God's Way or The World's Way?

I read a couple articles that dealt with issues relating to the LGBT community. The article stated that being neutral on the topic of gay marriage is no longer an option. People are being forced to choose whether they are for it or against it. Schools, people with medical professions, the sports world, and many state governments are being made to give LGBT people full equality or face consequences. While I agree with the fact that you should not openly judge the life style of a gay person, it should not be encouraged and accepted. The gay pride flag shouldn't be raised and there should be gay pride festivals. It is just encouraging the amount if sin in the world. Leviticus 20:13 says, "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable...". If God says that the gay lifestyle is wrong, then it should be accepted and encouraged the way it is today. Of course there is also the possibility of someone having a family member or a close friend that is gay. Again you don't need to openly judge someone that is gay. God tells us to love everyone, but don't attend a gay wedding.

One article addressed the persecution that Christians face for being against the LGBT community. Christians are being forced to choose to either violate their own conscience or face persecution because they will not go along with what the world says is right. Take the Storman family, for example. They owned a pharmacy up in Washington and they refused to sell drugs that caused abortions. The state of Washington said that they would either have to go against their conscience and sell the drugs, or they would face the consequences. Just because they wouldn't go with the flow of society, they were being put on the spot. Romans 12:2 says, "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind...". Whether a person is a Christian or not, they should not be forced to go against their own conscience.  

Another article explained that when you ask someone to choose between their way of living and their conscience, you are persecuting that person. Persecution does not have to be as something as intense as extreme torture. Once someone is made to choose between their morals and society, they are then being persecuted. But Matthew 5:5 says, "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven". If we are persecuted for standing up for the Lord, we gain treasures in heaven. No one deserves to be persecuted for what they believe in. Some people may think that gays deserve to be persecuted because of their sin. Yes they are living in sin, but we are still supposed to show love to them. God loves everyone and he died to save everyone from their sins. Therefore, we should let god shine through us and show his love to everyone. 

Abortion and Slavery

I read an article that mentioned how slaveholders completely ignored Christian values. The slaveholders believed that the African-Americans weren't even people. They were merely considered "cattle" or property. In the same article, these beliefs were compared to those of abortion. Abortionists believe that an unborn child isn't even a child at all. They think it's simply a cluster of cells or a "fetus". Therefore, they do not consider abortion murder and believe that women should be allowed to have an abortion, regardless of what their husband, parents, family, religious community, or society in general had to say about it. While I agree with the fact that women should be allowed to do whatever they want with their bodies, I disagree with the belief that an unborn child isn't fully human. Once a child is conceived, a new human heartbeat has begun. From the very first moment that that new heart starts beating, that so called "fetus" becomes a human. Once an abortion is performed, it is murder. You are ending the life of an unborn child and killing one of God's creations. Psalm 127: 3 says "Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him". If an unexpected pregnancy happens due to rape, it is not the child's fault and their life shouldn't be ended just because they were brought into this world in an unloving way. Just because you didn't ask to have the child doesn't mean you can be selfish and ends it's life.
Slaveholders were able to do as they say fit, such as beat their slaves even to the point of death. Many people were, and are, against slavery because the slaveholders were allowed to treat their slaves as less than human. Many people today that are in favor of abortion view slavery as morally wrong. They will argue that just because someone has a different skin color like the African-Americans, they are still people just like you and me. But what they don't realize is that they are contradicting their own thoughts. People that are pro-abortion believe that an unborn baby is not a human until it's born. Slaveholders believed that the African-Americans weren't human because of their skin color. Even Hitler believed that the Jews weren't human because they were a different race. Genesis 1:26 says "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness'" and Genesis 5:2 also says, "He created them make and female, and he blessed them and called them 'human'". People are people no matter what. If you have an abortion, you are killing one of God's creations.
Some states have the law that states if someone kills a pregnant woman and her baby dies, it is considered double homicide if the mother is far enough along to where the baby could survive out of the womb. There are even some states that have no limit as to when a woman can abort her unborn baby.  California is a state that has both of these laws. Say you have two pregnant women that are both eight months pregnant and live in California. If one woman has an abortion, it is not murder. If the other is murdered and her baby dies too, it is double murder. Both babies were killed, but only one was considered a murder. Both babies lives were ended at the same time, so they should both be considered murder. Just because one mother chose to end the life of her unborn child and the other mother didn't doesn't mean that one should be considered murder and the other shouldn't. Both babies were killed and therefore, both babies were  murdered.