Thoughts of a Doubting Christian ✓

Religious Anti-Homosexuality

I figured that after writing Christian and an Ally, anti-gay Christians would better understand the LGBTQ+ community, how the Bible has been used to discriminate against gay people and how it can be interpreted otherwise, and how they can be more loving. But instead, what I've gotten is a simultaneously overwhelming and underwhelming response: namely, the same exact anti-gay arguments and Bible quotes that the queer community has been bombarded with for literally thousands of years.

I'm so tired. I can't believe that people can read through the entirety of Christian and an Ally — which goes over Genesis 1-2 and 19:1-13; Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; 1 Timothy 1:9-11; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; and non-religious methods of arguing against homosexuality — and yet people continue to post the same comments, over and over and over again! It's like a broken record:

"u know what?u have misinterpreted the word of God bcz the Bible clearly says . . . [quotes Leviticus 18:22]" Wow, it's not as if I've heard that verse before, thanks for enlightening me! Why don't I go read it and then write a chapter on it — oh, wait. . .

"According to Paul in his letter to the Romans, homosexuality is going against your 'natural' orientation." Huh, interesting! Who would've known? It's not as if people quote this verse at me constantly without any knowledge of the science of sexuality or what it's like to be queer! Why don't I just stop my attractions to girls and nonbinary people and become straight? Because that's TOTALLY how sexual orientation works. . . -_-

"God does not create a person with homosexual desires." Interesting, I must not exist, then. Or did something other than God create me? Satan, perhaps? Or maybe *gasps* it was evolution?!

"The Bible tells us that people become homosexuals because of sin [quotes Romans 1] and ultimately because of their own choice." Wow, I had no clue that I could choose my attractions, thanks for the info! I must've been doing this whole thing wrong from the beginning! Let me just "become" straight *cough* even though people can choose their actions, NOT their attractions *cough* because you think a 2,000-year-old religious document tells you that my attractions are unnatural, sinful, and a choice.

"when it comes to homosexuality, there's only two sexes. Girls and boys, aka man and woman. To say that Transgender is a sex, Lesbian is a sex, etc. isn't right. If you were really a Christian, you'd see that." I just . . . how do I even respond to this? Transgender and lesbian aren't sexes??? One is a gender identity and one is a sexual orientation?? I'm??

"Leviticus 20:13 is pretty clear about where the Bible stands with homosexuality, and is a referal." Thanks, friend, it's not as if I wrote an entire chapter on Leviticus. Why don't you go and actually read it and then get back to me?

"no he is indefinitely talking about being homosexual. you're twisting the main part of the story. why do yo i think he offered his FEMALE daughters? why wouldn't he of just offered himself?? or a MALE family member? bc being a homosexual is a sin. and is wrong." Are you really justifying Lot's decision to offer up his virgin daughters to an angry mob of men who want to gangrape somebody?????? Why did he offer up anybody at all, male or female?! That is just sick. I can't even begin to process how somebody could justify homosexuality as being worse than rape or child abuse!

"Do not doubt God's judgement. God punished the city because they sinned. I don't really think not showing hospitality is a sin worth burning down an entire city for. But those are just my thoughts. Call it 'thinking critically'." And you think that being homosexual IS worth burning down an entire city?! You're telling me that an entire city happened to be gay and that you're "thinking critically" by claiming that the city was burned down because of homosexuality instead of, oh I dunno, violence, inhospitality, and gangrape???