How does referring to Christian thought help change their minds?
Someone who refuses to believe scripture and rationalizes his behavior can always find a way to rationalize Christian thought away.
We already have the Bishops of the Catholic church, and the Pope himself condemning gay marriage.
Here, we have a LIVING, BREATHING magistrate giving its unequivocal teaching and yet, we have people like Nancy Pelosi ( and Cristina Kirchner in Argentina ) actually believing the OPPOSITE.
He’re one rationalization for you -— They can always say that the early church HIJACKED scripture and used the power that they eventually attained to IMPOSE their own morality on others.
Heck, there are even RELIGIOUS people (and they are against homosexuality) who rationalize that the church doctrine of the Trinity as we believe it today was a concoction of Constantine in cahoots with the Bishops in Nicea. Exhibit one : The Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Now if devout people like the Witnesses can believe this, what makes you think that gay marriage supporting rationalizers won’t do the same thing?
A person who won’t believe will not believe. It will take an act of God to change the person’s mind.
If that were true, I would not bother to reason. I would not seek, or share, new information. I would find discussion pointless.
I think some of the "Gay Christians" may actually be open to the truth, if we can present it respectfully and reasonably.
Otherwise, nobody would ever go from sexual disorder to sexual peace and self control. And yet that does happen. So I continue to think there's hope.