strager wrote:
Ekaru, you're saying denouncing or supporting an idea for religions reasons is a bad thing?
No.
It's just that if your reason is because of a passage in a 3,000 year-old book, then you should follow the rest of the book and say, "cheaters should be killed, so should non-virgin women who marry", and the rest of the rules that we would consider ridiculous today, and that those who say, "the bible says gayness is wrong!" should also say things like, if you wet yourself at night you have to go out of town, wash yourself, and not return until the sunset, and if you are an illegitimate child, you can't enter the church.
Also if two bros live together, and one of them is married and dies without having a son, then the non-married brother must marry the widow. Wait, it gets better!
"If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity."
Also, if a guy rapes a girl, he must pay her father a lot of money, and then marry the girl, because he violated her, and can never divorce her.
As we can clearly see, people who say that gayness is wrong because the bible says so almost never bring up these passages. And yes, these are seriously in the same book of the bible as the passage about gayness is in.
I think that my point has been made. If you take one passage and try to use it for your own purposes, then you should also go by all the passages in that same book, which most of these people clearly do not do.