The hatred towards LGBTQs in this thread is both shocking and disappointing to me. I knew some Christians have negative views towards them, but the outright hatred expressed here has taken me aback a bit.
I shared some of the posts here with a gay friend of mine and she reminded me that I am on a Christian message board, so of course there are going to be some gay-hating Christians here. It's no different than the times I've been on atheist boards and found out there are some atheists who truly hate Christians. My gay friend also reminded me to consider this in a historical context, and how since the founding of this country there have always been some Christians who hate other groups of people. It was Christians who slaughtered Native Americans and intentionally infected them with disease. It was Christians who kidnapped Africans and made them slaves in America. It was Christians who founded the KKK and slaughtered blacks across the south. It was Christians who instituted and defended Jim Crow.
And with LGBTQs, it's been Christians who have killed them, used the threat of violence to keep them closeted, fought to keep them from being able to have jobs, fought to keep them from being able to get homes, fought to keep them from being able to marry the people they love, and still to this day fight to keep them from having basic civil rights.
Based on all that, my friend said to me....yes there are Christians who hate us, but given all that history, in some ways the feeling is mutual. But the good thing is, bigotry against LGBTQs is shrinking every year and the public increasingly supports LBGTQs' right to live freely and openly in society. One day the gay-hating Christians will be looked back on in the same way we now look back on the Christian segregationists.