Pride Month 2009

It's been brought to my attention through my lovely friend Sarah that Obama has declared June 2009 to be LGBT Pride Month. Anyone who knows me and talks to me about this issue will quickly learn (if they haven't already) that I support Gay Rights. Always have always will. Sorry to my family members who think I'm sinning for doing so.

A year ago I began mapping out/working on a story that I titled Legal Love for the time it was in progress until I could find an appropriate title. It's the story of two young women who fall in love with eachother inadvertently. Where the rest of this story will lead I'm not sure, I just have the beginning mapped out so far. Anyway I'm returning to work on this story this month and hopefully will keep with it so I can complete it.

One of the character's mom is a pretty conservative Christian. When she finds out her daughter, Arabella, is in love with another girl she goes A-wall and starts quoting the bible. So in order to actually quote the bible and be able to have Arabella make some convincing arguments against it, I had to do a little research.

One of the most widely used arguments against homosexuals by Christians is the story of Sodom and Gomorra. They claim that the reason for Sodom's destruction was the widespread practice of gay sex. Then someone please explain this passage to me:

Ezekial 16:49-50
"Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen."

Not once in there was sex of any kind mentioned. I know some people would point out that 'detestable things' could mean gay sex but don't you think if that was the real reason God would've said 'homosexual sex' or something like that above arrogance and selfishness?

I am not any kind of expert on the bible and do not pretend to be. I have never read it through once and the only reason I actually would is to find these different passages in order to make up rebuttles against them. And I'm actually considering doing that. Getting a copy of the bible, reading it, noting which passages speak DIRECTLY about homosexuality (and other topics) and attempting to research them through the rest of the bible. This would be an ongoing thing of course because it would be no small feat. Especially since there's maybe 3-4 different topics that I want to research but I think it'd be worth it for if these topics ever come up with me and other conservative Christians...which I'm sure they would in the future. Matter of fact I know one will (and no I'm not speaking of homosexuality, though that seems to come up frequently anyway).