My Beliefs

I've been thinking a lot recently about people who use the Bible and Scripture as an excuse for hating people who fall in love with people of the same sex. I've actually looked through Leviticus, which has the passage most often used to claim God hates gay people. In my personal opinion, the book of Leviticus is a stupid book full of stupid rules. It lists things that other groups of people have already done that the writer thinks are wrong. Among them is that a man shall not lie with another man in the same way that he lies with a woman. I don't agree with this. Think about it. This is the same book of the Bible that says women are unclean for the week of their period and anything they touch or anyone who touches them is also unclean. Any man who has an emission of seed is unclean. It's stupid! God made these things happen inside humans. He wouldn't damn us for something He made happen. In my opinion, the same goes for same sex love. Consider this: You're writing a book/drawing a picture/whatever you like to do. You spend years creating this, pour your heart and soul into it, and do everything you can to make it wonderful. Are you going to throw it into the fireplace because it has a rip on one page or the cover's a little bent? You put all that work into something. I doubt you'd burn it just because one little thing isn't perfect. I believe the same is true of God. He made us. He spent time working on us and gave us this entire world so we could be happy and love and be loved. Yes, He wanted us to procreate. But He also wanted us to be happy. I refuse to believe that the God who created all of this beauty and created us in His image and likeness, who gave us free will to choose for ourselves and who made us so it was even possible to love someone of the same sex, would damn us for doing exactly that. Now, this is my opinion. I understand others have different opinions and I encourage you to voice them here and everywhere. But that's just it. This is my opinion. I've never personally chatted with God to see what He really wants. If you can prove me wrong on any point, go right ahead. I encourage all of you to challenge me and debate with me. If I'm wrong, prove it to me. You're welcome to. And if you can do that, I'll admit I'm wrong. But until then, this is what I believe and it shall remain this way.

                                                                ~The Blogging Fangirl