The Bible is irrelevant to this thread
like everything you post.
Actually the Bible is highly relevant because it tells us there's nothing new under the sun. When the two angels visited Lot and his family to warn them to leave Sodom and Gomorrah, they said, "God will destroy this city because the outcry against it is great".
That's the Bible confirming that homosexuals are assholes in every age. People thought so then, and they think so now.
Thankfully the bible is legally and Constitutionally irrelevant, as it fosters the ignorance and unwarranted hate exhibited by you and most others on the social right.
And yet... It's the gay advocates issuing the death threats. Hmmm.
false...
Gay Minnesota student receives death threat in virulent letter - KMSP-TV
Would you like to have a contest to see which side issues more death threats?
You don't want to have that contest, do you?
you loose as death threats to gays out number the tiny amount received by the "Christian" business owners by millions.
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people can face violence motivated by hateful attitudes towards their
sexuality or
gender identity.
[1] Violence may be executed by the state, as in laws prescribing corporal punishment for homosexual acts (see
homosexuality laws), or by individuals engaging in intimidation,
mobbing, assault, or
lynching (see
gay bashing,
trans bashing). Violence targeted at people because of their perceived sexuality can be psychological or physical and can extend to
murder. These actions may be motivated by
homophobia,
lesbophobia,
biphobia,
transphobia, and may be influenced by cultural,
religious, or political
mores and biases.
Currently, homosexual acts are legal in almost all
Western countries, and in many of these countries
violence against LGBT people is classified as a
hate crime,
[2] with such violence being often connected with conservative or religious leaning ideologies which condemn homosexuality, or being perpetrated by individuals who associate homosexuality to being weak, ill, feminine, or immoral. Outside the West, many countries, particularly those where the dominant religion is
Islam, but also many countries in the
Commonwealth (e.g.
Uganda,
Nigeria,
Malaysia and
Jamaica), most African (excluding
South Africa) and some Asian countries (excluding
Japan and
Taiwan), and some former-Communist countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, such as
Russia and
Serbia, are currently very dangerous for LGBT people because of
discrimination against homosexuals which influences both discriminatory legislation and physical violence.
[3]
In
Europe, the
European Union's
Employment Equality Framework Directive and
Charter of Fundamental Rights offer some protection against sexuality-based discrimination.
Historically, state-sanctioned persecution of homosexuals was mostly limited to
male homosexuality, termed "
sodomy". During the medieval and early modern period, the penalty for sodomy was usually death. During the modern period (from the 19th century to the mid-20th century) in the Western world, the penalty was usually a fine or imprisonment.
As of 2009, there remain under 80 countries worldwide where homosexual acts remain illegal (notably throughout the
Middle East,
Central Asia and in most of
Africa, but also in some of the
Caribbean and
Oceania) including five that carry the
death penalty.
[4]