Originally Posted by antlers
How good is the “general welfare” of families when over 50% of first marriages end in divorce, and an even greater percentage of second marriages end in divorce, and an even still greater percentage of third marriages end in divorce...? And NONE of those failures has anything to do with “dignifying sodomy.” Giving these people the ability to provide for their “general welfare” in the ways that Nebraska mentioned above, while not infringing on your “general welfare” in any way whatsoever, seems right.
Originally Posted by Tyrone
The failures aren't part & parcel of virtue. The fact that people don't live up to the virtue being promoted in no way invalidates the attempt to promote virtue. Promoting vice does not make that vice into a virtue.
If you really want to make the ignorant argument that people's failures to live up to the ideal invalidate the ideal, we could pretend that gay "marriage" is a virtue and start comparing divorce rates, domestic violence numbers and infidelity, etc with real marriages. You won't like the numbers though, because sodomy loses on every count.
Another erroneous assumption that you make is that engaging in vice is somehow in the "general welfare" of homosexuals. Christ didn't condemn sodomy for just some people, He condemned it for everyone.
That’s a lengthy response, NONE of which negated the FACTS that I posted above it.

Some ‘Christians’ sure do come across as being quite angry...do they represent Jesus in a way that draws people from the onlooking world to Jesus...? Isn’t something off-kilter about such angry ‘Christians’...?

Every day on this side of the ground is a win.