[TheRealThing]

Well, the law came by Moses, but grace and truth by Christ. I am going to be merciful toward people who believe different from me because I need mercy shown to me. If the same sex couple hates me because I think God does not accept homosexuality as an alternate lifestyle, then I will answer that hatred with prayers for blessing. If the lesbian calls me a bigot and eggs my house, I will offer my car to be egged as I ask if she needs a jump start for her battery. This is how Jesus says we show ourselves children of the Father. A lot of religious folks have the rock in hand ready to launch it, yet Jesus asks if they are without sin. None of this means we embrace sin, but embracing people doesn't mean we embrace sin. If means we are learning the Way of the Master.

Then you also know that the reason God called out the account of His destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was to define a certain matter. Once a society traverses through sin's fast lane until it arrives at the open acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle, that society is on the cusp of the end. That is why God dealt with Sodom in the way He did in raining destruction down upon them in the form of fire and brimstone.

Were those folks uniquely evil as compared to the rest of humanity? Obviously not. The lesson in the Sodom account is for man to be able to recognize his societal and personal progression into the depths of sin. At some point God turns His back on men and sometimes entire societies because their minds have slidden into a state of reprobation. In other words, and I know you like the signpost analogy Sombrero, homosexuality is a signpost denoting a certain state of being rather than a certain location. For people who are hopelessly entrapped, or people who somehow derive some measure of satisfaction when others are involved with the practice of homosexuality, destruction awaits. Destruction, like the fire and the brimstone of Sodom, awaits.

That being said, if a person is not so deeply enslaved that they can still respond to God in repentance for their sin, will obviously be forgiven.