homosexuality and your religion?

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I'm Wicca and dont feel any conflict between my religion and my sexuality

 

I'm an ancient Egyptian spiritualist who incorporates whatever else I want into my spirituality. Nobody in my religion (the particular denomination I hang with, anyway) cares.

 

Not all people confine their beliefs and practices to any one of these categories. I picked "Christian" but my beliefs go beyond that. I don't think all Christians or all Buddhists or all anybody else agrees on everything. Labels are for clothes!

 

Which is why there is a category for "other". And I mentioned these labels because a lot of people actually use them...

 

I was brought up in this cult, a really evil ,nasty, homophobic, shit for brains fucked up dirt bags, anti-everything not church of christ. can you tell I hate this group. as a result of this brainwashing .. since my late teens, I don't believe in god anymore.

therefore, my being gay and my anti-religon are not in conflict.

 

Catholice here!! 12 Yrs. of Catholic School teachings, bein baptised, catechism Classes, 1 st communion, then communion every sun. Sats. spent in confession! Damn short skirts, knee highs, white dress shirts and those damn ties we had 2 wear!! Sheeshe.!! All those girls!! And they wonder why I m a lesbian? lol!! Who d of thought!! Lol!!
peace n love 2 all, Kat
Ps.
By the way bein catholic and bein a lez is not good in my family. my sis, barely talks 2 me unless it s a emergency, my mom prefers 2 say my lady friend in referrin 2 my g/f. my brothers(3) all think Im sick. But hell, U know what they say? U can pick ur friends, but u can t pick ur family!!
By the way, my sis is 37, my bros. r 28,24, n 22. all adults w/narrow minds.

 

Yea I have. There is one verse that says not for a man to sleep with another man, unless his wife is pregnant. Soddom and Gomorahs fate wasnt homosexuality, It was rape and sexual imorality (Homosexuality may have been one of these). David and Johnathan were in all likelyhood gay lovers. Homosexuality is mentioned only 1 more time in the bible and is mentioned by Paul. He mentions 23 different sins of people who will not inherent the kingdom of God (mentions liars, Glutoners, rapists, adulters, the judgemental *cough, cough*(excuse me), Drnkards) and one of them is homosexual offenders. But usually when people like u quote that verse, u usually dont like to say the quote after that, "But rejoice, for you have been redeemed in the eyes of our Lord Jesus Christ." Don't debate with me in the bible cause i know my stuff.

 

and TXBarefooter, Church of Christ are judgemental bigots who have worse skelotons in their closet than your own. If they chased you away, give religon a 2nd chance and go to a more liberal church.

 

I was born and raised Catholic. Baptized, first communion, first reconciliation, 8 years of catechism classes, confirmation, and I attend church every Sunday. Growing up one of my biggest fears was that I would be a lesbian because then God wouldn't love me and my family would disown me. My father actually had a talk with me when I was around 10 yeards old, about how that's not "right" or "natural", how people aren't born that way, they must have learned it from somewhere. Something my grandfather wrote about the sin of homosexuality for the Catholic Messenger (a crazy catholic newspaper we get every week). My brother is homophobic. My sisters are disgusted by it.
So, yea, there's been conflict. About a years worth of conflict. But I think I'm starting to leave all of that crap behind and I just want to be who I am, and be okay with it. I still believe in God, but I don't believe that he's not going to love me because I do a girl just as soon as I would a guy.

 

Atheist

 

I am currently Agnostic. I blindly followed my ignorant Christian church untill the age of 12, at which age I began questioning my religion. I did some soul-searching and I finally realized that my logical mind simply doesn't allow me to believe either way since niether way has been proven. About 3/4 of the way through my soul-searching I began questioning my sexuality, so as you can imagine, that changed everything.

 

Crazy thing of religion.. My Father is of the Apache Nation and is more of a metahphysics and my Mother was raised Catholic but turned to being a Jehovah's Witness. Growing up with all that I know I have combined all three teachings into one that makes it very unique, at least to me that is.
It doesn't matter to me what is in a name, but as long as the faith is alive, I know I will be just fine..

 

I was raised Catholic, but got sick of the "everyone is a sinner, feel bad, shame shame shame!" of it. I still believe in and love God, though now I draw from lots of different religions and am more spiritual than anything

 

Atheist. And I knew I was an atheist before I knew I was gay.

 

No problems here... Was raised in a liberal protestant family and although not everybody is happy with my sexuality (none of their business anyway), it's not religious reasoning, apart from my conservative grandparents.
I consider myself something along the lines of UU pagan and there's no problem with being gay.

PS: Sunburst! Haven't seen you posting here for ages! Good to see you!

 

I acknowledge myself as a eclectic Wiccan (solitary practicioner.) I suppose the proper term though would be neopagan since I am not part of a coven.

 

I am a Witch but not wiccan, I have said before on this thread that I find it annoying pagan was left off, espiecally on a hippy forum
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I'm a Unitarian. There aren't a lot of us and we don't particularly have a co-joining belief system in regards to sexuality, so I'd say those two topics are kept separate. I tend to find sex to be a religious experience however.

 

I'm nondenominational...I love and believe in God, but his fan club can be downright blind sometimes.

My God doesn't hate anybody...especially not for expanding their love outside of accepted boundaries. Love is good.

So my religion is love.