first id like to point out that the story of sodom and gamorah or however its spelled, is one of the most misinterpreted stories in the bible. its still the primary referance used for anti-gayness from the religious perspective. the story states that the people of the two cities are full of sin, yet in seems intentionally vauge about what those sins are. the part where the angry crowd was trying to "know" the angels, makes me think the people more or less wanted to wintess a miricle than get laid. it is the offering of the virgin daughters that tend to give people the idea that the story had anything to do with sexuality. i remember reading somewhere that the virgins may have been ment as a blood sacrifice rather than the popular interpretation. i believe the moral of the story was ment to be anti-rape or anti defiance of god and not anti-gay. i find it appaling that certain versions of the bible replace the line "to know them" with "to have intercourse with them". religious leaders will always try to instill their own interpretations of their texts upon their people. people in leadership tend to have issues with pride and arrogance wich tend to leat to bigotry. then you still have factors of language translation and any editing that may have occured durning cannonization. i am by no means a bible expert, i dont even believe in god, but it is a very valid point. anyone with a pre-existing hatred will always look for a justification for it in their religion, and if this happens with a religious leader it tends to affect a good majority of that leader's people.
my next point is marriage, which i think sould be strictly a religious thing and shouldnt have anything to do with government. the only exception should be tax cuts and other binifits for people with children (regaurdless of the orentation of the parents). also giving adoption rights to gay couples would be binifitial to society.
i also think it is wrong to label gay people as sinners. to call somone a sinner seems to be rather offensive to some people, gay christians for example. iirc the bible seems to say more about leaving judgments up to god than it does about being gay. if being gay was so bad you would find more referances to it in the bible, and in far less vauge context. it seems less sinfull to be gay, yet have an honest relationship, than it would to be a straight cheater. it seems also to be a violation of rights to deny people the right to an intimite relationship, simply on the grounds of homosexuality. the church saying its ok to be gay, so long as you dont have sex, seems rather unfair.
