Gallop: More and More Christians View Homosexuality as “Morally Acceptable”
- Posted on June 21, 2010
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According to the Houston Chronicle and a new Gallop poll: Christians and people from other religious traditions have grown more tolerant of gays and lesbians. The percentage of Catholics calling gay relations "morally acceptable" has increased by more than a third in the past five years, up to 62 percent. More Americans also favor legalizing gay marriage.
More from the article:
Although America's stance on homosexuality remains a contentious social issue, nearly split nationwide, gays and lesbians are moving towards equality in some of the country's mainline Protestant denominations. The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles recently ordained the church's first openly gay female bishop. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America decided last year to allow non-celibate gay and lesbian clergy to serve. Despite some dissenters, the ELCA has continued to seek the full inclusion of homosexual church leaders and members.
In the survey, fewer people cited homosexuality as a personal choice rather than a factor of genetics and environment (from 41 percent in 2008 to 34 percent in 2010).
As I've said many times before... I really think the gay/lesbian issue will be one of the biggest areas of controversy and change in the church in the next decade. How is your church engaging/reaching/reacting to gays and lesbians? Do you feel you need to? How will your church hold it's theological views on homosexuality and yet minister in a world that is increasingly looking at homosexuality as a norm?
Todd
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Fred on Wed, June 23, 2010
My question is: What are you going to do when you develop a friendship with a gay person or have gay couples come to your church and want to become members and hang around for years and years without stopping their gay lifestyle?
Christopher Fontenot on Thu, June 24, 2010
Fred,
Well of course that is absolutely welcomed because most churches don’t preach on God’s holiness or His hatred of sin and the mention of the word “sin” is missing entirely. So stuck on the relationship aspect, so concerned about offending, the Biblical mandate of church discipline is never excercised and therefore nothing gets done. The church is filled with unregenerate sinners who burden the pastor with so many personal problems that they wear him out and consume the time devoted to study. Weak and lacking the Holy Spirit, they occupy themselves with all kinds of “ministry” that bolsters their pride, fame, church name all in the name of showing the love of Jesus but never sharing the Gospel. The modern “Christian” church in America.
Peter Hamm on Thu, June 24, 2010
Christopher, you are too much. Talk about cursing the darkness but not lighting any candles.
Have you been in “most churches”? No, then why don’t you refrain from such a ridiculous statement until you have been. There are perhaps about 300,000 in America. If you visit one per weekend… then it’ll take you almost 3,000 years to visit half of them. Get back to us when you do if you want to make blanket statements like that.
ChurchSalt on Thu, June 24, 2010
“Professing”, the missing word is, “Professing”. When will the folks who write these articles learn to use the proper words? Professing Christians willingly walk in all sorts of sin (including homosexuality), whereas real Christians do not.
Christopher Fontenot is exactly right in his approach of talking to these folks. Show them where they currently stand using God’s Law, and then explain the good news of the Gospel. For those folks who don’t think that street preaching/witnessing is a good approach, you better go re-read the New Testament and see what worked there….
Bryan on Tue, July 13, 2010
I agree that Homosexuals should be allowed to marry. Of course, I think it’s crazy that the State makes this call. we really need to relabel the whole deal as a nation.
Anyone should be allowed to enter into a civil union, which for all intents and purposes, functions legally like a marriage currently does. This can be performed by a justice of the peace since it’s a legal matter.
Marriage itself is a a religious covenant and should be left to the church. Hence, a minister can perform marriages, which includes the legal status of a civil union by default.
Problem solved.
Darryl on Sat, September 25, 2010
The Word is a double-edged sword. While you preach to the lost, the Word will not return void. It will do the Will of God, even if it is not what we THINK it should do. It may even minister to the one who THINKS they are doing the ministering. It may even minister to somebody that misinterprets a few passages to condemn homosexuals, as the modern-day lepers. It is fine to wear a garment of more than one material, but the other stuff God really meant? Maybe people like that should take the time to realize the historical context and meaning of the scriptures. Shutting women up in church (historically because they were uneducated at that time and it would be a distraction), condoning slavery (historically was not the same as what we call slavery now), and condemning homosexuals (historically not the same contexts as two same-sex partners). Maybe true Christians should realize God’s Love, and take the time to learn the Truth before condemning people and pushing them away from the God who loves them.
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