(January 20, 2017 at 11:11 pm)Cecelia Wrote: No, really. I mean it seems they're obsessed with them. They like to blame them on natural disasters, on terrorist attacks. This goes back before gay marriage too. gays were blamed for 9/11. One christian I knew blamed gays for Trump being in the white house because it's 'god's punishment'. For all the other sins out there, none get quite the same attention gay people do. The level of hatred for them by some Christians is just... out there. Is it because they need a group to hate, and it's not popular to hate black people anymore? I don't get the obsession, really.
I mean you don't see NEAR the vitrol for people who've divorced... or cheated on their spouse. They hold people like that up in high esteem. (As long as they're on their side of course). Or for murderers even. Another Christian I know said that H.H. Holmes could get to heaven--but a gay person couldn't.
That is not a Christian monopoly, the rejection of LGBT is actually a majority word wide issue throughout our species history. Iran like Russia will arrest you for being open, and even Japan is just now getting around to having it's first prefecture or "state" allow it. I am quite sure that China and India to a great degree also frown upon it.
Our species in general have a stupid religious view of sexuality, even in Buddhism and Hinduism. Our species in antiquity falsely equated male as better than female rather than simply one attribute as part of evolution. That ignorance of antiquity, worldwide, lead humans to falsely equate gender roles to a patriarchal mindset. Most humans then, and far too many humans now, think that the three prong power wire has to match the wall socket. Modern science now knows that procreation in making offspring is also 1 aspect of human sexuality, but not the only. Sexual contact is a form of social bonding, not strictly about reproduction. Even heterosexuals have sex for fun without any intent on having a kid. But homosexual bigotry is not a monopoly owned by Christianity. Unfortunately most of the world's population is stuck in the past.
