This is Amy Hall.

Thank you so much for joining me and Greg Kokel on the hashtag STRask podcast.

So today, Greg, we have a question. I don't know if we'll get

past this one because there are actually four different questions within this question. So we'll

go through this and see how it goes. It's important one too. So this comes from Tina. If God

sent Jesus to die for our sins and all who believed in him would be accepted into heaven,

why are so many Christians condemning LGBT people just because of how they love someone?

Mind you, a lot of the LGBT are in committed relationships.

How can God expect you to live celibate when others are free to marry and have happiness?

We were born out of incest and

1,500 animals are bisexual and had no free will. So why? I just don't understand the hate

from Christians I see today.

All right. Before you answer, I just wanted to say something. I think this question is really

important. In the last couple of weeks,

I've heard three stories about people who either I know or are connected to people I know.

And one of them, someone walked away from Christianity because he didn't agree that homosexuality was wrong, someone who's thinking of walking away from Christianity over this issue, and someone who's in Christianity but thinking of walking away from the doctrine and changing their mind on that. And this is so hard for Christians to make sense of because it's prevalent

in our culture. It's accepted. It's presented as fine. Everyone says it's fine. And there's a lot of

pressure to agree with that. And so it's very hard for people to make sense of. And I think it's necessary, especially for people who are younger and have grown up when same-sex marriage was legal.

And it just doesn't make sense to them.

And this is a huge stumbling block.

So I want them to hear what you have to say on this topic, and we'll see if we

can help them out.

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