[Maritime Q-Scout]

Personally, I'm a somewhat religious person. I believe in God, I believe the Bible is a good tool to help guide your life and a source of moral guidance. However I am not a fanatic, I believe to each their own. I do not try an convert anyone, and I do not take part in frivolous debate over religion. I realize that organized religion has been used to control people, has been used as a political tool, and despite being overall a good thing for people it can be used and has been used for bad. But why blame the religion, shouldn't you be blaming the people speaking incorrectly in its name?

I'm half asleep, so hopefully that's somewhat coherent. Basically I'm not the most religious person in the world, however do consider myself a Christian, and try to follow the religion, although not to a tee.

So gay marriage. The Bible doesn't say it's wrong to be gay, the Bible does condemn sodomy. However, a documentary I watched on Sodom had several Biblical scholars argue the anti-Sodom writings of the Bible actually deal with the towns people's treatment of strangers and outsiders of the city, and not any homosexual activity.

Fred Phelps (I believe that's what the crack-pot's name is) cites Leviticus 18:22 which states "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." However the first 21 verses of Leviticus outline all the women men can't sleep with. It seems to be more of a "yeah you can't sleep with your mother, sister, aunt, daughter, or grandmother, and rather than type all that out again, the male equivalents too". Seriously you can't clip just a sentence fragment and condemn people with it.

There are Christian religions that bar the use of alcohol. Mormons don't believe in drinking caffeine. Jews and Muslims don't eat pork. All seem crazy to me, but our society is tolerant enough to embrace their differences, and not look down upon the others for it. So why is gay marriage any different? Why is it the big exception?