Clearly you haven't read the Bible, or you'd realize that the book of Leviticus is merely of historical interest -- God said so in Acts.
The New Testament makes it clear that if you're reading it as a menu or shopping list, you're already wrong. That's the way you're reading it, because if you read it the way rabbi Paul the apostle demonstrated, you'll know it's about principles. God has always buried principles in the details, to -- so to speak -- separate the thoughtful and seeking from the robots and the self-justifying.
It was Christians who first fought against slavery, back in the second century already, because of the Bible -- because the principles make slavery unconscionable: the idea of owning the image of God is blasphemous, and as every human being is in the image of God, slavery is blasphemous. That's a very Christian idea that it took the rest of the world a while to catch up to, one that got buried for centuries while the unthinking and self-justifying took over. But then in the seventeenth century it gained traction again, finally leading to the end of slavery in Europe and a bit later in the U.S.
That same principle -- that each of us is made in the image of God -- augmented by the proclamation that God the Son died for everyone, tells us that the Catholic church holds the most reactionary position the Bible can tolerate: that gays have to be treated with respect and humanity, because when one persecutes the image of God, one risks persecuting the Image of God, risks the same cry that turned Saul of Tarsus into Paul the Apostle -- "Why do you persecute Me?" After all, Jesus died for everyone, and He plainly said that "as you have done to the least of these My brothers, you have done to Me"; all those for whom He died have to be counted His brothers -- leading to the strong suspicion that when someone runs around with a sign saying "God hates fags", he's actually saying, "God hates Jesus"... which probably doesn't come across too well in heaven.
JaydenLuke, Jesus made it very plain that it isn't about rules -- He broke them right and left, and when He gave an explanation it was always principle trumping rule. That shouldn't have been a surprise, since God through the Prophets said, "I hate all your feast days!" -- the very same feast days He commanded. A prophet today would tell the Christianists, the fundi-nazis, the same thing: "I hate and despise your Bible studies, your revivals, your crusades, says the Lord". He would point to Jesus, and say, "Be like Him."
That's how to be gay and religious: be like Him. And you won't find Him in all their rules and condemnations.
