Don’t you dare change my mind, but why is homosexuality bad?<\/a>\u00a0This contains arguments against homosexuality for someone who doesn’t accept the Bible as God’s Word.<\/p>\n\tResponse:<\/h2>\n
Thank you. I did read through this as well. It is amazing how people blind themselves to the truth in order to justify their beliefs and lifestyle. But I remind myself I did the same thing before I made it to the church of Christ.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: Hello, I just wanted to say that I appreciate the\u00a0Q&A section of your website, which I found today during a google search for church of Christ responses to homosexuality.\u00a0 Because many of my friends are gay, and those who aren’t are non-Christian and, therefore, supportive of the gay equality movement, I am trying to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[127,35],"class_list":["post-34359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-about-this-site","tag-homosexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56932,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/higher-percentage-of-homosexuals-among-young-adults-than-seniors-what-does-this-mean\/","url_meta":{"origin":34359,"position":0},"title":"Higher Percentage of Homosexuals Among Young Adults Than Seniors: What Does This Mean?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Andy Sochor via\u00a0Plain Bible Teaching As time goes on, homosexuality is increasingly becoming more accepted in our society. As it becomes more accepted, it will become more common. A recent Gallup survey found that\u00a03.4% of adults in the United States identified themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Article"","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2975,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/where-does-the-bible-say-homosexuality-is-a-sin\/","url_meta":{"origin":34359,"position":1},"title":"Where does the Bible say homosexuality is a sin?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 26, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I saw your email in a Christian site which was also on homosexuality, I decided to write. I wondered if you believe it is a sin as I can't find any passages on gay love to show that it's a sin anywhere. 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