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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can one be LGBT and religious when the teachings of the church pretty much condemn your existence from the get go?[/quote]

You can’t. The church doesn’t condemn your existence but it condemns sin.

The Bible is clear on homosexuality (Romans 1:26-28).

It’s be like trying to claim that murder is okay and claiming to be a Christian at the same time. It doesn’t work [/quote]

The problem is people like you equating the love of 2 men or 2 women with murder.

Moreover, most people (like 99.9%) don't have an ongoing natural inclination to murder someone every single day, where it's part of your dna to murder.  Whereas being gay isn't just an urge, it's part of your dna. Just like I could not decide to become gay and be attracted to my same sex, a gay man can't snap his fingers and decide he is no longer attracted to men but only to women.

I've never come across an argument that successfully argues for the evilness of 2 men or 2 women in loving, mutually satisfying relationships beyond God saying it's bad (even the argument where God says its bad because those relationships aren't meant to procreate, as if that's evil in an of itself).

There's no inherent evilness in homosexuality. There's just not.  Unlike other sins such as murder, which even without God telling you it's bad, you know it's bad because you are harming not just the person whose life you took but all those who loved him/her.[/quote]

I wasn’t equating murder with homosexuality, it was just an example. The point is that they are both wrong in the Bible.

Now you might not think that there’s anything wrong with homosexuality. It’s effects aren’t as apparent or obvious as something like murder, but that doesn’t mean the consequences aren’t there. The way you’re supposed to read the Bible is to be unbiased. You’re supposed to look for what it’s trying to tell you, not read your own meaning into it.

Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.” If you’re gonna trust your own nature and what you FEEL is right, than you are ultimately deceiving yourself. We can’t always see the consequences of our actions.

Remember, the Bible calls us sheep. Sheep aren’t smart, they’re easily tricked and distracted. [/quote]

Yours is away of approaching the Bible that not all religions accept.  The idea that you are not to read your own meaning into the Bible would be news to all those theologians and rabbis who over the centuries have provided numerous exegeses on scripture.[/quote]

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