Why should I answer your questions when you don't answer mine? Unless one is taking a class in ethics, I don't think that teaching morals is the school teacher's place. You make a really big jump when you go from sex to murder, it's a good way to cloud the issue that YOU won't address: do you think the schools should teach morals (specifically about sex since that's what we're discussing) or do you want that privilege reserved for you and your church? The next question which you refused to answer is whose morals do you want to have taught? Will you be able to compromise with the parents of 30 other kids on what is taught?
No, I never said I go around speaking about homosexuality, I don't. You looked up Joan of Arc, why don't you look up transsexualism and find out that it has nothing to do with sexual orientation?
I don't see any reason to castigate homosexuals, just because Hammurabi wrote it down in his Code and it was plaigarized into the Bible doesn't make it God's Word. No one has produced any rational reason to attack gay people. You don't follow all the other rules in the Bible, so why follow this one? This is another question you probably won't answer. Cherry-picking the Bible for scriptures to use against other people is hypocritical.
Ok, I'll bite. What proof do you have that this scripture was penned by, inspired by, or approved of by God? There is not a single shred of proof.
Then why do it? Why persecute gay people if you know they are going to Hell anyway? What do you get out of it?
I have seen nothing to make me believe that the Bible is any more the Word of God than any other holy book. My own experiences in my relationship with my Creator are antithetical to the blasphemy in the Bible. The Creator never did all that sick stuff the Bible says, that was people; nomadic, desert-dwelling, patriarchal, goat-herding, tribal people.
Yeah, pretty disgusting, but also very common. Why do Christians--even yourself--allow these things to continue? Why are you here posting about gays being evil? I'm curious why I never see a self-identified Christian posting and advocating what Jesus said were the two most important commandments in the Bible. What I see are self-identified Christians posting about gays more than anything else, why? There are only 6 scriptures in the whole Bible that are used to address homosexuality, but nearly 2000 about caring for the poor, hungry, needy, and crippled, so why don't you post about that, why don't you post about how Jesus said you shouldn't get married, that you should give everything you have to the poor, that you should love others as yourself. I don't recall seeing you post anything that even sounded like loving others as you love yourself, why? Instead I see you bashing gay and transpeople even though you don't know the difference.
Am I bad tempered about this? Yes, I am, I'm tired of being beaten with the Bible, by being attacked by people who don't have a clue what's in their own holy book--let alone the history of that book. I'm tired of the beatings, rapes, and murders, I'm tired of fighting an endless herd of sheeple bleating what they'be been told without looking (as you did with Joan, thank you) to see if there is any basis for it. I think the teachings of Jesus are excellent, but I'm tired of people claiming to be Christians while spitting on Jesus' teachings every day.
Lack of adequate education is part of the problem, I never said anything about her being a homosexual, she was a transsexual. It's a birth defect in which one is born somewhere out in the middle between male and female (you're aware of what people used to call hermaphrodites, aren't you?). Nowadays those people are more correctly called "intersexed", being trans is a version of that in which the intersexed condition is not the visible sex organs, but the internal workings of the body and the brain.
It is due to ignorance and arrogance that transsexual people get all the same mindless abuse as gays despite the fact that transsexuality has nothing to do with sexual orientation and there is not a single word about us in the whole of the Bible. Why hate us when your God doesn't?