After I got engaged and before I got married, Facebook kept showing me ads for wedding dresses. I'm a guy. As is my now-husband

I know it's probably just pavlovian conditioning, but I like the smell of bleach.

Roman Catholics, for example, include the worship of demigods (they call them Saints)

No they do not.

I'm not a Roman Catholic, but I am married to one, and my best friend is one.

I live near the shipyard where the Titanic was built. They recently opened a Titanic museum there. On Saturday, there was a huge sound and light show about the history of the Titanic, complete with fireworks. If that's how we celebrate the death of 1517 people, then, man, the celebrations in 2014 are going to be AWESOME.

And that's why it is illegal to discriminate against gay people, and why there is same-sex marriage, and so on!

So seeing two people of the same sex in a relationship is contributing to the loss of childhood innocence?

Is seeing two people of the opposite sex in a relationship contributing to the loss of childhood innocence?

That's all gay people are asking for too, you know. I respect your relationships, and it would be nice if you respected mine.

Do you have any statistics to back that up?

I'm not saying that there are gay Christians, therefore Christ would have supported gay marriage. The key point of the article I linked to is this: "by opposing same-sex marriage, you are effectively encouraging poorer health in gay men, which is hardly a Christian position to take."

Why is only the "leaving" metaphorical? The rest of the passage doesn't look metaphorical to me.

Anyway, if you just focus on verse 27, it is very difficult to get anything other than a "strange interpretation". However, if you look at the whole context of the passage, you will see verse 27 is not nearly so general as you think - see http://faithandpride.org/2011/01/17/romans-1-and-sound-bite-theology/

What do you think the end of verse 27, "and received in themselves the due penalty for their error", means?

Where I live there are a lot more white people than black people. Does that mean it is OK for me to say "I don't wanna see black people" or "I don't wanna see interracial couples"?

As do my husband and I.

Don't know which God you are talking about, but the Christian God has never condemned same-sex relationships (although many of his worshipers mistakenly believe he has.

Pedophilia and rape (which you mention later) are not "spinoffs" from homosexuality.

There is a HUGE difference between not wanting to shack up with another man, and not wanting to see gay couples anywhere.

I'd say I'm pretty married.

What are the SI units again?

And if that's how you read it, you must agree that it cannot be used as a general condemnation of all same-sex relationships. Neither I nor my husband have ever had sex with women, and so we have never "left" it.

Could you email me at the info address on http://faithandpride.org/contact/ ? I am interested in your church, and I think discussing it here would be way off topic :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRkIWB3HIEs

Really? I'm gay and I've never left the natural use of the woman. I've never used a woman, naturally or otherwise.

Do straight men use women?

Straight men are weird, if they do. I have never used a sexual partner.

I've already posted a link to what I've written about Romans, but do you seriously think that it is as simple as quoting 1 Timothy 1:10? Do you think that gay Christians simply ignore that verse for some reason? Or is it really more complex than you think?