Thank you for your comment! I whole heartily stand in agreement with what you said! I do believe that we are all sinners deserving of hell! I also believe that we are saved through grace and through the mercy of GOD! I would never set that gift aside! I know that we have all sinned and that Jesus is the only holly one. And I do read my bible every day and I read it and ask for the understanding! I also ask questions. And through my STUDY of Romans I see that there are two main issues that it deals with (along with a slew of others!). 1.) Sin and that there is punishment for being in and of it! 2. The Amazing salvation through Christ, (Gift). So as we read through out the Bible we have to remember that there are sinners and there are Christians. Sinners are those who don’t know the Lord, and they sin, for it is there nature to sin! They are not yet covered by the grace of God, they are still worthy of death, for it says that the wedges of sin is death (Romans6:23).

But the difference is that we know that this is sin and how harmful it can be to a persons spiritual life! So again a i state: "we have to love the person and hate the sin!" and through our love relationship with them we can hopefully draw them to the LORD! Also, there are other Christians that i know that do not want to legalize this, because they are afraid that it could possibly open a new can of worms! (Ex: bestiality - legal, more than one spouse - legal, not to say that it will happen, but if we start to tamper with the deff. of marriage then it will be hard to say where to cut it off!) So i am sorry if i came off as a horrible homophobic radical right Christian, but I’m looking at the bible and seeing in Romans that God says that there are consequences for those who do the sin and those who tolerate or allow it to be come ! I call you blessed and hope to hear back form you! Thanks again, and God bless you and your family!

(ps my two brothers are gay as well so i know how you feel, i hear form them all the time, i know what they are feeling, bc they tell me, so we are kind of in the same boat)

thank you for your comment! i want to first off say sorry if i came across as a "pious" Christian! I will try to better articulate my feelings, that i may not have done that well in the first blog! I agree with you with my whole heart, i too feel that we need to show the homosexual world that there are some Christians in this world that Love them and will help them in their struggles, but at the same time letting them know that we do not agree with the sin in their lives!, Not trying to say that i am perfect, because i am not in any way (striving to be though) shape or form. I know that god looks at all sin at the same...SIN!

I have read all of your replies and I have to say that I agree to a certain point! True I believe that we are all created equal, and true I do not believe that we should alienate anyone or show distaste toward them! I believe that we should do like what Justin mentioned and reflect on that acronym “WWJD, or WDJD”, I am quite sure that Jesus would show love toward them. He said by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.