I can live alongside same sex couples, but I don't want to know about whether their sexuality is deviant. Just keep it to themselves.
Civilization cannot exist in the cesspool we now have. There has to be a standard that's looked up to as the norm. I think a majority of US citizens support that view if it's expressed in such a way that ones privacy and rights are protected. It isn't difficult....gays have their rights, they have them without marriage being destroyed. They should just SHUT UP.
It's financial in nature (insurance, retirement, etc) and authoritarian. You won't just tolerate it, YOU WILL LIKE IT!!!
This is a challenging mission field, but a mission field it must be viewed as.
I get tired of arguing with the “whack um dead” crowd. Not only is the theology wrong for that in these circumstances, it stultifies a large part of Christ’s outreach. Christ did not come to head a Self Righteous Club. Christ came to share a very special grace that conquers sin by winning the sinner away from Satan.