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Chris Corrigan
Actually, the bible doesn't condemn homosexuality at all. Those verses are in terms of sex for procreation. Love is love and love is beautiful. There is nothing wrong with being gay. If it's "wrong" for me to be gay then it's
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Actually, the bible doesn't condemn homosexuality at all. Those verses are in terms of sex for procreation. Love is love and love is beautiful. There is nothing wrong with being gay. If it's "wrong" for me to be gay then it's wrong for you to wear your poly-cotton blends, eat shrimp, hug your female friends while they're on their periods, and play football.
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Well, technically it does (Old Testament, not New, although it mentions nothing about female homosexuality). But it also says a lot of other things, some of which make my feminist skin crawl (a woman who's not a virgin when she's married can/should be executed), and some of which are just head-scratchers (pretty sure there's something in Leviticus about not wearing different types of fabric at the same time).
To be clear, I'm not against Christianity. I'd consider myself more spiritual than religious, but if I had to choose, I would call myself a Christian just because I have stronger cultural ties to it, and there's a lot about it that I do like. But there's no denying that the Bible contains a lot of misogynistic/anti-Semi tic/etc statements that just don't jibe with modern attitudes. I would be EXTREMELY angry and offended if someone threw some of the Bible's passages about women in my face, and as far as I'm concerned, the passages on homosexuality are no different--a relic of a different time that doesn't really fit into the Bible's overall message of peace and love.