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Originally Posted by good samaritan

Sodomy does affect others. It is a cancer to society. The word use to be Sodomy, but is now refered to as homosexuality.

Let's say that a gay or lesbian couple moves in down the block from me. Let's say they get married. I don't know them. I might never even speak to them. How does that effect me? And that opens up another can of worms, what about all the other "sins" taking place throughout the entire neighborhood? Unless a persons behavior actually endangers my life, my liberty, or my property, is it my business? In addition, how does my behavior with my wife in private affect them?

We have given scientific terms to making it seem normal. Homosexuality is exploited all over in our country and we're being pushed legally to accepting this perversion.

Hey, we're Christians. Nations and empires have imposed laws against us for over 2,000 years. Those nations and empires are long gone, we're still here. Don't get all worked up over the worldlings and their "legalities". We are not of this world. Just obey God and follow the Spirit.

Even an atheist should be offended at sodomy. Our biological makeup tells us that sodomy is wrong.

Why should I care what a "fool" (an atheist) thinks or doesn't think?

Yet people say what other people do in private hurts no one else. This is not in private. When homosexuals marry and adopt children does that not affect others? If there where laws in place, people would still be involved in sodomy, but it would at least be kept private.

We would need to regard it (sexuality) as a private issue. In most cases, we'd never recognize a gay person if we met them. Yes, there are the flaming agitators, but it is our agitation that keeps them going. I look at them like children throwing a temper tantrum. I ignore them and move along. Soon, it's like they shut up. There's an ancient proverb (I don't remember the origin) that states, what we oppose we empower. For example, imagine if when gays originally wanted to marry we just disinterestedly said, "Okay. Sure. Good luck." At that time, society would have seen it as a train wreck. It would have been something to just shake our heads at. Most gays wouldn't have even wanted to get "married". There wouldn't have been any protests, activists, etc. And they certainly wouldn't have been able to play the martyr card. It would have most likely come and gone in popularity, even among the gay community. Our answer to their request to marry should have been, "I'll pray for you." Instead, through our political opposition and their political determination, we now have a culture war.

Don't you think it's a creepy idea for the government to police the sex lives of citizens? I do. I'm not gay. But I think it is a creepy idea to have a government passing laws that are based on what we do with our significant others behind closed doors.

What if... now just humor me... what if the right-wing focus groups have us all worked up over this... ruining our day... making us scared, etc... when really... what will be will be. We should just focus on following Jesus. The work us up to get us to vote the way they want us to and to donate money to their political activism. Frankly, they profit quite a bit off of getting us all worked up over gay people.

We put a lot of time, money, and emotional energy in to this effort for what? To control others? To make them abide by our convictions? To make them incapable of defining their lives as they wish? In my opinion, it's a fools errand. People are going to do what they wish no matter what anyone thinks. All that money, time, effort, and emotional energy put towards the effort to control what they do... isn't worth it. We should simply love God and love others. Pray for the sinners, and focus on telling the world about Jesus. Because right now... Jesus, the church, and the gospel... to a growing segment of our population is all just a part of a vast right-wing political movement. Christianity and the church is no longer a Godly but neutral institution. Frankly, unless one is comfortable with all things Republican, they can't comfortably be a Christian. That's what WE'VE made it.

Let the world be the world. Because they're going to be the world anyway. What troubles me most is how the government is managing the public trust and our money. They are gutting Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Education, pay, and benefits... all we'll have virtually nothing left but our slave wage jobs and struggling families. If we're going to be political, in my opinion, we should be doing more as the Christian community to advocate for the poor, struggling workers, the elderly, the sick, the disabled, and the strangers. But that's just me. I fear they get us all worked up on non-issues like these, that will never change, to advance their agenda to raid the public trust.

We should simply focus on being the church.