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Actually, there are plenty of denominations that don't talk about categorizing sinners, or labeling drug addicts, or anything else of that nature. I for one do not tell my children that alcoholics or anyone else are sinners. I tell them that alcoholism and drug abuse are illnesses and cause deep suffering. Sin doesn't enter into it. If I were to talk about other people's sins, which I don't, I would focus on greed. The banking system is a much worthier target of our Christian outrage than our gay neighbors.

I hope any gay children of the OP, or posters who agree with her, have enough of a support system outside of their family and church to know that they too are created in God's image. They are loved by God exactly as He made them.  
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First of all, some of you have some really twisted ideas about what "sin" is.  Sin is not some all-powerful label that permanently condemns you to Hell or makes you somehow dirty.  Sin is something everyone has a propensity for- its greek roots quite literally mean "missing the mark."  That's what it is- missing the target, and the target is to be as much like Christ as possible.  If I tell my children that I sin, or that they sin, that is not a condemnation.  It is a statement of fact.  We all sin, and we all have our own particular weaknesses.  That does not mean that our sins themselves should be accepted or celebrated.

If gay children are made to feel dirty or unloved or rejected, that is the complete and utter failure of the people around them, because all children should feel loved and accepted no matter what.  That has nothing to do with Christianity, but with people's automatic fear and loathing of those who are different from them.  If they did not couch that hatred in Christianity it would have been in something else, some other religion, some other philosophy.  People are terrible sometimes, whether they profess to be Christian or not.

I am the OP and you're making so many hateful assumptions about me and all it shows, really, is that you cannot handle the prospect of other people disagreeing with your point of view.  I have tried to remain civil.  I would never reject my child (or any child, or any person) on the basis of a real or perceived flaw.  That really has nothing to do with this discussion, which is about the Biblical basis for why Christianity has considered homosexuality a sin for so long.  You could make a better contribution if you cited the actual Bible, and not your own flawed assumptions.[/quote]

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