For regular readers here ….. please do check out the other links …. some very thoughtful, gracious and hope-filled posts are emerging in this collection of conversations.

We need people to notice that God is also a God of Justice, I agree; who are we to judge others? Only God can, for we are all sinners who fall short, but I think it is still very important for the us as Christians to stand against the forces of sin in our culture no matter what it looks like, sex, drugs, or false religion.

These strong holds the devil is trying to build into our culture and into our children’s minds needs to be stopped. Teaching kids about sexuality, & homosexuality as being perfecting normal acts in our culture is disturbing to say the least, we as Christian need to act in love, but also never wavier to the side of saying sin is okay, or sin is how would we say it, not so bad.

To wrap up I believe that fighting for our personally beliefs is okay when done correctly but allowing the devil to grow this kingdom, well we are silent is why we have such a problem today. So I will protest all things in which our laws or freedoms and or morals are compromised by others who think their sin should be legal or justified.

Thanks for being willing to do that.

I particularly want to thank you for being willing to look at same-sex romantic relationships as something that involves more than sex. It seems to me that too often, our relationships are reduced to nothing more than a string of sexual escapades. I appreciate your willingness to see through this falsehood and look at my relationships as more complex and holistic than that.

Brian

“So what’s the bottom line, in your view, when it comes to the blessing of same-sex marriages by the church?”

If the church went ahead and made up there little rules for them to live in where no gays can marry then who cares. If the church wants to alienate themselves from everyone, I mean only the sinners then let them do so.

If two people who are of the same sex want to marry, who am I – an un-honest sinful heterosexual – to tell a homosexual couple they cant love one another and share common unions of a heterosexual.

If your church is stuck in a rut and doesn’t recognize, don’t look to steer their ship to understand; steer your own.

I don’t believe that when speaking of a homosexual marriage we are speaking from our own authority. A union where two people agree to be faithful to one another is completely different from a marriage recognized by the church. You don’t delude a standard because we’re falling short of it. If you are a high-jumper the only way to grow, and get better is to keep pushing the bar out of reach to encourage better performance, not bringing it down so we all can achieve it.

The sound of being told a church is in a rut scares me, it’s a line of thought held by the same people that say that the church should change with the times, or “evolve”.

“So what’s the bottom line, in your view, when it comes to the blessing of same-sex marriages by the church? “

The point of this post for me was to point out how useless a question like “is homosexuality wrong?” For me it’s a non issue and for me to not bless a lifelong commitment of two people would make me feel like I’m judging them, that I’m in somehow a place in my life where I can withhold blessings from someone else and is to not appreciate the good that is in their relationship and focus only on the bad. So in answer to your question. I think the church should be blessing any union people, homosexual or heterosexual.