What I want to know is how Christians even got this idea from? It's not from Judaism, which sees sex for the purpose of pleasure as not only acceptable, but an obligation of a husband to his wife (With repeatedly denying her such pleasure being grounds for divorce).
They got it from the hypocritical Catholic Church that was preaching celibacy to the people while having orgies in the Vatican (nothing has really changed there according to the documentary I recently watched called "Secrets of the Vatican" that's available on Netflix except that the new Pope seems to actually want to change things but has his work cut out for him. You'd be SHOCKED to know how many priests live double lives in the Vatican and how many homosexuals there are at the top levels of an organization that professes them to be abominations. It's a pretty fascinating documentary.
Basically, sex has always been painted by the church to essentially be a necessary evil to procreate, dating back to the times of early Israel when one would become "defiled" (made unholy and dirty to God so that you are cast away from His sight) by simply having their menstrual cycle or touching a body fluid. Sex outside marriage is destructive to families and back then the human race might not even survive without having huge numbers of children (i.e. sad as our medical technology is today against simple bacteria, it was almost non-existent back then). Thus sex was not to be encouraged except to have children. Even so, it's obvious that multiple wives and concubines were allowed in Israel (Solomon being the epitome of sex crazed and manipulated as it were by women) and sex itself did not become this evil awful thing until large cities made it readily available through Prostitution at every street corner (not typically a problem out on farms in the wilderness). Sexually transmitted diseases became more and more common as a result and let's face it, any disease is interpreted by primitive people as being a punishment from God. Thus, sex began to be equated with demons and evil pleasure and associations don't break easily. The mythos of the Virgin Mary have stayed a virgin for all eternity after Christ was born further perpetuated the idea that celibacy was holy and God-like and sex was carnal and animal-like. The Catholic Church decided to go celibate and thus sex was a big NO NO for anyone wanting to be closer to God. Well, who wants to be far from God in a church? It took on even more negative connotations and those who cheated on their wives made it appear even more shameful, etc. Sex became a dirty, disease causing thing that the holy priests avoided entirely (well on the surface, it seems). Thus, I tend to think it is the Catholic Church that largely made sex something to be considered shameful while simultaneously forbidding birth control in the modern era leading to unwanted, unloved children or abortions that could have been prevented.
Most of this is new-age nonsense so ill ignore it. Regarding Jesus and homosexuality though: Jesus is God. God made nature. That pretty much says it all about homosexuality. You don't even need to be religious to see the truth there.
It's hard to see a point there given the utter fallacies you make. You point out that you don't have to be religious to see the truth in a statement that is predicated upon believing Jesus is God (something not all sects of Christianity believed, especially before the Catholic Church killed the opposition beliefs). Some believe Jesus is the SON of God (not God Himself) as Jesus supposedly only ever directly claimed and others (see Origin) believed he became God's adopted son by living a perfect life (these groups were proclaimed heretics in the 3rd century and largely murdered by the church). Other religions have different beliefs and of course, atheists don't believe in a god period so your point is lost on them as well.
Even so, you seem to be asserting that homosexuality is not present in nature and this is flat out false:
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http://www.yalescientific.org/2012/03/do-animals-exhibit-homosexuality/)
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/so-it-turns-out-giraffes-are-gayest-animal-planet231014
http://listverse.com/2013/04/20/10-animals-that-practice-homosexuality/
Here's a thought: what is everyone were homosexual? if they are 'born that way' then its most definitely possible at some point right? So what if it happened? Would we search for a Cure or just call it a day as a species?
Keep in mind: I don't believe there is a cure for homosexuality as I think its an indulgence.
Saying it's an indulgence is saying that some people simply WANT to do it. Okay, what makes you want to eat a green bean but not eat broccoli? What makes one person like mustard and another person hate mustard? Do you CHOOSE whether you like mustard or not? Did you choose to like women or is it a natural attraction for you? You decided to be heterosexual one day? Do you see what I'm saying? Do you honestly believe homosexuals would CHOOSE to be something that leads to them being attacked, persecuted and even murdered by hateful bigots??? I'm sorry, but your assertion is ridiculous.
I used to know this one gay guy who would get younger dudes to come to his house and play straight porn to get them horny so he could try to take advantage of them. When I heard about it I thought "gee, if everyone is born a certain way how could he hope to convert any of them". Then I came to my senses and thought "oh, he's just a perv being a perv"
So there are no straight perverts out there?
A penis doesn't belong in an anus. Simple and scientific enough for you?
Common sense has just gone out the window in this day and age.
From what I've read, one in four women would disagree with that statement and probably three out of four guys who like big butts and they cannot deny they get sprung.... I mean really, I suppose a penis doesn't belong in a mouth either but how many guys don't want to put it in their wife's (or girlfriend's) mouth at some point? You weren't born with shoes on your feet either but does that stop you from wearing them?
I don't understand why it's so difficult for some people to grasp the concept that some people are simply not aroused by the opposite sex through no fault of their own.
People tend to hate those who are or think different from themselves (the definition of bigotry, oddly enough). You see this on the playground even if one kid has red hair and the others don't. It doesn't take much. You are "different" from them and so you are "wrong".
So if they can say "God" agrees with their view on something they personally find disgusting, all the more reason to shove it in people's faces or worse, it seems. It never occurs to these people it might not be a choice. After all, they are attracted to the opposite sex, so how could someone not be without being some kind of a weirdo? Then the Bible steps in for them and assures them they are correct in Leviticus and God finds them to be "abominations" and their fate is sealed. It doesn't matter that it also says eating a ham sandwich is just as bad. They aren't looking to persecute ham sandwiches so they don't even know that line exists on the very next page (ignorant as they are).
