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In reply to the discussion: Did historical Jesus really exist? The evidence just doesn’t add up. [View all]Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)I am severely mentally ill. I know what delusions feel like because I sometimes suffer from them. The presence of the deity feels quite different. Now, could this be another form of crazy? Possibly.
Yes, many Christians were taught that being gay was immoral. Although the most Christian (in the best sense of that word) woman I ever knew was my grandmother and she was pro-gay and pro-choice. I think there's several things changing that. Firstly, there's the increasing evidence that being gay is not a choice. We found the brain structures that set sexuality some years ago and they set it in the womb. Secondly, there's the fact that more gay people are now "out". They no longer think of gays as some pervert in a dirty mac hanging around the public loos, they think of Bob from work. Thirdly, and in conjuction with that, there's the visibility of gay people in the media. Shows like "Ellen" and "Will & Grace" presented an image of gay people that was funny, unthreatening and, in some key human ways, very familiar.
Personally, I'm bisexual. Due to some incidents in my childhood, I didn't figure that out until my early-mid Twenties (by which point, my grandmother had passed away). My faith (Luciferian Satanism, a very small sub-group of Theistic Satanism) has absolutely zero problem with homosexuality. Father Lucifer is gay and straight and both and neither, as the whim strikes him.