[nitid_name]

It doesn't take a very complicated reading of the Christian bible to figure out that homosexuality can be justifiably "ok."

First... the so called "Old Testament" or Old Covenant (animals being cut in half and god passing through them in a rather creepy passage) was made obsolete by the "New Testament" or New Covenant (i.e. Jesus dying, granting forgiveness to all believers so they could join him in the afterlife). That means all the old prohibitions, from men-laying-with-men to shellfish to mixed fabrics are no longer necessarily valid. "Man was not created for the Law; the Law was created for Man," as Jesus told a Pharisee or Sadducee or one of the other old Jews he upset badly.

Next, looking to the New Testament, you'll find that Jesus never speaks about homosexuality; it's just Paul in his letters to the churches. Paul calls himself a disciple of Jesus and says that he doesn't mean to extend or conflict with Jesus' teachings. A contextual reading of his target audience when he condemns homosexuality (which isn't the word he uses, since that word/concept didn't quite exist yet) shows that he was critiquing the Greek church's practice of pederasty, aka "Platonic love." The reason for Paul's disdain of the practice was that elders were taking advantage of young boys for their own sexual gratification. I don't think there is widespread support for pederasty (or other, more hetero-normative but still frowned upon forms of ephebophilia), but I may be wrong on that count.

In short, not all Christians believe fervently the beliefs you're prescribing to them. Please don't straw man an entire faith because of your own misunderstanding of the beliefs of some.

/not a Christian but raised by them

[Tohhou]

>was made obsolete

No, Jesus said himself that all of the old laws still hold true.

http://www.evilbible.com/do_not_ignore_ot.htm

>Please don't straw man an entire faith because of your own misunderstanding of the beliefs of some.

It's hard to read their holy book which they claim is the word of god and not judge them as awful people.

Again my point is that no one knows what money they give or spend is used to fuel anti-gay agenda, and so everyone is unfit. This is where the witch hunt will go.

[mcv]

It's always fun to hear non-Christians tell Christians what they should believe. You cling to that straw man, but the fact of the matter is that nobody holds all those laws from Leviticus anymore. And for good reason.