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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I think you're asking an important question and bringing up issues you are uniquely suited to call out. My friends who are looking for what you are looking for speak highly of United Methodist congregations, particularly one in Annadale, I think, I can get the exact name if you want it. 
As another resource, I have been really blessed to watch some recent interviews with Dr. David Bennett who might not have the same convictions as yourself, but who is using his studies and life experience to speak specifically to more [b]conservative congregations who need to get over thinking there's something inherently righteous about heterosexuality. [/b]I'm believing you will find a great church community as God leads you.[/quote]Fundamentalist born-again Christians (the only kind of Christian entering heaven) are not saying heterosexuality is righteous (it is just God’s natural order) but that the Bible says clearly that adultery, fornication, and homosexuality are [u]unrighteous[/u] behavior per 1 Corinthians 6:9

[i]Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.[/i]

You are deceived if you think/feel/believe that homosexuality is righteous behavior in line with God’s natural order. There is no compromise on this matter. [/quote]

And yet there you are singling out homosexuality among a long list of behaviors exhibited by pretty much all of humanity in one way or another. [/quote]It was so singled out because false teachers in the church are declaring homosexuality to be normal and not a sin, even saying God made people gay when he did no such thing, any more than God created adulterers, liars, thieves, and drunkards: it is acquired behavior. [/quote]

OP’s whole point is that she doesn’t necessarily agree with churches saying “God made gays” or whatever.  She seems to be comfortable with a questioning or gray area or allowance for discernment rather than adopting the progressive viewpoints exactly as some denominations have done.
Men buggering teen boys in bible times is just not the same thing as two adult women sharing a bed. It just isn’t.

You seem pretty set in your ways and don’t seem curious. Very black and white. Does your family talk to you?[/quote]

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