Why everybody is accepting gays

In a speech at a gay-advocacy fundraiser Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg defended his homosexuality in a remark aimed at vice president Mike Pence, a proponent of traditional marriage. Insisting that his homosexual behavior and legal marriage to another man do not contradict his beliefs as an Episcopalian Christian, Buttigieg said:.

My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man and yes, Mr. Vice President, it has moved me closer to God. If me being gay was a choice, it was a choice that was made far, far above my pay grade. Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator. And if he makes some people gay, then we should accept it.

Some Christians respond to this argument with what seems to be the only alternative: by saying that those who identify as gay choose to be gay. In order to make that clear, when someone says that God made him gay, or that he makes other people gay, you should ask two questions:.

If same-sex attraction only came from our genes, we would expect identical twins whom God makes to have the same sexual orientation in every instance. But twin studies have shown that homosexual orientation is shared among only 20 to 30 percent of twins. This strongly suggests that same-sex attraction must be caused by environmental factors, whether pre-natal e.

Many think that nature and nurture both play complex roles. Who makes him dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

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When proposing examples to people, I recommend avoiding ones that can be taken the wrong way, such as the innate nature of pedophilic desires. More helpful analogous desires you could mention include the desire to have sex with people besides your spouse, the desire to lie in order to avoid punishment, the desire to drink to excess, or the desire to hoard money instead of giving it to the poor.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God 1 Cor.

In this vice list, St. He is warning of the consequences associated with acts of stealing, adultery, and homosexual behavior for a response to people who say Paul and the Bible do not really condemn homosexual behavior, click here. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Though disordered desires remain, because of this supernatural birth we are no longer the slave of these desires and they are no longer the source of our identity. Skip to main content Accessibility feedback www. Insisting that his homosexual behavior and legal marriage to another man do not contradict his beliefs as an Episcopalian Christian, Why everybody is accepting gays said: My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man and yes, Mr.

In order to make that clear, when someone says that God made him gay, or that he makes other people gay, you should ask two questions: Are you saying God caused you or them to have attractions to people of the same sex? Are you saying God wants you or them to act on those desires?

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