Since i read the post for some reason i have not been able to stop thinking about it. i suppose that it is because i am frustrated with the whole christianity/homosexuality thing. being that i am a new Christian i have never looked at homosexuality from a faith persepective. to be honest i have never seen anything wrong with it- in fact, one of my closest friends in high school was gay. i have always been a firm believer that you are born a homosexual-it is not a choise. time and time again this belief has been confirmed through my gay friends. the more i surround myself with Christians i am constantly fed negative judgement towards homosexuality. so i decided to just go straight to the source- His Word. i looked up homosexuality in my concordance and this is what was there:

Romans 1:18-32 The wrath of God is being revealed from Heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them. For since the creation of the world Gods invisible qualities- his eternal power and divine nature- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen.
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain knowledge of God, he gave them over to the depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know Gods righteous decree that those who do such things but also approve of those who practice them.

so after reading this i became even more confused. these men and women that are being discussed were not only practicing homosexuality but were also worshiping earthly things and were evil and greedy and insolent, and God-haters.......... i guess my thing is these homosexual ways were just a portion of who these people were. tha

that was just a fraction of their impure lives. Being gay does not make you evil and greedy and.......... i have been blessed with many gay individuals in my life who are the complete opposite of that. it does not come as a whole package. as i read these verses i got really frustrated because as a new reader to Scripture, i felt like it was portraying all homosexuals as this "fixed package" and i just dont get it.

after stepping aside from that, i continued think about how Christians talk about homosexuals. just as abbie said, we are to love our neighbors. but more importantly one of the most important things that we are taught as Christans is not to judge. but when people talk in this condescending way- is that exactly what they are doing.

if you continue to read into Romans is states this:

Romans 2 You therefore have no excuse, you who pass judegement on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you pass judgement do the same things. Now we know that Gods judgement against those who do such things is based on truth. So when you, a mere man, pass judgement on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgement? or do you show contempt for the riches of His kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you towards repentence?................God will give to each person according to what he has done.

it is stated right here- in His Word- His Truth: do not judge. so why are we so quick to do the opposite? homosexuality might be wrong or sinfull- but that is not for you are me to decide. only God knows the truth- the whole truth- and only He has the right to judge. we are sinful and no one has the right to judge another because there will always be something that we are guilty for as well.

- His curious child

also read: 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 and 1 Timothy 1:9-11