Where Are the Pro-LGBT Religious Voices in Mainstream Media?

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24. While you could argue that the scripture quote there can validate the idea of...

...gay rights and gay marriage, it's harder to do when there are pieces of scripture that address the issue directly, such as these:

1 Corinthians 6: 9-10 - "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."

Leviticus 18:22 - "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable."

Leviticus 20:13 - "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."

Romans 1:26-27 - "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."

So the counter argument can easily be made that "do unto others" doesn't apply to gays because of the clear scriptural anti-gay message.

Mind you, I'm not saying this to take away from those christians that support gay rights, but it does beg the question that how much of the scripture of a particular faith can you discard and still be an adherent of that faith? And I'm far from the only person asking that question, as that is one of the counter arguments (that you aren't a "real" christian) that I have seen from the fundamentalists.

EDIT: to remove a random smiley that appeared in the scripture excerpts. lol