Marriages for Other than Men and Women!

RD, this is one time that I could only chose one option in your multi-option polls. The first one.

Most of the other options convey some sense of endorsement (in varying degrees) of what God declares to be wrong throughout the scriptures.

Strange that people take a strong view opposing theft. It is wrong to steal. Thieves should not be rewarded in any way for robbing others. Christians should condem stealing and try to convert these sinners. To help bring them to repentance -- to turn away from this act.

Yet with this sin, there are all kinds of work-arounds, excuses, side-stepping, along with outright endorsement that would never pass mustor if it were acts of theft.

I used to have some of the views represented in your poll. Civil unions is an example. That is not an answer as it still condones this sin. There are other legal remedies available to handle many of the situtions brought up by those approving civil unions and marriages. (Wills, power of attorney, etc.)

Before someone brings up "hate"..........

I known and still know some homosexuals. For a while we lived between two couples in a small mobile home park. Both couples were likable people and we had a casual friendship as neighbors. ie lend a hand when needed, etc. However, that friendship didn't go to the point of approving of their relationships with each other.

No.

The aroma on the winds of society is changing. God's word never changes.

Thou shalt not steal.

 

Homosexuality is no basis for a family whatsoever.

I know several homosexuals. While they may be "decent" folks the sin issue is unavoidable. By "decent" I mean they generally obey laws, are nice folks to visit with, etc.

 

I don't think it shows "lukewarmness" at all. The way you wrote the questions lends most of them to being answered affirmatively among those who are friends with, or interact with homosexual people on a regular basis.

I answered yes to every question except the one about having one's children in school with a child raised by a same-sex couple.

I found the basic thrust of each question as something I could agree with although I didn't always agree with the insinuations.

Every GLBT person I am friends with knows where I stand on things as well as the fact that I love them and accept them as persons for whom Christ has died. And I believe people can change their "orientation" although it is usually a long and difficult process.

As a follower of Jesus, I do not have a ministry of condemnation, but of reconciliation:

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." (John 3:16-17)​

In fact, I just had a long and frank conversation about the sinfulness of homosexual sexual relations with a male friend who is married to another man who adopted a daughter together this past weekend. It was a difficult conversation for both of us, but I don't think he had any doubts that I loved him with the love of Christ. I believe we still currently disagree, but he can't write me off as a "hater" or someone who refuses to consider or interact with his position or him as a person.

 

Matthew 10
Mark 6
Luke 9

Theres a time to shake the dust off your feet.

 

I am totally against same sex marriage; however, if our secular government(s) decide to allow it as they have in some states I would prefer they give it another name. Yes, it sends the wrong message to adopted children of same sex civil unions.

I should have also picked #4 also stating I am against allowing same sex unions to adopt children. I missed that option somehow.

 

I believe Homosexual acts are sin. There getting married is a sin as well. I don't believe they should be able to adopt a child. For the obvious reason that a child should not be raised in that type of environment.

The times are changing faster than I would like and that change is towards sin constantly. Today's young people do not have a good sense of right or wrong. Nothing is right or wrong to them, they do not believe in absolutes unless they are home schooled. I blame our Government schools for this. They took the Bible out of school and brought in the Quran and other religious ideas. and this is when this country started down hill. As a result we aren't to far from the bottom.
MB

 

For me the question centers on a whether the context is secular or religious. We live in a secular society, so secular "rules" are not surprising and in some cases are needed, such as could be argued for civil unions in this case.