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I’ll probably get flamed, but I am a Christian and I don’t have a “problem” with people who are homosexuals... just as I don’t have a problem with people who are alcoholics or people who are overweight because they eat too much. A person who is any of those things has a disorder- whether it be a sexual, substance abuse or eating disorder. Is it a sin to have homosexual sex? Well, yeah. It’s also a sin to drink or eat too much. But I’m not going to run up to these people and wag my finger in their face and tell them to repent! Jesus tells us to love one another, not condemn one another.

I do have a problem with anyone who promotes homosexuality as “normal”. It isn’t. For a guy to do you know what with another guy is biologically disordered.

I also have a problem with the redefinition of marriage as anything but between a man and a woman. Because the state shouldn’t legislate that children be denied either a mother or a father, and that’s what homosexual marriage does. Beyond that, any redefinition opens the door for polyamory, etc., and that isn’t good for children, either.

Anyway, my 2 cents.

RE: I’ll probably get flamed, but I am a Christian and I don’t have a “problem” with people who are homosexuals.

What about people have sex with their own gender?

RE: I’ll probably get flamed, but I am a Christian and I don’t have a “problem” with people who are homosexuals.

What about people having sex with their own gender?

Yep — it does open the door for other things — good point.

I think a big consequence of homosexual marriage (along with polyamory) is shacking up by heterosexuals.

Kids look at homosexual marriage being celebrated and think, OK, nobody really cares about old-fashioned marriage anymore. All boundaries are gone. So what if we live together. Getting marriage is such a hassle!

I don’t have a “problem” with people who are homosexuals... just as I don’t have a problem with people who are alcoholics or people who are overweight because they eat too much.

The founder of Free Republic issued this statement in 2004:

"As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights, pro-gun, pro-limited government, pro-private property rights, pro-limited taxes, pro-capitalism, pro-national defense, pro-freedom, and-pro America. We oppose all forms of liberalism, socialism, fascism, pacifism, totalitarianism, anarchism, government enforced atheism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, racism, wacko environmentalism, judicial activism, etc."

As I evaluate what Jim has written, all forms of homosexualism are opposed on this Conservative forum. I would surmise that any defense of sodomy is counter to the aims of Free Republic. I think it's notable that eating too much isn't among the items enumerated by the founder of this site as something FR opposes.

Therefore, I don't think that comparing the wickedness of sodomites to those who are a tad flabby is apt.

If I have misunderstood the statement in any way, I'll be more than glad to be corrected. But I firmly believe that homosexuality in any form must be soundly and unambiguously refuted.

I’ll probably get flamed, but I am a Christian and I don’t have a “problem” with people who are homosexuals... just as I don’t have a problem with people who are alcoholics or people who are overweight because they eat too much. A person who is any of those things has a disorder- whether it be a sexual, substance abuse or eating disorder. Is it a sin to have homosexual sex? Well, yeah. It’s also a sin to drink or eat too much. But I’m not going to run up to these people and wag my finger in their face and tell them to repent! Jesus tells us to love one another, not condemn one another.

I do have a problem with anyone who promotes homosexuality as “normal”. It isn’t. For a guy to do you know what with another guy is biologically disordered.

I also have a problem with the redefinition of marriage as anything but between a man and a woman. Because the state shouldn’t legislate that children be denied either a mother or a father, and that’s what homosexual marriage does. Beyond that, any redefinition opens the door for polyamory, etc., and that isn’t good for children, either.

Anyway, my 2 cents.

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Leviticus 18:22 (KJV): "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind it is abomination."

Leviticus 20:13: "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."

Romans 1:24-32:
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 recompense 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;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Romans 8:
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

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I don’t have a “problem” with people who are homosexuals

Not sure quite what you mean. You don't think homosexuality is normal and you don't believe in gay marriage.

Well, that's the position of 99% of the folks who are on FR. The Gay Lobby would label you as having a "problem".

Well said, and I agree.