What goalposts have been shifted?
I mean aside from your goalpost shift when you dismissed a modest collection of research showing that experiencing hate, discrimination and minority stress over extended periods of time result in significantly higher instances of mental health problems and change the goal post with "There is no valid evidence that being the target of hate and discrimination directly causes mental health problems." You remind me of tobacco companies still insisting that there is no DIRECT evidence that smoking causes cancer.
And you moved the goal post again when you ignored the original false claim and the discussion and tried to derail things with "The Bible makes no false claims about homosexuality."
And you are back to saying LBGT people are sick.
Labeling them "confused" also helps to belittle them and diminish them
Labeling them "confused" is a nice way of diminishing, belittling and dehumanizing them.
They happen a lot and dismissing that suffering isn't compassion by any stretch of the imagination
Because they are sick
You are doing it right here, so not my imagination
You keep posting how you want an honest forthright discussion...but then you post things like this.
Funny that true Christians suffer in this world in much the same ways, except we do have the Lord to encourage and lift us up when we need it.
But look around you - all kinds of people suffer in all kinds of ways in this world. It's because the world is in a sinful fallen state and lies under the wrath of God because of it. Sin of all kinds has consequences...it opens the door to the devil who only comes to steal, kill and destroy. However this thread is about whether or not homosexual relations is sinful. And the simple answer is yes of course it is. But as believers we are all exhorted and admonished, warned and instructed the same regardless of our particular brand of sinning. For example:
1Th 4:1-8
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
