Why do religious people hate gay people so much?

Question

When the biblical references are very vague. And it has far worse to say about other groups such as women and people who do anything other than pray on a sunday.

BTW in the original biblical languages the words which are now conveniently translated as exclusively homosexual also included people who masturbate, people who have hetro anal sex and promiscuous women.

To those people who think I'm gay I'm not, I think it's gross. But then to gay people doing what I do is probably gross. We are all different and I won;t tell a gay person who they've got to sleep with any more they would tell me.

Answer 1

Because religious people people are secretly gay

Answer 2

Most religious people don't hate gays (with the obvious exception of Fred Phelps, who we have disowned from our flock!). Just because we don't agree with someone's lifestyle, doesn't mean we don't like that person. We view the act of homosexuality as a sin, but we are all sinners and no better or worse than anyone else. We love everyone, and whoever doesn't love someone is not a true Christian.

I wish ANYONE would show us in the Bible where it says we are instructed to hate or God hates people who are gay. Until that happens, stop accusing us of hating gays with only your biased mis-informed opinions as 'evidence'.

Answer 3

The bible does not have to spell out each and every "wrong" or sin. The bible may be vague to some people, but if you know the Word of God well, it is not vague. A normal sexual relationship in God's eyes is between husband and wife who have been joined together in the holy matrimony. Apart from that, sexual relationship is not right. Christians people do not hate gay people, they just disapprove of what gay people are doing.

Answer 4

I am a Christian and I don't know that 'religious' people "hate gay people so much"! I don't hate anyone. There are biblical references that proscribe "men lying down with men", and as you said, the bible is full of references to 'sins' against the Lord -- however, as far as I know, I was never given the authority to judge anyone else nor is there anything that says I am to "hate" any particular person -- in fact, I'm even expected to forgive EVERYONE -- even if someone murders one of my relatives!!! Christians are NOT taught to hate people -- we're taught to hate the SIN not the SINNER. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Please don't stereotype 'religious' people -- it's really not fair and not true.

Answer 5

Hey well i am a christian i go to church and all that and i dont hate gay people i just think that what there doing isn't right and its against God. Thats what the bible says. I will agree though that some religiouse people do hate Gay's and thats very wrong! God says to love each other equally and never to make acceptions of people.

Answer 6

First, you must specify what you mean by religious. There is a difference between religion and spirituality. I am assuming you are speaking of spiritual people (those who are "believers") not religious people (those who adhere to a specific denomination and religious habits) although a spiritual person seems to be religious. Religious people are not always spiritual.

Spiritual people do not hate gay people, because they adhere to God's law of love ("...Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." Matthew 22:39).

Second, Biblical references on the matter are not vague at all.
Romans 1:25-32
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Who knowing the judgement of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

This seems extremely clear to me. Ask again if you want to know about any of these verses.

Answer 7

I have never believed that all "religious" people hate gays. My Mother accepted myself and my Gwenneth.. When visiting Gwen's home and family (before we lived together) after gardening for them I was treated to long sermons, the basis of one was that because Methodists were the creation of Satan and I was a "Metho" I was going to hell UNLESS I joined their offshoot, breakaway, splinter group of some church or other.
When we decided to purchase a house and live together, I was shunned and Gwen was subjected to insults ranging from the childish to the utterly vindictive.
I was overseas on long service leave when darling Gwenneth passed away. Her relatives were informed by our neighbor and claimed her remains, burying them in their church's private cemetery under a stone reading "UNKNOWN TO GOD".
I will not relate what ensued but can only say that I do not consider them religious in any Christian way. They have heir God and use Him in their own way. I learned to forgive them after much anguish but I will never love them.
Rose P.

Answer 8

Depends on which religion. Christians love those who practice sexual immorality, but they hate the sexual immorality that destroys lives.

The good news is that God made people to be happy, genuinely gay. He does not want anyone to practice sexual immorality. Sexuality is designed for the lifelong, loving intimacy of marriage; God designed sexuality to unite a man and woman as one flesh, and to be the means of bringing children in the world. Any sexual relations outside of marriage make genuine marriage difficult, if not impossible.

Answer 9

I don't hate gay people, I would strongly defend them against persecution, but I do not think their relationships should be endorsed or rewarded by the civil government, but what the civil government does is not extremely important to me because the laws of man do not overrule the laws of God.

Answer 10

Everybody wants to belive they're part of the "in crowd". But that means there has to be an "out crowd" too.

Christians have seized on the Old Testament condemnations of homosexuality, and ignored the parts that say, for example, a woman who has sex outside marriage should be stoned to death (Deut 22: 20-21). It will all blow over in fifty years or so. The rest of the country will be so repulsed by their bigotry that they'll be forced to abandon it, and they'll find some new group of people to hate.

Answer 11

The current crop of fundamentalists have an obsession with gays.

It used to be pagans. Then jews, women, and astronomers, then biologists supporting Darwin. Anything they can criticize as biblically incorrect is fair game to them.

As religion changes, I think we can assume that in 50 years, the fundamentalists will pick a new group of people to denigrate or try to control. Maybe it will be the scientists working for stem cell research, who knows.

P.S. To all those who point to homosexuality as "abomination." You are avoiding the next passage which calls shellfish an "abomination."