Atheist_Dave said:
James your religion sounds ridiculous, sorry but it really does. Your god sees no difference from hitlers crimes and say, me taking a chocolate bar from a shop without paying? Moronic, yet thanks for the laugh x
Please, Dave, try not to call someone's views 'Moronic'; you may disagree with them, and that is fine, but calling them moronic is hardly condusive to normal, pleasant debate.
I can understand the point James is making, and although I personally disagree, his answer is valid for him, and for those of his faith.
Personally "fornication" Defined as "consensual sexual intercourse between two persons not married to each other", I do not see as a sin
per se ; It depends (in my opinion) on whether there is a loving relationship between the two people. Obviously, if it is between people who feel little for each other (and who seek only sexual gratification), the I see it as a sin.
As James has already said, Homosexuality in itself is not regarded as a sin; the Church does require homosexuals to remain chaste, though. I have a problem with that, and it is not a morality I can subscribe to except in as much as i would see exactly the same parameters used as for hetero-sexual sex; if homosexual sex is between two consenting adults, who share a relationship of Love, I cannot see it as a sin.