God does *Not* hate Gays
Upon consideration of my last entry I feel it is necessary to clarify something. I have no concord for anything like the God hates f*gs website. No link to that site will be provided here.
So, you might ask, how is it consistent to opposed to gay marriage and not be against homosexual people? This is the impasse that makes dialog difficult between the conservative Christian community and the gay community. Whereas the gay person proclaims his of her sexual behavior is inseparable from their identity , the conservative Christian considers a damaging activity that can be repented of, resisted, and overcome, not unlike an addiction to alcohol.
It is the dirty secret of the homosexual community that people have succeeded, with and without reparative therapy, at reorienting their sexual preference from homo to hetero. It is also obvious that people have turned from hetero to homo but the homosexual community claims that the person was always in denial. For some reason, someone who reverts back to hetero is denounced as someone never truly homo. They claim too much. At the least these data show that sexual orientation is not inflexible.
Whether orientation is genetically pre-disposed, as alcoholism may be, is irrelevant. Assuming that argument, why is this the first birth defect that parents are told to rejoice in? And it is a defect in the biological sense as a non-reproductive predisposition. Homosexuals have more health issues than heteros partly due to the issue of promiscuity, mental health, physical abuse from partners, and physically improper intercourse. data here
I like the comparison to alcoholism because there are many high functioning alcoholics who are not a burden on society yetdoing what feels good to them. But they still bring pain to those who know them best, usually family, who know the loss of potential. Similarly, the homosexual claims they are doing what feels good and right and with consenting adults and not hurting anyone. Although they may not be physically hurting their parents they are denying their family one line of continuity. However, many homosexuals will proclaim the unjustness of their emotional pain inflicted by those of us who want to deny acceptance of their behavior.
This discussion involves many levels of the loss of obligation to community, selfishness, satisfaction, health, coping mechanisms, etc. I will try to hit some of them as time goes on. But, as far as the person before God, we all are sinners in need of his forgiveness. I am guilty of trying to convince God that my sin is not that bad and not my fault and not worth his concern. It just wasn’t about homosexuality. And I, too, got angry with those who pointed out my sin. Repentance is so humiliating. Repentance and humiliation go hand in hand.
See Acts 3:19 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.
So, you might ask, how is it consistent to opposed to gay marriage and not be against homosexual people? This is the impasse that makes dialog difficult between the conservative Christian community and the gay community. Whereas the gay person proclaims his of her sexual behavior is inseparable from their identity , the conservative Christian considers a damaging activity that can be repented of, resisted, and overcome, not unlike an addiction to alcohol.
It is the dirty secret of the homosexual community that people have succeeded, with and without reparative therapy, at reorienting their sexual preference from homo to hetero. It is also obvious that people have turned from hetero to homo but the homosexual community claims that the person was always in denial. For some reason, someone who reverts back to hetero is denounced as someone never truly homo. They claim too much. At the least these data show that sexual orientation is not inflexible.
Whether orientation is genetically pre-disposed, as alcoholism may be, is irrelevant. Assuming that argument, why is this the first birth defect that parents are told to rejoice in? And it is a defect in the biological sense as a non-reproductive predisposition. Homosexuals have more health issues than heteros partly due to the issue of promiscuity, mental health, physical abuse from partners, and physically improper intercourse. data here
I like the comparison to alcoholism because there are many high functioning alcoholics who are not a burden on society yetdoing what feels good to them. But they still bring pain to those who know them best, usually family, who know the loss of potential. Similarly, the homosexual claims they are doing what feels good and right and with consenting adults and not hurting anyone. Although they may not be physically hurting their parents they are denying their family one line of continuity. However, many homosexuals will proclaim the unjustness of their emotional pain inflicted by those of us who want to deny acceptance of their behavior.
This discussion involves many levels of the loss of obligation to community, selfishness, satisfaction, health, coping mechanisms, etc. I will try to hit some of them as time goes on. But, as far as the person before God, we all are sinners in need of his forgiveness. I am guilty of trying to convince God that my sin is not that bad and not my fault and not worth his concern. It just wasn’t about homosexuality. And I, too, got angry with those who pointed out my sin. Repentance is so humiliating. Repentance and humiliation go hand in hand.
See Acts 3:19 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.
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