Well, you would never know that by reading some of the posts on these forums. Some people make it QUITE clear that they are more than willing to treat homosexual people as less than human because of their religious beliefs.
Then they aren't true Christians and cannot claim to be.
In the following discussion, this article's survey of over 3,000 gay men is "the Given":
ATLANTA [2005 Clinical Psychiatry News] -- Substance abuse is pervasive among gay men and is so intricately intertwined with epidemics of depression, partner abuse, and childhood sexual abuse that adequately addressing one issue requires attention to the others as well, said Ronald Stall, Ph.D., chief of prevention research for the division of HIV/AIDS prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta...
Jude 1 divides the homosexual issue into two components and prescribes a different protocol for each:
1.
The individual homosexual, who the Christian is supposed to reach out to in compassion "making a difference" in their disfigured lives. The reward for doing this is salvation for the Christian.
2.
The homosexual movement, the subculture that always seeks to overthrow normal values in its twisted quest to feel legitimate and not have to face the source of its pain by bumping up against moral values. Sodom was given as an example. But in Jude 1 of the New Testament (the Bible of modern Christians) it said that the same applies to other cities like Sodom. San Francisco would be a modern example. Ancient Greece, another. The "reward" for failing to stave off this advancement is eternity in the pit of fire for any Christian who fails.
Apparently it is (very) important to God that the matrix itself within which all humans learn and live and are tested, not be fundamentally tampered with. I'll leave readers here to meditate on why that is...
Since marriage is the hub of any culture, homosexuals seeking to overtake it is one and the same as homosexuals seeking to take over a culture. A Christian who partakes in enabling that, by choice or by force, is damned either way to the pit of fire. A Christian has no choice. They MUST not participate in so-called "gay marriage". Just as they MUST not harm individual gays:
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I laugh at the title of this thread BTW. "Pence running for cover"....and all the GOP bigwigs too who have got his back? I think they've seen the poll on this thread and have done the math:
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82%.....impressive!
So . . . you take one stance in your first paragraph and then defend bigotry in the next five? Lol. Let your GOD be the judge. It's not your job to judge. Regardless of your religion, homosexuals are human beings.
The ill don't make great judges of their own behavior. Did you read the results of the 3,000 gay men questioned? Childhood molestation survivors and their resulting habituated behaviors are not to be mainstreamed. They are to be dealt with compassionately. You are coming from a premise of "trying to copulate with the same gender and play pretend mom and dad is OK". The Christian faith teaches that it is not. There's the impasse. And it is precisely that impasse that Pence is dealing with.
You seem to forget there are
two sides to the "is homosexuality to be normalized" debate. Pence hasn't forgotten that. Neither have 82% of the repondents to the "Should Churches..." poll.