Gay Marriage: For or Against?

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by coadie

Gay marriage is like substance addiction. It is very self centered. What is in it for me.

Often gay counselors agree that a gay male hasn't been brought to manhood by a present father.

Erikson and Psychosocial Stages of Development show gays in stage 5 of 8 stages.

I know many in this lifestyle who were raised in very strong and decent Apostolic homes. They were "different" since they were very young boys or girls. Let's be real here, sometimes you can "tell" even before they become mature young men or women. I've seen them in the church, Holy Ghost filled, singing in the choir, witnessing on the streets and then suddenly they come out of the closet. What do we do? Throw them away? Ban them. Make them second class citizens? Blame their parents??? Many of them had fantastic parents.

It's a complicated issue.

[berkeley]

they have a bigger um hypothalamus

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Berkley

they have a bigger um hypothalamus

Hey, I don't know what language you're speaking but if you're talking about my mother we're going to have words! LOL

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Twisp

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The study you are referring to also says that homosexuality is not a choice, but has a biological basis. Do you believe that also?
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I don't think any of us really know why people are homosexual.


Some churches teach that being homosexual is not a sin but living the homosexual lifestyle is.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Aquila

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It's a complicated issue.

amen

[berkeley]

I have a dog... his name is Malakos.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Sam

I don't think any of us really know why people are homosexual.


Some churches teach that being homosexual is not a sin but living the homosexual lifestyle is.

Some are eunuchs for the Kingdom. I think we'd be shocked if we knew how many men and women are being mightily used of God who have a predisposition towards this attraction and don't act on it.

[Twisp]

Originally Posted by Sam

I don't think any of us really know why people are homosexual.


Some churches teach that being homosexual is not a sin but living the homosexual lifestyle is.

I know that. I was merely checking to see if Coadie was going to believe all of that study, or just bits and pieces of it.

[coadie]

Originally Posted by Aquila

I know many in this lifestyle who were raised in very strong and decent Apostolic homes. They were "different" since they were very young boys or girls. Let's be real here, sometimes you can "tell" even before they become mature young men or women. I've seen them in the church, Holy Ghost filled, singing in the choir, witnessing on the streets and then suddenly they come out of the closet. What do we do? Throw them away? Ban them. Make them second class citizens? Blame their parents??? Many of them had fantastic parents.

It's a complicated issue.

They can be both delivered and can also find conversion therapy. Many just leave the homosexual past.
It isn't born that way.

Identical twins have identical genes. If homosexuality was a biological condition produced inescapably by the genes (e.g. eye color), then if one identical twin was homosexual, in 100% of the cases his brother would be too. But we know that only about 38% of the time is the identical twin brother homosexual. Genes are responsible for an indirect influence, but on average, they do not force people into homosexuality. This conclusion has been well known in the scientific community for a few decades but has not reached the general public. Indeed, the public increasingly believes the opposite.

Remember they have the same environment.

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Some are eunuchs for the Kingdom. I think we'd be shocked if we knew how many men and women are being mightily used of God who have a predisposition towards this attraction and don't act on it.

Eunuchs for the kingdom is about not giving into homosexual predispositions?