Any thoughts on the Michael Sam Kiss on ESPN...

[dawgs]

For those of us who are Christian, we view homosexuality as a sin. Therefore, as Christians, it is not discriminatory of us to disapprove, as we would any sin, including the numerous ones we commit ourselves. Yet is is wrong, IMO to take judgment in our own hands and punish those who are gay. Leave it to God.

I think most of us don't have a personal problem with someone being gay (assuming it's not our own family). We just have a problem with it being foisted upon us by a community and/or media eager to have it considered "normal" or "main-stream". For Christians it is neither of those. You might as well try to convince us it's also OK to have open and public cheating on your spouse. We know a lot of married folks do that, but it's still wrong according to our beliefs.

Personally, I think what gay people do is between them and God. I don't look down my nose at them, I just consider what they are doing to be a sin. But I do resent being preached to by those eager to promote homosexuality as normal. When people try to force it upon me as anything less than a sin, it is in direct conflict with my religious beliefs, therefore I am offended, just as I am by atheists intent to remove any and all reference of God from the public.

The problem is the sheer number of sins in the bible that Christians don't harp on all the time, yet go out of their way to point out the sinful nature of homosexuality to justify their bigoted beliefs. Do you treat divorced couples the same way? What about those that have pre-marital sex? What about adulterers? What about all the other sins in the bible that aren't consider a huge deal in modern society? It's hypocrisy to pick one sin to justify your bigoted views while ignoring others. The bible was used to justify slavery and segregation once upon a time too.