See--this is my gripe with the argument against homosexuality: it's all based on the notion that God feels it's a sin. That isn't enough for me to question my beliefs on homosexuality. I understand that God, assuming he's out there, feels or felt that homosexuality is wrong, but by following his every word, we ignore the fact that the bible is the most archaic book in existence. As humans we're prone to change, why is it not safe to assume that God might have been wrong about homosexuality? Who's to say he hasn't changed? Why do we blindly follow his every word instead of forming opinions for ourselves? Did any of you hate or feel sorry for gay people before you picked up a bible? I know I didn't ask these questions before I read it. I saw them as humans, just like us. Now, I've tried telling myself that homosexuality is wrong on numerous occasions, but I can't agree with God--I won't support him on this. God makes mistakes just as we do, and I feel he's wrong.
OP: It doesn't matter what YOU think. What matters is what GOD SAYS in His word. Believe it, obey it or you end up in hell.
God's words, not mine. Leviticus 18:22 .Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination
Maggie
Still not what I'm looking for. I know how God feels about homosexuality, I want to know your reasons for being against homosexuality. Also, everything in Leviticus is ridiculous. By this shady definition of mortality, we're all going to hell. People focus on the homosexuality discussed there, but doing that means you also subscribe to the notion that everything else said is there is agreeable as well, simply because God said it was so. I can't do that, and you can't pick and choose, either.
Don't have a variety of crops on the same field. (Leviticus 19:19)
Don't wear clothes made of more than one fabric (Leviticus 19:19)
Don't cut your hair nor shave. (Leviticus 19:27)
Any person who curseth his mother or father, must be killed. (Leviticus 20:9) Have you ever done that?
If a man cheats on his wife, or vise versa, both the man and the woman must die.
If a man sleeps with his father's wife... both him and his father's wife is to be put to death
If a man or woman has sex with an animal, both human and animal must be killed.
If a man has sex with a woman on her period, they are both to be "cut off from their people (Leviticus 20:18)
Psychics, wizards, and so on are to be stoned to death. (Leviticus 20:27)
If a priest's daughter is a whore, she is to be burnt at the stake
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Do you see what I'm getting at? Unless you agree with all of that, you can't logically bash homosexuality with that same argument. Notice how nobody else here started pulling out Leviticus quotes? At least use the New Testament.
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@ Adrianv125: This is the closest reply to what I was looking for--thank you! See--I'm inclined to disagree with your conscience argument. Firstly, we have no way of knowing whether or not animals have a conscience. Also, while your conscience tells you that homosexuality is wrong, mine tells me the opposite, that there is nothing wrong with it. You said it best with "sex is the biggest sign of intimacy" Why is it that intimacy should only be expressed between a man and a woman? Why can't two guys or two women express their love for each other as well? I suppose the argument is that the vagina was crafted for the penis? That argument holds water when you're explaining to someone why a man and a man can't have a biological child together, but it certainly doesn't hold any water against homosexual intimacy in general. Hell, the prostate (essentially the male g-spot) can be stimulated through the rectum. Gay people love each other and are capable of intimacy, just as we are.
You really, really lost me with your bestiality counterargument. I'm pretty sure bestiality hurts the animals that are being raped--plus we can't actually communicate with animals, which means they can't consent either. I'm finding it difficult to understand how you can argument that bestiality doesn't hurt animals. Do you even realize how ridiculous that and your comparison is?
Gay people are performing an act which expresses intimacy. The two people who're having sex are both consenting adults, and they aren't blatantly forcing down something down and jumping on top of it, like one would do if they decided to have sex with an animal. There's a huge difference between the two. One is expressing intimacy, the other entails holding down an animal and sexually assaulting it.
What? You make it sound as if reproduction is an obligation. I'm sure a lot of people want grandchildren, but I'm sure most have the sense not to assume that their children are going to have them. Not everyone wants children. Are these people sinners as well? And what about people who're infertile? Are they going against the existence of humanity as well? They didn't choose to be infertile, just as gay people didn't choose to be gay. See how that works?
Also, gay people can have children in a sense. Adoption and insemination are options as well. Being gay in this day and age doesn't mean you can't have children.
This all once again comes down to why it's wrong. God saying something is wrong doesn't make it so. Well, maybe to some people, but certainly not to me. I respect God and I'm fine with his beliefs, but I disagree with him on the subject of homosexuality. Who is being hurt here? The only victims here are the gay people who're being attacked for something out of their control. Yeah--that's right, I don't feel that homosexuality is a choice.