I have been wondering why so many gays and lesbians have been trying to be accepted by the church. I can understand why they want to have the same rights as heterosexuals; to marry, to live their own lives without anyone judging them, to raise children and just have a normal happy life. But why the need to be part of a religion that condemns any lifestyle, free thinking, creative approach to life, that does not fit the dogma of their belief system?
This question goes far deeper than mere sexual preference or lifestyle. It goes to the heart of the problem humankind has faced for thousands of years: What is reality? Is religion real? Is god real? Are we real?
The church will tell you it is written in their holy book that God hates gays and lesbians. (Please check out http://ffrf.org/bquiz.html ) However, their God is also supposed to be the creator of all and that humankind is created in the image and likeness of God. This sounds like a pretty psychotic God who has some gender issues him/herself. If we are made by this dream image called God, then why did he create some people he hates? Or is God gay/lesbian? If this so-called God can be so confused in His/Her mind in matters dealing with sexual preference, then what other areas of his being is also distorted? If God is so all powerful and loving as the church would have you believe, and you take a look at what is happening in the world, then it is clear this All mighty God is either mentally ill or a very cruel being. Or, the truth, nonexistent.
Of course, it is clear to anyone with the guts to face the truth and really come to some insight into all of this it becomes obvious that God did not create man in his image, that man created God in his image. All the petty minded neurosis we see in humans became the God of religion. Do you really want to belong to a religion based in such nonsense?
