Do you think the pressures Christianity places on homosexual children to be "straight" [...]?

The institution of marriage is claimed by christians to be something that is considered solely for a man and a woman, sadly enough, and with a little research, they would realize that the institution of marriage has been around much longer than their religion.....yes, I believe that christians have turned many people away from organized religion and put pressures on people who they judge....if people were allowed to marry whom ever they chose with out the pressure, the world would be a better place. Judge not unless ye be judged....

No Christianity has not damaged the institution of marriage, it is trying to protect it. Marriage is an institution between a man and a woman, simply because you cannot develop a family without reproduction and homosexual couples cannot reproduce. Anyway you look at it homosexuality is wrong. It is not only morally wrong but biologically wrong. God created male and female for reproduction purposes only. If it was not intended for a couple to consist of a male and a female only, then there would be a natural biological way for a same gender couple to reproduce. So since their isn't a natural biological way for two men or two women to a reproduce then homosexuality is wrong.

It is not Christianity's fault if a man marries a woman, has children with her when he really didn't want to. That man made that decision not his religion. See that is the wonderful thing about God, he allows us to make choices. He never makes them for us. People need to start taking responsibility for their own decisions and stop being like Flip Wilson and say the "Devil" made me do, well in this case my "Religion" made me do it. That is ridiculous.

I am not a gay, so I don't know what that is like, but I am a christian. It is one of the hardest issues I think, because I really don't beleive God creates someone to be gay. I guess there are certain things we will never understand until we stand before the father-it's beyond our comprehension. One thing I have heard of are iniquities. Iniquities are sins which have beeen repeated and repeated by our forefathers. In the Bible it says the iniquities of the parents will be passed down to the third and fourth generations. The Bible also says all men apoun conception are born into sin. Because of Adam and Eve in the begining, a curse has been placed on all of mankind. Alcoholics, drug abusers, sexual abusers, promiscuity and the lists goes on. We've all heard people say that they drink because their father drank and their grandfather was an alcoholic, so it's in their blood. Other people say they molest children because they were molested as a child. Some people are born with these sins because they have been passed down from other generations. Or sometimes a curse follows a family and you can see it (Ex: the Kennedy family-a lot of tragedy) I beleive it may be a spirit of promiscuity that someone was born with that may give them these feelings at a young age. One explaination that makes sense to me is that some people who are gay may have always felt they were different, and maybe it was something they were born with-seeing as though I beleive all men were born into sin. Some people will argue that it is not a sin, well if the Bible says it is a sin-then I will beleive God over men. I beleive everyone has their cross to bear and their burden to overcome. I think as Christians we should be more supportive toward people who are struggling in that area-instead of judging. I do know that the cycle can be broken, but it is not easy to break. God is in the place to judge and no one else. What really bothers me is how quickly society will want to beleive that a curious CHILD is a homosexual. I know as a child I was curious about the opposite sex as well as girls and women. I didn't want to interact with them sexually-no. But I was very curious about what the body of other girls and women looked like. It's normal and people are lying if they say when they were younger they never had strange attractions or feelings of curiosity about both sexes. Childhood and adolescense is a very scary time, and I'm sure if I was a child and told an adult what some of my thoughts were, they might have told me that I was gay. I think now it is so socially acceptable, that if a child expresses attraction to someone of the same sex, adults or older siblings right away define them as gay. Being a child you always thought people older than you knew everything. I just bothers me, because I know that only a few years ago, I got my life straightened out with God. I had my own sin and shame that I dealt with, and I am so glad I am set free! God doesn't make these rules to condemn us, but to set us free from bondage! Let's protect our children-instead of pushing them the other way.

>>>Do you think the pressures Christianity places on homosexual children to be "straight" has damaged the institution of marriage <<<

It has not done such damage, any more than parents' pressure on children to do well in school and avoid taking drugs has damaged the institution of marriage.

I just have to say I hate the fact people can't be with who they want to be. I'm married I have 3 kids and a lot of friends that are gay I would rather live in a gay community then live around people that have such negativity in the word. It is sad that people force people to be how the other people want them to be.

psychologically speaking, if you constantly remind someone or warn someone not to do something, more times than not, they;ll do it. for example, if you keep remindinf your kids how poorly they do in math and constantly reinforce that negative aspect, they will continue to do poorly. so by constantly telling kids to be straight and avoid this homosexuality thing, it will draw more attention to homosexuality than desired. just like the parental advisory stickers on albums, NC-17 rating on movies. it draws interest even though you are trying to make them avoid it.

I completely agree. I just do NOT understand how homosexual marriage is a threat to anyone or any religion.

I think it is does damage to the children, they are telling them to deny who they are. There is nothing wrong with being gay, it isn't like it is hurting anyone. You can't change a persons sexual preference, it isn't a choice anymore then you can choose your skin color.

I think it should be considered child abuse.