i completely agree with the pornography. God created everyone then He created gays too just as he created straight people. in all honesty gays don't bother me as much as the thought of lusty people addicted to porn. i think the church doesnt go after it because its more accepted than homosexuality. but i should be pursued instead of just regular people who make different proteins in their brains. 

There is nothing wrong with homosexuality..I am straight ..but I respect and support gay rights and marriage.  It's definitely true that the church puts a lot of emphasis on homosexuality and ignores all the rest..such hypocrisy truly has no place in a modern society. Many of my christian friends hate gay people..but the craziest thing about it all is that they actually and wholeheartedly believe they have the right to.
 Beneath that exterior of 'sin' that they keep proclaiming on everyone, there lies a human being; who has worth simply for being human if not anything else. The church should stop demeaning and disregarding others who simply don't share its beliefs.
 Stop the hate. Honestly, at the end of the day..Do you you really think it's justified?

Christianity is, and should remain, a private faith, as it is based on a series of decisions the believer must personally make regarding what he or she chooses to believe in. There is no banner claiming God to be real or the story of Jesus to be true blazing across the sky, and miracles and proof of Christ are really what we make of them. There's a reason you have to have faith like a child- because, like the existence of Santa Claus, it's fun and easy to believe until you begin to introduce science and logic to the equation. Looking at the world through a religious paradigm leads people to find all sorts of "proof"- like the many Virgin Mary citings in tortillas and cat fur, or, according to Kirk Cameron, the existence of the banana. None of this matters, though, as you either believe in God or you don't. No mystical patteron of water damage on the side of a house is going to convince you otherwise.

So then, having decided to believe in the Bible, despite the fact that Bible scholars are able to carve up large portions of the Book like a holiday turkey, why would you force your personal beliefs on anyone else?

As the decision to believe in the Bible and to believe the Bible actually says homosexuality is wrong is a personal one, this belief should be about your personal life, not forced on the world.

It's funny to see how possessive Christians can be of the institution of marriage- as if heterosexuals are doing such a good job of taking care of it in the first place, with a 50% divorce rate among both Christians and non-Christians. In fact, the divorce rate among couples at my Baptist university was (at the time I attended) around 65%.

Christians cite the high rate of promiscuity among homosexuals as the reason for prohibiting them from getting married. Do you know the percentage of abandoned kids in orphanages or aborted babies brought about because of homosexual relationships? Zero. It turns out the only people affected by the relationship of two gays are just the two people in the relationship. And it's not like all or even a large majority of homosexuals choose to sleep with a large random selection of people, just like it's not true that being a heterosexual cures you of ever being unfaithful or waiting until you're married to have sex. Let's be reasonable and fair here.

Some of my closest friends are gay and I've seen how the discriminatory laws of this country can affect the lives of the people I love- beyond just marriage, but even the ability for two people in love to be able to be together at all. All this because someone decided to feel all high and mighty and vote to force what should have been a personal decision upon everyone else.  

@sasha - senseless hate... wait a second...

it's hate when a Christian doesn't condone, advocate, speaks against opposing lifestyle views...

it's open-minded opinion when a homosexual bashes Christians for their own sake... i love the duality behind all of this...

all i'm saying is that the homosexual community should be original... grab your own symbols or create them yourselves rather than ripping off symbols rooted in Judeo-Christian ideals and twisting them to your own ways... that's all I'm saying...

hate... what is this hate... of course it's considered hate when a Christian is adamantly opposed to the homosexual lifestyle and wants nothing to do with it... but OH WAIT A MINUTE... it's an open-minded opinion when a homosexual bashes Christians...

truly comedic... truly...

@meriibunny@xanga - Question, who has proven that homosexuality is genetic? 

Ok, two questions, do you think that since God so openly condones heterosexual marriage that if gay marriage was OK then God would condone it just as much?  Yet he doesn't.  Why the silence?

@meriibunny@xanga - Thank you for your response. You are correct in several things.  There is no arguing that environment has a huge impact on sexual choices.  I believe that a certain environment makes people more prone to homosexuality. When I asked about genetic evidence, I was asking about scientific proof that people have a gene that makes them homosexual or heterosexual.  So far, I've not seen that proven.  I could be wrong, but I've not read anywhere that there's an actual physical gene within the DNA structure.

You are also right that Jesus does teach us to love everyone, and He loved everyone.  He loved them by meeting their physical needs.  He saved a prostitute from getting stoned and he healed many people.  What we forget sometimes is that God is Holy and he cannot be in the presence of sin.  Jesus, while loving everyone also told those that he loved on more than one occassion to "go and sin no more"  This statement was not conditional, as Jesus had already met the need before he said this, but it was a clear call for those that he loved to be Holy. 

@laytexduckie@xanga - The word is surrogate mothers. Just thought you should know. Other than that, I believe we may be in agreement for the most part.