Reply #142: You're evading the questions.

[trotsky]

When you read through the O/T you will see consistently God telling his people not to do as the other religions do.

Sure you do. Like not cutting down a tree and decorating it, like the heathens do. (You don't have a Christmas tree in your house, do you?!? Sinner!) But in the many "abominations" listed, the context is not "don't do this because the pagans do it," it is simply "don't do it."

You need to study the Word, not skim it, not pull out-of-context quotes.

If it were really that simple, why doesn't every Christian agree with you? Why do many of them (certainly quite a few of them here on DU) believe that homosexuality is NOT a sin? That's the point of my "snarky" comment - to counter your arrogance in thinking that it's simple to determine what the bible really means, and that you've figured it all out. You, among the billions of Christians that have ever lived. You got it right, they all got it wrong. Because I can pretty much guarantee you, each one of them disagrees/disagreed with you on at least one item of Christian faith.

Did I ever say that I don't want homosexuals to have sex or marry?

Sure you did. In the code language typically used by the right wing, though. "We are all equal sinners." Let me guess at your reasoning here - you probably think that it's a sin to have sex outside marriage, heterosexual OR homosexual, right? But you don't believe homosexuals can marry. So while you believe that "we all sin," you give heterosexuals like yourself a way out: get married & hump all you want. But you don't allow that escape clause for homosexuals. Please let me know if I got any of that wrong.

We Christians can be the biggest hypocrites of all!

On that you and I are in 100% agreement.