When do homosexuals and heterosexuals evolve as God's priceless possessions?

Man by nature is disobedient. When God says go to the right, we go to the left. When God says, “Go to the world, subdue it and multiply (Genesis 1:28), men really multiply but not in productive choices but in multiple ruinous choice. 

Just like what happened recently when a Filipino transgender was murdered in a date with an American. 

Accordingly, 78 trans people have already been killed in 13 countries in 2013 and 1,233 in 59 countries since January 2008 . The highest absolute counts of trans murders were located in countries with strong trans communities and trans or LGBT organizations that performed professional monitoring – pointing out that the pointing out that the global problem is far greater.

In a separate report, it is estimated that around the world five transgender are murdered every week. In 2012 alone there have been at least 265 trans people murdered, many of them in violent killings specifically motivated by anti-trans hate.  What did God say,  "And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, where 'their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched." (Matthew 9:47-48)  Meaning, anything that is not normal creates resentment.  It’s the same thing when a heterosexual enters into unnatural relationship which creates antipathy to the people.  Can’t we pluck that choice which causes others to sin?

    

All major world regions (Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Europe, North America and Oceania), have accounted trans murders, many with coupled stories of monstrous violence and blatant hatred against uncommon individuals.

In 2008, TransRespect reported 141 reported cases, in 2009 213 cases, in 2010 214 cases, and in 2011 a large increase to 248.

Most reported cases originated in Central and South America which totals, since the time counting first began, 643 cases over 21 countries. This accounts for roughly 80 percent of the globally reported murders of trans people since January 2008. Central and South America has also seen the steepest increase in trans murders.

What did God say, Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect. (Romans 12:2) 

Exodus 23:32 This must be the reason that interracial approach is not at all times a healthy novelty considering that even the culture which is destructive to man’s individuality can be emulated in the process.

For years in the U.S., those in favor of same-sex marriage have contested that all Americans should be liberated to live as they choose. And yet in innumerable cases, the government has compelled those who simply desire to be free to live in accordance with their belief that nuptial is the tying of a man and a woman.  Sad to say even Philippines has been emulating this kind of culture.  In fact, some known personalities have started a same sex union.

Lesbian Gay Transgender and Bisexual (LGTB) community desires freedom which in the process has been granted, although freedom rests when it entails the society’s tranquility brought by its long-term effects, but never respects other’s freedom.

For example, recently there was a same-sex couple who asked to be married by the Christian Ministers which the latter politely turned down. The Knapps  now face a 180-day jail term and $1,000 fine for each day they decline to celebrate the same-sex wedding. A week of reverence on their faith and refusal to perform the ceremony could cost the couple three and a half years in jail and $7,000 in fines.

The Knapps have been married for 47 years and are both ordained ministers of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. They are “evangelical Christians who have firm grip on historic Christian beliefs” that “God created two distinct genders in His image” and “that God decreed nuptial to be between one man and one woman.”

But as a result of the courts redefining marriage and a city ordinance that creates special privileges based on sexual orientation and gender identity, these ministers are facing government compulsion.

Of course, not everybody could buy the Ministers’ excuse/prerogative not to wed same sex union if the former would just reason out that they have been there for long years since 1989, because not all conventional practices are helpful after all.  But looking at the above statistics plus the fact that millions of children who have lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender (LGBT) parents grows emotionally and socially unhealthily, then the Ministers are actually right with their firmness and zeal towards the word of God than word of men. Comparatively, less than 2 percent of children from unbroken, biological families are accounted experiencing sexual abuse of some nature, but that number for children of same-sex union is 23 percent. 14 percent of children from same-sex couples have spent some time in foster care, versus around 2 percent of the American population at large. Arrest, drug experimentation, and unemployment rates were all elevated among children from same-sex couples. This is why God says that homosexual cannot enter God’s kingdom. God’s kingdom can be equated to man’s happiness and joy.

I would be grateful and surely a glory to God, if these other states in the U.S. which are continuing of their legal fight against same-sex marriage remain unmoved, despite rulings from federal appeals courts that oversee those states that wrapped up gay and lesbian couples have the right to marry.

 

Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) represent 

approximately 2% of the United States population are accounted as the group that is most severely affected by HIV.

In 2010, young gay and bisexual men (aged 13-24 years) accounted for 72% of new HIV infections among all individuals aged 13 to 24, and 30% of new infections among all gay and bisexual men. At the end of 2010, an estimated 489,121 (56%) individuals living with an HIV diagnosis in the United States were gay and bisexual men, or gay and bisexual men who also inject drugs.

In 2011, gay and bisexual men accounted for 79% of 38,825 estimated HIV diagnoses among all males aged 13 years and older and 62% of 49,273 estimated diagnoses among all individuals receiving an HIV diagnosis that year.

Just recently, my friend’s friend has died at a young age because of AIDS.  The question is who are the rest to follow if he left with some whom he infected and the people he infected also infect others and the infected by whom he infected also infect and so on and so forth.   

Of course, we can’t blame especially these inborn homosexuals if they behave as straight homosexuals,  as science discloses that families with two homosexual brothers were very likely to have certain genetic markers on a region of the X chromosome known as Xq28; the same with “alcoholism gene”, which creates people become alcoholics, and a “warrior gene”, which creates people strangely aggressive.

However, genes can’t totally control behavior according to the research, which is evident as the saying goes, “The body achieves what the mind believes.”  Genes control the production of amino acids, which combine to form proteins. The existence or non-existence of a protein can have a result on things like alcohol tolerance or mood.

Affecting something is not the same as having complete control over it.

Side by side with environment, genetics plays a significant role in the development of one’s behavior

Come to think of it, alcoholism evolves in families not only because there is a genetic component to alcoholism, but also because children learn how to cope with anxiety through the behaviour of their family members when managing a nerve-racking condition.

That means to say, if you come from a culture where alcohol consumption is forbidden or where aggression is not well-accepted, chances are that you are most/less likely to be in this pattern as you grow older.

Can sexual preference be changed?

Being attracted to same sex can never be stopped as every second one’s eyes would naturally react to what one sees.  However, one can learn not to act on his/her desires.

People already learn to quit smoking, to give up particular foods, and to be faithful on their husbands or wives.

Everyone has the right to engage in any preferred behavior, as long as their actions do not harm others.  But if we’ll based on statistics, same sex encounter does harm and therefore an issue that needs to be repaired/changed than tolerated and enhanced.

In any uncontrollable occurrences brought by dividing line between beliefs and court rulings which is irreconcilable ever since the world began, pro-same sex union and legislative should likewise be reminded that freedom is not sole possession by a particular group but by everybody. As a matter of respecting the church’s freedom who does not acknowledge same sex union, you can approach any institution that accepts such but not the church.  Conserving religious liberty and the rights of conscience after all do not breach any sexual liberty. Everybody are taxpayers and member of the state and it is but just to exercise equal rights.

When we say repairing of homosexuality values does not mean discrimination of third sex, as homosexuality per se is not a sin but its destructive culture, but to gradually reform/change from these devastating choices.

For homosexuals who have been into same sex relationships, repairing of values could be a long process depending on how long homosexuals have been submerged in here, as any type of addiction whether it’s sexual or power or monetary addiction take days’ rehabilitation, as this has already been embedded into one’s system.  Nevertheless, for the minors who have the homosexuality tendency, this may serve as a warning to the parents who are guiding their children.

Although only 1.6 of American adults self-identity as "gay" or "lesbian," with another 0.7 percent self-identifying as "bisexual."(about 150,000 same-sex couples) are now legally married in the United States), which cannot be a threat to the exploding numbers of family but its effect to the society is not tiny, as presented on the statistics.

Yes, everyone may have been fallen into a trap of sinfulness because of too much trust in the arm of flesh but we're all given multiple chances to repair our personal spiritual perspective towards life. That life is not all about money, sex and power but all about holiness. Holiness is not all about going to the church everyday but going to the church with the trust in the Divine Mercy that we as a people can address everyone's imperfection and misguided sexuality orientation through communal effort, by being concerned and dependent with one another, encouraging one another, living together in a life that trusts not in the arm of flesh but in the Arms of God.

Romans 8:5-8 For those who live according to the flesh are concerned with the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the spirit with the things of the spirit. The concern of the flesh is death, but the concern of the spirit is life and peace. For the concern of the flesh is hostility toward God; it does not submit to the law of God, nor can it; and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

References:

1. Howie Severino, US Embassy Manila issues first fiancé visas for same-sex couples  http://www.gmanetwork.com/
2. Jared Bray, Filipinos react one week after same sex marriage ban lifted in UtahABS-CBN North America Bureau, http://www.balitangamerica.tv/
3. Associated Press, Mother of US Marine held in the Philippines for 'drowning transgender woman in a toilet after they checked into cheap motel' claims she is being kept in the dark about his case, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
4. Rakshita Patel , 78 trans murders in 2013, mutilation common, http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/
5. Steve Williams, It’s Time to Remember: 265 Trans People Murdered in 2012, http://www.care2.com/
6. http://www.nytimes.com/, HIV Among Gay and Bisexual Men
7. Peter Sprigg, Is Marriage Declining Despite Same-Sex Unions or Because of Them?http://www.christianpost.com/
8. Gorgy Rula,  StarStruck alumnus Bugz Daigo marries transsexual, http://www.pep.ph/news/39736/starstruck-alumnus-bugz-daigo-marries-transsexual
9. Jeremy Tedesco/Jonathan Scruggs, Govt tells Christian ministers: Perform same-sex weddings or face jail, fines, http://www.adfmedia.org/
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