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I might as well get the first say, before this gets cluttered and I have to argue my way through. xd heart Loves you guys.

Genesis 19
As I've stated before, Sodom was sentenced to destruction in Genesis 18. The angels were sent in to get Lot and his family out before everything went down. They were then greeted by a group of men, who were probably drunk/high, as Sodom was in a war-torn area and people in those kinds of conditions find any escape they can. Either way, strangers had wandered into their city. I don't think their sin here was homosexuality, I always thought it was more along the lines of wanting to gangrape a holy being.

Leviticus
Don't sleep with a guy like you sleep with your wife. Women were property, men were rulers. Forcing a man into a woman's role was humiliating. An abominations were things that were socially unacceptable at the time. Not to mention that God needed a strong, numerous, healthy people. Fecal matter has all sorts of diseases in it, and gays can't have kids. Can't fight a war for the holy land if there's no more babies being born. If you look through the surrounding passages, most of them are health-related.

Romans
Okay, this is the only one I can't argue completely. The first part... Natural relations are within marriage. So, sleeping around, sleeping with animals, anything like that could be "unnatural." As for the second... Lust, not love. They were looking for a good lay, not a relationship. *shrug*

Corinthians
The italic part means the original Hebrew meanings were lost. This was someone's best guess, and no one's REALLY sure what it means. Translators today simply insert the word "homosexual" in there, when that word didn't even exist. In fact, Paul MADE UP a word consisting of "men" and "beds" in Greek to describe this.

Timothy
See above. There was a Greek word used to describe men sleeping with other guys, but they skipped over it and used another.



Crap. Out of time. More later.

I've already responded to those bible verses.

http://www.soulforce.org/article/homosexuality-bible-gay-christian

That article pretty much adresses it all.

I have one thing to say though. In Leviticus where it says you shouldn't sleep with a man as you would a woman, I just have this to say:

Look, the bible already says if you're sleeping with two people you're an adulterer. A gay man would not sleep with a woman as he would with a man.



If you're gay and you're happier in a heterosexual relationship than in a homosexual relationship then either you have bad feelings about your orientation (guilt, shame, etc.) or maybe you have to consider that you might not be gay at all.



Forget premarital sex, they tried to rape the angels. Not exactly a biblical value.

Also, the people outside weren't all nessecarily men. The word used meant 'men' in a generic way, like someone saying 'hey you guys'. I would certainly say 'hey you guys' to a crowd of people that could not have any boys or men in it whatsoever. They couldn't tell the gender of the people, they used a generalized term.

Homosexuals don't support gang rape, just like heterosexuals don't support gang rape.

Besides, Sodom and Gomorrah were all condemned to be destroyed unless the angels could find ten righteous men. That's why the angels were there in the first place, and they only found one righteous man. Even if the people hadn't tried to rape the angels, the city still would have been destroyed.



Plants aren't made of sunshine, but it wouldn't be such a good idea to put a plant in a dark, windowless room.

It would wilt.

There are other ways to express love, yes. A hug, a kiss, a cuddle. But you surely can't put these on the same level. A hug is not at all like a kiss, most of the people I've hugged in my life I would never kiss. There are people I've kissed I would feel quite uncomfortable cuddling with.

The essence of marriage is that you've reached a point with someone that you want to spend the rest of your life with them, that you've reached a point that you want to physically profess your love for that person. The point of marriage isn't the legal binding or the ceremony, it's the devotion.

It is the highest proffession of love. Just like no matter how much you hug someone it will never be equal to a kiss, no amount of kissing or hugging or cuddling could ever be on the same level as making love.

You're beliefs can affect your vote, and mine do. I do not believe in forcing my religion on others, so I vote in a way that it doesnt =)

Perhaps it was being distant and depressed that ruined your relationship with your family? Or maybe that you felt so bad about who you were that you couldn't fully come to God that made your faith suffer? I'm really, truely glad that you've found your place in life. However, you may only be one person who needed to be changed before you could come boldly to the throne. There are other gay Christians who come just as they are, knowing that God loves them, even made them that way to begin with. Asking THEM to change would dampen their faith, just as not accepting who God made you put a stutter in your growth.

Voting against homosexuality does not "force ur religion" on others. It just shows where u stand morally.

God created you. Maybe He knew that at that time in your life your faith would falter to the point where nothing short of a miracle would help you, so He changed your orientation. But that doesn't change the fact that God made you who you are. God created other people to be gay, and not all of them are suicidal and depressed. In fact, there are many who are living glorious lives within the church. As a suggestion, read through the Bible again and check the passages on love. Then ask yourself how someone can have a meaningful, spiritual relationship with God while believing that loving someone of the same sex is a sin. It can't be done. But believing that you were painstakingly created by God... Don't give Satan that much credit. His power in this world is great, yes, but he can't MAKE you anything. Love, as the Bible says, is pure and lasting. Homosexual love is no different than heterosexual love, and God wills it for all his children. Especially the ones faced with bigotry.

Besides, everyone's a little bit gay. From a 1, which is like someone watching straight smut and liking what they see out of both people to a 10, say... Richard Simmons.

Anyhow, I'm willing to bed that you're STILL living in sin. You lie. Lustful thoughts. Unrighteous anger. All these things are warned against in the Bible, even more so than homosexuality. Every person that ever lived falls into these catagories, because it's part of being human. And yet, we're still allowed into heaven, even though we're living in sins we'll never be able to change. I think that being gay has turned into an obsession for you. Don't let your own bad experiences color your thoughts on everyone else's relationships. After all, behind this rather snazzy male avatar could be a female at the keyboard. Or a trannie. What does the Bible say about transsexuals? I think Jesus deliberately said nothing about being gay while he walked among us because He knew that one day a guy would go into an operating room and walk out a female. Is it okay for a man who used to be a woman to marry another woman because technically it's now a straight relationship? Or is it better to stay in a body you don't feel like you belong in and never have that legal bond with the person you love? The Bible couldn't explain these things to a BC audience. So they were left out. How many other things have been left unsaid?

FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME GOD DOES NOT MAKE PPL GAY, PPL BECOME GAY EITHER CUZ THEY CHOOSE TO OR CUZ OF PHYSCOLOGICAL "SCARS" (i.e: no same gender role model, bad child hood, was raped as a child, etc.)