the hammer of homosexuality

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I try and encourage homophobic people to imagine what their life would be like if they were gay, and people were acting this way towards them.

The problem with many religious views like "being gay is wrong" is that it is a gargantuan oversimplification. To understand homosexuality properly takes a lot of study. To even gain a working knowledge of it takes at least a little hard work and open mindedness. It's much quicker and easier to adopt black and white thinking, which just happens to correlate with your doctrine. It's the same with morality; you can study how morality came to be, or you can say, "Don't care, too complicated, it's magic."

Staying ignorant keeps ridiculous opinions like "It's a choice" going, too. Not that this would be justification for homophobia, even if it was true.

Religion often reduces a vast, complex, intricate universe to a one dimensional narrative. It loses almost everything in the transition.