their depravity. Marriage is between a man and a woman, as defined in the Bible.
@Renaldo-MoonGreen 11mos11MO
“they want to force everyone to celebrate their depravity”
And you want everyone to believe your extremist views
@9V3F5VQ12mos12MO
Because a civil union does not bring the same social, financial, and medical benefits as marriage. E.g. a civil union does not automatically endow your partner with next-of-kin rights in case of incapacitation, disability, or death. A civil union between a biological parent and non-biological parent does not automatically defer custody of children to the non-biological parent if the biological parent dies. And a civil union does not allow surviving partners of soldiers and veterans to receive military benefits.
Legal marriage is not the same as religious marriage. "Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's."
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God loves the sinner, not he sin. He calls you to turn away from your sin. As the Apostle Paul says: You cannot serve two masters at once.
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