As a Christian, I believe homosexuality is wrong. I also believe that those who claim they were born that way, probably were, but are suffering from a neurological condition like seizures, etc. for which science should find a cure/treatment. That is not to say that homosexuality is not a lifestyle choice, it absolutely is. One makes a conscious choice to engage in homosexual acts just like one chooses to engage in heterosexual acts.
I also believe that an individual has an inherent right to decide:
- whom they want to make medical decisions for them
- to whom they want to leave their earthly belongings
and that the courts should enforce such decisions provided a legal instrument exists documenting said decisions. Parents and siblings should not be able to interfere.
However, I do not believe homosexuals should be able to adopt children or that private business should be required to insure a gay employee’s designated “life partner.” Let capitalism work as intended - homosexual “couples” should be able to purchase health/life insurance if an insurance company is willing to insure them.
I understand what you’re saying. You think that homosexuals should be able to sign legal contracts among themselves. I agree. They have had this for years.
But that is not what they want.
As the leftists/feminists are now forcing Catholic hospitals and universities to provide contraceptives, abortions, and, soon, euthanasia, the homosexuals will force the churches to marry them. If the church refuses, they will be sued for discrimination. The State will also remove their tax-exempt status as they will classify the refusal as a political statement.
As I’ve said elsewhere, this is all about a gangland attack on God and those who preach His message.
Then you need to read and re-read Romans 1:18-32 (especially verses 24-28) which clearly state that homosexuality & lesbians are UNNATURAL acts and against nature. No one is born a homosexual or lesbian... it is the result of abominable sin & perversion. It is learned behavior due to willful depravity & perverse abomination.
In Leviticus 20:11-16 homosexuality is condemned in the same context as incest & bestiality. It is in no way a "natural" act or that a man or woman are born as homosexual or lesbians, according to the Bible.
Romans 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;