Quote Originally Posted by LadyArana View Post
As some of you may know, I am a bisexual woman.

So am I.

I am active in my local GLBT community.

Im not all that active anymore. Though I have activly campaigned for G&L rights both in real life in my local community and here in the forums in two different threads, one on the topic of gay marriage and one on gays in the military.

For those who don't know, GLBT stands for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Transvestite. Now, it's bad enough that the United States government doesn't view gay couples as being deserving of the same civil liberties as heterosexual couples, (Thats becuase it was a non-issue for a very very long time due to the cultural standards of the original collonists of their day and age...and those standards didnt change on this issue until quite recently historically speaking) but to add to this unconstitutional persecution, we get religious persecution as well! I've been to many GLBT events, such as pride fest, pride parade, NCOD (National Coming Out Day), etc. and each time there were religious protestors, picketing. They'd have signs out saying that homosexual relationships were an abomination against God, and how we were all going to hell, and on and on and on. Now, first of all, who the hell are they to judge me?! Doesn't Matthew 7:1 of your precious Bible say "Judge not lest ye be judged."? And what about that passage in Second Chorinthians that talks about how love never fails and never judges, and love is perfect, and God is love? If love is perfect, and God is love, how can a homosexual relationship be wrong? As much as it pains me to say this...there are a great number of people who feel that it is unatural...do I agree with them...no...but do I respect their right to express their opinion...yes. Compounding on that, who's to say the God you worship is the same as the diety I worship? EVERY monotheistic religion thinks that their God is the ONE God. I'm sorry, but I have a hard time believing that an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-loving God, can sit there and "create" man and then say, "Oh, I'm going to give you free will, but if you do this, this, this, this or this, I'm not letting you into heaven." What the hell? Really? If you don't act like I want you to you're not invited to my party?! And if God is supposed to love everyone, then why would any given denomination of Christianity or Judaism claim that God has damned a certain group of people to hell? Really? Can someone please explain to me how this makes any sense?
It makes sence in that man is falable..capable of mistakes...if you know anything about the history of how the Bible was written...then you would know that the Bible was written by men. Men who make mistakes...they may try not too, but they do. Now Interpetations of what those men wrote...is also, often times full of mistakes, especially when such things are taken out of their historical contexts in which they were written. I believe that if Jesus, were alive today he would be amongst those non-criminal elements of our society that people look down upon the most setting the example he would wish for us to uphold personally.

Outside of that consideration...I too believe that the people you have mentioned who think its ok to condem other people for practices that do no harm to others are mising the forest for a single tree as it were.