Damn You.

So, God apparently hates gay people or "faggots" as they sometimes like to be called by those delightful people who wave signs that encourage mass suicide.

The (apparent) basis for this blind stupid hatred is the bible. I've read the bible. Its a good book in my opinion. But here are two of the very, very few verses that discuss homosexuality:

Leviticus 18: 22 - Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman, that is detestable. NIV

Puts it pretty blatantly there. But it also says...

Deuteronomy 23:1 - No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.

I don't see any "God hates the Dick-less" signs. Also, I don't really get what God was getting at here.

Matthew 5:28 - But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Ever thought about boobs, ever? You have? Well, time for a stoning.

The time when these verses were written was a very different time. People just did not have the society development that we had now. People didn't get married because they loved each other, they got married because it was the law. Men who had sex with each other were not in love, they just had sex. Love is an abstract concept only invented relativity recently in human history.

And so the bible says nothing at all about gay men being married as, back in the day, they didn't want to.

One of the most important lessons that Jesus gave was defying rules that serve no purpose. the purpose of these rules was to prevent diseases that were killing many, many people. Damn good rule.

And in this day and age when we have the advanced space technology known as the "condom" I see no reason why we should not abandon the rules that now serve no purpose.

No, condoms are not 100 percent protection from disease. Neither is life.

Here is my favorite verse from the bible:

Love one another as you would love yourself.

If you were attracted to a member of the same gender and could do nothing about this attraction, would you want someone screaming at you that you were going to hell?

I have many friends who are Christians, and the tolerant ones when pressed, will usually say something like "love the sinner, hate the sin". And the intolerant ones will probably wave a sign in their spare time. But they don't hate lesbians, funny that.

But quite honestly, this isn't about sin. Its about hating people who are different and using the bible as an excuse. We've done it before. Spanish crusades, holy wars, all that stuff.

So basically here is my opinion in a nutshell:

Gay people are people who are attracted to members of their gender. Due to a quirk of genetics perhaps, perhaps not, it doesn't matter. They are no more evil or sinful than any man who has ever existed but one.

Gayness is no longer sinful. Our culture has evolved. I eat pig, I'm friends with atheists, I talk back to my mum. All of these things deserve a stoning, so stone me too.