Sunday, October 16, 2005

Homosexuality in Christianity

In some more Internet news, I was reading something about how the denomination organizations are angering homosexuals by refusing them rights in the church. Also, there are church organizations that are mad that some other churches are allowing some rules and regulations to be broken in order to accept homosexuals within their church or allow them to marry. To me, this is a difficult issue because it's all based on personal belief. A person may argue that homosexuality is a great sin or an abomination because it says it in the Bible. On the other hand, other people may still be avid Christians but question that one passage in the Bible and say that the passage was written in a time when homosexuality was not accepted within the society, therefore saying it was a biased passage. So you can see why some people may be torn, but to me, for the most part most people would think homosexuality is wrong and "gross" in terms of having it in the church. Also, churches base all of their rules and regulations from the Bible, so the homosexuals already know what they're getting into when they step into that church. Homosexuals really can't say people are being prejudiced against them in terms of Christianity because the Bible already says homosexuality is wrong. Even in those old times, they didn't say anything racist or say that black people should be slaves, everybody was on the same level in terms of racial background. So you cant really say that the Bible was influenced by the times when it comes to it being anti-homosexual because it supported anti-racism and we saw abundant racism in the 50s! So personally, the homosexuals trying to be integrated in the Church have, no doubt, an uphill battle. It's just that they should realize the doctrines the churches hold dear from the Bible will be difficult to impossible to break.