Image via WikipediaIt is important to remember that homosexuality is not condemned by all religions and even the Catholic Church does not condemn homosexual individuals but only their life styles.
In Christian denominations there is a wide variety of attitudes towards homosexuality with those against or saying that the Bible says homosexuality is an “abomination”. Yes you can get deep into a discussion of what the Bible says or does not say about homosexuality but suffice it enough to say that most references are to the Old Testament and in particular to the Book of Leviticus which declares a man lying with another man an abomination. I will be quick to point out that eating shrimp is also an abomination and putting you children to death for misbehaving is a recommended practice.
Those that believe every word in the Bible as coming from God are hypocrites since they accept the words they want to follow and skip over those that are preposterous in our day and age and based on just that observation, I discount the Bibles’ authority on homosexuality as dubious to non-existent since homosexuality as a way of life was not know in the years when the Bible was first written.
The Christians that accept homosexuals view them as creations of God and therefore brothers and sisters in the human race of man.
There is actually a movement that asks “What would Jesus do?” or better yet, tries to walk in Jesus’ shoes when approaching issues such as homosexuality (see my little video from FunnyorDie.com).
One recent example involves Anne Rice, the author of the famous vampire novels. She returned to Catholicism after being an atheist for a long time. She wrote a number of books explaining her journey back to faith but after 10 years she has announced that she is no longer part of Christianity and not a Christian. She is committed to Jesus but not to the Christian religion; she has not lost her faith but she has had it with organized religion.
Anne Rice announced that in the name of Christ, she refuses to be anti-gay, antifeminist, against artificial birth control, anti-Democratic, anti-secular humanist, anti-science and anti-life.
Of course some people will never change and will stick to what was impregnated into their brains by religious authorities that claim to know what God wants and therefore what is right or wrong. There is not hope for brainwashed people but there is hope for people who have still retained the power to think and reason as individuals and it is on those people that our civilization depends to progress out of the superstitious hell hole we find ourselves in.
Lets hope those people have lots of kids.
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