Do you think acceptance of homosexuality in culture is going to eventually lead to...

[Ira4632]

...Christianity being slighted? It seems that gays and lesbians used to stay in the closet because society didn't accept them, but in recent years it has become more and more acceptable in mainstream society to be homosexual.

"Hate the sin, not the sinner" is the attitude that a lot of Christians have, but I'm afraid that society is going to turn against Christians in the long run because we don't believe that homosexuality is the way the Lord wants us to live their lives.

I think a lot of Christians think that "gays" choose that perverted lifestyle, and they can force themselves to love only people of the opposite sex, but I don't think that is necessarily so.

If a person really feels in his or her heart that he or she is attracted sexually to a member of the same sex, possibly they can't change how they feel inside, and choose to love the opposite sex, I think that maybe they were born that way, and maybe God is punishing them for something done in previous generations.

You know, God doesn't make everyone perfect, some of us are born short, some tall. Some of us are handicapped, others healthy. Some gay, others straight.

For someone to be born gay, I can see how it would be very hard to live a Christian life, but "He whom much is given, much is expected." (or something like that)

I'm just afraid that as society goes more and more down the road to the Den of Iniquity, Christianity (if we continue to allow society to deteriorate the way it has by worshiping at the altar of perversion) will be looked upon as being full of bigots and hatred, whereas nothing could be further from the truth, our God is a loving God, and He loves us and you, He just wants you know that homosexuality is a perversion and we shouldn't keep glorifying it.
Actually I was more interested in what other Christians' had to say about this....
neil s... obviously I meant, "wants us to live our lives"...just a typo
I certainly didn't mean that I was perfect, I'm certainly not. Perhaps I should have said, "We are all imperfect, some are imperfect in that they are homosexual, others are imperfect in other ways..."

Really the answers that I'm getting to this question are proving my point in how far society has gotten...it's only a matter of time before Christians are looked at as being the "lunatic fringe" as much as non-Christians were in America a hundred years ago.
Also, I wouldn't say that we are telling other people how we want you to live, but, rather we're telling you how the Bible and the Lord expects us all to live.....

 

[Mighty Putty]

if christianity cant change with the times it will cease to be relevant.

 

[Samian's Ninth Account]

Access to broader education will kill off religion faster than the acceptance of homosexuality.

 

[Akiko]

Something EVERY Christian needs to realize....
Back when they wrote the bible....men WERE sleeping with men.

 

[Old Man fron Scene 24]

No, I think it will be the way Christians denounce all sorts of things (including but not nearly limited to homosexuals) that has and is going to continually lead to Christianity being slighted. You can't go around hating on a wide variety of people and not have it come back home to roost eventually.

 

[Max B]

"You know, God doesn't make everyone perfect"
perfect like you??

"we don't believe that homosexuality is the way the Lord wants us to live their lives"
now what if i said this
"we don't believe that christianity is the way the reason dictates them to live their lives"
don't tell other people how to live their lives or they'll start telling you how to live yours

"He whom much is given, much is expected."
so basically you are one of the ones who is given "much" and homosexuals are given little, you can't expect much back from them. Why would any self-respecting individual homosexual or otherwise want to believe that of themselves

To sum it all up.. the very attitude of your question is why christianity will be slighted

 

[neil s]

Freudian or not, your use of the phrase "the way the Lord wants us to live their lives" is quite revealing. Keep your nonsense beliefs to yourself.

edit: I don't think it's obvious at all. Telling other people how to live is *exactly* what the vast majority of Christians want. Evidence is not hard to find, including blue laws, etc.

 

[Ennoae]

Why would any rational person care if Christianity was slighted?
By the way your attitude is a great way to show the rest of us the lessons of being loving and non judgmental that your God had written in your infallible book.