I'm honestly not sure your point. Is this it?
"It may surprise you, but these people are only one of millions, who believes it is wrong to condemn their lifestyle."
Who child abusers? That would shock me. Though, I don't see the connection between child abuse and same-sex behavior.
What is the connection between the two?
What did you mean by this?
I wouldn't say it's a lifestyle. But this is a good example. Pedophiles means someone who is attracted to children. Child molesters and abusers are those who are sexually intimate with children. The two are different. One is an attraction. The other is an action. The latter has nothing to do with attraction.
Are you now asking based on bias due to peer pressure?
What's the connection between the two? What? The actions of the homosexual and the pedophile, or the the attraction of the homosexual and the pedophile?
According to the Bible, both of the former are sexual sins.
Both of the latter are not encourage, and the Bible says we can have our minds made over, or be transformed.
(Ephesians 4:20-24)
20 But you did not learn the Christ to be like this,
21 if, indeed, you heard him and were taught by means of him, just as truth is in Jesus.
22 You were taught to put away the old personality that conforms to your former course of conduct and that is being corrupted according to its deceptive desires.
23 And you should continue to be made new in your dominant mental attitude,
24 and should put on the new personality that was created according to God’s will in true righteousness and loyalty.
(Colossians 3:5-10)
5 Deaden, therefore, your body members that are on the earth as respects sexual immorality, uncleanness, uncontrolled sexual passion, hurtful desire, and greediness, which is idolatry.
6 On account of those things the wrath of God is coming.
7 That is how you too used to conduct yourselves in your former way of life.
8 But now you must put them all away from you: wrath, anger, badness, abusive speech, and obscene talk out of your mouth.
9 Do not lie to one another. Strip off the old personality with its practices,
10 and clothe yourselves with the new personality, which through accurate knowledge is being made new according to the image of the One who created it,
Remember, this all started with the bashing argument.
I wanted to understand what the OP meant by bashing, so I brought up the child abuser to help me get that perspective.
Is it bashing to call anyone perverted? in other words.
You are witness to this. Instead of getting an answer, accusations of comparing homosexuality to child molestation started flying.
What?
The person I addressed the question to, even said that I was comparing the two, and hence bashing gays... instead of answering the question.
As you are witness, the question was never answered.
Since everyone is on this comparison thing it must be interesting so hey, why not join in. Let's dig to the finish then.
Is it okay to bash pedophiles?
Actually Artist. I don't want to put you on the spot. So this is not for you.
You understand where I am at though. I hope. No one evidently wants to answer that. Why?
Because they are all guilty of bashing them.
It's hard to comment because each minority relates to discrimination and so forth in different ways that one person may think of gay as being X and another person as Y. People's personal experiences shape how they use the word so another point I'd add is it's better to ask "and" take their word for it.
I'd have to know the context of the conversation. My friend is a gay christian and she says she has no problem with being gay-because gay to her isn't something she does/doesn't do. It's who she is as a human being with whom she feels god created. So, hers is focused on the beauty of sexuality while others see it as lust of the flesh.
How does genitals make the difference between one person's lust and the other person's love?
I can see if one's spirit in a relationship can determine the difference between what's morally good or bad, but one's sex??
I get this.
Actually, humility is what matters.
Take for example, a person that was abused as a child, and developed a hatred for all men, and a strong phobia against any man touching them.
They would still be able to serve God, since they are willing to submit to the teachings of God's word, to the best of their ability... even if they get reoccurring thoughts of castrating any male that touches them.
Or an alcoholic, who crave drinks, but restrains from drinking.
Some homosexuals who converted may have struggled with certain desires, but over time, their minds were made over.
Concerning such persons, we read... (1 Corinthians 6:11) . . .And yet that is what some of you were. But you have been washed clean; you have been sanctified; you have been declared righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and with the spirit of our God. . .
It's all about how humble you are.