i’ve written about it before, but i really don’t understand the antipathy that so many christians and so many religious leaders have towards homosexuality. a bunch of episcopalian ministers in connecticut(including one in my old home town of darien…)have broken with their bishop because they find his position on homosexuality to be too liberal.
once again i have to ask, why is the church so worked up about homosexuality?
i ask this because christ, at least in the new testament that i have, never mentioned homosexuality, so we thus don’t know what christ might have thought about homosexuality.
why is the church so up in arms about an issue that christ never seemed to have mentioned?
and why does the church so routinely gloss over so many of the issues that christ actually did talk about?
it just makes no sense to me. wouldn’t it make more sense for the church to focus on the issues that christ actually talked about, and thus asked his followers to focus on?
i don’t get it:
the church is distraught over homosexuality, which christ never mentioned.
many christians support war and the death penalty.
showing a naked body on television is considered ‘immoral’ by the church, but showing people being killed and tortured on television is deemed ethically ok by the religious right.
religious leaders who are supposedly protecting ‘the sanctity of life’ do nothing to keep guns and automatic weapons out of the hands of school-children.
and etc.
like i said, i just don’t get it.
-moby