Another thread focused on a religious matter and several pages from the other day later and no real need to read them, we have all read it all before (which is why so many threads just get nasty eventually).
But I need to at least mention, before I bid farewell to the thread, that I was born Anglican Christian, and di the whole alter boy thing in my teens.
I KNOW what's written in the Bible.
I KNOW it's black and white, and sorry, but the Bible has NO room for homosexuals.
But, the reason we have so many flavours of Christianity, is simply because even Christians won't read their Bible and accept it fully.
So telling me this church or that church is 'currently ok with homosexuals' is missing a very important point. They are simply ignoring portions of the Bible that they wish to ignore. The portions though, they have not gone anywhere.
Then again, we have people that love Jesus big time, yet they preach Jesus came to save us, and the Old Testament has been invalidated, and yet those same people eagerly wait the Rapture, which is old testament.
If the Bible was a computer program, it wouldn't install without making you freak out first, and it likely would be massively buggy with a lot of bloat that was no longer needed and it would crash on you regularly. Not to mention it would be marketed in 100 versions, all claiming to be compatible, and yet not.
I've been Anglican, I have been Mormon (that was the last straw though before I gave up), and as a result, I am technically a genuine Aaronic Priest.
My brother is married into a Catholic Church and I have made special items for nephews to celebrate key moments in the catholic faith. I grew up with Catholics, and Jews and Wiccans, and Lutherans and Hindus and I was married in a Pentecostal church. I don't mind Mormon missionaries dropping by and will usually offer them a cold glass of water on a hot day. They're usually very polite lads. I am more than happy to open the door naked to a Jehovah's Witness, as those people and me are not friends.
You don't need to agree with the above, but, you might as well give up trying to establish how the Bible does NOT want homosexuals eliminated.
Any church accepting them, is really just breaking their own rules. I've seen how Liviticus discusses them. It's not pretty. Then again, Liviticus is a particularly nasty hateful person too.
But I am 100% ok with homosexuals myself. Comes from being 100% free of religious dogma.
And if you think religion has no impact on how your laws are written, I refer you to the Scopes Monkey Trial.
In the US south, they have used the law to make it ok to teach Creationism in school.
The law is the reason for a lot of Sunday based work limitations.
You can't screw your mate in full view in the park because of laws written by people with religious convictions.
There's a LOT of laws with religous origins.
The US declaration of indepence is fairly dripping in religious context.
