It appears that the Gay/Lesbian community is dead set on moving into areas traditionally reserved for the old American cliche’. (house, car, lovely wife, 2.5 kids and a dog). It appears that not only are they pushing an agenda to get marriage between gay couple recognized, but they are also pushing as hard as they can into an area that flat out does not want them there… the churches.
Churches, if they’re doing their job, are typically against the gay lifestyle (much less marriage) due to specific and stark admonitions against same-sex sexual behavior in the Bible itself. There’s a lot of arguments on both sides…I think we all realize that. However, if you’re going to call yourself Christian, you must read the book. The book clearly tells you not to engage in homosexual activity in a myriad of ways. From the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah for the homosexual and hedonistic lifestyles of it’s inhabitants, to the story Paul tells us of people who began to engage in homosexual activity and received some sort of physical malady as a result of that behavior (just to name two), you can see a clear rejection of the gay lifestyle for a professing, acting Christian.
So, many gays try to pressure the church politically to accept them both in their laity and their clergy.
I don’t know about you folks, but when I’m not wanted somewhere, I go elsewhere. I don’t continually foist my presence where it’s clearly not wanted. I instead “make-do” and find another way to “Live at peace with all men”.
That brings me to the story of the gay agenda in regards to religion. InterstateQ blatantly espouses an “agenda” to “face the issue of religion and use it to (their) advantage.” Instead of recognizing that their choice to live in a fashion contrary to Biblical teachings has placed them in this particular conundrum, they would rather emphasize and perpetuate their lifestyle.
The article blathers on about “religion-based prejudice” and runs hard at taking a firm Biblical stance. Just to be clear, Romans 1 in several wordings:
“For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural: And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing” (BBE)
“That is why God left them to do the wrong things they wanted to do. Their women left the right way for women and did things that are wrong for women to do. Their men also left the right way with women. They wanted to have sex with one another. They did wrong things with other men. Their own bodies were punished because of the wrong things they did.” (BWE)
“That, I say, is why God abandoned them to degrading passions. Even the women among them perverted the natural use of their bodies to the unnatural; While the men, disregarding that for which women were intended by nature, were consumed with passion for one another. Men indulged in vile practices with men, and incurred in their own persons the inevitable penalty for their perverseness.” (TCNT)
I’m not willing to argue with God on this one.