On a slightly more serious note.
Do you realize the double standard here?
Christians persecuted homosexuals for centuries. Even today, many Christians churches condemn homosexuality.
The animosity started with the Christians towards the gays. Now that gays are not in the closet and not so easily persecuted, some Christians feel persecuted because some gay Americans act towards Christians as Christians have acted towards gays for decades.
It is rather ironic.
Christians are simply following the Bible's teachings. The Bible says homosexuality is an abomination unto the Lord.
Nope. The Bible says that sex between men is an abomination. Doesn't say a thing about homosexuality. Doesnt' say a thing about women having sex with women.
Wrong: It wouldn't make sense to male/male sex is wrong but not female/female sex.
Answer: Some are under the assumption that, while the Bible condemns gay sex between men, it nowhere condemns being a lesbian/lesbianism.
Leviticus 18:22 and
20:13 mention men having sex with other men, but say nothing of women having sex with other women. In the Sodom and Gomorrah account in
Genesis 19, the men of the cities wanted to gang rape other men.
First Corinthians 6:9 mentions effeminate men, very likely referring to homosexuals, but does not mention lesbians. So, does the Bible in fact condemn male homosexuality, but not lesbianism?
Romans 1:26-27 puts this invalid assumption to rest: “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts.
Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.” Clearly, this passage puts lesbianism on equal ground with male homosexuality. Lesbianism is described as women exchanging natural relations (with men) for unnatural relations (with women). According to the Bible, being a lesbian is just as sinful as being a homosexual male.