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Response to comment [from an atheist]: "[H]omosexuality has no negative consequence..."

Gay Activists Acknowledge Severe Health Risks of Homosexual Lifestyle: [A]ctivists admit what we have been saying for years, that "gay/bisexual men have a life expectancy 20 years less than the average man" in Canada. Even the life expectancy of lesbians, though not as severely impacted, "is still lower than the life expectancy of the general population."

Suicide rates, they admit, are anywhere from double to 13.9 times higher than the general population. By their own estimates, homosexuals comprise 30% of all suicides in Canada.
They admit that smoking rates among gays are up to three times higher, alcohol use up to seven times higher, and illicit drug use up to 19 times higher than the general population.
They themselves openly acknowledge that 76.1% of all AIDS cases since statistics were first kept occur in gay and bisexual men, and further acknowledge that the infection rate is up to 26 times higher than among the population as a whole.

When it comes to cancer of various types, they candidly admit that "gay men, lesbians and bisexual men and women are at higher risk for some cancers as a result of their sexual orientation (emphasis added)." Smoking and alcohol use puts them at elevated risk of lung and liver cancer, while their sexual activity increases their risk of anal cancer and cancers of the head, throat and neck through frequent exposure to HPV, the human papilloma virus..." Full text: Gay Activists Acknowledge Sever Health Risks of Homosexual Lifestyle

Response to comment [from an atheist]: "I feel sorry for all the homosexual children in Lithuania. They're going to be oppressed and discriminated against. They're going to be taught to hate themselves, that there's something wrong with them. I wont be surprised if suicide among homosexual children and teens in Lithuania goes up now."

Those poor children--they will be taught to live. God is pro life. All that he teaches us leads to life. When we depart from God's law, disease and death follow. Did you know that all venereal diseases could be wiped out in a year if men stopped fornicating and committing adultery? This is not the case of course-- there is no shortage of men desiring to disobey God and his commands, spreading bacteria which does not die. But monogamy in marriage between one man and one woman as prescribed by God for man leads to life. Listen to God and live. Ignore God and die (Jn 10:10).

Liberals are ruled by their emotions and first stage thinking. Consider the results of your actions.

Gluttony is characteristic of the wicked (Phil. 3:19). Again, it leads to death, godly choices lead to life.

Are men more enlighten than God? If you are pro-death, pro-theft, pro-disease/destruction, let's listen to men (Jn 10:10). They've been enlightening us for some time.

Response to comment [from an atheist]: "[R]arely does one look back at their life and say that they wish they had less sex."

This is the context in which the Bible’s ban on extramarital intercourse should be read; it prohibits adultery (Ex 20:14) and any kind of extramarital or premarital sex (1 Cor 6:18; 1 Thes 4:3). The Bible does not usually pause to back up its prohibitions with arguments, but on the rare occasions when it does expand its veto on extramarital intercourse, the reasons given are highly instructive. There is no appeal to consequences (these things are wrong because they result in disease and unwanted babies) or even to motives (these things are wrong if they are done in an unloving spirit). All extramarital sex is wrong in itself, simply because the body is not meant for sexual immorality and those who commit sexual sins sin against their own bodies (1 Cor 6:13, 18). Sexual intercourse is a unique kind of body language that the Creator has designed to express and seal that special, exclusive, life-long relationship between a man and a woman which the Bible labels “marriage.”

The Bible also prohibits homosexuality (Lv 18:22; Rom 1:26–27; 1 Cor 6:9–10; 1 Tm 1:9–10). The only verses that provide an explanation for this prohibition are Romans 1:24–27. Essentially, these verses indicate that God gave up on those who gave up on him when they turned from worshiping the Creator to worshiping things God made—that is, when they became idolaters. As such, God abandoned them, as they abandoned themselves to their own sinful and sexual desires, especially practicing homosexuality. Thus, homosexuality is seen as a violation of the natural created order and thereby an offense to God the Creator who created men and women, male and female, for procreation.

The Bible’s advice to anyone caught up in sexual temptation is practical: flee from temptation. When Joseph was invited by another man’s wife to go to bed with her, he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house (Gn 39:12). And Paul tells his Christian readers to follow Joseph’s good example (1 Cor 6:18; 2 Tm 2:22). This is an acknowledgment of the power of the normal person’s sex drive, not a counsel of despair. The power of the Holy Spirit, Paul taught, gives any believer the strength to win the war against sexual temptation. He knew Christians who had found the Spirit’s power to gain self-control and conquer the most deeply ingrained habits (1 Cor 6:9–11; Gal 5:22–23; 2 Tm 1:7).

Elwell, Walter A. ; Comfort, Philip Wesley: Tyndale Bible Dictionary. Wheaton, Ill. : Tyndale House Publishers, 2001 (Tyndale Reference Library), S. 1181

Response to comment [from a Catholic]: "I'm as faithful a Catholic as you can get..."

Why do you identify yourself as "Christian" rather than "Catholic" at TOL?

See:

Is Roman Catholic Christian an Oxymoron?

Response to comment [from a Catholic]: "I don't think (correct me if I am wrong) that the Church's position regarding homosexuality has ever been defined dogmatically..."

What if God defined it dogmatically? Will you think without Rome?

The Bible teaches that homosexuality is forbidden (Lev. 18:22); considered an abomination (1 Kin. 14:24); punishment (Lev. 20:13); and unclean (Rom. 1:24, 26, 27).

Response to comment [from an atheist]: "I was at one point very unhappy with myself and did consider committing suicide because it seemed that everyone hated homosexuals and that homosexuality was wrong, but parents also need to tell kids that being gay isn't wrong and that they will love them no matter what."

The Christian condemns homosexuality because God calls it an abomination (1 Kin. 14:24). The more society makes it socially acceptable, the more they harm the individual. The homosexual's sin like every person's sin needs forgiveness in Christ. Being gay is wrong. God loves the homosexual; but if they do not turn from their rebellion, they will not inherit the kingdom of God.

"Paul makes two more references to homosexual practice in other Epistles. Both occur in lists of banned activities and strike the same condemnatory note. In 1 Cor. 6:9f. practicing homosexuals are included among the unrighteous who will not inherit the kingdom of God (but with the redemptive note added, ‘such were some of you’); and in 1 Tim. 1:9f. they feature in a list of ‘the lawless and disobedient’. The latter is especially important because the whole list represents an updated version of the *Ten Commandments. Paul parallels the 7th commandment (on adultery) with a reference to ‘immoral persons’ (pornoi) and ‘sodomites’ (arsenokoitai), words which cover all sexual intercourse outside marriage, whether heterosexual or homosexual. If the Decalogue is permanently valid, the significance of this application is heightened still further.

f and the following (verse, etc.)

Wood, D. R. W.: New Bible Dictionary. InterVarsity Press, 1996, c1982, c1962, S. 479

Response to comment [from an atheist]: "God made me gay."

The Bible teaches otherwise. Jesus reiterated: "'Did ye not read, that He who made them, from the beginning a male and a female made them (Mt 19:4)." The homosexual defiles and perverts himself when he attempts to go against God's order (Ro 1:24). God is not mocked (Ga 6:7).