How to win a culture war and lose a generation

When asked by The Barna Group what words or phrases best describe Christianity, the top response among Americans ages 16-29 was “antihomosexual.” For a staggering 91 percent of non-Christians, this was the first word that came to their mind when asked about the Christian faith. The same was true for 80 percent of young churchgoers. (The next most common negative images? : “judgmental,” “hypocritical,” and “too involved in politics.”)

In the book that documents these findings, titled unChristian, David Kinnaman writes:

“The gay issue has become the ‘big one, the negative image most likely to be intertwined with Christianity’s reputation. It is also the dimensions that most clearly demonstrates the unchristian faith to young people today, surfacing in a spate of negative perceptions: judgmental, bigoted, sheltered, right-wingers, hypocritical, insincere, and uncaring. Outsiders say [Christian] hostility toward gays…has become virtually synonymous with the Christian faith.”

Later research, documented in Kinnaman’s You Lost Me, reveals that one of the top reasons 59 percent of young adults with a Christian background have left the church is because they perceive the church to be too exclusive, particularly regarding their LGBT friends. Eight million twenty-somethings have left the church, and this is one reason why.

In my experience, all the anecdotal evidence backs up the research.

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How sad.
Christianity is synonymous with anti-sin?
What a surprise.
Hate the sin, not the sinner.
John Eggers

LGBT friends? How many are out there? I think this community is so loud & outspoken they come across as much larger than they are & the media & hollywood magnify this as well. Our youth today are being fed distorted information & they lack the critical thinking skills to be able to see how they are being manipulated.
- msjallen
  
  Parents need to teach their children in the home about the world and they way the world thinks against God. We do this through the teaching of God's Word.
  Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old (mature), he will not depart from it.
  Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
- bighoss
  
  The gay and lesbian community would have us believe that they make up something like 10 percent of the U.S. population, which is a bogus contention, relying on a demonstrably flawed interpretation from the sloppily-executed research of the late Dr. Kinsey, the notable sex researcher of the 1950s. The more probable figure is something like 1-2 percent.
  - bighoss
    
    Here is a link to a thoughtful article on this subject: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/07/gay-popu…
  - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
    
    The red headed citizens of this country range around 2%. So what? Does that mean they are less important? Should they be discriminated against?
    - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
      
      The situation is opposite Dixon. 2% and its views is used to limit and weaken and oppress the majority.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Complete nonsense. Their desire to be able to get married does not oppress you. The reality is that Christians and other theists have been oppressing them for centuries. They are merely unwilling to be second class citizens any longer.
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        Nonsense is in your head only Dixon. I do not care about "desires". I care about laws, programs and educational models that are being changed and aggressively target my and other worldview.
        My faith is private, let their "desires" be private as well and being used as a propaganda in mass media resulting in changing the laws, society and undermining and ridiculing worldview of others as homosexual lobby does and plans.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Your outward display of faith is hardly private. You marriage is recognized by the government and other citizens. That is all they ask as well.
      - keyboardshark
        
        Jeff says: "You marriage is recognized by the government and other citizens. That is all they ask as well."
        
        Not withstanding that there is a very specific definition as being between one man and one woman, as instituted by God, marriage is not all that the militant gays want. They want not only the acceptance of their sinful lifestyle, they also want it taught in the schools, and they also demand that all opposing views be silenced. Here is an excerpt from an email I received recently:
        
        "The Radical Homosexuals infiltrating the United States Congress have a plan:
        
        Indoctrinate an entire generation of American children with pro-homosexual propaganda and eliminate traditional values from American society.
        
        Their ultimate dream is to create a new America based on sexual promiscuity in which the values you and I cherish are long forgotten.
        
        I hate to admit it, but if they pass the deceptively named "Student Non-Discrimination Act," (H.R. 998 & S. 555) that’s exactly what they’ll do.
        
        Better named the "Homosexual Classrooms Act," its chief advocate in Congress is Rep. Jared Polis, himself an open homosexual and radical activist.
        
        And it's dangerously close to becoming the law of the land.
        
        H.R. 998 already has 157 co-sponsors in the House!
        
        And S. 555 already has 37 co-sponsors in the Senate!
        
        You see, the Homosexual Classrooms Act contains a laundry list of anti-family provisions that will:
        *** Require schools to teach appalling homosexual acts so "homosexual students" don’t feel "singled out" during already explicit sex-ed classes;
        *** Spin impressionable students in a whirlwind of sexual confusion and misinformation, even peer pressure to "experiment" with the homosexual "lifestyle;"
        *** Exempt homosexual students from punishment for propositioning, harassing, or even sexually assaulting their classmates, as part of their specially-protected right to "freedom of self-expression;"
        *** Force private and even religious schools to teach a pro-homosexual curriculum and purge any reference to religion if a student claims it creates a "hostile learning environment" for homosexual students.
        And that’s just the beginning of the Homosexual Lobby’s radical agenda.
        
        In fact, it will set them up to ram through their entire perverted vision for a homosexual America."
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        There are three members of the U.S. House of Representatives that are openly gay. They are Tammy Baldwin (D, Wisconsin) Barney Frank (D, Massachusetts) Jared Polis (D, Colorado). That is hardly a radical takeover of Congress. The fact that many Democrats support gay issues is not surprising either.
        
        Have you read the bills? I just did. Here is one interesting tidbit.
        
        (b) Free Speech and Expression Laws and Religious Student Groups- Nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter legal standards regarding, or affect the rights available to individuals or groups under, other Federal laws that establish protections for freedom of speech and expression, such as legal standards and rights available to religious and other student groups under the 1st Amendment to the Constitution and the Equal Access Act (20 U.S.C. 4071 et seq.).
        
        As far as these two items are concerned, they are simply made up. The bills make no reference about this.
        
        Exempt homosexual students from punishment for propositioning, harassing, or even sexually assaulting their classmates, as part of their specially-protected right to "freedom of self-expression;"
        *** Force private and even religious schools to teach a pro-homosexual curriculum and purge any reference to religion if a student claims it creates a "hostile learning environment" for homosexual students.
      - keyboardshark
        
        Jeff says: "Have you read the bills? I just did. Here is one interesting tidbit. "
        
        But you are not reading carefully enough. It only says it will not alter "other Federal laws that establish protections for freedom of speech and expression" What Federal laws are there that specifically establish freedom of speech, other than the First Amendment which can be misinterpreted by judges to mean almost anything, which it already has, as we have witnessed with the destruction of religious freedom by twisting the 1st Amendment's meaning to impose limits on the people instead of the government based on a misunderstanding of a private letter by T. Jefferson? Sounds too much like legal doublespeak.
        
        Also you left out the previous paragraph, which indicates that S55IS will not invalidate any existing 'discrimination' laws. This bill is redundant in that regard and therefore unnecessary, being used only to kowtow to the homosexual lobby. Notice the numerous "nondiscrimination" laws it names, yet it cannot name one 'free speech' law it will supposedly not change (the Equal Access deals with groups, not individual free speech rights).
        
        "(a) Federal and State Nondiscrimination Laws- Nothing in this Act shall be construed to preempt, invalidate, or limit rights, remedies, procedures, or legal standards available to victims of discrimination or retaliation, under any other Federal law or law of a State or political subdivision of a State, including title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.), title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.), section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794), the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.), or section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983). The obligations imposed by this Act are in addition to those imposed by title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.), title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.), section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794), the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.), and section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983).
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        none of these laws are new. They are already on the books. According to the e-mail you received, it will do the following.
        
        Exempt homosexual students from punishment for propositioning, harassing, or even sexually assaulting their classmates, as part of their specially-protected right to "freedom of self-expression;"
        *** Force private and even religious schools to teach a pro-homosexual curriculum and purge any reference to religion if a student claims it creates a "hostile learning environment" for homosexual students.
        
        Except that it will not do anything like that. You state it will not invalidate any existing discrimination laws. Therefore, this new bill is not what concerns you, it is the existing discrimination laws.
      - keyboardshark
        
        @ Jeff: You are right, I do not see those two points mentioned in the email in those particular bills. The bills do not specifically mention those issues, but they could be implied if the legislation passes. Here is a discussion of that:
        
        "The two Bills from the House and the Senate are craftily worded to protect homosexuals from bullying. And I might add the kind of bullying that has occurred in reality to the point vicious attacks and murder. This is where I agree with the existence of an anti-bully Bill. No human being should be subject to humiliation, violence and especially murder for any reason.
        
        If there is a problem it can be litigated or if there is a criminal act it can be prosecuted. Unfortunately homosexuality is not against the law. Neither is it against the criminal law to watch or participate in pornography, adultery, fornication and probably other practices not looked upon with high esteem in American society. Even today in an American society continuously watered down morally by Moral Relativity and Secular Humanism which aims to dilute or eliminate the influence of Christianity.
        
        Anti-bullying legislation should be enabled to all American citizens and not just a few alternate lifestyle perverts degrading American culture and society. Passing a Bill that upholds the ungodly practice of homosexuality is a victory for Homosexual activists that desire to be considered just as normal as heterosexuals.
        
        The language of the SNDA may be designed to protect homosexuals from violence; however the actuality is SNDA becomes a toe in the door to give special privilege to homosexuals that grants the perverted to have marital rights designed for a male and a female.
        
        AND YES since the SNDA is aimed at homosexual kids of minority the legislation will lead to school policies that in effect will teach all children that homosexuality is an acceptable practice even though Biblically homosexuality is unholy abomination in the face of God Almighty.
        
        Delgaudio needs to eat a little crow and admit that the SNDA legislation does not specifically spell out the teaching of homosexuality in Public Schools; however Delgaudio needs to stick to his guns that the SNDA legislation will indeed lead school curriculum that will be meant to enforce homosexual acceptance to prevent bullying of homosexuals.
        
        And remember, the SNDA is not aimed at consenting adults over the age of 18. Rather the legislation is aimed at children and teenagers that are naïve and will believe most anything that an authority figure teacher tells them. If heterosexual couples tell their children that homosexuality is not normal and the school tells children that homosexuality is okay, then there is a bit of Big Brother interference in the god-given practice of parents teaching and training children what is right and what is wrong.
        
        And worse if parents are committed to Christian Morality and the schools contradict parents there is unconstitutional moment of government telling people how to practice religion.
        
        If kids wisely listen to their parents and kids contradict teachers that homosexuality is normal then school discipline will be aimed at students. And if there is a student that is confused about his/her sexuality because of school teaching and a kid tells the confused kid my dad says homosexuality is wrong or wicked, that can be construed as bullying and thus a criminal act.
        
        So I have to say that Delgaudio’s reference to SNDA as the Homosexual Classrooms Act is an appropriate appellation. With this in mind the Homosexual Classrooms Act must be stopped!" http://oneway2day.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/in-def…
        
        Yes, the bill states it will not invalidate existing discrimination laws, but it also adds additional language granting special status to gays, so I am concerned about not only the existing laws, but also this more specific add-on.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Please show this additional language granting special status to gays from the bill. It does not exist. Implied meanings are meaningless.
      - keyboardshark
        
        (b) Purposes- The purposes of this Act are–
        (1) to ensure that all students have access to public education in a safe environment free from discrimination, including harassment, bullying, intimidation, and violence, on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity;
        (2) to provide a comprehensive Federal prohibition of discrimination in public schools based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity;
        (3) to provide meaningful and effective remedies for discrimination in public schools based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity;
        (4) to invoke congressional powers, including the power to enforce the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and to provide for the general welfare pursuant to section 8 of article I of the Constitution and the power to make all laws necessary and proper for the execution of the foregoing powers pursuant to section 8 of article I of the Constitution, in order to prohibit discrimination in public schools on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; and
        (5) to allow the Department of Education to effectively combat discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in public schools, through regulation and enforcement, as the Department has issued regulations under and enforced title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and other nondiscrimination laws in a manner that effectively addresses discrimination.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        All that says is that gays cannot be discriminated against. That is not a special right. No group should be discriminated against.
      - keyboardshark
        
        There are already laws on the books against violence that apply to everyone. By creating a special class of protected people based on so-called 'sexual orientation', this creates a two-tier system of justice–punishment for violence in general, and a special set of rules for violence against the special class. This is unequal justice under the law, which is not only un-American, but also dangerous.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Federal law already protects certain groups from discrimination or harassment based on sex, race, age, disability, color, creed, national origin, or religion. This has been based on the reality that these groups have been unfairly treated in the past. This would just be one more unfairly treated group getting similar protection.
      - keyboardshark
        
        You are still failing to see the danger the militant homosexual movement presents. Here is a to-the-point discussion of this:
        
        "Clearly not everyone in the homosexual movement is an extremist. Many are solid, law-abiding citizens who make important daily contributions to our society and do not believe in confrontation or hard-line rhetoric. However, many militant homosexuals and their supporters have different beliefs. They have adopted the following tactics with the goal of forcing their beliefs on society:
        
        -eliminating free speech by harassing and attempting to silence -anyone who disagrees with them;
        -preying on children by indoctrinating and recruiting them into their lifestyle;
        -imposing their beliefs on others through activist judges and lawmakers requiring that everyone actively promote homosexuality in every institution (schools, workplace, churches, etc.);
        -destroying marriage and undermining the traditional family in order to annihilate any moral standard of behavior;
        -intolerance toward anyone who does not willingly submit to their agenda;
        -fighting for a discriminatory and unconstitutional double standard of justice by demanding that crimes against homosexuals be punished more severely than the same crimes against heterosexuals through 'hate crimes' legislation; and
        deceptively portraying homosexuality as a harmless and victimless behavior.
        
        The homosexual agenda is based on intolerance of anyone who disagrees with them and is a well-coordinated, well-financed, wide-ranging, intensive effort to infiltrate and influence organizations and society at large in order to spread misinformation with the goal of recruiting children.
        
        Children are the prize to the winners of the cultural war. Those who control what young people are taught and what they experience will determine the future course for our nation.
        
        The predominant value system of an entire culture can be overhauled by those with unlimited access to children. Homosexual activists understand very clearly how important children are to their cause."
        http://www.truenews.org/Homosexuality/real_agenda…
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        Dod-xon, do not confuse this discussion forum with anything that pro-homosexual lobby does to the moral fabric of this country. As it was observed your support of gays is inconsistent and an abberation even in your evolution religion yet you fail to observe that for you live and breathe in dichotomy.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Humpty, the fact that you stated it was inconsistent or another Christian agreed with you is beyond irrelevant. It is not inconsistent as I clearly explained already.
        
        As far as confusing the discussion, that has been the result every time you post your absurd nonsense.
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        Mush brained schizoid. Your middle name must be oxymoron as your real first is a moron (and this is a Biblical language by the way from Romans 11:22).
        The fact is that your religion of evolution entertains itself with progression of life and its ascension. One has to have an IQ of a wet shoelace like you to not to register that there is no life advancement in homosexual sex but in fact death as an average life of homosexual is 11 to 21 years shorter than of a heterosexual male.Henceforth homosexuality is directly opposed to your religion of evolution and its intrinsic concepts.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        And you are a brain dead delusional idiot.
        
        The theory of evolution recognizes that there have been many evolutionary dead-ends that nature has created. Gays could easily be one of those as well. However, the mere fact that hundreds of other species engage in this activity shows that it is not an abnormality in nature.
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        So it is a dead end but at the same time a normality?
        You are a blithering moron with mouth that is as loose as your brain confused.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Do you understand anything? Current situations may be common, but can still be a dead end. Neanderthals lasted for over 600,000 years but were still a dead-end.
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        Dixon I am talking macro-scale while you want to chase your shenanigans on micro-scale and used them to cloud for yourself the macro-scale. Not only there is no procreation of life in homosexual sex but in fact damaging and shortening of life. Those are the facts and your shoelace rhetoric cannot change that. Your support of homosexuality is inconsistent with your religion of evolution and its postulates in terms of progression of life.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        You are talking nonsense and nothing else. I have never said there is procreation with homosexuality. It is a non-issue.
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        Your mumbling is non issue for evident inconsistency between your support of homosexuals and your religion of evolution.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Humpty, it is amazing you can tie your shoes in the morning. Your inability to grasp a topic is always amusing to behold.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Humpty, I am not mumbling at all. I am speaking very clearly on the topic. A topic which you have no comprehension about.
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        You rarely speak clearly and even more rarely on the topic as most here observed and wrote about too so keep on fooling yourself and your schizophrenic mind.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        I always speak clearly. You merely are unable to comprehend English.
      - Deep_Thinker
        
        A view doesn't suppress or weaken anything. A view is subjective and the problem isn't with the view, it's with a government that imposes a view on others.
        
        Again, the government has no right to be involved in marriage. It predated the state and will continue its existence without the state.
- Tom
  
  @ John Eggers : Government Schools have almost completely destroyed critical thinking in our young Americans, so they can be " followers " of the world and not leaders / changers of the world. The LIE of Political Correctness says that Christians are judgemental and some are; however, P.C. poisons free speech and gives all the power to the leftists as to what can be said and even attempts to regulate individual words. To be " Christ-like " we must live as our Lord did when He was on His earth and teach others how to live by Christ's perfect example. We must reflect Christ in our own lives and that will change the world.
red nig

No, if you want hate-the-gays go to Native America, where women teach their daughters "If your son is that way, make it look like an accident 'cause whites don't understand." Go to blacks, who say the same. Hispanics, ditto. And, now, many are pointing at Obama as being a closet gay, at Bill Clinton the same, and many others who are very anti-Native American in word or actions. A lot of blacks are coming to powwows to dance, but to listen and talk politics. Ditto Hispanics. The Native American Tea Party formed because of it. America is the last country we can be free (sorry, off topic, but it fits). We're not going to lose it because a spiteful little creepy weakling holds straight people in disgust. Yep, I have gay friends. I write, love writing, love talking it, hanging with other writers, and am jokingly called a breeder b***h by gays there. (Never mind what I call them :) Most think I'm strange, a Christian, yet accepting them as equals. And I tell them that were it not for Christ, most Native Americans, blacks, and Hispanics would simply kill them for being gay. Peace to your mother's house, niio.
Philadelphia

So, should Christianity "evolve"? Is the Bible wrong in its comments on the sinful nature of adultery and homosexuality? For that matter, is the Bible wrong in stating that Jesus is the only way to the Father? Should Christianity "evolve" to accept the tenets of the Muslim faith? And where is it said that disapproving of, and not participating in, a certain behavior means one hates it? Christians recognize that we are all sinners in need of God's grace. Christians are called to proclaim the good news to everyone and anyone who is interested — not to bludgeon non-believers and sinners with the Word.
Philadelphia

Consider that most of the secular nations that now accept and thus encourage homosexuality, also accept and encourage abortion. Where do people of strong faith — Chrisitans, Muslims, Jews, everyone — draw the line? Is it time for God to "evolve", or just get out of the way of enlightened humanists? The 20th century offers several great examples of successful, tolerant, thriving non-faith-based societies: Mao's China, Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany.
- Evermyrtle
  
  Where do we draw the line? That line is right at the edge of the commandments of GOD. The first thing we do, if there is not a line drawn, is throw one of GOD'S commandments out of the window. Every time you break one of these commandments you have crossed the line. In such an instance you go to GOD in prayer and ask HIM to forgive you. It is that simple. We struggle greatly not to break one of HIS commandments intendually because that is harder to get forgiveness for. That means, usually that we don't care what GOD thinks. That is where the world stands today, it does not care about what GOD thinks, except HIS people, HIS believers, HIS Christians.
msjallen

What makes man think they are smarter than God? What can man come up with what would work better? Nothing!!!!
Larry D.

Lose a generation? Hell they've been lost since the day they stopped sucking their mommies tit. I said save the country we can always build another generatrion.
Evermyrtle

None of these from your reports ,came from "my neck of the woods.!!" Anybody here if asked that question would tell you A Christian is a person who believes that "JESUS CHRIST IS THE SON OF GOD AND OUR SAVIOR! "
BigO

There is a great winnowing taking place. Who will stand and say like Joshua, Me and My house will serve the Lord.
Are we of the Christian Faith the Wheat or the Tares? Whose side will you be on? I've made my choice. If that conflicts with you I'm sorry.
aceituna

Pray that the Holy Spirit will work mightily with our youth and all others to see that "Jesus Christ is the Son of God and our Savior!"
daves

Does anyone here think that it should be against the law to work on the sabbath?

If not, why should it be against the law for homosexuals to marry.

I say good for these young people. They understand that Jesus wants us to love thy neighbor as we love ourselves. Would any of us like to see a law against us getting married?
- keyboardshark
  
  Condoning sin that the Bible clearly calls sin is not doing anyone any favors. The homosexual lifestyle is very destructive to those who practice it. The idea of a committed relationship between gays is largely a myth.
  
  "· In The Sexual Organization of the City, University of Chicago sociologist Edward Laumann argues that "typical gay city inhabitants spend most of their adult lives in 'transactional' relationships, or short-term commitments of less than six months."[5]
  · A study of homosexual men in the Netherlands published in the journal AIDS found that the "duration of steady partnerships" was 1.5 years.[6]
  · In his study of male homosexuality in Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times, Pollak found that "few homosexual relationships last longer than two years, with many men reporting hundreds of lifetime partners."[7]
  · In Male and Female Homosexuality, Saghir and Robins found that the average male homosexual live-in relationship lasts between two and three years.[8]
  
  Research indicates that the average male homosexual has hundreds of sex partners in his lifetime:
  · The Dutch study of partnered homosexuals, which was published in the journal AIDS, found that men with a steady partner had an average of eight sexual partners per year.[12]
  · Bell and Weinberg, in their classic study of male and female homosexuality, found that 43 percent of white male homosexuals had sex with 500 or more partners, with 28 percent having one thousand or more sex partners.[13]
  · In their study of the sexual profiles of 2,583 older homosexuals published in the Journal of Sex Research, Paul Van de Ven et al. found that "the modal range for number of sexual partners ever [of homosexuals] was 101-500." In addition, 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent had between 501 and 1,000 partners. A further 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent reported having had more than one thousand lifetime sexual partners.[14]
  
  · A survey conducted by the homosexual magazine Genre found that 24 percent of the respondents said they had had more than one hundred sexual partners in their lifetime. The magazine noted that several respondents suggested including a category of those who had more than one thousand sexual partners.[15]
  
  "Commitment" in Male Homosexual Couples
  Even in those homosexual relationships in which the partners consider themselves to be in a committed relationship, the meaning of "committed" or "monogamous" typically means something radically different than in heterosexual marriage.
  · A Canadian study of homosexual men who had been in committed relationships lasting longer than one year found that only 25 percent of those interviewed reported being monogamous." According to study author Barry Adam, "Gay culture allows men to explore different…forms of relationships besides the monogamy coveted by heterosexuals."[16]
  · The Handbook of Family Diversity reported a study in which "many self-described 'monogamous' couples reported an average of three to five partners in the past year. Blasband and Peplau (1985) observed a similar pattern."[17]
  · In The Male Couple, authors David P. McWhirter and Andrew M. Mattison reported that, in a study of 156 males in homosexual relationships lasting from one to thirty-seven years:
  Only seven couples have a totally exclusive sexual relationship, and these men all have been together for less than five years. Stated another way, all couples with a relationship lasting more than five years have incorporated some provision for outside sexual activity in their relationships.[18] http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IS04C02
  - daves
    
    Not making something against the law is not the same as condoning.
    - Deep_Thinker
      
      Completely agree. People forget that morality is a choice, and it holds no value when forced on someone.
      
      People are confusing moral philosophy, with political philosophy and assume that if you aren't for it politically, you must not be for it morally either..
    - keyboardshark
      
      daves says: "Not making something against the law is not the same as condoning."
      
      I understand the difference. I was referring to the practice of homosexuality itself, which is clearly contrary to the Bible. Gay marriage is simply a tool the gays use to legitimize their sinful lifestyle. Those who portray the homosexual lifestyle as just a normal, acceptable alternative to heterosexual relationships are condoning the sin of homosexuality.
David

Matthew 7:1 "Judge not lest ye be judged yourself". There are references regarding the end times in more than one place in the Bible; things have gotten worse, not better, so news like this might be disappointing but should really come as no surprise. According to some "experts": if you are a Christian, then you are automatically a "bigot". Really? You know me well enough to call me a "bigot" just because I have different beliefs than you? So much for not "judging a book by it's cover".
J W

This Nation is ripe for judgment. If young people or anyone else thinks that God is going to pander to them and lower His standards,they have a very painful crash with reality coming.They will find out very quickly they are expendable.