While I am a big fan of the Christian community, it nourishes me every day...
not everthing is as good as it should be, I think.
These days I see it as a fashion among Christians to bash homosexuals and call them "perverts" and "wicked". At least some do and the rest sometimes stays silent when it happens.
Normally Bible says "judge not" - so why do some Christians think it is ok to speak about gays and lesbians in such a disparaging manner?
Judging and condemning happened in the Bible. Paul judged Alexander, for instance. But before, he was getting attacked by Alexander. Homosexuals don't usually attack Christians even if some of them call the former "peril of the youth" - without providing the slightest substanciation for this weird claim of course. By substanciation I mean a Bible verse or a scientific study...
Paul even goes on to teach that people living in sexual sin should even be removed from the churches.*
But never Bible calls for the insulting of other minorities.
Pointing this out within the Christian communities sometimes gets tricky, too.
They say you were "the accuser of the brethren" or interrupted the peace inside of the community.
I sometimes even heard I was purportedly judging the ones who judge homosexuals.
Merely pointing out disparaging remarks judges noone, though. Criticising a statement does not mean criticising the person.
Thomas
Disclaimer: I am neutral towards whether the Bible considers homosexuality or its practice sinful.
* 1 Corinthians 5:7
One of the main problems is leftist secularism, via Hollywood, tries to promote and wave homosexuality in everyone's face. At its best, the goal is to desensitize people ,by over saturating them, until they no longer over react. However, if it was below the radar, there would less over reaction by those not easily desensitize by such a strategy.
If you were a heterosexual you might would react similarly to a heterosexual couple getting too frisky in public. Not everyone want to see that. However, very few care if this is kept private. Gays are not below the radar and this pushes the wrong buttons to their own detriment. There is almost a uniform to create a target. It is a very simple cause and affect.
Consider the relatively new PC word taboos imposed by leftist theology. If you say the wrong buzz word, the tribe is trained to respond in an angry way. On the other hand, if you only think the words or say them in private, but do not express them in public or in ear shot of a leftist; below their radar, the tribe is more tolerant. It is simple cause and affect. It happens in all areas of life.
Bill Clinton helped homosexuals be more accepted in the Services by the policy, "don't ask and don't tell." Some people cannot control certain trained and/or natural reflexes, and can go over board when stimulated, so you need to protect yourself and them, by keeping certain things below the radar. It is like asking a spouse if they ever cheated on you. This may be a question best not asked or answered. It can open a can of worms.
If you wish to divide people, you trick certain scapegoats, into over providing the very stimulus that pushes certain buttons of others, and does them no good. Then you blame those who overreact. This is the modern Progressive divisive strategy for recruitment using manipulative redirect.
Homosexuality is not consistent with Darwinism. The reason is evolution requires breeding so genes; DNA, can pass forward. These passed forward genes control the impulses. Atheists should know this. Homosexuality precludes or limits sexual production, by default, yet this type of behavior perpetuates. This tells us this is not by genetic transmission, so it needs to be learned or conditioned and therefore involves choice and will at some level. It is being misrepresented by atheist secularism with the goal of division.
The goal appears to be to create division by calling what is willful, natural, and what is a natural reaction to willful, as artificial. Let us settle this conflict with science and Darwin.