Quote Originally Posted by Feanor
I do. I don't condemn people for what they are, only for their malevalent behaviors or attitudes of which JM shows none.

Whatever full or partial support I get I'm glad of, but my own opinions are well researched and I don't rely on popular approval to adhere to them. I had a Protestant Christian upbringing and am well read, for a lay person, on Christian theology and history; I don't need instruction in that regard.

On the subject of the Bible, this book is a compilation developed, (in its writen form), over a thousand year in diverse languages. And to read a English version, say the KJV, word by word as literal truth is absurd. Another book I read not long ago on this subject is ...

Brad J. Ehrman: Misquoting Jesus: The Story behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

... Amazon.com

BTW, Ehrman definitely consders himself a Christian. He was once a Fundamentalist, is now I suppose, a liberal Christian.
I have this book, and I think it should be a must read for every Christian. I have probably read this book about five times since I bought it. One of the things I learned from this book is that neither God nor Jesus had any comment on gays and lesbians. Neither mention the word, or alluded to those relationships in a negative way AT ALL. I also learned that the King James version of the Bible comes from the most inaccurate transcriptions of holy scrolls, and that it should NOT be used to develop church policy or opinions(which throws out the anti gay slant of their arguments). I learned that most commonly used scriptures to condemn gays and lesbians are nothing more than the laws that were supposed to govern Jewish people OF THAT TIME. They are not for non Jew's, or for people living some two thousand years later like they are being used by some. Many scriptures developed earlier were changed to reflect the words of their living contemporaries to avoid contradiction when challenged.

One of the biggest lessons I learned from the book was both the old and new testament requires us to love one another, and the love covereth all sins.(or allows us to forgive readily and easily). Beyond loving one another, everything else is pretty much no mans land.

Using the King James version of the Bible as a tool of judgement is very perilous - and using it the way modern Christians do is divisive, damaging, and just plain wrong on so many levels.