What is it with gays and religion?

[Edwardo Piet]

I'm more confused by gay, lesbian, bisexual and pansexual people who are fundamentalist Christians... meaning they take their Bible literally and yet they still insist that the Bible says absolutely nothing anti-gay in it.

How is that different than all the pious Southern Baptists attending church while wearing mixed fabric clothing and not checking their women folk for menstruation BEFORE allowing them to enter their church building ??

IOW, asserting Literalism is NEVER a reason to ever be personally inconvenienced.

I'm not saying it's different to any other example. I'm just saying it's one more example of cherry-picking that I find confusing. I dunno how anyone can be literalist about the Bible in so many ways and then not notice how hateful it is against themselves.

Obviously not all Christian gay people are literalists who deny that the Bible says anything homophobic in it. That wasn't the point the point was merely to express my own confusion towards anyone who can read that book and deny that there's anything homophobic in it. It applies to everyone regardless of their sexuality... but basically I'm very suprised that there aren't less gay Christians. Iggy seems to suggest that gay people often give up Christianity when they come out as gay... but actually what is surprising is that doesn't happen very often despite all the homophobic hatred in the Bible.

I mean, if they genuinely think there's a God then the hate in the Bible against homosexuals isn't going to change their belief. It's only when anyone, regardless of their sexuality, denies all the homophobia in the Bible that I get really confused.