So here’s my thing re: Christianity and homosexuality.
Surely, someone smarter and much better at appealing to the masses than I am has brought these points up before. I’m not presenting them as some grand epiphany that will fix the rift between the LGBT community and the part of the Christian community that stands so firmly against them.
I bring them up more because I’m marveling at the fact that I haven’t really thought about it this way before. I mean, I spent a good portion of my life making an attempt to be the best Christian I could be, refraining from swearing or “taking the lord’s name in vain” at all times, and loving even the assholes I knew. You’d think this would have been the very first argument someone like me would make against the reasons Christians give for being against same-sex relationships. Read more…