New (Question on Faith and Homosexuality, the relationship between the two)

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BOO!! This thread is fascinating and i'd have dearly liked to have thrown in my two pennies much earlier, rather than resurrecting (if you'll excuse the imagery) a thread which is apparently long gone...

Personally i challenge anyone to produce a segment of the Bible which directly says 'homosexuality is bad.' Oh, no, wait... there isn't one?? Surprising that. There are all kinds of issues with the translation and interpretation of sections of the bible which make it impossible for anyone to categorically state that the bible says being gay, or gayness in general is wrong or in any way ungodly. We are all made in the image of God and that includes the queers and the crazies, facts that perhaps people forget. The only one who can judge me or my sexuality therefore is surely the man upstairs Himself. I personally cannot see why one who loves us and is there for us always would punish us for being the way he created us, in His own image. Or, to put it another way, there really isn't, to my view, any room for incompatibility between Christianity and my relationship with God and my sexuality, which is such a small part of who i am as a person.

Anyways, just an afterthought i felt i wanted to share...