Fact Checking LBGTQ+

I cannot say how many times I have heard a member of the LBGTQ+ community, who we love as fellow people made in the image of God, make the comment that they were "born gay" or just "born that way". Geneticists have found that this truth about being born gay does not exist. According to the National Institutes of Health and the New York times https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22720828/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/science/gay-gene-sex.amp.html

I think it’s hard to understand how anyone can turn gay by choice. It’s like I some morning wake up and say to myself...oh...I’ve become a lesbian over night...

I know I’m not the sharpest pencil... somewhere, so I might have gotten this all wrong.

This is a red hot topic for sure. Are we Christians being too rigid? We have to set boundaries I know but this seems to alienate and divide everyone.

No, we're not being too rigid at all. The truth will divide people, there's no getting it. There are things in the Bible that will alienate the sinner, we don't change the truth to suit the world. Not ever.

Now personally Im going to choose my words carefully when talking about this subject to anyone. What would Jesus say? What would Jesus do? Thats the question we need to ask. I dont think he would speak dismissively or theaten them with Hell. He might express his concern at the way the world is going. I

Jesus has already made it clear through His Word. He doesn't threaten the unbeliever with hell?

Leviticus 20:13 KJV
[13] If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Romans 1:26-28 KJV
[26] For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: [27] And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. [28] And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Jude 1:7-8 KJV
[7] Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. [8] Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

ah some Christians favourite verses!!

I cannot say how many times I have heard a member of the LBGTQ+ community, who we love as fellow people made in the image of God, make the comment that they were "born gay" or just "born that way". Geneticists have found that this truth about being born gay does not exist. According to the National Institutes of Health and the New York times https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22720828/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/science/gay-gene-sex.amp.html

This is a red hot topic for sure. Are we Christians being too rigid? We have to set boundaries I know but this seems to alienate and divide everyone.

It's not at all rigid. It's not like we're saying that those living a same-sex life style can't be forgiven. On the contrary, the offer of forgiveness is to them as much as anyone else. The problem is that instead of repenting, they want to justify that life style so that they can continue in it.

Well we were all born sinful, yet we can't use that as an excuse to justify our sin (regardless how it manifests itself);
but we should use our sinful condition as an excuse to seek rescue from our sinfulness (regardless how it manifests itself).