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I had a conversation with a woman who was very vocal that she was both a christian and supported homosexuals. I asked her about her thoughts on polygamy, namely her husband going out and getting a younger wife. Her response was what you imagined. “Oh no!”, “that is immoral”, etc. At which time I pointed out to her:

You condemn polygamy which the old testament not only allowed, but codified and in some situations required but you celebrate and defend the practice of homosexuality which the old testament required that they be put to death.

I then quoted Isiah 5:20 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

I fear that much of Christendom has been fooled.

What worries me the most is that the oldest church has now succumbed. The protestant churches are just a piece of the Catholic Church that couldn’t accept ALL the church had to offer. The Protestant churches teach that they are still a part of the Catholic church, they profess it in their creed but it doesn’t make it so.

While true that polygamy was an accepted practice it was mostly gone by the third century in Christianity and in Judaism.

I personally don’t believe you can really be a Christian and accept homosexuality as not being a sin, a horrible perversion of what God gave us in the Garden. Few churches there are anymore that don’t accept some perversions in the Gospel. I understand their desire to be accepting but it would be better to teach truth, accept the sinner as a sinner until they can repent.

We are after all all sinners and under condemnation unless we repent, by accepting sin as not sin there will never be a repentance and the soul will be lost.

My statements don’t mean to oversimplify the situation.

There are statements in the New Testament that can be taken as an oversimplification, (get ready flame throwers) such as believe on the name of Jesus and be saved. While the statement is true it doesn’t mean only believe, it means believe and show your faith by following Christ, give up your sins and love your neighbor, etc . . .

James says show me your works and I’ll show you your faith. I say, works don’t save us but without them what is our demonstration of faith. Again, as James says, Faith without works is dead.

Our faith should lead us to the works of pointing out to the homosexual the error of his ways, the sin of his ways and help him into full fellowship so he can enjoy life the way it was meant to be enjoyed, following the commandments.

“Oh no!”, “that is immoral”, etc.

It appears to me that far too many people who claim to be Christian has that same attitude, but it could be just Mormon bias although i wonder why they will invent scripture to try to prove that polygamy is an abomination.

But by the way one is enough for me.