Some pastors want to play grace, without the truth.
"I don't hate gay people!" they will state, so that no one can accuse them of offense or bigotry.
The statement in itself is not truthful.
People do not identify with their sexual preference.
Male and female God created them, and this distinction had nothing to do with what they did, or who they did, or what they felt.
This distinction is a perfect example of God's grace, in that man brings nothing of himself (and herself), but receives God's unqualified blessings as God's creation.
We are not defined by our feelings at all.
Why would we degrade anyone by identifying them with their sexual feelings for anyone?
Pastors, politicians, and other people have to stop bying into the gay lobby argument which suggests that people are born gay.
We are all born dead in our trespasses, and homosexuality is a manifestation of sin (noun).
In fact, hate is not the answer at all, but the truth which sets people free.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie waffled on this issue when one of the questions asked him how he would respond if one of his children had announced to him that he or she was gay.
"I would tell them that I love them, then I would tell them that marriage is not for them."
Christie had to find an equivocal middle ground on this question since he signed into law a ban on gay-aversion therapy for children. A New Jersey couple has since then sued the Governor.
Gay is not an identity, and men and women should not settle for allowing their children to define who they are, or who they sleep with, because of their feelings.
It's time get off the premise that people define themselves according to their feelings, and invite them to reign in life, above and beyond what their feelings may or may not inform them.
In order to be gracious, we have to walk in the truth, and to walk in the truth, we must stop giving into the argument that people are born gay.
Instead of feeding into the arguments about false identity, let us inform every person, no matter what they feel, that they are called into a glorious adoption, where they can receive God as Father through Jesus Christ
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