It will be difficult to stop 'singling you out', you see homophobia is not really acceptable behaviour.
MASH,
Your ridicule is all you got. Your ridicule is meaningless, so bring it on. It would not matter one iota if you scream your ridicule at the top of your lungs. It will not stop the fact that homosexuality is condemned by God and that virtually NEVER in the history of the planet has ANY society married such unions. There is no record of even the Sodomites doing such a thing.
I truly have compassion for anyone trapped in sexual sin. But the answer is not coddling them:
He who created them from the beginning made them male and female
, and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh'? Consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." - Jesus
...He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter.... (2 Peter 2:6)
The position is clear for Christians. It makes no difference what a smaller authority says Christians should or should not do. Christians expect to be singled out for their godliness.
In The Criminalization of Christianity:
The Talmud’s writings reveal that “before the Flood people started to write marriage contracts between men, in other words, homosexual ‘marriage,’ which is more than homosexual activity – it’s giving an official state stamp of approval, a sanctification … of homosexual partnership.”
In fact, he said, “the writings indicated that it wasn’t even so much the ‘straw that broke the camel’s back,’ but that the sin in and of itself is so contrary to why God created the world, so contrary to the order of God’s nature, that God said then and there ‘I have to start all over … to annihilate the world and start from the beginning. …’”
Rabbi Spero went on to say, “Even in ancient Greece they did not write marriage contracts between men. There was homosexuality, and it was wrong, but there was not an official ‘blessed’ policy. … Marriage is ‘sanctification’ (not simply a partnership).” He said to confer the title of sanctification and holiness upon this behavior is “probably one of the greatest sins of all that one does against God’s plan for this world.”
The one time it happened was: “During the days of Noah.” When I first heard this, my mind immediately went to a verse I’ve heard many times but never with such relevance. The verse is found in Matthew 24:37. It reads:
As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
