Well I guess i'm pretty open minded since I am a pagan and extreamly happy both in mind and body for it.
I rejected christianity yes but only after 20 years of following it and feeling the whole time it wasnt right for me.
I havent a problem with homosexuality they are people just like us they love, they hope, they have compassion and have that right to love whom ever they wish to reject them as a human based on thier sexual preferance is perhaps more of a sin than anything else.
Its a dislike for them based on something that has no effect on them as a person and this dislike forms a hatred that has lead to such persacution of them
homosexuality is shown in every animal on earth not just humans there must be a reason for it we are just humans we have no say in whats right or wrong when it comes to what makes a person happy in love.
I dont care what the bible says the bible was written by man not a god and its well proven that many of the scripts were changed threwout history.
My best friend all through school was a homosexual it didnt make me uncomfortable to be around her and she never once bothered me.
There is nothing wrong with homosexuals there IS something wrong with peple who refuse to accept them and care for them as they are.
I dont judge people on thier belifes or what they do in thier bedroom or if they are ugly, tall, short or what color they are.
What I judge people on is one thing do they practive what they preach?
If not then one can not exspect to get any respect from me and thats just how it is.
I have more respect for a gay man in a loving relationship with another man than a man and woman married and fighting and tearing each other down constantly.
My best friend now is a mormon and I think thats about the most crack pot religian in the world!
but it dosnt matter she is still my best friend and a great person.
Sure she gets alot of harressment from her church because of her (what they think is a devil worshing friend) but she dosnt listion to them
In fact the only thing that upsets me about her is she wont stand up to them about getting her child on medication (the little girl has ADHD) to help her in school were she is failing but thats just me I try and respect her belifes she sure as heck respects mine and her kids and mine are kids.
You want the best view of what this world should be like?
Go to a park full of young kids you know before they understand differances and they all play together they all treat each other as equals despite color, religian, and yes sexual preferance children who grow up to be homosexual show the sighns from very early on.
Being one religian or another dosnt make you close minded its refuseing to think anyone but you can possibly be correct that is.
Why am I not a christian?
Simple because as a older teen I finaly spoke to my preacher at my baptist church and I told him how I felt.
I felt almost every christian I met was just the most evil horrible people on earth.
Needless to say he was shocked and he asked why.
So I said they all say to love each other and yet they put other people who are differant down nonstop.
So he replied but the bible says these people are doing wrong by god.
To which I said to him but god said man was not to judge others for it was a great sin to do so and in effect made you worse than them and only god could determin who was evil and who was not.
He looked at me like I had slaped him and he said yes I was right but people are just people and cant help it.
I didnt accept that and I never came back and now looking back and very happy I didnt as a christian I remained extreamly unhappy and few understood me two suiside attempts only drove most the people in church away from me further there was no help for me there no happiness just a constant reminder that I wasnt like them and they shuned me for it.
I found happiness in a neo pagan religian and I found alot of emotional healing there and alot of support from people who didnt judge me for what I had done but rather just pointed me to what I could do to change things.
I took that advise and turned my life around so if i'm evil on some peoples eyes well then let them think what they will.
They can stew in thier own pointless hatred and I shall continue to be happy.
Loving god is about what is in your heart not about what is written in a book.
We as people should follow our belifes because we want to not out of fear what will happen to us if we dont.
If you preach love thy neighbor then do it regaurdless of what they belive in or who is in thier bed.