“I hate gays because what they do is an abomination to the Lord.”
Gurk! That’s utter bullshit! Abominations to Lord also include “a proud look, and lying tongue” (Proverbs 6:17). Wow, all those uppity high school cheerleader-type snobs are abominations then, and so is everyone who has ever told a lie.
Yeah, it does say in Leviticus “Thou shalt not lie with man as with woman”. It also says in Leviticus not to sleep with a menstruating woman, touch pigskin or eat pork, wear clothing of more than one fiber, or be pierced or tattooed. However, these things are not a big deal to us as a society any more, whereas people still use that hoary line from Leviticus to back up their own homophobia.
Newsflash! The Old Testament rules don’t even really apply to Christians. In fact, they don’t even apply to Jews anymore (although, to be truthful, I don’t know why they don’t apply to Jews anymore). If only through Christ and not good acts you are saved, then it doesn’t matter how many new or old rules you break; however, more to the point, the mass of sacrifices or bulls, lambs, and birds in Levitican law isn’t applicable anymore because Christ was the sacrifice for Christians. That was the whole point of Jesus’s crucifixion. One sacrifice for all of humanity’s sins.
Paul didn’t like gays, that much is clear from Romans 1:26-27. Personally, I believe that it is his own prejudice shining through in those verses. Kindly remember that the Bible also says things like “love thy neighbor”, “judge not lest ye be judged”, “let he who is without stain cast the first stone”. If God doesn’t like gays, that’s God. God tells you in verses like the above list that you are not God, and you have to be nice to everyone.
“Just look at Sodom and Gomorrah! Those cities were destroyed because they were queer!”
Actually, in verses of the Bible that refer to Sodom and Gomorrah after they are gone, it is said that the sins that they were destroyed for were inhospitality and intolerance—I’d like to emphasize this: intolerance. When you are being rude and intolerant of gays, you are being the Sodomite!
“Homosexuality isn’t natural!”
Sure, now go tell that to all the male dolphins that masturbate one another, and the lesbian bonobo monkeys.
In fact, many warm-blooded animals such as birds and mammals engage in what we would consider homosexual behavior. Blue-footed booby females and certain types gull females only associate with males long enough to mate, then settle down with a same-sex partner to hatch the eggs, raise the chicks, preen and feed one another. Dolphins and many species of monkey engage in same-sex masturbation or intercourse, or even orgies.
Some animals go beyond sex-play an even form special bonds with certain same-sex partners, preferring that partner’s companionship above all other’s, feeding, grooming, and playing together, and even raising their offspring much as human family would (this sticks out in species where it is the female that exclusively raises the offspring; lesbian couples often have stronger, healthier offspring because the children have two mothers for food, protection, etc.).
Really, I don’t understand it. What difference does it make who people sleep with? It’s not like everyone needs to know who’s doing who… and if you don’t need to know, don’t care! Use that grand ol’ American apathy for all it’s worth!
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