homosexuality and your religion?

Well, I was wondering what religions/beliefs you guys had... Also, is/was there a conflict between your sexual orientation and your belief/religion?
Christianity is the example that is closest to me. Most Christians where I am don't see homosexuality as a sin, so gay Christians usually don't experience an internal conflict between their sexuality and their religion. This isn't the case everywhere obviously...
I'd love to hear about other religions than christianity, don't know as much about that...

 

Officially I'm a Catholic, but I've never gone so far as to attend a confessional or anything, so I don't see what right I'd have claiming it. I'm basically agnostic.

 

Yeah, I'm "formally" a catholic too (baptised and both Communions) but it was out of tradition, not belief...
Hard to describe what I believe... I believe there is a "superior force" but not some conscious being watching us, with specific rules which we should follow etc.

Anyone else?

 

Oh, I wasn't baptised. I swear that's where it all started going wrong.

As for God/whatever, I dunno, there probably is some superior force to mankind, but whatever it is it doesn't seem to do much so I figure leave it to it.

 

CofE

Basically, I just keep my beliefs to myself. That's the great thing about protestantism, you can hold whatever views you want and no one has to know. I have to be hard pressed to reveal what I think about god and all that.

Frankly though I do believe that protestant-based societies are the most gay friendly. Atheist movements tend to have the worst record when it comes to respect for gays. Atheism makes it easier to justify eugenics, which can lead to the killing of gays (WWII saw the wholesale slaughter of jews, gays, gypsies, etc, in fascist atheist dictatorships). And more recently you have people like Erasmus suggesting that homosexuals should be aborted, which is just as wrong.

Islam is also very bad when it comes to respecting homosexuals. But that's a topic for another time.

 

I am agnostic. Suprisingly my beliefs have never had an issue with my sexual orientation (or lack thereof) or vice versa. I'm being sarcastic.... I'm tired.

Anyways I'm agnostic.

 

I don't believe in any organized religion at all. It gets to the point where business takes over. Not to mention that most of the ideas are bullshit to me.

I just like to think there's something out there. Definitely not a "God", persay...meh. I really don't know.

 

I don't fit in any of these categories. Neo-pagans don't ordinarily feel any sort of conflict between their (our) beliefs and sexual orientation.

 

i'm not religious.


Right now I don't believe in a god. But you never know...

 

I am a student of all religions, but could generally be labeled as a mystic... I am aware of the one consciousness, which could be called god, it is everywhere, beyond time space, and in all of time space. One of my teachers Ram Dass is bisexual and leans more towards the homosexaul side... I am very far leaning to the hetrosexual side, but acknowledge that I do have unconcious homoerotic things that rarely come up. So I guess technically I could be considered a bisexual... but I usually refer to my self as a hetrosexaul since I prefer and am oriented toward women sexually. I am interested in homosexual issues, and like to fight for gay rights in my own silly ways.

As far as the mystical view of homosexuality... I would generally say mystical teachings point towards sex as a cosmic joke, sex is part of the illussion... the point of it is not whether you do it or not do it... but whether you are attached to it. Thus there are to mystical ways to deal with sex reguardless of your orientation, celibacy or tantra. And a homosexual person could do either... there is nothing in the teachings of tantra that prohibit homosexaulity, but most of the tantric teachings deal with male/female sex (there are some exceptions). Yet this doesn't mean they couldn't be applied to homosexual sex.

mysticism is aimed at getting beyond it. Not if homsexuals are alright or not.

 

Since you mention mysticism... For my thesis (to graduate from university) I studied a novel very heavily influenced by catholic mysticism (Theresa of Avila etc). The ironic thing was: in getting "beyond" sex and becoming one with God, the vocabulary was extremely sexually oriented. Describing becoming one with God is impossible to express in words, but sexual vocabulary apparently is one of the ways to get the closest to expressing it...

 

you must be kidding!.

 

Why?

 

Not even "Other"?

 

Well yeah, I mean, they call nuns "Brides of Christ", after all.

 

I really can't say I fit in a specific one of these, the only word for my beliefs is pantheism. I can't devote to any belief to much or I'll ruin it for myself. But I would never be part of a religion that looks down upon any sexuality.

 

I'm christian and my parents don't think being gay is a sin but they are homaphobic

 

What does it matter if I have read the bible? I'm not a christian. But the christians around me don't think homosexuality is a sin. That is THEIR interpretation of christianity.

 

double post

 

The rumor is that although sex was forbidden in Buddhist monastic code, he “interpreted this” as only pertaining to "heterosexual love" not intended to forbid getting it on with cute, baby soft, shaved, oiled up, impressionable young "grasshoppers".
And the reasoning the samurai used to explain why they didn't like having sex with women were no different than the reasoning for the Nazi or for the Greeks.
In a nutshell their argument was this, women have no use except for birthing children, they make for shitty partners in combat because they can’t fight.
In the ranks of the samurai, taking on young male lovers was the thing to do. Although at 18 the relationships were ususally ended for the most part because at that time, it was believed that the boy had become a man at 18 and was old enough to take on his own young piece of man ass. But to me that sounds kinda like, by 18 these ass kicking pedophiles don’t have interest in you anymore because now they want to get themselves some new young man ass.