Pyrotechnic Oracle
It just seems kind of ignornat to cast aside somthign simply because it has a riligious back ground. And i have to agree with your. SOme peopel take the homosexule thing a bit to far.
I don't have a problem with studies being done if they are religiously based as long as they remain unbiased and objective. I was saying that hardcore pro-choicers would discredit it immediately. I personally have a long story why I am no longer christian, anyone who wants to read it can otherwise just skip.
My story about religion: I was raised a good little Methodist boy who believed in the infalibility of the bible and what my preachers said. To me if a christain preacher said it, it was true. When I was old enough to start paying attention to the sermon it startled me to the point of fear. The preachers would make all sorts of assertions, like if you aren't Christian you go to hell, that you have to be thinking about God at every moment or you are disobeying his will, and described hell in vivid detail talking about burning of flesh and eternal torment. I was so scared that I would stay up at night afaid that I could die at any moment and go to hell. I became so worried about everything I did. Then my parents got a divorce and my mom(who is a far more moderate christian) took me to a diffent church that talked only about God's love and forgiveness. I was in major conflict at this point inside by the very different preaching styles. Then one day my mom said that she believed that both preachers and the bible could be wrong. It took me a long time to register that thought and sent me into disbelief. One night I was up praying to God not to send all the non-christians to hell when I realized how stupid it all was. That God would not send someone to hell for following a religion that worshiped him in a different way or only worked to make somone a better person. I finally came to a point in my life when I was willing to follow my own beliefs, and not what somone else wanted me to believe. I created for the first time a sense of self-reliance. Since then I've opened up my ideas and beliefs and have looked at all sorts of religions and religious books. I've read the bible and continue on occasion to go to church, but I don't limit my self to any one religion by putting a label on my beliefs.
As for my sexuality, it played a very minor role in all of this. Actually I never even realized that Christians thought homosexuality was a sin until a year and a half ago. I had always assumed since it had never come up in sermon that Christians supported it. It seemed obvious since they so often talked about love and the importance of family that they had no problem accepting gay relationships and preforming marriage ceremonies for them. When I did find out I was very shocked and dissapointed.
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