Since Everyone Else Is Doing It

I got back from a week of vacation to find the internet had blown up. Facebook is full of rainbow filtered profile pictures and hate comments. I became exhausted just reading everything. I do want to put my opinion out there, however. At the end of the school year, I wrote up a paper about gay marriage. I'm going to post it below and not return to this subject on my blog because, like I said, I'm tired of it. 

There tends to be two sides portrayed by the media when it comes to the issue of gay marriage. 

The 'no tolerance'-'God hates gays' extremist Christians and 'everyone deserves 

happiness', understanding liberals. The topic seems to have been wrung dry by online bloggers, TV 

newscasters, and argumentative friends at the lunch table or Facebook comment feed. There's a 

group that tends to get left out of these discussions, and that's the 'observer who doesn't want to 

argue, but disagrees with both sides of the issue'. Christians need to treat everyone they talk to 

with a love that stems from Jesus. Remembering that all humans, including themselves, are soaked 

in sin and deserve hell is necessary when discussing the wrongdoings of others. 

The Bible straight up says that homosexuality is a sin and should, therefore, be avoided. It is 

a sinful perversion, and veers from the guidelines put in place from the start of the world. 

Purposefully living against those guidelines and not making any effort to repent and change sinful 

ways shows rejection toward God and his creation. Gay marriage is a blatant way of expressing 

the sin of homosexuality. 

God made males and females different for a reason. Adam and Eve needed each other to 

build each other up and to populate the earth. Even from an evolutionary standpoint, being in a 

gay relationship doesn't reap the benefits that a relationship between a man and woman would. It's 

physically impossible for two males or two females to naturally have a child together and continue 

the human race. It's not denying happiness to say that marrying someone of the same sex is wrong, 

it's a way of looking out for people who have sinful urges. 

An argument that is heard frequently in favor of gay marriage is that they were 'born that 

way'. This is completely and 100% true. Every single person is born with sin and they live with 

that sin their entire lives. Each person's struggles are different. Their struggles could range from 

anger issues, lust, jealousy, fear, homosexuality, etc. How people deal with those struggles 

determines who they are and their faith life. Someone could identify themselves as gay, but later in 

life go to God and counselors with their problems. Someone else could grow up going to Sunday 

school and church every week, but fall out of faith because of an alcohol addiction or drug 

problem that they refuse to seek help for. 

People don't want to hear that what they feel or the things that they do are wrong. It's the job 

of a Christian to help others and tell them about Jesus. Part of helping others is telling them 

when they're doing something wrong. In some circumstances, this duty gives Christians a 

judgmental sense of entitlement where instead there should be a desire to help rooted in love. When 

approaching the subject of homosexuality, Christians should keep in mind that they are talking to 

humans who are just as set in their mind as they are. Too often, a desperate need to be right 

overcomes the need to be kind. 

It's important to remember that although there will be homosexuals in hell, there will also be 

people who claimed to be a Christian. Only God can see into people's hearts and see what sort of 

faith they have.