Why does the Christan/Catholic religions frown upon homosexuality?

Question

I'm wondering why, it seems to be very hypocritical, we say love everyone but in the end reject g**s and it really annoys me.

Answer 1

Same reason they believe in stoning children to death.  It says so in the bible.

Answer 2

God frowns on all sin.All one has to do is take a look at Calvary.

Answer 3

Because they've used their hate to manipulate the views of God.

God and Jesus weep at what Christianity says in their name.

Answer 4

God says that it is sin.  We don't promote sin.  We love the g*y people, but we will not uphold their sin.

Answer 5

Because God says homosexual conduct is an abomination. Jesus confirmed marriage is between a man and a woman.

Mat 19:4  And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

Mat 19:5  And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

Mat 19:6  Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Answer 6

All lust, no procreation.

s*x was supposed to be for creating children, not just fun.

Which is why the Catholics had issues with Birth Control

Answer 7

Some things should be kept within the church.  

Answer 8

That's the face you make when you're getting it up the ...

Hey "Buddy R", are you sure that's God saying that or people that just wrote it in a book a long time ago.

Answer 9

You have GOT to be a newbie. Not just to this forum, but to reading and thought!

Answer 10

It's not the people but the practice that is no good. people have convinced themselves that they can't change themselves, but that's not true.

Answer 11

It is not that hard to figure out.  Anyone who understands health and the Bible is opposed to homosexual behavior.  If we love homosexual men we ought to encourage them to avoid homosexual s*x, it is just too dangerous.

I have strongly recommended to homosexual men that I have known to call themselves whatever they want but for the sake of health avoid male to male s*x.  I mean even the neutral American Red Cross asks on their blood donor forms to men, "Have you ever even once had s*x with a man?"  They have no ax to grind, they just want to supply safe blood to people.  

Every human being is part of a deteriorating planet with some temptations that can lead to death.  Homosexual men in particular have a tendency (it seems part genetic and part environmental) that leads to sickness and death.  God did not design the world this way.  Jesus said, "From the beginning it was not so."  Sin makes a mess of things.

Answer 12

Because when you're wandering around the the desert for 40 years homosexuality doesn't help the declining population.

Answer 13

Mark 12:31 And the second most important commandment is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

people attack what they fear the most.

Answer 14

Because it was condemned in the NT an OT in about 35 passages.

Answer 15

I am a Mormon - LDS - and we do not "reject g**s".  The actions are the sin.  Being a homosexual isn't a sin until that person acts upon those feelings... then it becomes a sin.  And it can always be forgiven.

"We love them and want to help them.  We know they have a problem."  That is what President Hinckley has said.  We are not anti-g*y, we are pro-family.  People with that lifestyle are still children of God and should be treated as such.  Who are we to judge?  We don't condone the behavior, but we do not condemn them either.

Answer 16

Because detests homosexuality.

Answer 17

It is a shame that people of the Church cannot clearly communicate love to a homosexual.  The scripture is clear that homosexual relations are not of God's design, but that is no reason to be judgmental, rejecting or otherwise mean-spirited toward people who live the g*y lifestyle.

Just like anyone else who does not know Jesus, love and acceptance should be extended always.  That is, acceptance of the person, in spite of their lifestyle.  How can anyone be won over if we keep hitting them in the head concerning whatever lifestyle they engage in?  This is the example Jesus left us with.

Read about the woman caught in adultery or the Samaritan woman at the well.  Jesus did not deny or commend their sin.  But, He did not hit them over the head with it either.  He simply showed them that they did not have to be in bondage to that life anymore - in love, He showed them that He is the Way.

We should do no less.

Answer 18

OK

Now, lets just say my son stole trucks. He knows the behavior is wrong. Right? I don't frown on my son as a person. However, I frown on his behavior.

God does the same with ones sexual preference. He does love everyone. He don't love everyone's behavior.

Sorry, to let you know you were the last to know.

Answer 19

Christians do not reject the PERSON who is g*y, they reject the lifestyle.

Why, because either way you look at it, be it that homosexuality is a sin according to the Bible or in that they still commit fornication, either way, it is a sinful lifestyle.

Having said that, I look at it no differently than that of a straight couple committing fornication or an adulterer.

Which ever group one falls in, to be right with God, you must ask for forgiveness from Jesus and REPENT (change your ways).

So whether the adulterer stays as such or if the homosexual stays as such, they both remain in sin without repentance.  Their true heart was not sorry, so they can not be forgiven if they are not sorry.

Answer 20

because catholics dont want to admit they are really g*y

Answer 21

to protect the sanctity of marriage, etc.

I'm a Christian, and agree that its wrong, but i accept that I can't make their decisions for them.  as people, i have no problems with g**s.  A lot of them are really cool.

This also falls in line with my religious beliefs. (I'm LDS)

Answer 22

Beats me, when some of the vilest homosexual acts were done by priests.

Maybe by shouting loudest against gayness they try to make us think that they are all "really against it". In the same way your tattooed, skinhead mate who wants all g**s dead is probably a closet-bender.

Heck, why can't people let little things lye...sigh...

Answer 23

its generally thought of as against nature in many circles .. somthing that is done outside of the design by the creator .. or evolution .. fill in the blank .. its like i figured out how to do it backwards with my brilliant intellect so im going to willfully pervert it and do it backwards to be different and unique ..

Answer 24

Becaue they are not fond of the g*y sense of style. You know, chaps, leather hats, cut off shirts, etc.  

Answer 25

because the bible says so

thats why but i am no christian i just know what goes through there heads

Answer 26

While you are aware that homosexual s*x is considered objectively immoral, you don't seem to understand why it's objectively immoral:

2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.

2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.

2396 Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication, pornography, and homosexual practices.

2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same s*x. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.

Answer 27

The same reason I frown upon other sins. Because they are sin.

It's not hypocritical to say that you love everyone but say that you don't like their actions. Its the same concept as a parent loving their child, even though their child has done something wrong.

Answer 28

I do not reject g**s, on the contrary, I feel sorry for them. I become very annoyed when people take Christian/Catholic religion out of context. God loves everyone but he still destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. God despise anything that is not of him. We should keep God commandments. He says that's why a man leave his mother and father to be joined with a woman! I do not judge but God will. I just do not want the United States to be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah

because of same s*x marriages.

Answer 29

Christians frown upon all sin--idolatry, witchcraft, fornication, homosexual acts, etc.--or at least they are suppose too.  God says he hates the sin.  Christians are suppose to be walking in the light, not darkness according to the book of 1 John.

Answer 30

God says it is sinning. You should more upset with murdering.

Answer 31

It is in fact very hypocritical, for they are "living in sin" as every human is, it comes down to which denomination you speak of, if your talking about a more liberal sect they beleive that g**s are born that way and cant help it, so for the most part there a bit more relaxed and frankly dont care as much, however when you get into the more Fundementalist sects you come across people who beleive being g*y is a "choice" and that there are no such thing as true "g**s" that there are literally only Straight people...who are sinning......its rather disgusting the ostracization you see based on something as Innoccuous as somone elses love lives, which frankly IMO is between them and there partner and weve got no reason to put our foot in the door when it comes to a persons personal life and what theyll do in there own bed-rooms, but to awsner your question as to why they reject g**s? mainly because the bible does have a couple of particular statements against g**s, most of which are HORRIBLY ambiguous, and some of which are rather straight-forward, in fact, there are only around a maxiumum of 4-6 lines that are questionably anti-g*y, excluding the rather blatant point in Leviticus, "thou shalt not lie with man kind as thou lie with womankind it is, abomination" but there in lie a problem with the religous community people are exceedingly selective in what they take from the bible, old and new testament, as line the  i just quoted you is a single line that most anti-g**s quote like lawyers but the fact remains is the REST of leviticus people totally dis-regard as obsolete and laws that are no longer valid....I.E. wearing 2 different fabrics or wearing a vestment made of 2 seperate fabrics, eating shell-fish, if you curse at your mother or father you should be put to death, these and tons of others i dont have time / want to list are all written in the same document as the above quote i gave you, yet the religous community as a whole dis-regards the rest as "Priestly" laws or out-dated.......in other words....there Bs'ing cause there afraid of a culture they dont understand and dont like, and unfortunately in turn dont act very "Christ-like" when it comes to treating other human beings the way they wish to be treated, it comes down to a simple choice of dis-regarding certain things and showing the same love and tolerance god has shown us all, and unfortunately most people dont quite get that idea......

i hope this helped, it was a tad scatter-brained but it had to be for the point i suppose, have a good one!