Lust is not love and therefore a person "in lust' is not capable of knowing what's best for himself or another person because his own desires cloud his thinking.
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Heidi, I think its rather sad that you don't even realize you have just swept away years of committed and loving relationships, denouning them as nothing more than "lust driven". In one general statement you would abolish the center of people's entire lives, tear down a relationship that means the world to them, destroy something that they have worked for as hard as a husband and wife by simply reducing it all to a pure, selfish, sexual urge, and then you place a little cute smiley face at the end, as though you've done nothing more than comment on someone's furniture.
I don't think you realize that while you sit here talking about moral issues surrounding homosexuality that you are talking about real people, like yourself. You seem content to stamp the issue with your own moral proclaimation, not even considering, nor really caring, how such attitudes actually affect the lives of these people.
Everyone here likes to talk about objective morality, but no one seems to see the moral dilemna in the pain that the Christian and Secular world has and continues to inflict on homosexuals, a pain that I have experienced first hand. To most of you here, its as simple as talking about air plane designs or lust, or anatomical functions, you are quick to condemn the homosexual to a lifetime of celibacy and declare that God will simply fill whatever void is left in them, when in reality, you are in no place to say what will make them happy, you simply dont know that they will be happier apart from their partner.
To most of you, its as simple as airplane designs, to people like me and others, its far more complex than that, to people like me its a matter of happiness or misery, perhaps even death and life. I'm not sure if you know whats its like to have the Vatican print off some document that puts your life in a nutshell and then decide the direction of that life for you, or people throw a bible at you and decide the direction of your life for you. You may compare being gay to alcoholism, drug addiction, anger problems ect. but in the end none of those comparisons work, for being gay hurts no one, but your judgments do, and again, you may say all kinds of things about "spiritual harm", but in the end, you don't really know, you are not me, you can not tell me that its hurting me, only I can really know that and the people close to me.
I would just think, as Christians, you would be much less quick to forcefully push people into suffering in the name your moral code (think pharisees?), and much quicker to show them the kind of healing compassion and love that Christ died to demonstrate. Christ loved the law of God, but when that law began separating and marginalizing people, he prized God's love over the moral code. As he said "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath". Here Jesus broke the law concerning the Sabbath, because he prized helping people over obeying rules that hurt them. Likewise, I dont believe humanity was made for sex, but sex was made for humanity.
