There are so many rights that are refused to the LGBT community that everyone else has, and why are these rights refused for this group of people? Why is it such a taboo to be gay? I feel that if you're going to refuse these basic rights to a whole group of people, then you'd better have a damn good reason for it. It's not like we're even asking for much! We're just asking to be recognized as an equal, just like women and African Americans once asked. We just want equal rights! Is that too much to ask for? Country of the free, my ass.
There are many arguments against homosexuality. Whether they makes sense or not, people always make the argument that the bible says that love and marriage should be between a man and a woman.
"Leviticus 20:13 If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them."
If this were so, then why are other aspects of the bible overlooked, while the claims against homosexuality aren't?
The bible suggests that people who divorce and remarry are committing adultery, and the old testament prescribes death for adultery. So why is divorce and remarrying not a taboo while homosexuality is? The bible also suggests that slavery is morally acceptable. How is that moral?
When these points are argued, you are told that you are pulling those passages out of context. You're told that it isn't okay to pull the passages out of context for these points that you are bringing up, but why is it okay to pull the passages of homosexuality out of context?
While I have every bit of respect for people who are religious, I don't have any respect for those who push their beliefs onto me. Those who tell me that the way I live my life is morally wrong will be punched in the face, or at least hear an ear full of not-so-pretty words.
When speaking of the LGBT community, the only aspect that they focus on is the sexual aspect. When speaking about heterosexual relationships, they talk about the relationship and love parts. When they speak about homosexual relationships, they talk about the sex part. They say that the way I live my life is a "lifestyle" while heterosexual people live "lives." Umm, fuck you. Love and sex between two people of the same gender does not differ from love and sex between two people of the opposite genders. Are gays only capable of having sex? If so, then I must say, seek out a gay! We'll give you some sex. We must be very adept at it.
HIV/AIDS also revolves specifically around the gay community. Homosexuality causes AIDS, is the argument. No, it doesn't. Unprotected sex and even nonsexual activities cause the spread of the AIDS virus, NOT homosexuality. Please open up your mind, and see that sex between a man and a woman can spread the disease just as easily.
Ask yourself, are these arguments against homosexuality worth condemning a whole group of people for being who they are?
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I think that the banning of it is just as bad as when they would say blacks and whites couldn't marry back in the day. But also on a Christian stand point I believe that it is possible for someone to be born gay even if it wasn't God's intention. we have people with down-syndrome, autism, and other disabilities that people are born with and that was not God's intention, so isn't it just as possible for someone to be born gay even though that wasn't God's original plan? and when Jesus was here, he didn't say one thing against gays, all he spoke of was tolerance, peace, love and other ways we should be living our lives. being a supporter of gay marriage is just my stand-point on everyone being equal.
ReplyDeleteLeviticus 18:22 says 'Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.' This verse is not saying homosexuality in itself is wrong, but it's saying that a man cheating on his wife with a man is being disrespectful to his wife and choosing lust over love. in the stance of Sodom and Gomorrah, Another argument against homosexuality, they say that God destroyed a city because the men were all gay.
ReplyDeleteIn ancient Jewish culture (and possibly modern i don't know), whenever a traveler comes to your city, everyone is to welcome them and make them feel as if they belong there. When Lot had visitors,everyone in the city wanted to rape them to drive them out and make them feel as if they were unwelcome. Inhospitably is a major deal in the culture and God was very upset by this. It wasn't that the men were gay, it was that they showed unrighteous behavior towards their guests. I think what matters most to God is how we TREAT others not who we are attracted to or are in love with so long as it is pure with the intention to Glorify God.
ReplyDeleteI feel as if the church spends too much time arguing about gay marriage, abortion (on that stance I'm strictly pro-life so you know), and other things that can honestly wait to be dealt with. In this world we have children starving, homelessness, Genocide, and Oppression and the church is too busy arguing about issues that don't matter as much as the problems of the world. we are too busy fighting with ourselves to deal with the problems that REALLY matter in the world.
ReplyDeletevery good argument anthony
ReplyDelete-Colby Cataclysm28