Is no one going to bring up how insane it is that religion allows people to feel entitled to any opinion at all about other people’s sexuality?
Actually it doesn’t do that. Religion tells people what to think about other people’s sexuality.
Do you tell anyone what to think about their sexuality? I bet you do.
Do I?
Please enlighten me.
Do you support statutory rape laws? Do you allow your daughters to engage in sexual activities with other minors? Do you support polygamous marriages? Do you believe children’s cartoons should be restored to their original form with large-breasted, barely covered female characters? Do you believe that women should not be idolized as sex objects? Do you believe clothing should be worn in public? Do you support abusive sexual relationships?
Now while these do not equate to consensual homosexual sex, the fact I am trying to point out is that you do in fact try to tell people how their sex lives should be. Now consider the nature of much older societies. They found stability in their societies in different ways than today. Some found homosexuality to be wrong and sex with fourteen year-old females to be acceptable (and in fact preferable, when the life expectancy was much shorter). Who are you to tell an ancient society what is right or wrong?
Today our society has changed, and I think a certain amount of embrace to societal change should be accepted among religious groups. They may disagree on a certain level, but that does not mean they have to be intolerant.
In my mind, the mistake of modern religious believers is the unwillingness to consider a changing message from God to a different people at a different time to meet their needs. How many Christians believe that divorce and remarrying for reasons other than adultery is in fact adultery?