God has his reasons for everything and everyone has their struggles, we are all here to learn something and if that means you struggle with physical handicaps or are racially disadvantaged in this society or you are sexually attracted to the same sex!  Everbody wasn't meant to live the same type of life as the one we are fed through fairy tales and movies.  The fact that you may have been born straight, your friend will tell you otherwise.  This is not a choice.  Did you choose?  Look no further than the animal kingdom to see that this is a naturally occurring phenomena.  In the ancient times it was considered no less natural than heterossexual sex.  That is before Christendom, in which a great many of the values we hold today were instilled.  There are many of these beliefs that were questioned by the youth of the post war generations and this led to an experiment now understood as the sexual revolution, the last leg to fight on the road to civil rights, which was the crux of this revolution.  Women gained the right to vote, earn equal pay for equal work, choices over what is done to their bodies.  African Americans gained power through numbers, demanding to be treated as first class citezens, like everyone else.  Gays also began to fight back against long withstood oppression. 

Recently fundamentalists in this country have heeded the call for a jihad, a regious war with muslims, who happen to acknowledge Christ but Christians refuse to acknowledge Mohammed.  After the cat was let out of the bag in the 70's with the sexual revolution, people were left questioning everything, including the church.  They view their parents as being lukewarm and only going through the motions of their religions.  Due to the outright changes in attitudes towards sex and other previously considered taboos, people were searching for something to embrace that was traditional.  A new movement gained popularity calling themselves Born again and quickly spread over the country.  With the newly converted presidential canditate Jimmy Carter, people were tired of the sleazy politicians like nixon and could relate to Carter because he too experienced the Born Again experience. 

   Suffice to say that the republican party soon adopted the religion as a part of their political agenda.  Since then there has been many anti-gay legislative proposals seeking to overturn recently abolished antiquated laws and then with help of a commercial celebrity tried to push for new restrictive legislation.  This movement to curtail the freedoms of citizens based on sexual preference, enfalmed the community and with the help of some brave individuals, have continued to fight.  Now another pre-emptive strike to limit gays rights started with a petition to define marriage as being between a man and a woman!  This is a political move to hinder the rights of people.  The only thing it accomplishes is that some one won't be able to see thier loved one before they die, or even they two people care for each other they cannot share their health isurance!  I mean, do you really want to say to Jesus when he asks you what did you do with your life, and one of your accomplishments is to say that you prevented two people who loved each other but were the same sex from seeing each other before they died!  Do you think you will be rewarded? 

I think it is very arrogant that people believe that they know enough about God's intentions to enforce what they think is his desire, I think it cowardly that they pick on an innocent and helpless minority.  They are not prophets!  This is what a prophet is, and today everybody thinks they are a prophet.  Only highly educated scholar, who has dedicated their life to studying this could even speculate upon and still they will admit that they do not know the intentions of God.  The mystery of God will never be revealed.  No these bible skimmers today, do not have the the education or desire to understand these mysteries.  The bible itself isn't the only book of wisdom, in fact it lends it's heritage to a much older text in sumeria which has identical stories of the flood and Adam and eve and even Moses.  These tablets existed before the texts that make up today's bible.  All of these books are sacred and I believe written with divine inspiration, but the words are not easy to understand, they mean different things today.  Like a camel going through the eye of needle, we think of the beast with the hump, but a camel is a rope!