This may come as a shock to many of you that know me, but I say “Go Ahead”. I guess I’m acting like the quasi-liberal Christian I am. I believe the Christian community and churches are doing far more harm fighting this battle than the results of letting gays marry will have. I believe fighting this battle is only pushing more of a wedge between us and the chance of ever being an effective witness to the gay community. As bad as it may sound, there are probably far more dysfunctional “Christian” families, than there will be gay marriages. Let’s work on straightening up our own lives, accepting that we’re sometimes as broken and hurt as those we’re trying to minister to. I believe as a whole, we’ve completely failed to be an effective witness to the homosexual community, and as I’ve already stated, continuing to fight battles like this is only pushing them further away from Christ. I believe sometimes we turn into Jonah, and just want God to smite those we identify as evil instead of obeying God and sharing the message of God’s love, and instead serving His judgement like it’s our own responsibility.
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Let’s not even speak of the morality of homosexuality… so much has been said already, and I’ve seen the scriptures used to prove for and against.
Let’s look at nature. Nature does not lend credence to homosexuality. Homosexuality is perversion. Of course we are speaking of the sex act - but isn’t that a part of marriage? If we marry, it follows that there will be sex. Homosexual sex is perversion.
To say that this “battle” is like the civil rights movement of the 60’s misses the mark. That was about color, and equal rights. Black skin is not perversion. Saying that one is not a human because they are black - that is perversion.
Once this (homosexual) perversion is sanctioned by the law, what perversion cannot be sanctioned by the law. Where will you draw the line? A man and his boy? A woman and her dog? Sure, we call those things perversion now… but why?
Jason: I agree - this seems to be the WRONG battle. I am saddened that this is the world we live in - but SADDER that millions of people are finding “the church” in a panic over this issue -unable to make any compelling response to “if nobody gets hurt, how can it be wrong?”
I *wish* legalizing gay marriages wasn’t going to happen. But I have so many BIGGER issues to focus on:
- Where is the church in loving and caring for the homosexual community (as well as other “untouchables”)? Where am I?
-Where is the PASSION of believers?!? (besides defending the meaning of ‘marriage’ - while ignoring the wrecks we have for our own ‘marriages’) This doesn’t sound like loving people concerned for the hardship going to be experienced by these people or the children raised in this culture. I don’t think anybody I’ve heard upset about this has even suggested THAT.
I’m sad by moral decay at the social/political level. But I’m compelled to address the moral bankruptcy at the personal/relational level. I got people IN MY OWN HOUSE I haven’t done a very good job of loving. I got people in my church and people in my office and people in my neighborhood who need to discover the LIFE I profess to having. I don’t have TIME to picket, call radio stations, or argue about who can have the piece of paper calling their relationship “OK” (as defined by The United States)
I agree with some of what you’re saying, but you may change your tune in a few years when your son is forced to be educated in a system that views homosexuality as an option equal in validity to heterosexuality. And if he wants to pass the class, or not be labeled as inhumane or intollerant, he’ll have to verbally affirm the curriculum. I think now is the perfect time to draw the lines with homosexuality. Regardless of religious perspective, the gay lifestyle is statistically risky and unhealthy. And your reference to the equally dysfunctional heterosexual families…that’s like saying people who drive cars get killed more often than those driving motorcycles (that’s only true because there are 50 times more cars than motorcycles). Good dialogue though. And blogging looks very interesting!