Reply #59: Because even the other Kool-Aid drinkers

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are sometimes made uncomfortable by really overt racism and sexism. Homophobia is still acceptable to express out loud in mixed company in those kinds of circles.

Eventually, they'll have to hide that under euphemisms too, as they do with their racism and sexism. But for now, it gives them someone to feel superior to that they can publicly discriminate against.

What's ironic is that most of their "Biblical" basis for homosexuality comes from the "abomination" passage in Leviticus. But if we actually lived according to Leviticus, we'd pretty much have to stone EVERYONE to death. They don't obey any of the other proscriptions in Leviticus (there are hundreds of them), but that one, they cherry-pick out and use as a whole recruitment tool for the hater hordes. Apparently, none of these self-proclaimed Christians are Christian scholars - the whole idea of the New Covenant of Christ is that THE OLD COVENANTS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT NO LONGER APPLIED. That's why Christians don't have to keep kosher, circumcise their sons, etc. Christ was supposed to be the living embodiment of the New Covenant - "Whosoever believeth in me..."

Oh, and here are Christ's own words on the topic of homosexuality and condemning the sin of loving one's own gender:

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