by Squeely » November 21st, 2016, 9:05 pm
[quote="Kops"]
Really baffled Christians aren't the first in line to support people like that knowing that, makes me think of Gandhi's thoughts on Christianity.[/quote]
I feel the same way. It's baffling that a lot of Christians choose to hate, after Jesus imparted so many morals about loving thy neighbor and whatnot. The Bible doesn't really say much about homosexuality - the passage about "man shall not lie with man" is widely speculated to be more about the dangers of sharing stuff than it is about homosexuality (bearing in mind, the Bible was written before vaccines existed, so there was a pretty big disease threat). The Bible also contains a lot of wildly outdated things, such as selling your daughter or stoning her to death if she's not a virgin, so most of what the Bible says should be taken with a grain of salt. It's better to focus on the bigger morals gleaned from the stories therein, from the Ten Commandments, and from Jesus, than to focus on smaller passages written as a ruleset for life as it was thousands of years ago.
And I know plenty of Christians who take no issue with LGBT people. My thoughts here are more directed toward the ones who do.