Topic : Homosexuality Debate and Discussion

i am not trying to force m beliefs on other people; I'm just speaking the truth and i don't care who likes it or who doesn't. Homosexuality is totally wrong and i don't think anyone should sugar coat this subject. If you are gay and you don't repent you will go to hell and their's no question about that. The bible shows us how a man who lays with another man is an abomination. So homosexuality is and abomination in Gods eyes.

The truth is a funny thing, I've always felt that there are usually at least 3 versions of it, your side, my side and somewhere in the midst of it the truth.  While you may feel that homosexuality is totally wrong I don't.  I know many Christians who do not interpret the bible the same as you do.  What I feel is totally wrong is when someone judges another and then calls them an abomination.  I'm pretty sure that the bible says that only God should judge.  So if you are completely without sin then by all means cast that first stone but I don't think that any of us truly can do that.

Those Bible passages are widely open to interpretation and context of the times. Most references to homosexual behavior in the Bible are within the context of rape (showing dominance over rival cultures) or temple fertility rites. There is NO reference to homosexual relationships, and Jesus himself NEVER spoke of homosexuality.

If you are gay and you don't repent you will go to hell and their's no question about that.

There is a LOT of question about that. Furthermore, I thought only GOD gets to decide our eternities...surely you are not putting yourself as GOD? Doesn't that break the first commandment?

I am not God and of course i do sin just like everyone else; but as I said If God approved of gay relations he would have said so in the bible. He didn't creat Adam and Steve, or Ana and Eve. He created a woman and a man to procreate. Two people of the same sex can't procreate. God doesn't make mistakes if made you woman is because that's what you are supposed to be or if he made you a man that's what you were suppossed to be. I don't care what anyone says in the end everyone will see that homosexuality is a great big sin.

Why did I get the marriage license....here are a few of the reasons. 

I knew that I wanted to have children with my partner, I also had worked for many years, dutifully paying into the Federal Social Security system.  If I something were to happen to either my spouse or myself our children and the surviving spouse would be entitled to that money.   Now if I happened to be gay and legally entered into a Civil Union (which is legal in my state) my spouse would not be entitled to the same.  Doesn't seem fair.

Another example would be the benefit of filing a joint Federal tax return. Can't do that with a Civil Union either.

When it comes to making the life or death decisions in life, like to pull the plug or not, the only person I trust to make those kinds of decisions is my spouse.  Without that darned license it would be left up to my family and that would just be a mess!  This you can do with a Civil Union!

These are just a few of the practical reasons I got married.  I didn't need the piece of paper then and after being a couple for almost 15 years I do not really need it now.  We are together not because of that license but because we want to be (most days that is).

To me denying gay couples the same benefits that my husband and I receive just screams of discrimination.  It really wasn't that long ago that many states denied interracial couples marriage licenses too.