Homsexuals

The topic of homosexuality I feel is a tender subject. It is usually a subject that ends up being made fun of in the end. The obscure comments and gay jokes are usually the discussion of homosexuals at least from what I have experienced. In the article "What are homosexuals for?" by Andrew Sullivan, I got to see a homosexuals life from a homosexuals point of view. For homosexuals, when they first come out of the closet, that is when they feel that they are living a "normal life" even though in our view it seems far from it. They are entering a life that will be full of judgement and discrimmination and a life that is completely different from straight people there age. "My heterosexual male friends became married; soon, my striaght peers were having children. Waddings, babies career couples, engagements: the calendar began to become crowded with the clatter of heterosexual bonding. And yet in my gay life, something somewhat different was ocurring." (384) You see homosexuals his age had to deal with funerals and the loss of friends, mostly to aids. It is interesting to see two different lifestyles chosen and the different experiences they unfold. But it is the lifestyle that the homosexuals chose and it definitely isn't an easy lifestyle. Now me being a christian man I do beleive that homosexuality is a sin but at the same time we should all hate the sin and love the person. The only thing that really annoys me is when you have people that are parading around that they are gay. Here these people want to have equality just like the heterosexuals but they insist on having gay prided parades. Its okay to have pride in who you are but you don't see heterosexuals parading around that they are straight.
I agree when it was said in class that we are all born into sinful nature and that homosexuals sinful nature is being gay. We all have our own struggles of the flesh but God doesn't give us more than we can handle. I disagree though with the notion that homosexuals should be allowed to be a pastor. When you are a pastor you need to be a strong example of God. When non-christians come into a church they see you first and look at you to see what a christian is like. Claiming that you are homosexual as a pastor of a church does not display a good witness to non-christians. Plus people need to trust you around their children, I need not mention the allegations against cathlic preists and little boys..... Homosexuality is a sin but so is judging other people, I think it is very important that despite the sin we love the person for who they are and not who we want them to be.