why are there gay people??? HAVE THEY NOT READ THE BIBLE!!?
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PLEEEEZZZEEEE... LETS NOT GET INTO THIS..... PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE AND ANY KIND OF LOVE IS A GOOD THING... SO GET A LIFE
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Youre absolutely correct. Not one Christian pays any attention to THAT PART of the Bible anymore. Unless, of course, they feel like bagging on a gay person. Then they reach out with open arms to embrace their hateful Bible as PROOF that God hates gay people.....when in reality, God hates everyone that isnt a Jew. \n\nHey, dont blame me - its all written in the Bible!
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while the bible does [rather ridiculously, of course] condemn gay sex in other places and ways, this should, logically, show those people who are so proud of the "adam and steve" quip how stupid they are.\n\nand fr_chuck, your constant discussion of a "cure" for gay people is terribly offensive.  perhaps i might redirect your medical zeal to something more personally important to you: obesity, or male pattern baldness, maybe?\n\nedit, to mickey:\nmaybe jesus was queer as well as single.  don't just assume.
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AMEN SISTER!!!!\nI'm not a religious guru myself, and I'm very tired of the gay bashing, but I do recall many people saying that if you hate upon others or something like that, that that's a sin as well...i'm not sure I don't read the Bible...\n\nI get really offended with this bullshizzle about that i'm going to hell because i'm a lesbian...well you know what? The people whom are trying to convert are the real sinners, and God does love all of his children...\n\nSo again, Thank you for the psudo question...
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People are wrong.  The Bible is right.  People who practice homosexuality are sinning.  Pretty simple.
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I noticed your question under the general heading. But yeah there are a lot of them that are just fundamentally airheads. \nLike old pops there who does not even realize what the heading he is posting under says before he posts a wrong answer. It is amazing. \nThere is another one from a "Canadian lady" telling you that you should be in the "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered" section.\n Once again, hilarious. \nYou should see them discussing the bible.\nOh well, nice visiting but I have some fundies to bash over in the Totally Screwed up on God section, catch ya later.
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Its perfectly OK. C'mon people we are living in the 21st century now.\n\nAnd for all those, who use Bible as a weapon against homosexual desires, I'd like to tell you that its not Jesus himself that wrote it. How can you gaurantee that whosoever wrote it, did not misinterpret Jesus. \n\nIts only the "personal interpretations" of the homophobics that make it against it. Even rayburnlarry above has cited a "version" of Bible, while going against same sex love.\n\nJesus, the messiah always promoted love, understanding and accepting those who might be different from us.\n\nNothing makes God, the Jesus more happier than seeing Love rather than hatred and selfishness.
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Yeah! i agree with you 100% and a lot of them that i've talked to claim that it doesn't "SPECIFICALY" say that its wrong in the bible and uhhh hello! Leviticus 18:22, "Do not lie with another man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable." So my advice would be attack them with their own source of their job, the bible and god, also im pretty sure god wouldn't have song of solomon in the bible with a man and a woman instead of two men or two women. I mean c'mon people use some common sense! Like there was this gay guy and his bf that wanted to come to our youth group and we obiously had no prob. w/ it except it was really wierd and he claimed there was nothing wrong with it! HOW DARE HIM! i tried to not get upset and be respectful because its the devil whispering in his ear and ya don't fight fire with fire\n\n\n\n\nGod made adam and eve not adam and steve... lol sry, cheesy :)
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because they are gay!!!
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I'm not sure where it is "in God's word" that states homosexuality is a choice.  I laugh when people want to stand on the Bible as their grounds for spouting nonsense or uneducated "answers" which we are supposed to then accept as factual.  Some of the answers to your question thus far seem to fit into the "nonsense and uneducated" category.  I was born gay, and I've had to re-evaluate my own beliefs about God.  I had a sister to die suddenly, and I've had to re-visit and re-structure my relationship with God.  I lost a job because I'm gay (don't know how they found that out), and I then had to re-examine my trust in God.
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I am a straight man.  I have had many gay friends due to my involvement in theatre.  I do not hate homosexuals.  I am also a Christian and I know lots of people who hate homosexuality.  I don't understand why it is singled out as THE sin to hate.  I have told Fat christians that I think gluttony is a sin.  I have told rich Christians that greed is a sin.  I have then asked them why their sin is less of a sin then a homsexual's sin.  I have asked these questions many times in many adult Sunday School classes.  Needless to say it doesn't make me real popular.  So now to your question.  I think a lot of people hate homosexuals simply because they are told they should.  The Christian right is constantly bombarding us with the message that homosexuality is the number one threat to the family unit.  Of cours this is stupid.  Divorce, infidelity and not spending time together are the biggest threats to the family units I know about.  When a Christian tells me that homosexuality is a sin.  I always agree that the Bible does say that a man shouldn't lay with another man.  So by the letter of the law it is a sin.  But then I ask them if they have had to fight off strong urges to sleep with members of the same sex?  They always respond NO!  Then I say isn't it odd that most of the other sins in the Bible hold some temptation for us, but this one, if we are heterosexual holds none?  I then ask them if gay marriage was legal and the gay couples got the same tax breaks and property rights as straight couples would you be tempted to turn homosexual?  Of course they say NO!  Then I zing them with "So why do you suppose that of all the sins listed in the Bible we straight Christians spend so much time and energy focusing on the one that doesn't tempt us and never will?  Isn't it possible it's a convenient way to not deal with issues that DO effect us?  Isn't it possible that it's just a way to feel superior and holy without ever having to do anything but look down on others who are different than us?  100% of the time they then answer: "The Bible says homosexuality is a sin."  This one issue is truly one of the reasons it is hard to stay active in church.  When you KNOW people are judging and being blind and feeling so secure and right about it, it can drive you crazy.  Even when I tell them that I have watched gay friends die horrible deaths of AIDS without adequate medical care because their life partner of many years could not get them on a "family" insurance plan, it makes no impact.  Now having said all of that I would like to share with you some things about the current attitude in our society that makes me dislike the Gay Rights movement.  As a heterosexual Christian male, I am judged and hated before I even have an opportunity to share who I am.  As a straight male, I get sick of being told by effeminate men what is style.  I resent being almost always portrayed in the media as not as smart as gay men, not as in touch with our feeling, not as capable of expressing emotion.  I think on any given night on television there is a lot more straight male bashing then there ever was gay bashing.  There I got it off of my chest.  This is the longest answer I've ever written.  I wonder if anyone will actually read it all the way through?
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The amount of friggen judgemental people on this question and answer thing.."Oh, If your not a Christian?"...or "Oh ,Why are gay people?"... or "Oh, Why are black people?" ....My question is how are we ever going to get past all this stupid judgment of people and start embracing each other's differences? I LOVE that my children live in a word of diversety. I am just so sick of people that think that there is only ONE way to believe, be, or act!!! Thanks for the space to let me vent!!!!
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In the story of S & G, there is no mention of homosexuality.\n\nLot offered his two daughters and finally the maid.\n\nIf they were homos, they must have been women.\n\nBible thumpers read a lot more into their bibles than is actually there. And, coincidentally enough, their interpretations always fit what they already believed.\n\nTruly amazing how flexible "God's word" seems to be.
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the Bible condemns a lot of things, including lusting, stealing, etc.I will never understand why my fellow "christians" pick homosexuality as the be all end all sin.
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Why does so many people ask about if gays are loved about god, other people etc? I do not think god has a split about loving his/her people. And who can god be gay with? I seriously do not think he/she has a social or love life.
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studies have shown that people are born with a sexual preference they dont choose it.  if God didnt want to have gay people then there wouldnt be any.  i am straight but i dont think there is anything wrong with being gay.
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Because they are homophobic and or ignorant!!!!!!\nhttp://godmademegay.com