Okay, I see a lot of posts from organisations like GLAAD and HRC and various other gay rights publications and invariably it deals with either a position by the church or some politician or political party holding homophobic views based on their religious beliefs. Essentially saying that God doesn't like gays, or more accurately gay people having sex with each other, and finds such acts an "Abomination". But let's look at this logically for a minute.
Gay sex is an abomination unto the Lord the Bible says. Okay, but so is eating shellfish or wearing a garment made of two different threads. Are we seeing church leaders campaigning against oyster bars or stores that sell poly/cotton blend shirts? Do we see them demand those who like oysters on the half shell or wear the above garment being denied rights for doing something which, according to their God, is as bad as having sexual intercourse with someone of the same gender? Of course not, because the idea is ludicrous and even they would say that "this rule doesn't apply now" and yet the gay sex thing does. This is inconsistency, a double standard which they dont even try and explain away but fall back on an argumentative line of "well God doesnt like them" which is impossible to refute (even though given their own standards of evidence is impossible to confirm either).
But does God have any moral standing on this at all? I mean this is the being who, if the Bible is to be take as read, has no problem with slavery. Certainly he also has no problem with Infanticide and seemingly no problem with incest either. So we are left with a Supreme being who is suppsedly against polycotton shirts, eating oysters and gay sex and yet for slavery, incest and infanticide. is it just me or is this God really off morally?
I will leave that question for others to answer on their own, for me it is simply a sign that whilst the Bible does have some good ideas, it is extremely backwards in other regards and the ones who espouse it as all get out really need to do their homework and realise this simple truth: This book was written for a specific peoples at a specific time in a specific place under very specific circumstances and should not be assumed to still apply to us, here and now in our circumstances. I'm not saying ditch the Bible, or for that matter ditch faith, but I do say we need to get it into proper context and perspective before more innocent lives are ruined for the sake of this religion which whilst supposedly being about love, seems hellbent on embracing hate.
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