Christianity and Homosexuality

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

I have heard of Christians who take a very convoluted position by believing the church should be open to gay members as part of the community, and that while nothing is wrong with homosexuality, civil marriage is allowed but church marriage is strictly for opposite sex couples.

Cognitive dissonance probaby plays a role in positions like these, where on one hand they sincerely believe in equality but are also strong believers in church teachings.

Anywho, to answer your questions:

1. I'd say yes. The Bible (and most religious texts, for that matter) is very unclear about homosexuality in itself. You can use it to argue against same-sex marriages in the church, but it's much harder to do so with homosexuality itself.

2. I would echo NeverAgain's post above for this. Religious attendance is dropping across the board, but evangelical churches seems to doing a better job of holding on to some members and attracting some disaffected non-evangelicals, usually the most hardcore members anyways.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

I really don't understand the "We don't know what God did regarding homosexuality, so it might or might not be okay, but the Bible says don't marry or have sex or you'll go to hell" thing.

If we don't know what God says about homosexuality in and of itself, it makes no sense that God would create LGBT people and then deny them intimacy and commitment, unless you think homosexuality is some kind of ultimate test in self-denial.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

If the gay person loves the straight woman, then it's not deception.  The false assumption is that "gays" (or people who identify as such in the 21st century) are unable to be in a straight relationship.

That's not how homosexuality generally works.