why do Christians insist homosexuality is a choice?  And what exactly is wrong with sex?
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sex is meant for procreating, anything else is an abberation?  Well how does that fit in with a couple who may not be able, for medical reasons, to have children?  Are they not allowed to have sex?  Are they looked upon by christians in the same way they look down on gays?  it makes no sense, there are too many loopholes in your interpretation of the Bible.\nI like gay people
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Most oppose it because they have firm belief that it is a sin against God.   It was not in Gods plan for a man or women to engage in homosexual acts.  Sex is a gift from God and it is meant to be an act between a man and a woman as shown from the story of Adam and Eve.   Etc....  In my opinion the church only believes homosexuality is a sin because it is a tradition.   It was a rule put in place when they needed their communities to copulate so that they had parishioners to support their community and church.   Homosexual behavior prevents the production of children.  I'm not defending the church but I can understand where it came from and it's in human nature to take things to the extreme when they really strongly believe it is against their God.  Some people will do anything for "their God".
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A true Christian would say that no one can judge you but God.  I think abstinence is fine if that's what you choose.  No one should have sex if they don't think it's right for them, whether its religious reasons or not.  But if sex is what you want and you find someone who feels the same about you, it is a beautiful thing.
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SAW THSI THE OTHER DAY AND THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT.  \nMAKES SENSE.\n\nLets first examine the definition of homosexuality...it is the practice of sexual behavior with the same sex. A great debate these days. Is it deviant? i.e. behaviors and attitudes that differ from the normal social and moral standards.\n\nHmmmmmm... \n\nLet me put it this way.\n\nIf I loved having sex with animals and formed a group to say that we were born this way, and started challanging laws that opposed this behavior... going so far as to challenge the very Bible that teaches against it... and marching in parades, having protest, and touting the illusion that I am being discriminated against because I love beastiality... would you say it is deviant or that it was just my right to do my thing?\n\nMoral decay, is moral decay, and unnatural behaviors can not be made right by giving it a superficial tweek with a name change. That name is "gay".\n\nGay is a cute name and makes it socially acceptable... socially palletable... But it still remains a continued and ongoing asset in the moral decay column. \n\nI do not hate or dislike people who practice homosexuality, but it is time for some one to stand up and call a horse a horse.\n\nThe aime of the homosexual movement is to attack the Bible. Oh, I know what youre thinking... this guy is nuts. But if satan can keep blinding the minds of the homosexual community, they will unwittingly get laws changed that will declair it a crime to speak against their sexual practices, under the satanic inspired veil of discrimination. \n\nIf that happens, what would happen to men and women of God who speak against homosexual practices from their church pulpits, or in the streets? Can you say, Monopoly Game--Go straight to jail... It could seriously mean persecution of true believers. Persecution of the true Church, if you will allow it....\n\njust food for thought...
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I'm a Christian, but I'd be that Christianity declares that about 90% of sex is sinful.  I can't see how it was a sin to sleep with my wife a few months before we were going to get married anyway...Sex is not a dirty little act that should be shunned by everyone...but the church thinks so.
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That is a question that I have pondered myself and a very good one might I add. God created sex, and sexual organs or feelings. It's good, clean and healthy. But the church I think view it differently in the aspect of "holier than thou" or than the world when its really not the issue. Sex is derogatory in the world in most cases such as rape, adultery etc. Therefore the church feels the need to be set apart because "religious people" don't do those things...Well that is not the case, I feel the same way that even kids in the church need to know about rape, adultery, and etc. Huh even some pastor's that I know of committed adultery in the church.
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The British Minister of Equality didn't answer this question because he knows there's no way in Heaven or Hell that he can answer it in such a way that will please everybody.\n\nAccording to most religious people, homosexuality is definitely a sin.  Meanwhile, all the agnostics and atheists in the world (who are an extreme minority compared to the religious but have all the sociopolitical clout for some reason) say that anything a religious person says is inescapably flawed, and so homosexuality is NOT a sin, and thinks that gays and lesbians should recieve medals of courage just for being who they are.\n\nHere's the thing though.  Nobody, NOBODY is born to be a homosexual.  As a sexual species, a human male is supposed to be genetically programmed to mate with a human female in order to continue the species.  Homosexuals of today get confused with gender roles (if a guy is especially skinny and he enjoys the theater, he MUST be gay, right???), and the more we support it, the more people will follow their example.  Homosexuality is a result of faulty human programming, and how society deals with the error.\n\nBut if homosexuality IS a sin, then you're supposed to love the sinner and hate the sin, right? :P
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First off it is a choice \nSecond sodomy like adultery is caused by lust not love \nThird if one has homosexual feelings they should repent with the help of God (No one makes you act on your lustful desires but you)\n\nIf sodomy is not a choice, then i suppose adultery, theft, believing in other Gods, lying, and murder are also not choices.  So if you adhere to that belief all sins are justified because you were born to commit them.\n\nLeviticus 18:22 NIV Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.\n\nLeviticus 18:22 KJV Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
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Yes, many Christians do believe that homosexuality is an abomination. The problem with that kind of thought is that there are 10 other sins that are more readily done than the homosexual act by everyone including gays. \n\nFor example idle gossip is a no-no yet I don't know a living person that at some point doesn't repeat or believe gossip... looking at another person with lust in your eye is a sin but i don't know anyone who doesn't get turned-on be seeing someone other than their mate (who must have turned them on at some point prior to becoming married)... so according to the Bible it is a sin, ONE OF MANY!\n\nNow is a homosexual going to hell for having a same sex partner? If they believe in Jesus as their Savior I'd have to say no... Jesus never said that only the sinless could believe in Him and get to heaven... he made no requirements other than "love one another as they self and Love the Lord your God with all thy heart"\n\nAre practicing homosexuals are destine to burn in Hell just because they have a same sex partner/lover, I very much doubt that would be the deciding factor otherwise there are 7 billion other sinners on planet earth that your going to be joining the gays and Satan...\n\nBTW, there is nothing in the Bible to indicate that lesbians are doing anything wrong, the only homosexual references refer to a man sleeping with a man... Some Christians will try to extrapolate the male/male reference to females but that is a REALLY BIG stretch.
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I think your right.  Christians have this outright hatred (something else Jesus condemned) for homosexuality, but turn a blind eye at 'traditional' sex outside of marriage.  The apostles said that if you can't remain unmarried and pure at heart then get married.\n\nI think the message of Christianity and Jesus has been wildly distorted.  And, its a lot simpler than most Christians would have you believe.
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One of the many reasons I left the Christian Faith.  Damn women oppressing Nazis!\nEDIT_THIS IS WHAT TICKS ME OFF!  In one breath most Christians will tell you that being gay is an abomination, and in the next, they decide they don't want this one to apply.  You can't have it both ways.  Either you follow the Bible or you don't.  This is why people call Christians lying hypocrites.
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Homosexuality is quite obviously no more a choice than heterosexuality is.  \n\nIf Homosexuality is a choice – then when did you choose not to be gay?  When did you look at the options, and choose to be heterosexual?\n\nCould you choose to be homosexual?  Then why do you think that other people can, and do?
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Homosexuality is not a sin and that’s why it’s not in the Ten Commandments or anywhere else in the Bible except Leviticus.   \n\nThose same “Christians” who are so quick to use the Old Testament to condemn homosexuality abandon the sins of wearing woven materials such as cotton, shaving, eating shell fish, selling food for profit, women preaching the gospel and not forgiving debtors every seven years and a whole bunch more sins which are found right alongside of homosexuality.\n\nThe next time someone tells you homosexuality is a sin because Leviticus says so, ask them if they wear cotton, shave, or eat lobster and then tell them they’re as big as a sinner as a homosexual, just look it up.\n\nI’ve posted the long version which substantiates that statement too many times to post it again, but if you want me to repost it here, just ask.  I can disprove every reference made by “Christians” to homosexuality in the Bible as being misinterpretations and uneducated fallacies.\n\nJesus who was to be God's great clarifier and last word never mentioned homosexual behavior.  I don’t like answering a question with a question, but if homosexuality is this great sin as misinformed Christians believe it is why didn’t He condemn homosexual acts?
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This is a difficult issue, I'm afraid. The Old Testament forbids sex between men. There is a passage (Romans 1)quoted by many Christians, which apparently says that God hates same sex sex - if you can get you head around that double. However, if you read it properly, it's condemning people who are so sexually jaded that they will try anything once, so to speak.\n"18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. \n21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. \n24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen. \n26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. \n28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. " \nNOTE - the bad words aren't homophobic - they are directed at the whole society. Some of the bad things are symptoms of a whole attitude.\nAs a Christian myself, I don't know what God thinks about same sex love. But I know he does love the lovers - whatever. \nI think Christians could be more loving in their approach to those with homosexual feelings. \nI think that's what makes gays and lesbians so angry and upset. Honest confusion is to be preferred. It's God who will judge people's hearts, not us!
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some people say that christianity is against homosexuality but honestly i dont know.im a true believer(in God) and i hope im not contradicting the bible. this is my opinion: i dont think people should be made to feel bad because of their sexuality.its up to u to decide if u are strong enough to stand up for yo gay self.if not then do go for counselling and maybe u can find the cause of your problem(thats if uve decided its a problem).who are we to judge people, as far as im concerned if the bible says its wrong then seek treatment, if not and if ur religion allows it then accept yourself bcoz people usually only accept someone who is able to accept himself.
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This is an awesome question.   I can see the real reasons and the real backing of some of this...\n\nI am 100% straight.  I know what God has done to Gay and lesbian people who refused to repent and change.  You can not shield yourself from God with the Bible if you still decide to chose this lifestyle.  If you wish to live with Sodomny, then do so at your own peril.  There is a such thing as social standards.  This is ALSO what this country was created under.   If the people think that it is socially unacceptable to openly allow a gay lifestyle, then the rules will apply.   You seem to follow Lucifer's law and will force people to accept you and your lifestyle no matter what.\n\nThe one thing that I can not stand is Gay people telling me that it is just like any other sin and they will goto heaven.   I can not judge if and when you will goto heaven or hell, that is God's choice.  I can tell you that it is a sin and that NO sin can be allowed into heaven.  If you repent just before you die, them you might have a chance... If you chose to continue this lifestyle, or repent but do not change the SIN then your repentance ment nothing.\n\nI also do not like the fact I have to explain to my children why there are two men or women kissing.  It is an abomination and they should be aware that it is...  It isn't hate for me to tell them that, it is love, because I do not want them to goto hell for thinking that they can go gay.\n\nAnd yes, it is very very specific in the Bible.\n\nOh.. and for those who say it is not a choice that they are gay, BULL S*IT... It does have a lot to do with things that have happened in your up-bringing.  That is the way you chose to justify a gay relationship, and ignore what your past had brought you.
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it's largely due to christian hate.\n\nchristians are preoccupied with a need to hate people.\n\nfor example, the moron above named Doc seems to think that being gay is a choice, so that makes some "difference" in a civil rights issue.\n\nif that was the case, then NO conscious choice we make would be protected.  but, religion and the freedom to choose your religious preference is protected under the constitution.  it's a choice that people make and often change during their lives.  and that is constitutionally protected as a civil right.\n\nbut most morons like Doc cannot think past their bibles and their religious/christian hate for others.  and those are the truly evil, hateful people in the world.  Doc is typical of the american christian who is preoccupied with what all american consenting adults do with their penises and vaginas at home.  he probably paces back and forth at home, on his 1972 orange shag carpet, wringing his hands and sweating, thinking and agonizing about all the male penises having sexual contact with other males all over the country...maybe even right next door to him!!  oh my goodness!!!!\n\n(PS - sexual orientation is not a choice.  but the point i made above is, even if it was a choice, it must still be a protected civil right...protected especially from those who choose christianity and choose to hate others.)