I think they are the same. Murder is a morality issue. Slavery is a morality issue. Sexual conduct is a morality issue. If proper morals are not taught in schools, than it should not be for any of these either. If you agree with this, then we are agreed. If not, then I have a problem with that, yes.
I see. So one trying to change their sex, has nothing to do with their orientation. I suppose I can see that view.
I follow the rules which the Bible says I'm supposed to follow. I do not follow the rules that I was never meant to follow. By simply reading the Bible, you can find out what G-d expects of us.
There is no evidence that Hebrew law was plagiarized from Hammurabi's code. Undoubtedly there are similarities, as one would expect given their common semitic heritage. However to claim one copied the other is a joke no respected research has come to.
In Jeremiah 32:36-37, G-d said the Jews would return to their home. 60 years later, they did.
In Micah 3:11-12, G-d said Zion, a central part of Jerusalem, would be plowed like a field. Written around 700 BC, the Romans in 135 AD, conquered Jerusalem, and used an actual plow in the area known as Zion.
In Deuteronomy 29:23, G-d said that if Israel turned against him, that Israel would become a desolate wasteland. Mark Twain wrote of it being exactly so.
I have dozens more. To me these and the hundreds of others like it, show the credibility and reliability of the scriptures. They have, and are, coming out exactly as stated they would.
Since I do not persecute gay people, I can not answer this question.
When you read exodus, just remember each part of that story can be found. They discovered where the golden calf likely was, Egyptian paintings on the rock in Saudi Arabia where there were no cattle, the springs of bitter water, the 12 springs with palm trees, and spear heads and sharp rocks of Egyptian style, as well as a mountain with a blackened top. Even some of the locations in Saudi Arabia, have names of where Moses led his people, even to this day.
Of course all this evidence means G-d must have brought 2 million people through the sea, away from their Egyptian slave masters, and provided food for 2 million people through the wastelands of Saudi Arabia, let alone water.
It is not up to me to correct the mistakes of other people. Even if I were to take that on as somehow being my duty, what would you have me do? G-d is the judge, not me.
There is little point to posting about the poor, hungry, needy, and crippled. I am not a democrat that talks about things, and does little. I help people myself. Moreover, I am not going to arrogantly bug everyone else to do what I have done. That is between them and G-d, as much as what I do is between me and G-d.
Jesus did not say you shouldn't get married. Nor did he say you should give everything to the poor. Where did I bash gays? I might have stated the scientific facts about the homosexual life, or have said I'm against violations of G-d's law, but that is not bashing gays. It is because I care about gays, that I wish them to escape that life style.
Yes I can see that. You have not shown me you know what is in the holy book. When you say things like "Jesus said to not get married", then you are not really understanding what was said.
That still isn't what the transcript of her condemnation said.
Again, you are assigning me a view I do not have. I do not hate the person. G-d does not hate the person. I hate the sin. G-d hates the sin.
The whole point of Christ coming to die, was that he loved all of us enough to take the penalty for sin on himself, so that we could be forgiven if we repent. Even now, if anyone repents, they will forgiven of all. But there must be repentance. Meaning the turning away from sin. None can repent and remain in sin. It's up to each individual to make that choice. That includes you.
