So Christians don't follow old testament? I know Christianity condemns sodomites and Bible orders its followers to kill homosexuals. It has some explicit verses to kill homosexuals / sodomites.
There is no narration in most believed to be authentic Sunni Hadith (Bukhari and Muslim) about Prophet Muhammad ordering killing homosexuals. The hadiths prescribing killing is from other Hadith books. Muslims don't take Hadiths that much seriously but Quran does say to punish homosexuals but also say if they repent then leave them alone. Allah is merciful. So I doubt the prophet actually ordered to kill homosexuals.
Bullshit Bukhari and Muslim in fact say that homosexuals to be killed. In fact Allah in the Quran ordered the people of Lut to be killed because they had homosexuals. What is funny I must say is that in the Quran it says that the people of Lut were the first to have homosexuals when in actuality homosexuals have been around in all human civilizations and even among animals.
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur'an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Homosexuality
All of the Abrahamic religions are homophobic and sexist. They are in fact the apex of religious sexism and homophobia so no conscious gay person should be a part of them.
They do and they don't, in that Christ's coming and sacrifice for the sins of man results in a major change in man's status with God. I imagine some of the more religious scholars about could explain it better than I. The Old Testament represents the old laws and teachings that were in affect before this change. Afterwards some of the laws carried through, some were changed, some were discontinued as no longer necessary. The Old Testament is now essentially background history leading up to the Christ's coming and its application to the Christian era must be viewed in the context of Christ's teachings.
So magically because of a blood sacrifice Yahweh changed his opinions on gays being killed. Here is the clincher if Yahweh is so good then why did he have a rule commanding gays to be killed anyways. Why didn't he support gays as many Pagan Gods have done. Plus there are verses saying that homosexuality is a death worthy offence including in the New Testament.
There is nowhere in the Bible that orders death for homosexuals. Indeed the Law of the Old Testament knows nothing of personal or biological conditions as being wrong in and of themselves; it knows only of actions.
And Christians do not in fact follow the Old Testament because they follow the Bible. Any who do follow the Old Testament are not, properly speaking, Christians.
So basically according to you Yahweh condemns gay sex but not being gay. So gays are to live lives of sexual and romantic deprivation in order to be pleasing to Yahweh.
Also this whole verse in Romans after Yahweh curses said Romans due to idolatry to be gay so he could punish them some more then says that homosexuality along with other sins deserve death.
1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
1:31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
