Quoting Lady GooGoo™:" No, I'm saying to resist homosexual urges, not for MY benefit, for theirs, so that we can be together in Heaven."

You honestly think that your imaginary friend God would send someone to hell because of who they love? And if you DO believe that, why would you want to follow someone so hateful? I highly encourage you to go on Netflix and watch For the Bible Tells Me So.

Quoting SAFFY™:" To be honest, as an atheist, I wouldn't adopt to a Christian couple because of this line of thinking. Totally off topic but whatever."

Same. I would completely AVOID families who boast Christianity. I would actively seek out an atheist couple. Or a gay couple, whatever.

Quoting Tarynosaurus Rex:" You honestly think that your imaginary friend God would send someone to hell because of who they love? ... [snip!] ... why would you want to follow someone so hateful? I highly encourage you to go on Netflix and watch For the Bible Tells Me So."

Well my God's not imaginary first of all. Second of all, I read the Bible every single day and that's the only place I'll take direction from. Thanks for the 'concern'. If you only want to make fun of my religion and my God, I'll gladly ignore any further response from you. I like civil conversations, not rude remarks about the person most important in my life.

I'm no longer a Christian, but even when I was it wouldn't have mattered to me.
What matters is whether or not the child will be loved. If I find a gay family who will love my child unconditionally, why would I deprive them of that love?

As a Christian, I was taught that no sin is bigger than the other. If you can't adopt them out to a gay couple, based on the fact that they "sin"...why adopt them out at all? There is NO one on this earth who lives a perfect "sin free" life. Why can you adopt them out to another couple who "sins", but not a gay one?

Quoting SAFFY™:" Pfft. I've been told I should be deported, killed, that someone wouldn't piss on me if I was on fire...I ... [snip!] ... because I'm an open atheist. I'm not even a militant one; I just don't believe in religion and associate myself with atheism."

My best friend of 16 years just recently informed me that I have been dropped from her wedding and basically she doesn't really want to speak to me anymore. The reason? Her fiance' doesn't like Christians and feels I'll be a bad influence. Since we were 12, she has been an atheist and I have been a Christian. It has NEVER been an issue until him. Bigotry goes both ways. I think that the difference is, for so long Christians were the majority and many were/are smurfs, so now it feels like we are getting what's due. Maybe that's true. But I don't see how being rude or belittling to an entire group of people before you know the individual makes someone any better. It might feel good to dish it back, but what are you really accomplishing by making fun of our "imaginary friend in the sky?" Really, all you're teaching is the same type of intolerance that you've experienced.

ETA - I have never spoken to this man in the two years they have been together. When I did speak to her, it was never about religion unless one of us had a question about the other's beliefs. We used to be able to have great conversations to explain why we felt how we did with no judgment from either side.

Quoting Bangtail:" My best friend of 16 years just recently informed me that I have been dropped from her wedding and basically ... [snip!] ... fun of our "imaginary friend in the sky?" Really, all you're teaching is the same type of intolerance that you've experienced."

I haven't made fun of anyone.   I don't believe or practice in religion. I associate myself with atheism. I'm not a militant atheist. I don't give a hoot who anyone worships as long as they aren't trying to cram it down my throat, so to speak. One of my favorite people in the whole world who I met on here is a very devout Christian.

But because of the hatred I've felt at the hands of Christians, I would have a very, very hard time giving up my child to a Christian family. I would not feel comfortable with it.

Quoting SAFFY™:" I haven't made fun of anyone.   I don't believe or practice in religion. I associate myself with atheism. ... [snip!] ... Christians, I would have a very, very hard time giving up my child to a Christian family. I would not feel comfortable with it."

Is it just Christianity, or any monotheistic religion? What about a Christian gay couple?

I can understand because I have experienced some royally smurfed up things from people that shoved their Christianity down everyone's throats.

And I quoted the wrong person with the imaginary friend comment.

Quoting Bangtail:" Is it just Christianity, or any monotheistic religion? What about a Christian gay couple? I can understand ... [snip!] ... that shoved their Christianity down everyone's throats. And I quoted the wrong person with the imaginary friend comment."

Christians are really the only ones who have left a bad taste in my mouth so probably just that group, including the gay ones. It's hard for me to want to hand over my child to people who belong to that group even though they aren't specifically the ones who have said such awful things to me. I'd probably look for an atheist/agnostic/humanistic parent(s), regardless of sexual orientation.

I'd never give a child up for adoption so this is all entirely hypothetical anyways.

Quoting SAFFY™:" Christians are really the only ones who have left a bad taste in my mouth so probably just that group, ... [snip!] ... regardless of sexual orientation. I'd never give a child up for adoption so this is all entirely hypothetical anyways."

Yeah, my baby-maker is out of business, so it's all what-if.

No, I wouldn't.

Quoting Lady GooGoo™:" So I should be a drug addict instead of sober? Of course I always want the drugs. I resist that urge."

The 2 are not comparable. One is normal the other is destructive. If any of your children turn out to be gay maybe you will eventually understand the difference. Homosexuality is not about sex acts. It is just the fact that a person of the same sex could never fall in love with the opposite sex or experience attraction with the opposite sex. The God of my beliefs does not care who is gay or not. There is a reason why homosexuality exists and it has nothing with so-called sin. You say you would love and accept your children if they were gay and you are only a mere mortal with human faults yet you believe a god who is perfect and is unconditionally loving would reject a soul who had a gay life? This is why I have a hard time with organized religion because I believe there are many misconceptions about God and it causes ignorance where there should be understanding.

Quoting redneck mamma:" Wasn't there a lifetime movie about a kid who was gay and his mother tried to force him to be something ... [snip!] ... would love him no matter what would not accept him for who he was and wanted him to be what she believed he needed to be."

I never did see it but would like to watch it sometime

Quoting Lucid Dreamer:" The 2 are not comparable. One is normal the other is destructive. If any of your children turn out to ... [snip!] ... religion because I believe there are many misconceptions about God and it causes ignorance where there should be understanding."

You believe there is "lack of understanding" because you don't believe what the Bible says.

Opinions will differ on this subject, according to what one believes to be true.

Quoting Lucid Dreamer:" The 2 are not comparable. One is normal the other is destructive. If any of your children turn out to ... [snip!] ... religion because I believe there are many misconceptions about God and it causes ignorance where there should be understanding."

Well I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on this. I am a Christian and I believe the Bible.

Quoting Lady GooGoo™:" Yes, I can see why she did it, and it would hurt me if one of my children decided to live a homosexual ... [snip!] ... live a homosexual lifestyle. But we should always give our children unconditional love as Christ gives us unconditional love."

No one ever decides to live a homosexual life anymore than anyone decides to live a hetero one. You are born either hetero or homosexual.