LGBt people should be treated as the same in faith

I, too, have been a student of religion for about a good 4 years and I have dedicated my time to the daunting task of objectively comparing religions in order to draw the conclusion that they are all from the same source of light, the One True and Unchallenged God. As a Baha'i, I am not aligned with LGBT actions at all but I do not have anything against the homosexuals themselves because in the end they are flowers of this massive garden. In addition to this, I don't believe they will go to hell or heaven as a spiritually geographical location as most people think, because nobody is predetermined to even end up in such places. I believe that we all go back to God and the hell and heaven that are in the major world religions, are the states of an individual's soul based on the actions they do on this Earth according to the Law they abide by. I hope that this clarifies my stance and I look forward to a great discussion. I would like to start by saying that Man's physical existence on this earth is a period during which the moral exercise of his free will is tried and tested in order to prepare his soul for the life beyond this one, and we must welcome affliction and tribulations as opportunities for improvement in our eternal selves. The homosexuals are not the only segment of human society laboring at this daily task -- every human being is beset by such inner promptings as pride, greed, selfishness, lustful heterosexual or homosexual desires, to name a few which must be overcome, and we must overcome them if we are to fulfill the purpose of our human existence. So basically, the recognition of the Manifestation of God is but the beginning of a process of growth and as we become more deepened in the Teachings and strive to follow His principles, we gradually approach and understand the perfect pattern of growth which is presented to us by God's Messenger. Now this leads into recognizing what the God has prescribed for us in the Bible and how we as humans should act as per the Command of God. The Bible is consistent throughout both Old and New Testaments in confirming that homosexuality is evidently a sin. Genesis 19:1–13Leviticus 18:22; 20:13Romans 1:26–271 Cor 6:9; Jude 1:71 Thes 4:5But the sinful nature of homosexuality presented in the Old Testament still stands in the New Testament because Christ said that He did come to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it (Matt 5:17). This just proves that God’s standards of holiness did not change with the coming of Jesus, because God does not change for He is Eternal (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8). As the a continuing revelation of God’s interaction with humanity, the New Testament confirms and sets the standard to humanity should abide by. The New Testament, in Romans 1:26 says that homosexuality is a “shameful lust”, a “shameful act,” and as Romans 1:27 puts it, an abandonment of “natural relations”. In 1 Corinthians 6:9 it is a clear “wrongdoing”, and it couldn't be as clear than what is stated in Jude 1:7 when it calls such an act a “sexual immorality and perversion”. Homosexuality is, according to 1 Timothy 1:10, “contrary to the sound doctrine” and it bars people from the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9). So the Bible could not be clearer that homosexuality is a sin against God but does this mean that homosexuals are to be judged the same way how the people in the Bible were judged? The thing is, the Bible records the punishment of the ignorant ones and tells us that this is the outcome of ignoring the Commandments of God, the Almighty. But the fate of homosexuals are never predetermined nor do we have the right to give final judgments on those who partake in such actions. Our jobs are to guide the stray sheep, back to the flock of God because as I stated before, the recognition of the Manifestation of God is the first step of a process of growth and as we become more deepened in the Teachings and strive to follow His principles, we gradually approach and understand the perfect pattern of growth which is presented to us by God's Messenger. So in conclusion, Homosexuality is not the cause of a society’s decline, but it is a symptom of it and then it transforms into a catalyst; it is the result of people making themselves the final authorities and redefining the word liberty as the action of "doing anything one wants" rather than seeing the liberty in living the life God has ordained for us. A prayer in the Baha'i Faith that shows us our purpose to recognize Him, is as follows:I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. Lemme know what you think.