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Originally Posted by sssshhhh
My opinion as a young gay woman is this. I pay my taxes, look after my family and friends, I'm nice to old people, I love animals, I've never broken the law, never cheated on a partner. Basically I've lived a good life and generally been a good human being. So it really gets my goat when some idiot says the reason so many hundreds of people have lost their homes is because of people like me. I think not. It disgusts me that people of all religions continue to manipulate the teachings of their gods/idols to segregate the people of this world.
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Are you sufficiently familiar with 'all religions' to be able to say who is manipulating their teachings and who isn't? Do you know what the orthodox Christian position on homosexuality is? Or the view of other religions?
The Bishop in this case cast his net far wider than you're giving him credit for. He didn't say that gay-friendly laws are the be-all and end-all of the problems he sees in society, although he certainly used them as an example.
Seeing as you're apparently interested in the genuine, un-manipulated teachings of religion, allow me to quote you a line from the Bible:
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God"
Romans chapter 3 verse 23
The link will give you the entire chapter so you can see it in context and satisfy yourself that I'm not manipulating anything.
God's standard for spending your afterlife as a guest in his house is extremely high - in fact, if it had a pass rate, it would be 100%. Nobody qualifies on their own merit, no matter how much tax they pay or how many grannies they help across the road.
Even being a married heterosexual with two kids and a mortgage doesn't make you qualify. There is no point trying to make yourself good enough by doing good things, because you can't possibly do it well enough to satisfy the standards of an utterly perfect, spotless being such as God.
If that is of any concern to you at all, then the Christian's answer for it is also in Romans chapter 3. If it isn't ... then I'm puzzled why the ramblings of an out-of-touch old religious bigot should bother you in the slightest.