I often feel in the dark about the discussion of homosexuality and the Christian faith. A lot of searching has yielded a lot of confusing arguments about language and wording and cultural reference frames and all sorts of circular reasoning. I found this article which has helped tremendously with my views on it, especially given the current debates that seem to be raging more fiercely each and every day. This paragraph is what finally got me; read on for a God-fearing and Biblically-based mindset:
With so profound a meaning behind the sacrament of marriage, should Christians be worried that the meaning of marriage will somehow be re-defined with the passage of laws legalizing same-gender marriages? Absolutely not! Actions of a secular government in no way re-define Christian sacraments. In the United States and most other countries on this planet, the Church exists in societies which legalize many things that we view as sinful and damaging to the soul. Pornography is legal in the United States, and yet this fact has not re-defined our views on lust. Abortion is legal in the U.S., and yet our views of human life or on murder have not been re-defined. Adultery and fornication are perfectly legal in most jurisdictions, and yet “legalization of adultery and fornication” has in no way re-defined Christian marriage. Our society can decide to legalize same-gender unions or those of three or more persons (same gender or not—none of this secular legal activity has the power to re-define Christian marriage. Why then, do American Evangelicals, among others, assert that governmental legislature threatens to re-define marriage? It is difficult to know for sure, since most of the rhetoric takes place in the political, rather than the theological context and thus is meant to appeal to emotions and passions rather than intellect, but I can speculate on a couple of reasons...
A bit lengthy, but well worth the time if you were as convicted as I was to explore the ramifications of sin and society.