Personally, I think some give it way too much thought. I suspect that sometimes this issue is thrown out there so that more pressing matters can be put on the back burner.
I have no issues with gays. I attended my nieces wedding - to her girlfriend. They are the most decent, lovable people ever. My niece currently has legal custody of her little sister because her mother is a drug addict. Since the little girl has been living with my niece, going on a year now, she looks healthier than ever and for the first time in her young life, she has a stable home and doesn't have to be in an environment where smoking and drugs are the norm.
I can't think of a single incident where gays negatively affected my life or anyone else's. I think it's a huge mistake to attempt to associate gays with perverts. Perverts are found in every walk of life, every group, every gender, etc. It's a cheap shot to try and lump people together in an effort to paint the entire group as bad. I think it's wrong when the religious right does that to gays and it's just as disgusting when the left does it to Christians.
There is too much talk about this and it's wrong to try and control how people live their lives. As long as a person doesn't hurt others, leave them alone. I say that to all bigots, racists, gay bashers, Christian bashers, dictators and especially to government bureaucrats who try to run our lives for us.
Think again!! 40 MILLION DEAD FROM AIDS another 40,000,000 HIV positive and you "can't think of a single incident where gays negatively affected my life or anyone else's." oh really????????????????? BUT THEIR WORST EVIL IS THEY DENY THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD AND clame their sin is not sin!!!= COMPOUND SIN!!!
Dear Gismys: how many crimes, abuses, sins, killing and even mass genocide
have been caused by UNFORGIVENESS of past conflicts repeated or projected to harm others? (including but not limited to just issues with homosexuality).
Isn't it telling that the same "divine forgiveness" that brings healing of the anger and conflicts
that cause all sin to escalate from individual abuse to mass murder,
ALSO heals the causes of unnatural homosexuality caused by sexual abuse, AND heal AIDS and other diseases?
Doesn't this show that forgiveness that heals
is more powerful than unforgiveness that kills?
Which do you want to draw attention to by your example and words?
I appreciate your speaking out against ignoring wrongs to raise awareness.
How can the same energy in your thoughts and words
be better directed toward the process of healing and correcting the cause of all wrongs?
Do your words promote forgiveness to bring healing?
Or more unforgiveness and division? Which are you trying to promote more?
focus on the sin, or focus on correction and healing the root causes of all sins?