Why do Christians like to fixate so much on homosexuality?

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Of course they consider homosexuality to be an abomination, and have highlighted the relevant passages in their Bibles.

But, I think that they overly obsess about it. Every election, there has to be some defining issue where a candidate can demonstrate his moral superiority by expressing his opposition to homosexuality.

I suspect that most Christians have secret homosexual longings, which they are desperate to repress, but which will become manifest in one way or another, and then, Bam! Another Christian going to Hell!

There are a lot more important issues that should be in the government's jurisdiction, such as economic policies, trade policies, etc.

But, no. Everything has to be about homosexuality.

The one's who scream out loud against homosexuality are usually homo's themselves. Ted Haggard anyone?

Every Sunday, sermons in many churches center so much on homosexuality that many parishioners regard it as the forbidden fruit that they just have to taste it.

It is true that a lot of homophobic men (religious or not) are actually that way because of their own latent homosexuality

I don't get why so many people care. How does it harm you (I don't mean you specifically btw lol) if two men want to get married/have sex?

Basically I think a lot of religious people are just obsessed with sex and repress it

Why should anyone want to respond to this. You already seem to think you know the answer.

why can't folk just get along?

I think I know the answer, yes. I am just curious what the Christians have to say for themselves. Or, if someone else has a different take on the issue.

Awesomelyglorious said you were horribly intellectually dishonest and he was right. This takes the cake.

In the right-wing Christian's mind, the homosexual is a stand-in for all that is wrong and debased in a secular democratic society. Atheism, homosexuality and other sexual "perversions," and the spread of Islam are all just symptoms of a turning away from the Fundamentalist Christian's god.

I'm getting that deja vu feeling. Didn't pandabear only recently start a very similar thread (that time asking why "conservatives" are so fixated on homosexuality)?

Looks like pandabear is rather fixated on homosexuality himself.

I think that's a big part of it right there -- it was deliberately turned into a political wedge issue back in the 80's. I.e. I remember hearing Ralph Reid on some recorded phone call going on about all the sucker evangelicals he'd duped into going with his candidate/party.

There's probably other sociological and psychological issues involved, also, of course.

Well, I am flattered to have a fan following.

Ive not encountered Christians being that fixated on homosexuality, and Ive certainly never seen a Bible highlightened in this way, though one of my homosexual friends tell me at the Gay Pride events so called "Christians" with loud hailers let thier views be known, I replied that next event maybe I could stand in front of them with a placard that reads, "Let him who is without sin, cast the first stone".

What I do notice more is the Governments trying to promote homosexuality and force religions to go against the teachings of God by forcing them to conduct homosexual weddings, soon they will have the Bible banned claiming it to be a hate book>

The fact is, we are all sinners, homosexuality is just one symptom of mans enslavement to sin, equally as sinfull is sex before marriage, I wonder how many Christians feel homsexuality is a bigger sin than fornication that is equally as condemned in the Bible.

My own views are that we all sin in some manner and therefore are deserving of death, that the Bible tells us about these sins we all do, the purpose being, when you know the Bible condemns you, but you find yourself forgiven due to your calling on the shead blood of Christ, you will be even more gratefull to God, and Lovve him more from gratitude, than those self righteous "Christians" who must consider they are so perfect they hardly need Jesus to have died for thier sins.

Jesus himself said, a well man has no need of a physician, only the sick call a Physician, he has come to call sinners to repentance.

the diciples where called theves, murderers, adulterers, men who lied with men, but they have been called to repentance and washed clean in the blood of the lamb.

Jesus said the sinner, who begged God for mercy, was more righteous than the man who thanked God he was not a sinner.

The overall idea being, the more you acknowledge the things wrong with us through our rejection of God, the more we need God to put us right, the more God responds to us.

Of course though, this shouldnt be an excuse to practice these things with no feelings of regret for being that way, we cant help failing to a certain extent, but we shouldnt be proud of our sinnfull inclinations.

Homosexuals might think it unfair that they never get a chance to fullfill thier sexal desires without sinning, great will be thier reward if God sees the hardship they endure in order to be his friend.
But its exactly the same with unmarried hetro-sexuals, they too have the same unfullfilled desires.

A friend who had attended the local Catholic Gonzaga University told me about a priest who constantly ranted against homosexuality in his lectures. He said his gay friends told him how this priest is hung like a horse.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Well if Awesomelyglorious said it it must be true

Not at all, AG is wrong when it comes to socioeconomic policy.