Christians response to gay marriage?

You have spent energy here caring about what this adult consents to post. I never said people were forcing their beliefs on me i said on Christians .

You used the term "consenting adults".

And truthfully, they have no concept of what they are consenting to because emotionally they are damaged to the point that they have a skewed view of right and wrong. They are mentally unstable. That includes the gambit of narcissistic tendencies to gender dysphoria and all points in between.

Where these people are less than 5% of the population...they also have no qualms about moral turpitude...
Which was once a reason that they were unable to engage in large contracts...including life insurance. (Once upon a time corporate America actually had a conscience instead of all greed all the time)

Which brings us to the point of normalizing mental health. At what point do we stop incarceration or hospitalizing those with moral turpitude? We certainly do not want to encourage such behaviors....but that is exactly what you are arguing in favor of. Yes, they have some functionality in society but because of the moral turpitude they are always seeking to enlist more people into perversion and a breakdown of our society.

Look, Mexico is a "Christian " nation of Catholics. But the place is a cesspool. Full of drugs, gangs, sex slaves, and every perversion possible. Sure there are pockets of decency but a two block radius surrounded by armed guards really isn't the sort of place I want to live.

I've made my opinion on this issue pretty clear. That's the exact opposite of lukewarm. Also you're still dodging my question.
Who is forcing anything on you?

I never said anyone was forcing something on me i said Christians .

'"moral turpitude' is a little vague it takes a court order from a judge to have someone institutionalized for mental health and typically it's only if the person is deemed to be dangerous
If someone believes his toaster is talking to him, he's not likely to be institutionalized because that's not dangerous behavior
People who harm others go to jail.

Moral turpitude is not vague....it's quite specific.
It's just one of those words not commonly used anymore like avarice. Avarice is no longer considered a sin...it still is one but well....God says it is.

What specifically is being forced on christians?

What is being taught in public schools that Christian's pay taxes for.

What is being taught in public schools that Christian's pay taxes for.

keep hiding your head some times that is best. How about the cost the baker has to pay the loss of business.
How about the girl who was raped by the 'trans kid' at school , Ya know the kid who was transferred to another school and did it again?
This one was back in the 80s when i worked at the school. School woud transport your child for an abortion but by golly they had to call home to give her an aspirin.

Yeah but how much of that is really happening and how much is just propaganda? Pretty sure that's not happening here where I live or the whole community would be in an uproar about it

Okay but we're not a theocracy so we don't put people in jail for sin
This is america, not Saudi Arabia

I didn't say anything of the sort. This is a red herring.

I said that we should return to incarceration or hospitalization of those engaged in moral turpitude. We do this for drug dealers on a consistent basis. Exactly what is the difference between LGBT and drug dealers?

Currently in the UK you have ⅔ of those receiving gender reassignment surgery involved in a class action lawsuit against the hospital that performed their surgery....saying that they needed mental Healthcare and not gender reassignment surgery....but that they got pushed/coerced into the surgery.

Then there's the impressionable teenagers/young adults who typically have body image issues and needing emotional support being told that they are wrong about being a girl or boy and that they need to change...and that's when those people who have no compunction about committing moral turpitude usually prey upon the youngest members of a society....it's called grooming. Making the whole situation worse than it originally was with these young adults.

Your group of "consenting adults" is not innocent or anywhere near a normal person. They are predators. They destroy the community they reside within. Directly and indirectly they are destructive.

Monkey pox and HIV are prime examples. They are primarily homosexual diseases obtained by homosexuals having "casual sex" with partners that they don't have even so much as a name or contact information about.

Then if you doubt what I am saying....look at the percentage of crimes committed by the homosexual population. For 5% of the population why are they committing such a huge percentage of the crimes in a community?

I Don't know it all, but we should all go to the marriage and child rearing manual for directions.
My reading of Genesis through the entire O.T. is the following observation. I'm oversimplifying this, but for sale if brevity I'll hit bullet points.

*First, my heart goes out to christian parents who have a child who came back from school to announce that they came out of the closet and want acceptance. That's very sad. I'm not here to judge and condemn anyone.
* There are good parents who have children grow up to be disappoints in some part of their character.
* There are generations of believers back then as there are now, who think they've done their job to expose their children to church. This is not enough. It will be a rocky row to how so to speak later if lessons in parenting aren't learned early. Just my observations.
*The children who were "hey mom and dad, this is my same sex bo or gff and wanted you to know" were all public school educated. It probably happens in christian school educated as well, but I know of none. Does not mean it doesn't happen because many christian schools have the same problems as public. I have yet to learn of home schooled children with this issue, but again I used to teach home schoolers, but have a limited number to cite. My conclusion from reading the available research at the time of my homeschool study and observation showed the following summary.
A. In spite of exceptions, christian home school children were on average socially more adjusted than the average private and public school counterparts.
B. Parental involvement had more to do with various success factors than other variables.

I'm friends of a family who had a child who excelled until she moved out on her own to college. A lesbian relationship was established. She was raised in a public school setting every weekday for 12 years.
It's hard for parents to counter those many influences. That was the basic idea when the Prussian model was adopted in the USA.
It was based upon state uniformity to the will of large corporations. The family until was not a factor, but the contrary. Strangers would raise the children in a state,/ corporate approved manner. They took the place of the parents.
*Time and again, God warned His people against this. The few exceptional parents were commended because the parents would raise their children according to His statutes.
The masses tended to go so far as to allow heathens to marry their children.
What is the norm today?
God's people decided to reject God's commands and raise their children as the heathens do and give their sons and daughters to heathens to marry. The parents who have "gay" children most likely failed to insulate them adequately and protect them from the wickedness that captivated their hearts.
It would take too long to provide examples.

I have rejected the way contemporary Christianity has done things for many generations. It might be too late, but if the Lord provides me with a decent believer we plan to raise children according to God's Word. There are no guarantees since nobody is perfect, but it would be a failure somewhere very important if the child became homosexual. That's not a roll if the dice.

I asked for an example of something being forced on you?

I don't want the straw man you. Are you saying we should put people in jail for being gay?
And, this is America not Saudi arabia. The difference between LGBT people and drug dealers is that one is pedaling harmful substances and the other is a consensual relationship between two adults that harms no one

You also asked for a Scripture.

"Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matt 28:18-21

Jesus commands us to "make" disciples. That is, he tells us his expectations for believers. We are not just to "share" the gospel but through the authority Jesus has, we are to bring people to Christ & teach them how to obey Christ. Fairly close to "forcing" people to believe in Christ!

I am not that vehement. And I always pray for people to come to know Christ, that I have witnessed to! But one of the people who started a revival in an area where I used to live, literally rode a 45 minute round trip on a free ferry all day, sharing tracts & his testimony. It was an important part of me learning what the gospel was. Locals would often stay in their cars, so they didn't have to hear his spiel again! But he knew what God had done for him, and the least he could do for God was to preach the gospel, as God told him to do in his Word.

I'm very sorry to hear you gave up on Jesus. But just be aware, it is God that calls us to be saved, nothing about our own works! God has not given up on you. When my RA was excruciatingly painful and Word Faith people were telling me I didn't have enough faith to be healed, I got very angry with God, and turned my back in him. But he didn't turn his back on me! He kept calling me home. One day, I turned around and he was right there, he hadn't moved, I had! God told me to read 5 Psalms a day. Which I did for 2 years! I met God's people & found us that the rain falls on the just & the unjust. Everyone suffers sober or later with something. I went back to church, opened my Bible, started praying again. Within 6 months, God had called me to seminary, which is where I really belonged!!

Praying for you to realize God is waiting for you to turn back to him!

But that's the crux of the argument.

We, the Christian community have, and continue to, declare that it is a harmful relationship. Homosexuality is the symptom evidence of a larger problem.

It's a device built into nature that stops procreation of those who are damaged beyond repair. They are stopped from procreation because of their warped and sick minds.

And where this current society is enthralled with sexual promiscuity it is not in our society's best interest to continue to do so. It is harmful....and currently the homosexual community is the ones with AIDS, Monkey Pox, and committing a disproportionate percentage of crimes in our communities.

So your claim of "harmless" is absolutely bogus. It looks good on paper. Sounds good as a sound byte....but it's absolutely wrong.