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Originally Posted by Dion
Organised religion paints gays and lesbians with the same brush. The hatred and bigotry that spewes from religion is disghusting. The latest being the Canada Post incident in Vancouver where posties refused to deliver what they preceived to be hate mail. It's no coincidence that when gays and lesbians came out of the closet to proclaim who they are so did the bigotry from organised religion.
Yes there are some that aceept gays and lesbians but they are the very very small minority.
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List one quote in the Bible that "spews hatered and bigotry" toward gays and lesbian.
I will help you out - THERE ISNT ONE.
Read the book before you mouth off on something you dont know. People who read the book will notice that nothing is directly said about gays or lesbians.
There are only 2 things that might be considered hate toward G&L - the first and most obvious is the reasoning for the destruction of Sodom and Gamora.
The second thing that might be conscrewed as hate is the religious defenition of marriage - the bible was the first linguistic text to associate the word marriage as defined as the union of a man and woman before god.
Just because the state in every country uses its defenition for tax purposes dont go hell bent against religion.
The state can change its laws to state union of man woman, man man, woman woman, man X, woman X if it wanted to but the lafous in the world want to condem the Bible's defenition of marriage because most goverments are too ball-less to do anything about it. Dont come to me and say that a word coined by the bible should change cause Elton John and Doogie want to get together and romp on Miami Beach.
Dont listen to anyone who believes the Church is any closer to God then the whore across the streen because they arent (read), evanjelical windbags and the vatican have done more harm to Religion - marriage, abortion issues etc. Read the book in the context of the time and make your own decision.
I believe in word of the Bible and I attempt to live my life accordingly. I also believe that a lifetime union before God (coined marriage) is a union between a man and a woman - period no exceptions.
That doesnt mean I dont think that other unions shouldnt get the appropriate state tax breaks etc but I will never agree to change the defenition of the word marriage because political winbags are too ball less and leftous are to dickish.
Religion should not have to change its defenition because a few people are offended by it.
MYK