Ted Haggard

[GenuineRisk]

I think homosexuality is completely, utterly, normal and I think it's a crying shame that some people buy so completely into what their religious leaders think that they spiral into incredible self-hatred and wind up perpetuating the hate they themselves fear.

But it's tough-- Moses and Paul are both pretty clear about homosexuality, unless one is really loose with the translations of those verses, but then, Jesus himself never said anything about it (I don't know the Koran well enough to know how it is addressed in Islam, though fundamentalist Moslems and Christians seem to hold the exact same position on homosexuality-- who says there's no common ground?). If you're religious and also gay-- not an easy place to be.

But hey, I think it's normal. And if this latest scandal exhausts the gay-bashing wing of the fundamentalists for a while, then good. We can all do with a little less hatred.