OK. I’ve wanted to write this for some time, but, of course, have been worried about how some people may take the post. Oh well. Here goes anyway …
I’m getting sick and tired of several things:
1. How someone’s sexual preference defines who they are.
2. The growing acceptance and glorification of homosexuality in society.
3. Christians hatin’ on gay people.
I could write a post every day for the next week on just those three things alone because they are such massive topics. A lot can be said about them and a lot has been written about them.
But, I’ve been thinking.
Really, it’s all VERY simple, so allow me to explain it to you.
A – God loves people. ALL. PEOPLE. Gay people and straight people alike. See? Simple.
B – Homosexuality is not acceptable to God. It is sin just as adultery, stealing, lying, murder …. all sin. In fact, there are numerous sins mentioned in the Bible. The reason homosexuality gets the most attention is because it is a sexual sin and unnatural.
C – Some people say that homosexuality is not unnatural to them because they were born that way. I don’t doubt that some people are born with a propensity toward homosexuality, but all of us are born with certain propensities toward other things, but that’s where morality comes in. If a person is born with a propensity for murder, we wouldn’t accept that as an excuse for their sin, just as being born “gay” is not an excuse for acting upon something that is so blatantly against God.
OK. That was a tough one.
D – Christians should openly love homosexuals. All the hating is not what God wants. Yes, God hates the sin. We hate the sin. But, they are human beings just like us. Our job is to speak the truth of God’s love to them: God loves them no matter what.
E – Heterosexuals don’t walk around proclaiming their sexuality and neither should homosexuals. Your sexuality should not define you. It’s just a small part of who you are. So, stop basing your entire identity on an act that doesn’t separate us from the animals. Do you not realize you are screaming this from the rooftops? You are SO much more than this one thing.
F – Hollywood and the government and now, Rob Bell {now very vaguely telling us not to worry about gay marriage … geez} need to get over the fact that life should be fair for everyone. I’m very tired of the token gay couple in every TV show or movie just to show the token gay couple. We get it, Hollywood … you support the homosexual lifestyle, but not everyone shares your beliefs. Obviously this is not going to change because of the society we do live in. But, I think the Christian message should ring louder than it is and more correctly than it does: Christians DO NOT hate homosexuals. Christians LOVE homosexuals (or they should). Unfortunately, the homosexual’s lifestyle or should I say, sexual life, is not of God. That’s just the simple truth. 
So, how do we even get along?
I understand that it can be VERY difficult to have friendships with people who don’t share the same values and beliefs as you do. But, this can be said about so many other people … people of other religions, people of other denominations, people who don’t want to live for God at all or believe in Him, people that find value in things that are of no value to us, etc. We still must love these people. We still must be kind to these people. That’s just the way it is because God demands it.
So …
1. We can agree to disagree.
2. We can pray that the truth of God’s Word would ring clear in our nation and especially to our homosexual friends, that they wouldn’t see us as the enemy.
3. We can just keep loving them no matter what.
Please don’t misunderstand me:
We cannot back down from what the truth of God’s Word says, but we must love.
So, no … gay marriage will never be acceptable to God, which means it won’t be acceptable to Christians.
And, just because someone doesn’t believe the truth doesn’t make it untrue.
Yeah, yeah … bring on the comments because honestly, I could’ve written a book on this.