Hi Robert...

"homosexual Christians" is close to an oxymoron.

There are 'Christians' and non. If one is in Christ, one is a new creation, the old has passed away, and the new has come.
Born again.....anew... new wineskins.

The presense of the Holy Spirit in one's life makes a difference.

"When the comforter comes, He will lead you into all truth"

1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. 2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Understand this...and apply it...and the answer is self evident.

David, once again you have not answered the question's.

You opened the thread attacking other faiths for putting their beliefs above Australian Law. Clearly there are people who believe it's possible to be homosexual and christain even if you don't.

I suspect that there are still christains around who considered that christains could not divorce and remarry, similar attitude to your attitude regarding homosexuality and christianity.

Perhaps another rewrite of your opening question is in order.

QUESTIONS/ISSUES. Should the law.. Australian law, make it unlawful for a religious group (this would apply to Christians equally) to use beliefs about homosexuality in this way?

R0bert

What a weak and pathetic cop-out from Brother Boazycrap!

Clearly, Christian churches like the one he belongs to would be exempt from the legal intervention that he would like to see in non-Christian religions. Sheer, unadulterated hypocrisy.

I can't say that I'm at all surprised.

What kind of a mischievious thread is this?

Regarding religion: In the Jewish faith AND the Christian faith of whichever flavour, divorce is NOT allowed. In Islam divorce is allowed for both men and women and the divorcee in a subsequent marriage is not discriminated against. This is a big area where these three Abrahamic religions differ.

If a person chooses to live a life according to their religious beliefs, than surely you accept what your particular holy book has to say on the matter.

How ridiculous for Boazy to blithley suggest that a divorced person just changes brand of Christianity if you want to remarry in a church.

Not only are you offensive in your opinions of Muslims, but also deeply offensive towards Catholics and Anglicans to name but 2 big Christian streams.

Not all secular laws are seen as acceptable by Christians either. Thankfully we live in a secular society, not a religious society of any kind. So your church's opinions on a number of 'immoral acts' do not infringe on my rights as an autonomous adult to engage in them. Even if the church decides to then ex-communicate me or ban me. Very, very little difference in this regard between any religious creed with a particular doctrine. The Muslim faith is not unique in this.

There are a few laws in our secular nation that still need changing. Marriage, Abortion legislation and Voluntary euthanasia come to mind as biggies where Christian morality continue to enforce their morality on non-Christians.

While acknowledging that she was endangering her life by staying with him, the Catholic Church kicked my mother out when she divorced her first husband.

She compounded her sin by marrying my father in a civil i.e. secularly lawful, ceremony. However the legitimacy of her union was not acknowledged by her previous brothers and sisters in Christ (who are an entirely different mob from Boazy's brothers and sisters in Christ).

This, as I'm sure you can see, DB, turned me into a real bastard.