I have a lot of friends who are gay, and they are nice people. The bible teaches us that homosexuality is a sin. However, even the Pope said that he would not judge gay people. I myself believe that these homosexuals should not be condemned. For as long as they respect others, they deserve to be respected as well.
No it isn't if you are an open-minded person who believes love comes in all shapes and sizes. However, hardcore religious people would beg to disagree. I personally adhere to Mr. Tolstoy's Christian values. He says "where love is, there God is also." So what if a person is gay if he or she can love and isn't hurting others.
Well what is a "sin", in the first place. Isn't God supposed to love us? Didn't He make us in his own image? If all God's creatures are perfect then wouldn't gays be perfect as well? Or does God simply make mistakes every now and again, even though he's supposedly perfect?
If the Bible tells me to think people who love a certain gender are sinners, I guess that explains why I don't pay much attention to it as a lifestyle guide. As it happens the only mention is in a code of conduct that says we should not do many things that most people do, like eat pork, cut their hair, or wear clothes made from one type of fibre. So maybe people who want us to follow every prescription in the Bible should start with the mote in their own eye.
It may not be God's preference, but most gay people are born that way, they don't choose it. Sometimes being gay in some cases might be shaped by negative life experiences..but I don't think it is anymore a sin than living together before marriage, and virtually all couples do that today, so a sin..? There are lots of worse things.
I suppose the answer to the question rests with one's beliefs system. In most of the Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) it condemned in pretty strong language. Historically, most of the branches and sects in those faith consider it sinful to one degree or another. Other world religions, it varies a bit. The Dalai Lama, for example, referred to it as "sexual misconduct" for Buddhists. Those who are agnostic, atheist, secular, or just don't give a rip, probably not.
Many people say the Bible and the Koran say it's a sin to be homosexual or to act out homosexual actions. I don't get why many male religious followers and male religious leaders then rape young boys. How can these holier then thou jerks tell us how to live without sin and sit on their moral high ground dispensing judgement when they are not only acting out homosexual fantasies, but rape and pedophilia too? The acceptance and promotion of both sexual assault and pedophilia (against any gender) in these "holy" books is horrendous, so how can you accept anything these books say is supposed to be good? I say we toss these stupid books in the trash and stop letting a bunch of crooks who lived thousands of years ago tell us now how to go about our daily activity.
There is a saying here that it is okay to love gays but we should abhor homosexuality - that is what was in the Bible, the homosexual activities in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah which angered God and annihilated the gays. This is actually a difficult topic to discuss because gays are radicals and they feel they are being harmed when criticized. But my point is not about being against the gays but the ways of a homosexual and that is directed towards the sexual act that is condemend in the Bible.
There's this story in the bible about a woman who had committed adultery. She was taken to Jesus and her accusers wanted to know if she should be stoned as the law demanded. His answer? No one did. We too, shouldn't judge anyone.
We shouldn't judge. I also don't believe that anything in the bible outright says that homosexuality is wrong either. People read into things and take what they want from it.
