Re : Post #4 ~
*God isn’t doing this to anybody. People are doing it to themselves.*
Agreed.
Agree with your post and several others that object to the headline. If God wanted to make a point about sinful behavior DIRECTLY by zapping people with diseases, everyone who engaged in illicit sexual activity would get some disgusting disease, while no innocent people would come down with diseases or have bad things happen to them. For example, there may be a link between abortion and breast cancer, yet I know women who have not had abortions who have had breast cancer, and many who have had abortions who have not had to bear the cross of breast cancer (or any other type of cancer). Also, I happen to live around the corner from a major cancer hospital and every day see children in wheelchairs who are bald from chemo. What did these evil children do that made God punish them with cancer? I know the Old Testament talks about God’s wrath, and perhaps He does intervenes in human events to punish individuals from time to time, but there is no way for us to know when He does this, versus when He allows free will and the laws of nature to direct events. Therefore, choosing gays as the one group we are confident that God is directly punishing with a specific disease is highly inappropriate, to put it mildly.