I’ve stated nothing regarding gay marriage nor gay adoption neither where your church stands on those issues. The issue is how the gay community understood what Pope Francis said....which encouraged them further to “push” for more....thus the threads topic.
Now let me also say this....I do believe firmly that the mind of many homosexuals can no longer discern the things of God ore than talking the talk because as I see it their hearts have turned from God. So they will indeed take what the Pope might say and twist it to suite their agenda, and will obviously. Which is why I believe it’s a very tricky ground to walk in “giving” homosexuals encouragement by offering them anything other than forgiveness, should they seek it, and restoration with the church family. As with any grecious sin the idea is seeking restoration....
However that is not the direction the homosexual coummnity is taking with the church....they want their sexual preference deemed as a lifestyle...and their membership as no different then those who remain faithful to the Lord.....which they are not, by practicing homosexual behavior.
The tricky part is that a lot of people use the word "gay" to mean just "same-sex attracted" rather than "active sodomite." In addition to that, some people so identify with their feelings, that they embrace "gay" as their identity.
It's always a bad idea to find your "identity" in your appetites.
This slipperiness in the use of the word "gay" to mean , inexactly, what a person does, how he feels, and who he "is", makes it more difficult to explain that we do not want to devalue, marginalize and reject persons per se, but we do reject gay conduct and even the gay "relationships" and "culture" predicated upon that conduct.