historian said:
Wangchung said:
LIB,MR BEARS said:
Wangchung said:
LIB,MR BEARS said:
Wangchung said:
LIB,MR BEARS said:
rejecting Romans 1:27
"27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error."
Or rejecting Colossians 3:8
"8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips."
Is the Colossians passage a plank in your eye?
Remind me again when we have the anger, rage, malice, slander and filthy language pride parade/month and are celebrated and elevated by all major media networks and the fake Christian denominations?
I take it you don't have cable, don't attend sporting events, always follow good drivers?
One thing has supporters doing everything they can to make it mainstream. The other thing is already mainstream.
Oh cool! Where can I attend a Curse Word Pride Parade? Are there any scholarships for people who curse? Hate crime protections? Can tell you how many times people have assaulted others over curse words and that bigotry needs to end.
From a secular sense, none of the things I mentioned in the OP are bad.
The thread isn't about secularism.
Right. It's about sin. You're wondering why some care about homosexuality more than the more banal sins like cursing. It has been clearly explained why they are treated differently.
No sins should be treated differently. Sin is sin and they all matter. In the cosmic sense, God does not treat them differently.
I understand this sentiment, and agree with the heat behind it, but it's hard to see it this way when God says this...
Leviticus 18:22 NIV
[22] " 'Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
Other translations call it an "abomination" or "disgusting" or "repulsive". I don't recall other sins that are described by God in such a harsh manner.
He says it again in Leviticus 20:13 NIV
[13] " 'If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
In the end, I do agree with you. I think it is the fact that so many have created an identity around sexual perversion, that makes it something different. If someone were to hang a banner on the wall displaying to the world that they are a proud drunkard, and they wore a pin to display their drunkardness, and they identified as a drunk-American, and they fought for drunk rights... it would be on par with homosexuality in the modern age.
I do miss the early 80s when homos were hiding in the closet. Life was so much better back then.
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