Christians are confused about how to treat gays as leaders give conflicting messages about homosexua

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Christians are confused about how to treat gays as leaders give conflicting messages about homosexuality


According to the Christian Post, Christians are confused as to how they should treat homosexuals. The Christian rules, "Do unto others as you want others to do unto you," and "Love thy neighbor," are acknowledged by Christians, yet, in a world in which Christians find the LGBT community making great strides, gaining acceptance and enforcing their civil rights, Christians are finding it difficult to keep to the spirit of the biblical rules.

According to the Christian Post, when attempts by Christians to represent the biblical perspective on homosexuality are derided and described as hate speech and civil intolerance Christians are provoked and confused about how to react because the bible says that homosexuality is sin.

Christian writer James Middletree admits that, "there are many Christians who are intolerant of gays as human beings," but then he adds confusedly, "There are listed behaviors that are abhorrent to God. There is alcoholism, fornication, and homosexuality with covetousness. If God didn’t bother separating one sin out from that list, why do we?"

Christian writer Coleman says that so much is at stake in the debate about homosexuality that many Christians are unable to distinguish the sin form the sinner. While Christians are urged to "Hate the Sin, Not the Sinner," the writer admits that Gay rights is a hot issue in politics which continues to dominate every election cycle because "growing acceptance of same-sex marriage and homosexuality is a direct threat to traditional Christian norms of sex and marriage."

http://www.goddiscussion.com/77067/christians-are-confused-about-how-to-treat-gays-as-leaders-give-conflicting-messages-about-homosexuality/

[Kalidurga]

1. I am not seeing the threat...

were Mormons threatened by those marriages between one man and one woman?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. My denomination isn't confused

The majority are fine with ordaining GLBT clergy and even making them bishops.

[NMMNG]

3. Bollocks

"growing acceptance of same-sex marriage and homosexuality is a direct threat to traditional Christian norms of sex and marriage."

How? How does my marriage prevent any Christian from marrying a person with opposite genitals and doing whatever "traditional" stuff they want with each other?