Comments on: Alternative LifeStyles GLBT http://www.postednote.com/2009/06/11/alternative-lifestyles-glbt/ When you have a ravenous craving for BS. Sat, 12 May 2012 01:27:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jenny B http://www.postednote.com/2009/06/11/alternative-lifestyles-glbt/comment-page-1/#comment-26036 Jenny B Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:00:08 +0000 http://www.postednote.com/?p=1888#comment-26036 The church I am a member of believes that homosexuality is a proclivity to sin like any other addiction (alcohol, drugs, hetero sexual addiction), and should not be singled out as weirder or more terrible than someone who struggles with pride, anger, alcohol, etc. I also know some people who have gone through Celebrate Recovery and are in recovery for it, just as you would for any other addiction. They don't claim they don't have those feelings, but they choose to rely on God not to act upon them. I agree with the not-singling-out-as-any-different thing. But I am not 100% on homosexuality always being a sin...I think that is difficult for me to say since I don't have those tendencies myself and don't know what it entails in the heart. I understand heterosexual sexual addiction, I am not in bondage to that addiction anymore, because of work I've done on my own heart and my relationship with God through Christ. But I also know that I am now married, I can have sex and that I didn't need to stop having sex forever to "fix" that addiction. I also know some very Godly gay people who are in committed long-term relationships and seem to have a personal relationship with the Lord. I do not understand how they could have that relationship if they are constantly in sin, as the viewpoint of all-homosexuality-as-sin suggests. That is where I start to have a problem with the all-homosexuality-as-sin viewpoint. I also do not believe I am automatically "less married" or my marriage threatened in any way if homosexual marriage is legal. That makes absolutely no sense to me. It would be interesting to know what Fellowship believes on the subject. Also, I would like to say that if this does turn into some kind of huge long blog comment discussion, I am not checking this after I post it, so I am not getting involved in any long arguments. I just told you my opinion because I enjoy your thought process, Eddo, and you asked. :-) Not because I feel like arguing with everyone else. I believe everyone has their own right to come to their own decision in the context of their own relationship with God or conscience in this area. The church I am a member of believes that homosexuality is a proclivity to sin like any other addiction (alcohol, drugs, hetero sexual addiction), and should not be singled out as weirder or more terrible than someone who struggles with pride, anger, alcohol, etc. I also know some people who have gone through Celebrate Recovery and are in recovery for it, just as you would for any other addiction. They don’t claim they don’t have those feelings, but they choose to rely on God not to act upon them.

I agree with the not-singling-out-as-any-different thing. But I am not 100% on homosexuality always being a sin…I think that is difficult for me to say since I don’t have those tendencies myself and don’t know what it entails in the heart. I understand heterosexual sexual addiction, I am not in bondage to that addiction anymore, because of work I’ve done on my own heart and my relationship with God through Christ. But I also know that I am now married, I can have sex and that I didn’t need to stop having sex forever to “fix” that addiction. I also know some very Godly gay people who are in committed long-term relationships and seem to have a personal relationship with the Lord. I do not understand how they could have that relationship if they are constantly in sin, as the viewpoint of all-homosexuality-as-sin suggests. That is where I start to have a problem with the all-homosexuality-as-sin viewpoint.

I also do not believe I am automatically “less married” or my marriage threatened in any way if homosexual marriage is legal. That makes absolutely no sense to me.

It would be interesting to know what Fellowship believes on the subject.

Also, I would like to say that if this does turn into some kind of huge long blog comment discussion, I am not checking this after I post it, so I am not getting involved in any long arguments. I just told you my opinion because I enjoy your thought process, Eddo, and you asked. :-) Not because I feel like arguing with everyone else. I believe everyone has their own right to come to their own decision in the context of their own relationship with God or conscience in this area.

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