Religion vs. homosexuality
Overview
Many religious groups (especially Christian and Islamic fundamentalists) are vehemently opposed to homosexuality – typically citing scripture as a basis for condemning it – while other religious groups show varying degrees of tolerance and support for it.
Although homosexuality is just one of several sexuality issues, homosexuality is currently the most visible of these issues and any entity's stand on those other issues can generally be extrapolated from their views on homosexuality.
Religious intolerance of homosexuality and other non-harmful sexualities is one of the most serious issues involving religion.
Christianity
The majority of anti-homosexual arguments based on Christian doctrine state that homosexuality is condemned by God, as evidenced by various passages in the Bible.
More liberal Christians often try to apply the doctrine of "love the sinner, hate the sin" to permit tolerance of homosexual individuals while still restricting in various ways the right to actually practice homosexuality.
Reference
- Wikipedia: homosexuality and Christianity
Judaism
Reference
- Wikipedia: homosexuality and Judaism
Islam
- Wikipedia: homosexuality and Islam
Links
News
- 2007-04-06 An Army of Christian Right Lawyers Is Waging War on the Constitution by Sarah Posner: page 1 is primarily about their efforts to fight homosexuality
- 2007-03-27 Drama at Abbey, Akinola 'comes out' on anti-gay law, "Articles of Faith" column by Ruth Gledhill, The Times Religion Correspondent
- 2007-03-01 US church leaders condemn Nigerian anti-gay law "Nigeria's criminal code penalizes consensual homosexual conduct between adults with 14 years' imprisonment. Shari'a penal codes in effect in northern Nigeria continue to punish 'sodomy' with the death penalty."