So I got a formspring, where anyone can go on and leave you a little message with a question that you can answer or whatever, and my first question was:

"what's ur opinion on gays, if ur so into Jesus."

My answer is probably going to be a decent blog length, so I decided to just post a blog about it and link them to this.

I want to preface my answer by saying a couple different things:
1) From when I was young until very recently, my mom chose a homosexual lifestyle.
2) I am more comfortable with my sexuality than almost any other guy I know, and am completely not homophobic.
3) Yes, I probably would be weirded out if a guy were to hit on me, but most of the time I'm weirded out when girls hit on me, too.

So the, "stop using God as a cover up for your disgust, you pig!" retaliation can't really apply. I am not disgusted by homosexuality.

So, let's do this I guess.

For starters, the Mosaic Law says:


"If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."

-Leviticus 20:13


That is the majority of Christians' first verse to say that homosexuality is wrong, but almost always is met with something along the lines of, "The Mosaic Law also says not to eat shellfish, or wear clothing woven of two fabrics, and it permits selling your daughter into slavery, etc." As I said in one of my other posts, to those whom are alive in Jesus Christ, the Mosaic Law is dead. But non-believers are still held accountable by the law. That sounds really crappy, but it's true. It's to show those who don't believe that they can't do it on their own, they need Christ. But that's all in a different blog. My point here is that if a Christian were to point out that part of the Mosaic Law to a non-believer, they can't retaliate with saying, "Well you don't follow all the laws!" Yes, I understand that if you don't share those beliefs, it doesn't really matter. But that's the Truth.

Moving on.


"¹⁸The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, ¹⁹since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. ²⁰For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

²¹For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²²Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools ²³and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

²⁴Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ²⁵They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

²⁶Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. ²⁷In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."

Romans 1:18-27

And there it is. God doesn't like homosexuality. Do I like that fact? Of course not. It means that, by my own beliefs, some people I am very close to, who have played a huge part in my life, won't be spending eternity with me. It's heartbreaking, of course I don't like it. But it's not my choice what is and isn't okay.

And here's an age old question: is it a choice? A very close friend of mine, who is a lesbian, believes very firmly it is not. It's just how you are. But we are all slaves to sin before we accept Jesus Christ. That's just how we are, we can't help it. But I firmly believe that through Jesus Christ, if you want to change, He'll help you.

So there it is. I believe that living a homosexual lifestyle is an indication of the absence of Jesus Christ in your life, and Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven. Therefore, homosexuality leads to spiritual death. Do I like it? Of course not. I don't like that even a single person might not experience the joys of the Kingdom of Heaven, especially some of the people very close to me.

Anonymous formspringer, I hope that answered your question.

I feel like I left a lot unexplained but I'm tired. If there's anything you want me to expand on, or anything you can add on, leave a comment and I'll post a new blog about it later.