Christians response to gay marriage?
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Hey thanks for that! I did not know but now I do!! And no I didnt think you were nitpicking
Here's a link to one biographer.
It doesn't get graphic. To be technical, he was a bisexual and slept with his grand nieces and others. Like a lot of famous people, their dark side is covered by the mainstream. However, this is a mainstream source, ABC News.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/gandhi-book-claims-indian-leader-bisexual-racist/story?id=13255847
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I didn't attend my brothers second wedding because I did not want to lose my OT at work but said I would attend his third wedding. He was OK with that. A few years later I was there for the wedding. Fortunately, it was on Sunday so I didn't miss any work. That was 22 years ago. They are still married and their son has recently graduated from college. There will be no fourth marriage for him. There will be no fourth marriage for me either.
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The meme asks a qestion; here are some responses:
"If you don’t attend, you should question calling yourself “Christian” - it seems pretty hypocritical. If we wish to be loved unconditionally - we must also love unconditionally. I cannot imagine abandoning my daughter on her wedding day."
"I’m being IN the wedding "
"We are called to “love” as Christians, we’re not called reject others. "
"I’ll be walking her down the aisle!!!!"
"I wish this wasn’t even a debate. Not only would I attend I would help her plan and support them both!"
"Yes, I will. Just because we don't Sin the same, it makes neither of us better or worse than the next person. "
Many of these comments are said by those who profess to be Christians. Is it true, and is it biblical? Are these responses in line with what God said?
I would like to know what would be your biblical response to this meme. Please support your answer with scripture. Not opinions.
Thank you
I don't need to support my view with scripture.. Everyone knows that the Bible only supports marriage between a Wife and a Husband.. Anything else is sin..
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I believe that most people who decide to be gay have a cause - some event that pushes them in that direction. I very honestly don't believe there's a gene that causes people to be attracted to the same sex, it is wholly caused via environment, or mental health.
Therefore, how we speak to those who had some event pushing them in that direction is actually important. Because we have to speak to the event, as well as to the affected individual.
My daughter lost her virginity through a very brutal rape. She was raped and sodomized multiple times by 2 assailants.
That is not a positive introduction to sexual intercourse and it affected her mentally very badly to say the least.
At any rate she stopped feeling attraction towards boys and started feeling more attraction to girls/young women.
I was lucky in that our relationship was such that she sat down with me and talked about her feelings, which allowed me to help her through it.
In the end I miraculously said and did the right thing and soon enough she did meet a young man who made her feel safe and comfortable, and she married him...
There are always defining moments in our lives, and how we deal with those moments can change everything for someone
Therefore, how we speak to those who had some event pushing them in that direction is actually important. Because we have to speak to the event, as well as to the affected individual.
My daughter lost her virginity through a very brutal rape. She was raped and sodomized multiple times by 2 assailants.
That is not a positive introduction to sexual intercourse and it affected her mentally very badly to say the least.
At any rate she stopped feeling attraction towards boys and started feeling more attraction to girls/young women.
I was lucky in that our relationship was such that she sat down with me and talked about her feelings, which allowed me to help her through it.
In the end I miraculously said and did the right thing and soon enough she did meet a young man who made her feel safe and comfortable, and she married him...
There are always defining moments in our lives, and how we deal with those moments can change everything for someone
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The meme asks a qestion; here are some responses:
"If you don’t attend, you should question calling yourself “Christian” - it seems pretty hypocritical. If we wish to be loved unconditionally - we must also love unconditionally. I cannot imagine abandoning my daughter on her wedding day."
"I’m being IN the wedding "
"We are called to “love” as Christians, we’re not called reject others. "
"I’ll be walking her down the aisle!!!!"
"I wish this wasn’t even a debate. Not only would I attend I would help her plan and support them both!"
"Yes, I will. Just because we don't Sin the same, it makes neither of us better or worse than the next person. "
Many of these comments are said by those who profess to be Christians. Is it true, and is it biblical? Are these responses in line with what God said?
I would like to know what would be your biblical response to this meme. Please support your answer with scripture. Not opinions.
Thank you
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I come from the Mr. Roger's era....
Where a huge mountain of a man that played smash mouth professional football liked needlepoint.
Today he would be told that his sexual preferences had to be same sex because he liked needlepoint stitching. Which is the dumbest thing ever....and the world today would drill it into him over and over again....instead of just accepting that he was a guy who liked dainty tasks to help relieve stress.
I'm comfortable on a construction site as well as the professional kitchen as well as the halls of academia. The world is always trying to define us and tell us who they think we are. But God has told me exactly what and who I am.
And if you choose the world's explanation you will be miserable. The joy in your life will be fleeting at best.
But I listen to God....and sure it isn't exactly comfortable at times, the war within gets ugly and fierce at times....but the overall joy, peace and happiness is much better.
"Everyone says" is not an excuse....and whatever they say is usually wrong anyway.
Where a huge mountain of a man that played smash mouth professional football liked needlepoint.
Today he would be told that his sexual preferences had to be same sex because he liked needlepoint stitching. Which is the dumbest thing ever....and the world today would drill it into him over and over again....instead of just accepting that he was a guy who liked dainty tasks to help relieve stress.
I'm comfortable on a construction site as well as the professional kitchen as well as the halls of academia. The world is always trying to define us and tell us who they think we are. But God has told me exactly what and who I am.
And if you choose the world's explanation you will be miserable. The joy in your life will be fleeting at best.
But I listen to God....and sure it isn't exactly comfortable at times, the war within gets ugly and fierce at times....but the overall joy, peace and happiness is much better.
"Everyone says" is not an excuse....and whatever they say is usually wrong anyway.
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In a lot of cases, Christian response to gay marriage can be like Christian response to Hindus burning incense to demons at Hindu temple in a city somewhere. We don't go there, and we don't participate. If I knew I was being invited to a Hindu ceremony that burned incense to other gods, I would imagine I would decline. Indonesia has Muslims and Hindus, but if that isn't your religion, or even if it is, you can just go to the party with food afterward if they invite you to the wedding.
As far as a gay wedding goes, the whole concept is just wrong. I would hope Christians would not attend.
The meme asks a qestion; here are some responses:
"If you don’t attend, you should question calling yourself “Christian” - it seems pretty hypocritical. If we wish to be loved unconditionally - we must also love unconditionally. I cannot imagine abandoning my daughter on her wedding day."
My question for the author of this quote is if you love her, why would you encourage her in sin?
If a parents child marries and just dumps their spouse and decides to marry someone else, and the parents refuse to join in, I respect that also. If a parent doesn't go to a second or 10th wedding of a polygamist child, I can understand that as well.
I read on a forum once about a dispute between an engaged couple where the woman said if they were married, and she were invited to a gay wedding, she would go. The man insisted that she not do so in such a scenario and she would not agree. Engagement makes this a bit more complicated. But there are two issues for the man to face-- a fiancee who says she is a Christian who would go to a so-called gay so-called wedding, and a woman who would not submit to her husband on this issue.
For a young Christian man wanting to marry a woman from western culture, I think that's good as one of many litmus tests he could give her. Would you go to a gay wedding? Of course if she says yes he could discuss it with her. Maybe she needs some discipling. At the least, the two approaches to this issue of how to interact with the world could be quite incompatable. If she thinks 'gay marriage' is okay, something is wrong with her sexual morals and she isn't a good candidate for a Christian to marry. If she wouldn't submit to her husband either, that's another litmus test. A woman could ask a man if he'd go to a gay wedding also. Some people are new believers and repent and submit to the word of God as they are confronted with it, and those people may potentially make acceptable spouses.
Yet another litmus test I could think of could come in the form of a life story of the relative of someone I knew whose husband was trapped on the other side of the Berlin wall and could get out. They were married, and had kids. He divorced her so she could live her life and get remarried because he wasn't finding a way to get out of East Germany. A date who thinks divorce and remarriage is okay in this circumstance, who can't easily be persuaded otherwise is not good marriage material for a Christian, IMO. I think that should be a deal breaker.
Isn't giving one's daughter in faux marriage to a woman just as bad as being the faux bride?
As far as scripture goes, Romans 1 in discussing sinful same-sex sexual behavior Paul says their women did that which was against nature. God ordained marriage between a man and a woman in Genesis.
Leviticus says rebuke your neighbor frankly so that you do not share in his sin.
As far as a gay wedding goes, the whole concept is just wrong. I would hope Christians would not attend.
The meme asks a qestion; here are some responses:
"If you don’t attend, you should question calling yourself “Christian” - it seems pretty hypocritical. If we wish to be loved unconditionally - we must also love unconditionally. I cannot imagine abandoning my daughter on her wedding day."
If a parents child marries and just dumps their spouse and decides to marry someone else, and the parents refuse to join in, I respect that also. If a parent doesn't go to a second or 10th wedding of a polygamist child, I can understand that as well.
I read on a forum once about a dispute between an engaged couple where the woman said if they were married, and she were invited to a gay wedding, she would go. The man insisted that she not do so in such a scenario and she would not agree. Engagement makes this a bit more complicated. But there are two issues for the man to face-- a fiancee who says she is a Christian who would go to a so-called gay so-called wedding, and a woman who would not submit to her husband on this issue.
For a young Christian man wanting to marry a woman from western culture, I think that's good as one of many litmus tests he could give her. Would you go to a gay wedding? Of course if she says yes he could discuss it with her. Maybe she needs some discipling. At the least, the two approaches to this issue of how to interact with the world could be quite incompatable. If she thinks 'gay marriage' is okay, something is wrong with her sexual morals and she isn't a good candidate for a Christian to marry. If she wouldn't submit to her husband either, that's another litmus test. A woman could ask a man if he'd go to a gay wedding also. Some people are new believers and repent and submit to the word of God as they are confronted with it, and those people may potentially make acceptable spouses.
Yet another litmus test I could think of could come in the form of a life story of the relative of someone I knew whose husband was trapped on the other side of the Berlin wall and could get out. They were married, and had kids. He divorced her so she could live her life and get remarried because he wasn't finding a way to get out of East Germany. A date who thinks divorce and remarriage is okay in this circumstance, who can't easily be persuaded otherwise is not good marriage material for a Christian, IMO. I think that should be a deal breaker.
Isn't giving one's daughter in faux marriage to a woman just as bad as being the faux bride?
As far as scripture goes, Romans 1 in discussing sinful same-sex sexual behavior Paul says their women did that which was against nature. God ordained marriage between a man and a woman in Genesis.
Leviticus says rebuke your neighbor frankly so that you do not share in his sin.
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