Homosexuality

One of the most controversial topics in our world today is gay marriage. Something that was once frowned upon and illegal is now legal and encouraged. In many places in the world, there are gay pride festivals being held. What many people may not realize is that they are just celebrating sin. In Leviticus 18:22, it says "Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable".

A majority of the world has long since abandoned it's morals. Let's be honest, how many people do you think ask themselves "What would Jesus do?" or "What would Jesus think if He saw me doing this?"? Probably not many people. Nevertheless, God loves everyone unconditionally. I read an article that stated, "But prominent evangelical Christians continue to become publicly affirming of LGBT persons". Yes the Bible says that gay marriage is wrong, so it would make sense that these evangelical Christians would be against the homosexual lifestyle; however, they don't need to publicly ridicule the LGBT people. Jesus loves everyone, but that doesn't mean that he loves everyone's lifestyle choices. You can love someone without loving the choices that they make. The same article said, "...it is high time Christians opened wide their arms, wide their churches, wide their tables, wide their homes to the LGBT community".

There are even many influential people who are involved in the media that are gay, such as Tyler Oakley, Connor Franta, Trevor Moran, and Sam Smith. Now that there are people like this involved in things like the media and there are more and more people getting addicted to the internet, more and more people are letting their guard down. There are more people accepting gay and lesbian marriage everyday. People think, "Oh the world will not affect me. I will stand my ground and keep my morals". What people do not realize is that that is a whole lot easier said than done. I will admit that I am guilty of this accusation. I myself have many friends that are gay, lesbian, transgender, and bi. And I accept them for who they are. But does that mean that I approve of all of the choices that they make for themselves? Absolutely not. As I said before, you definitely do not need to love someone's lifestyle to love the person as well. If we, including Jesus, did have to love someone's lifestyle to be able to like the person, would Jesus love any of us? The answer is no. He would not. 

Jesus does say that we should not associate ourselves with people like that, but that does not mean that we have to completely shut them out. We just should not actively seek out their company. The issue of someone having a gay family member also comes up quite often. Like Jesus, we are supposed to love everyone, regardless of lifestyle. Say you yourself had a gay or lesbian family member and they invited you to their wedding. If it were me, I would not be morally able to attend the wedding. So, what I'm saying is, if I were in that situation, I would still love that person. But I would not be able to attend a wedding like that.