There is no homosexual agenda. This is false. Heterosexuals have an “agenda” too…i.e., to tread on the rights and freedoms of others. Their “agenda” promotes hatred which is antithetical to anything that Christ stands for. We are challenged by our Lord to love one another (even if we disagree) on matters. This is true Christianity. Accusations and criticisms just create hatred and divisiveness. This is un-Godly.

Why do you find it necessary to charge hate?  We are called to love the sinner and hate the sin.  We show love for sinners by praying for their repentance, especially our own.  How can anyone get around the very clear scriptural comdemnation of same sex sins?

God is just judge, not men. Usually the mantra “prayer for the sinner, but hate the sin” is a smoke-screen for hatred. I’ve seen it too often. You can get around scriptural condemnation by thinking outside of the box, and opening your heart to LoVE instead of judging. If we took the Bible literally, we would be stoning people and putting them to death on the streets for every little infraction. God’s mercy is incomprehensible. Two people here use the very powerful words of “condemnation” and “damnation”. This is your only defense of judging others under the guise of concern for others souls?? God is just judge, NOT you. Pray for your own souls that judge and condemn others and are truly away from the real heart of Jesus. This is what Jesus demands of you. Final word. P.S. The day of judgement drawing near? How do you know? Did God tell you this?

We’ve been living in the end times since the Crucifixion and
Resurrection of Jesus Christ. We have to pray for ourselves, that’s true enough and we must pray for others as Jesus Christ commanded .Saint James also had something interesting to say about helping others turn away from sin-  He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his
way, shall save his soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.- It’s a statement worth pondering. Homosexual relations are mortally sinful.

The Bible said that we have to call out someone who has committed a wrong and try to correct him. If he refuses to listen then to take him to the council to decide his case and cast him out. 
The Bible also says that if you see someone doing wrong and close your eyes, you will be judged by the Father.

P.S. Your personal Judgement Day comes when you die and you will be judged on that day, regardless of whether the end of the world has happened.

Sexual confusion occured in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve consumed the forbidden fruit.

To cut a long story short Mankind and Angel kind are meant to be joined together as one making then in the truest definition of the word Sons of God, God is Father(the main body) from which the Son (God’s Word) comes from with the power of the Holy Spirit (Michael).

Man is made in the image of God i.e. our bodies from which our word comes from, but due to sin, our word does not have the power of our Angel behind it unless God allows it.

What happened in the Garden is Eve joined with Adam’s angel “Luicfer” as Adam joined with Eve’s angel “Satan” bringing a feminised Adam and a masculinised Eve, the further away from God the stronger these characteristics will be.

Those who practise the occult get their powers from the dark forces i.e. demons and fallen angels but linking with them is a pathway to hell to share in their punishment.

The first of the Nephlim was Cain who killed his brother Adam and came about with Eve’s union with Lucifer, Eve’s union with Adam brought Able and Seth.

Although the Nephlim are physically dead their unclean spirits live on as demons.

Your comments are absurd.  We are called to repentance and conversion.  Christ told the woman taken in adultery, “Go, and SIN NO MORE.”  We Catholics are held to high standards.  Christ will hold us accountable on the day of judgment if we fail to meet His expectations.  It is our duty not to confirm people in their sins.  And homosexual acts are so grave that they will deprive the sinner of eternal life in paradise.  We are not doing homosexuals a favor by telling them what they want to hear.  We have to answer to a higher power – and we are our brother’s and sister’s keepers.  And please do not try to drag this specious ‘hate’ accusation into the discussion;  It is as untrue today as it was when the pagans of ancient Rome referred to Christians in their own time as ‘haters of mankind,’ who refused to go along with the low moral standards of the day.  How history repeats itself!  How does it feel to echo the sick smears of Nero?

You are mistaken, John.  The Bible informs us that we possess every right to judge immoral behavior. Our Lord was merely condemning hypocrisy in the passage you are thinking of. Furthermore, we have a moral obligation as this affects our children and our society at large.  Homosexual acts are mortally sinful, depraved, and degrading to the individual.  Homosexual acts, like fornication and masturbation – are not to be encouraged or rationalised, or justified, or trivialised.

You ask if God told us that the day of judgment draws near and the answer is yes, He did.  Open a Bible -

(Eph 5:3)  As for debauchery, and impurity of every kind, and covetousness, there must be no whisper of it among you; it would ill become saints;(Eph 5:4)  no indecent behaviour, no ribaldry or smartness in talk; that is not your business, your business is to give thanks to God.(Eph 5:5)  This you must know well enough, that nobody can claim a share in Christ’s kingdom, God’s kingdom, if he is debauched, or impure, or has that love of money which makes a man an idolater.

(2Ti 3:1)  Remember that there will be difficult times in the last days.(2Ti 3:2)  People will be selfish, greedy, boastful, and conceited; they will be insulting, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and irreligious;(2Ti 3:3)  they will be unkind, merciless, slanderers, violent, and fierce; they will hate the good;(2Ti 3:4)  they will be treacherous, reckless, and swollen with pride; they will love pleasure rather than God;(2Ti 3:5)  they will hold to the outward form of our religion, but reject its real power. Keep away from such people.(2Ti 3:6)  Some of them go into people’s houses and gain control over weak women who are burdened by the guilt of their sins and driven by all kinds of desires,(2Ti 3:7)  women who are always trying to learn but who can never come to know the truth.(2Ti 3:8)  As Jannes and Jambres were opposed to Moses, so also these people are opposed to the truth—people whose minds do not function and who are failures in the faith.(2Ti 3:9)  But they will not get very far, because everyone will see how stupid they are. That is just what happened to Jannes and Jambres.(2Ti 3:10)  But you have followed my teaching, my conduct, and my purpose in life; you have observed my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,(2Ti 3:11)  my persecutions, and my sufferings. You know all that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, the terrible persecutions I endured! But the Lord rescued me from them all.(2Ti 3:12)  Everyone who wants to live a godly life in union with Christ Jesus will be persecuted;(2Ti 3:13)  and evil persons and impostors will keep on going from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.(2Ti 3:14)  But as for you, continue in the truths that you were taught and firmly believe. You know who your teachers were,(2Ti 3:15)  and you remember that ever since you were a child, you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.(2Ti 3:16)  All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the truth, rebuking error, correcting faults, and giving instruction for right living,(2Ti 3:17)  so that the person who serves God may be fully qualified and equipped to do every kind of good deed.

Sex was designed by our God for reproduction.  It includes the mutual giving of husband and wife.  The Church teaches that the act must be always open to procreation.  Get over it, it’s primarily for reproduction.

The world is crazed about seeking pleasure, including sex.  That is we have so many problems with homosexuals today.  Sex is for reproduction only.  Teaching in this way will encourage the right use of our sexual organs.

This is not our home.  We were cast out of the Garden of Eden.  Our focus should be on getting everybody back home to God, not seeking pleasure or using the teachings of the Church to justify seeking sexual pleasure.

I definitely appreciate your concern over sexual immorality. At the same time, it sounds like you’ve let your concern drive you into a position that distorts Church teaching. 

The Church speaks of the procreation of children as the “crowning glory” of marriage, but not the sole and exclusive purpose of the sexual act. The Catechism of the Catholic Church’s section on the sacrament of matrimony gives a richer, more accurate view–also, Pope Benedict’s encyclical “God is Love” goes into wonderful detail about the way a man and woman complete each other by total mutual self-giving, epitomized in the loving act of sex. 

Again, I think your enthusiasm on this issue is laudable, but you do the Church and the world she is trying to reach a disservice by truncating what the Church teaches.

Do not put the cart before the horse.  Primarily, sex is for reproduction, look at the animals.  There is already too much focus on sex.  We are not on earth, at this point, to seek pleasure.  We must always focus on the spiritual, not the physical.

Most people think that we are here to absorb all of the pleasure possible before we die.  That is what satan wants everybody to focus on.  We are not in the Garden of Eden.  Our job, at this point, is to help Jesus save souls, not focus on pleasure.

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Although you explain very well to Mr. Allard that marital sex is more than just for pro-creation, may I also add that the “bonding” through marital sexual relations is also another of God’s way of providing that marriages stay intact and that a married couple draws closer to God by showing this kind of physical affection towards one another. This physical act of selfless love whereby each spouse gives to one another joyfully further strengthens that bond. Many couples in their “golden years” still create that bond through conjugal love, even if by all biological reasons (post- menopause women) one would think that their child-bearing days are over.

Although sometimes God still may give the blessing of giving the couple another treasure, a baby.

Isn’t God wonderful ? “For with God, all things are possible.” Luke 1:37

 The Bible “commands” stoning of wayward children. In many ways it’s a barbaric tome of bronze-age myth. Homosexuals don’t need your remonstration— as if they haven’t been hearing it their entire lives. Why is it you self-righteous busybodies can’t seem to stop talking about abortion and homosexuality— two subjects Jesus never addressed— and don’t take your condemnation to the public at large about what He did condemn, namely divorce? Why don’t you try and enshrine that in the law if you’re so concerned about ordering other people’s lives.

Do you really think with all the children without parents in this world God cares if everyone fruitful. I think he would look favorably on those willing to adopt instead of having children of their own.

It is wrong to be judgmental as regards to persons, but it is equally wrong to refuse to judge actions which cause eternal damnation.

As a Catholic, we should know what the 7 Spiritual Works of Mercy are:

1. Admonish sinners.
2. Instruct the uniformed.
3. Counsel the doubtful.
4. Comfort the sorrowful.
5. Be patient with those in error.
6. Forgive offenses.
7. Pray for the living and the dead.

As Catholics, our job is not to let people fall headlong into hell, but to help to save souls.  We are not on this earth to enjoy ourselves and then die.  Jesus clearly told us to pick up our crosses and follow Him.  He didn’t tell us to go and seek temporal pleasures.  The sooner we get our heads put back on in the right position, the better we all will be.  Satan is prowling around like a very hungry lion and he will use every imaginable trick to try get people to accept that homosexual sins are OK.  Our sexual organs have been given to us for reproduction.  They are not devices for unlimited sexual pleasure.

By our Baptism, we are all called to evangelize.  By letting homosexuals fall blindly into hell, we would be failing in the very basic works of mercy.  We don’t hate homosexuals, we love them more than the people who just let them do what they want.  We want them to experience eternal life in Heaven.

Please forgive me if it seemed if I was condemning people.  I can’t and I don’t wish to condemn anyone.  As for Jesus judging people, that is His job, He is the Judge over all mankind.  Look over the Gospels.  He didn’t pull any punches when He was on earth.  He was focused on helping each and everyone to obtain eternal life.

I don’t seek pleasure, but the Lord sends it my way unexpectedly and it is a greater pleasure than I could ever seek.  We should not be focused on this life, especially when we will only be here for a very, very short while, as compared to eternity.  I don’t want to see anyone pass up the opportunity to enjoy Heaven with Jesus.

I am not a negative person, but very joyful, rising every morning with the words “Praise the Lord”!  I am a sinner, but if I continue to repent of my sins, the Lord, in His great mercy, will save my soul.