mkgal1,
An employer should certainly be allowed to turn someone down for a job for coming in and talking about their sexual preferences. Why would having sex with the same gender be a special protected class?
I had a friend who rented apartments in California. He didn't discriminate based on race. He had a number of apartments rented to Mexicans, for example. He didn't care what the race was as long as they paid. Then someon from the city applied for the apartment and he had to put in the time to check all the references and told the guy he could have the apartment. Then the man, who was black, said he worked for the city and was just making sure he didn't discriminate.
So now if a sexual pervert comes into an office to apply for a job, and you are the manager, shouldn't you be allowed to turn him down just because he talks about his sex life? Why would this be limited to those who indulge their 'vile passions' for homosexuality? If a man applies for a job and says that he likes to perform certain sexual acts with redheads or Asian women, should that be protected? If a woman applies for a job and mentions that she is sexually attraced to men in uniform, should that be protected? It's a foolish thing to make a discrimination issue.
Sure, it's bad to persecute the saints for being saints. But it is commendable to suffer for righteousness, but not commendable to suffer for sinning, as Peter points out. But it's not wrong to decline to rent out the other half of your duplex, where you live with your kids, because the potential tenant looks creepy. A man dressing up like a woman is creepy, and that should be grounds for not renting to someone. There are apartment complexes that seem to have a lot of people who act like that in them, and businessmen willing to exploit certain market niches. The right of a duplex owner to protect his kids from creepy influences certainly outweighs anyone's 'right' to sin against God.
You've been brainwashed by the media, through what is probably a Satanic strategy. You think of certain people who sin sexually and those who struggle with those lusts as victims of society.
There is a warning in Romans 1:32 about approving of sin.
"Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them."
(ESV)
There is also a warning from our Lord in Matthew about those who would encourage one of the little ones to stumble
Matthew 18:6
6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. (ESV)
So you shouldn't be encouraging people that it is okay to get 'gay married.' Just like we should never encourage a married person to commit adultery or for someone to have sex with a close relative.
But there is encouragement to those who would pray for and encourage those who fall into sin in James 5.
16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18 Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.
19 My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, 20 let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
(ESV)
