Are any gays religious? Have gays, largely speaking, completely renounced religion?

I believe in God, and even that Jesus died for our sins. I believe that the Bible was written and selectively edited by man, and that it has been liberally abused by power-hungry religious leaders in the past to gain control of the masses. I believe in a God who is a kind and just Father, and who, being perfect and infalliable, doesn't experience the petty and human emotions of anger, hatred, and judgement. I do not believe God would be cruel enough to create humans with sinful, flawed hearts and then condemn them to eternal torture for failing to live up to impossible standards. I believe Christians in general miss the forest for the trees, and am disgusted by how few of them even attempt to understand or form their own ideas about the religion they practice so fervently. As such I have withdrawn from organized religion entirely, as in every sect there is too much emphasis on "not going to hell" and too little emphasis on simply loving eachother and leading our lives peacefully and happily as any caring and decent God must surely desire us to do.

What about homosexulaity and religion: what do you think? Most religions condemnn gay people. This includes the Christian religion, which is what most people who call themselves Christian practise. Christians, the real ones, know that to be a Christian is to be vehemently opposed to all religion, which includes the lies, hypocrisy and usually bigotry of the Christian religion.

Do you believe in God?

Yes, I became a Christian in 1991. I have also seen lots of evidence since then that confirms my belief in God.

If so how do you reconcile that with your religion?I am not religious. I am a Christian. There is nothing to reconcile. The religious people have read their prejudice into the Bible. You can start searching for the truth at sites like http://www.gaychurch.org./ There are lots of those sites and a number of books are available at Amazon.com. Most religious people will never read those books because they don't want to hear the truth. Of those who do read them, many will reject the truth anyway. Prejudice is prejudice and it has the same power of illogic irrespective of who is hated.

For many years after I became a Christian, I could not understand why God would make me gay only to condemn me for it. I realised later, after wrestling with God, that He never condemned me and never said it was wrong to be gay. It was the religious establishment that had taught me lies.

Have you rejected religion because of its stance on homosexulaity?

No. I reject all religion though because it is evil. Jesus Christ preached and continues to preach against all religion.

Are you proud and gay AND religious

I am not proud or ashamed to be gay. Being gay is a neutral fact. I am proud of the good things I have accomplished in life. I am not religious. I am a Christian.

Are you proud and gay And believe in God?

See previous answer.

Have you rejected God?

No

Are you atheist? Agnostic.

No

How has your sexuality affected your belief in religion or God or your spirituality?

Yes, I have come to learn how much God really does love me, how powerful He is and how wise He is. I have come to learn that He has been with gay people throughout the centuries in their suffering, and that He is busy destroying the apostate church, the one that teaches hatred against gay people, among other groups. I have drawn much closer to God and understand so much more of some of the more difficult books of the Bible, such as Leviticus. I am grateful to God that I am gay. I suspect I ,may have been a really horrible person if I had not gotten the perspective I have from being gay. Perhaps God knew this and decided to help me be a better person.

Answering your questions, one by one...

What about homosexuality and religion: what do you think? Certain Biblical quotes support slavery and persecution of other people. Reading too much into certain words is losing sight of the forest for the trees.

Do you believe in God? Yes.

If so how do you reconcile that with your religion? The Bible was written by men.

Have you rejected religion because of its stance on homosexuality? Matthew 6:5-6. I do not need approval of others.

Are you proud and gay AND religious? I am proud of myself for various reasons.

Are you proud and gay And believe in God? Yes.

Have you rejected God? No.

Are you atheist? Agnostic. I am more likely to be defined as agnostic, but do have a belief in something more than myself.

How has your sexuality affected your belief in religion or God or your spirituality? It hasn't. My beliefs are not influenced by other peoples interpretations of religion.

I was going to ask a question like this myself :). But I have my own answers.

1. I think that most religions are largely intolerant of homosexuality, and that is annoying. I find many religions, especially radically conservative Christianity, to be a major barrier to my basic rights, e.g. marriage. I don't blame this on the religions themselves, but rather on the way that they are being taught and on how many people choose not to accept change and take the bible/torah/koran/whatever word for word.

Buddhism is relatively tolerant of homosexuality, and I find this interesting. If I had to pick an organized religion and my sexuality played a role, it would either be Unitarian Universalism or Buddhism.

2. Personally I am an atheist, but not because of my sexuality. I am an atheist because the idea of a god or gods does not make sense to me. The fact that most gods that people believe in in modern times are homophobic does play a role, but that is not the only reason.

I'm not gay, I fit in to the "T" and possibly "B" part of this category, but I'll answer anyway.

Homosexuality and religion... *shrug* Not really relevant to each other, I don't see one having an effect on the other.

I believe in a God, and a Goddess.

Reconcile what? Read first answer.

Nope, my God and Goddess don't care what consenting adults I, or anybody else, sleep with.

Not gay, so I have to skip those 2

I love God.

I am Pagan, thanks.

My husband and I (we are gay Canadians) both no longer support organized religions. It's just too difficult to believe in a God that considers us abominations. I believe that there is an underlying force ---but not God as the religions describe.

I believe that me and God are on our own terms. I do believe in the Bible, but I do not think of it as being black and white. Everyone on the planet lives somewhere in that gray area. I think of the Bible more as a set of guidelines. If you stray out of the guidelines a little, that doesn't mean instant highway to hell. Another thing I believe is that the Bible isn't 100% accurate. The Bible was written by man, not God. God only influenced the writing of the Bible. I also do not think that the Bible was translated 100% in to English, and I also do not speak English, I speak American English. I follow what is in my heart, and in my heart I know that God loves me.

Even before I realized I was bisexual, I pretty much considered myself 'agnostic'... Not because I didn't believe in God, but because I disagreed with some of the teachings of various religions.

I do believe in God - just not some of the 'rules' attached to orthodox religions.

i will respond to purely from the Christian perspective, in spite of the indisputable fact that maximum religions incorporate of their teachings that "gay is incorrect" as you place it. If my new child is atheist, and additionally any of right here: gay, hetero fornicator, hetero adulterer, then there's a situation that's of greater value than their sexual sin. God invites us to come back "as we are" as a fashion to chat. He knows that this is a lie and additionally an impossibility to "first get sturdy sufficient" earlier coming to God. the great reason that God gave the regulation to the Hebrews replaced into so human beings can come to the tip that we are incapable of being sturdy sufficient in our very own means. until eventually somebody is stored via grace, they don't have the means to conquer sin. Why burden somebody with a chore that they've not been geared up to handle? a situation we've contained in the international on the instant is that many Christians attempt to persist with the recent testomony (that's training for Christians) as an handbook on "the thank you to grow to be a Christian" particularly of an handbook on "What to do as quickly as you have grow to be a Christian". as quickly as a individual does settle for Christ as their Lord and Savior, THEN they have the means to handle the sin that has had a grip on them - yet notice this - additionally, as quickly as they have widespread Christ as Lord, God expects them to be obedient and USE that indwelling means to handle the sin of their lives. "Come as you're" is a a techniques cry from "stay as you arrived".

I am not gay but know a lot of people who are -- and many of them are church-goers. Based on the people I know, about the same percentage of gay people participate in organized religion as straight people. And the same percentage of each don't go to church. Some gay people I know did choose their churches based on which are more open to gayness, but I know one gay man who converted to Catholicism and remained in his relationship with another man when he did so.

You could attend church services in gay neighborhoods and ask your questions of the people you meet there.