Gays and the Olympics?

Watching the news tonight brought up the controversy of gays in Russia and the intolerance toward them in the coming Olympics.  NBC news reported that 76% of Russians believe being gay is wrong.  The new word in America the last 10 years, however, is "tolerance".  Our schools teach it, modern churches embrace it, and society accepts it.  We have come to tolerate everything... couples living together out of wedlock, divorce, abortion, you name it.  Has anyone asked what God is saying about these things?  Well, evidently not to many are asking.  You are labeled many things when you take a stand and teach what the bible teaches. God drops the plumb line of His word with clear teaching about almost everything and His love for us is for our protection! But you must search out what it says.  What about homosexuality and gay rights? Well, first God loves gays just the same as everyone else.  He wants them to spend eternity with Him and has made a way through the blood of Jesus for all of us to find forgiveness.  Is homosexuality a greater sin than any other? Depends how you qualify it.  In God's eyes every sin can be forgiven like obesity, pornography, murder or any other sin.  But there are different effects on society and the human condition and different sins carry different payments.  Eating greasy foods and becoming obese or smoking over your lifetime and other misuses of the body has proven to shorten life. So certain practices certainly have different consequences. The same with homosexuality.  If all of us became homosexuals, the entire human race would not exist in one generation!  Seems to have a consequence.  I was working on the streets of San Francisco in homeless outreaches through our ministry in the  80's.  I believe it was in the mid 80's  that AIDS became an issue in San Francisco, and was first discovered in the beginning in the gay community.  20 gays, all dying of AIDS, chained themselves to the federal building and were living outside on the steps to bring awareness to this newly discovered disease.  It happened to be one of the coldest winters in San Francisco's history and they were freezing. We happened to be handing out sleeping bags, 1000 of them, to the homeless nearby.  So they sent a representative over to our outreach only two blocks away and asked that we bring 20 sleeping bags to them.  We happily did so with myself and 5 Teen Challenge workers.   We packed the bags and away we went to the federal building. When we arrived the head of the gay group asked me, "Are you in charge?"  I said yes.  He said, "Why do you Christians say God is against homosexuality?"  Frankly I had no quick answer so I said, "I don't know for sure so can I ask Him?"  "Please do" was his answer.  I bowed my head and prayed a short prayer asking God to give me an answer for this man and his 19 friends.  I was sincere and serious. God did.  I looked up and the leader of the gays said, "Well, tell me what did He say?"  The answer God gave me was really interesting.  I said, "God told me it wasn't healthy.  Isn't it wonderful that God wants us healthy?"  His answer was, "Well how can I argue with that, we are all dying of AIDS".  It was that simple.  Being gay is not healthy physically, socially, mentally and spiritually.  Again, it has nothing to do with how much God loves gays.  We were able to pray with 3 of them to receive Christ.  We certainly did not turn them off with some long self-righteous diatribe, but rather showed them simple compassion and demonstration of God's love to them and their needs.