Is Christianity against homosexuality?

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"Christianity" can be almost anything. Anyone can just believe whatever they want and still call themselves a Christian.

As for the bible, it isn't technically homophobic, but it is violently against man on man sex. Whether the men in question are gay or straight, the bible says (not in these exact words) that anal sex between them is punishable by death. A popular misconception is that the story about Sodom and Gamorrah is about god hating gays. It isn't. It's ironic we have the phrase "Sodomy". As an aside, we also have "Onanism" for masturbation, even though the story of Onan didn't mention masturbation at all.

The difference between sexuality and sexual acts is misunderstood even today by a lot of people, including many members of this forum. So the idea that they'd have known the difference back then is unlikely. If they'd have been able to properly establish the difference, I reckon it would have been explicitly homophobic as well.

Now, the bible says you should kill the men after they have anal sex. For anyone actually following what it says instead of making up their own shit, this would involve spying on people, and then organizing their execution after the act. However, in civilized countries, you can't get away with this kind of thing so homophobic Christians tend to settle for just making their life generally difficult. It's damn lucky secular laws overrule biblical edicts.

I guess the logic goes like this:

1) He looks gay / is with a man who I presume is his partner / is married to a man
2) Therefor he is gay
3) Therefor he has had gay sex at some point
4) Therefor I should kill him
5) But I can't do that, so the next best thing is to piss him off
6) I hope people are nicer to me when I come out than I am to them