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How to interact with LGBTQ+

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Right.

Please read my writing carefully and don't overgeneralize. I prefer to debate with people who don't. This has been the 2nd time I asked you to show some scholarship.
Please write more clearly, and carefully, and present your requirements and expectations upfront. If you expect others to meet the. Otherwise, it just appears as you validating your own opinions,... and then invalidating another's decades of experience.

Please show me in the below, your requirements, expectations, or demands, for published, periodical, peer reviewed, or any other documentation. Did I miss it?

You appear to dislike debate. Feel free to act like a teacher. But I am far from convinced that you are a topic expert when you tell people to leave whether they approve of homosexuality or not, up to their own conscience. As if that is a North Star for Truth and knowledge of right and wrong. Hard to be a teacher when you will not align your statements with the Truth of Scripture for fear of???

Below are your opinions based upon your limited experiences. Limited, unless it is your job to visit churches in many different geographical regions as a significant part of say your 40+ hour per week job.

"Concerning the issue of homosexuality, I studied the issue from different perspectives and arrived at my conclusion. I think homosexual intercourse is a sin, and I do not support the practice of it. I think each believer should follow his conscience in answering this question. Let God's peace guide you. I leave the eternal judgment to God and live in peace with God, myself, and everyone else.

Concerning the issue of transgender, is it a sin?

I think so. We are called to glorify God in our lives.

In Toronto, I have attended churches that are LGBTQ+ friendly and hugged gay people. I saw the Pride Parade. Many of them are nice people. In Toronto, there are quite a few churches that are officially LGBTQ-friendly, and gay pastors head some.

I sat through sermons delivered by gay pastors many times. 95% of the time, it was no different from a sermon delivered by a non-gay pastor. One church surprised me in that it was my 4th visit before I realized that the pastor was gay! This rainbow church was family-oriented. The majority of the congregation were straight people with kids. They didn't make a special point of it.

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Is supporting the LGBTQ+ community a sin?

I would think so.

Jesus mentioned eunuchs/homosexuals/asexuals in Matthew 19:

12a For there are eunuchs who were born that way.
I ask you: What is the difference between a gay person and one who believes that Mary is the Mother of God?

Bottom line, 1 Corinthians 13:

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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Matthew 5:28
But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.
 
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Daniel Marsh

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How does this verse apply?
Matthew 5:28
But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.
 
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