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Quote by: Tycoon  Supported by the bible... I understand the whole idea of how you can overcome homosexuality by not acting on those desires... but you could not give me a good reason why I shouldn't. |
Depends on where you are at pertaining to "good". "Good" is subjective if you ask me. The bible is full of inconsistencies because it's all subjective type stuff wrapped up in the mystery of God.
Now the way the Catholics look at homosexuality is it's a sin I guess, but the homosexual should be treated with compassion. Thing is most everybody sins according to the bible or religion in general, so even if homosexuality is a sin, it's forgivable, so you could sin, sin, sin and then if you're a Protestant it wouldn't matter because believing in Jesus is all it takes, and if Catholic you just ask for forgiveness of your sins, you don't really have to name all the sins it can be rather vague, and then God would decide what He thinks is a sin that you've done, and automatically forgive them because you asked for it. I'm talking deathbed here, but even in everyday living you just have to ask forgiveness because honestly we only have a very incomplete notion of what a sin is in God's eyes. MHO is the bible was meant to be an interesting guidebook. You get some of the basics from it, and from there you proceed on. We have to treat homosexuals with kindness and love, or we are ourselves sinning towards them. That's the end of the story there.