Flyin'Dutch' wrote:To suggest that homosexuality is a sin is not akin to teaching that everyone is loved.
The concept is to love the person - not what they are doing.
Hence you get prison chaplains.
There is also nothing in the bible against having same sex attraction. The issue comes in what someone does with that attraction. Our bodies were clearly not designed for it.
And to be clear, it is considered just as much a sin (against God's will) for a heterosexual people to be living outside of marriage, and many churches treat as equivalent.
However that group isn't as vocal about their "rights". A gay couple would be treated in my church in the same way as a heterosexual living together couple. Both couples would be welcomed.
God loves everyone.
But neither behaviour would be encouraged.
To put it in another context, in 10 years, this subject has been preached about once in my church. It isn't the church that keeps bringing up these topics.