Gay's and Church

I assume we are debating the resolution, "Resolved: According to Christianity, gays should be allowed to attend church, receive communion, and get married. " Note: I will be arguing this from a Christian and Biblical standpoint. Opponent's Case"I am a Christian and believe that gay's should be allowed to attend church, receive communion and even get married. "Your personal opinions are of little to no relevance in this debate if they are not substantiated with argument and evidence. I disagree with your assumptions, and I will show you why in the following contentions. Also, there’s a correction: gays*. That belief encounters cognitive dissonance, and is an independent view from the Bible and God's commands. My CaseGod is unwaveringly anti-gayFor Christians who believe that the bible is the word of God, there can be no getting around the fact that homosexuality is detestable in the eyes of God and a sin to that effect. Not only does the supreme deity of the Bible hate homosexuality, he's killed homosexuals for participating in homosexual acts. Genesis 19:24, "Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gommorah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven. " The word "sodomy" is derived from this tale of God's anger against homosexuals, and is today synonymous with homosexual intercourse with negative connotations. Consider Romans 1:26,27 which states, "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another: men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. " Here God, the creator of the natural world, is calling homosexuality unnatural, and in his arbitrary morality, immoral. Sodomites (homosexuals) are occasionally referred to as "dogs" in the Bible such as in Deuteronomy 23. God is unchanging and unwavering in his decisions; what he deemed abonimable thousands of years ago will therefore be aboniable today. 1 Corinthians 6:9 (lol 69) demonstrates that homosexuals will not enter heaven, "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters,nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. " Unless homosexuals genuinely sought true repentence for their abominable sins, there is no way for true Christians to accept them, especially as a collective body that worships God. "In spite of great pressure today from humanists and other liberals to get homosexuality recognized as an acceptable—if not even preferable—life style, the Bible makes it plain that it is really unnatural and animalistic wickedness that must be rejected by true Christians. " -Christian AnswersGod has made it clear that he thinks homoexuality is immoral, sinful, and unnatural; he will not offer a spot in heaven for a homosexual; and he will only accept a homosexual once he has shed his sinful ways, turned to Jesus, and mold himself to God's image of a man. [1. . http://christiananswers.net...][2. . http://www.catholic.com...][3. . http://www.ambs.edu...]The Church is anti-gayWhether you think the church should or shouldn’t allow homosexuals into its congregations, one fact is patently clear: the greatest source of hatred against homosexuals in the United States comes from the Christian Church. This is precisely due to the aforementioned teachings in the Bible and The Catholic Church, although having a history of homosexual, pedophilic priests, is vehemently anti-gay. They state emphatically on in the Catechism of the Catholic Church 2357, “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. ” They hold that homosexuals harm the role of the family, marriage, and thus, harm communities. Among mainline Protestants overall, 56% say homosexuality should be accepted in society, compared with only about one-in-four evangelical Protestants and four-in-ten members of historically black Protestant churches. When we average those, we see that less than 50% of mainline protestants say that homosexuality should be accepted by society, and a much lower percentage say they should be accepted in the church, and even less for the acceptance of homosexual clergy. While this can’t be used as a strong reason why gays shouldn’t be allowed in the church, it does carry some weight when the majority of Protestant Christians think homosexuality shouldn’t be accepted in the church whatsoever. If God doesn’t accept homosexuality and the church is the body of people who join in seeking God, why should homosexuals go to church? In order for homosexuals to be accepted by God and the church, they must cease being homosexual. [4. . http://www.catholic.com...][5. . http://www.ambs.edu...][6. . http://www.pewforum.org...][7. . http://bible.org...]Gay Marriage is not MarriageMarriage between two gay men will never be recognized by the church as a union of two people before God. God is very clear: marriage is between one man and one woman. Period. Genesis 2:24 states, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. ” The shall is a command. Disobeying God’s commands leads to eternal punishment in hell, immoral actions, and perverse relationships. The Divine Law of God condemns homosexuality as a vile, animalistic behavior unbefitting of someone who wishes to enter the kingdom of heaven. It is immoral, unholy, and despicable in the eyes of the LORD. Marriage is an institution for procreation from the biblical standpoint; and non-procreation type sex is immoral according to God. Relationships that lack this procreation ability are immoral in God’s eyes, and hence, not recognized as marriage. [8. Michael Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 192-195][9. . http://www.gotquestions.org...]ConclusionGod has made it clear that he thinks homoexuality is immoral, sinful, and unnatural; he will not offer a spot in heaven for a homosexual; and he will only accept a homosexual once he has shed his sinful ways, turned to Jesus, and mold himself to God's image of a man. The Church, as a body to seek God, should not allow people who reject Divine Law, engage in sinful behaviors against God’s commands, and who are on “The Highway to Hell” into their congregations. It follows from disallowing them in Church, based on the Bible, that they should not receive Communion. Gay Marriage is incompatible with the Bible, Divine Law, and Moral Law; therefore, such a perverse union will not be recognized by the Church or God. Thank you~