Gay religion?

[Kuroi Kokoro no Mendori]

LadyNox

As my friend when I told her about this thread: "Then how about we make being Black, Asian, Spanish, etc. religious too? >>;"

As many have already said, this is really silly. Being part of a religious organization doesn't mean discrimination stops. If you're Islamic (or fit the stereotype) you are so going to be discriminated against. This is happening right now in the United States of America.

I'm not saying it STOPS. I'm saying it's illegal, and will diminish, because people won't want to be sued. Discrimination will never stop entirely. Furthermore, I didn't make this thread so that we could argue about whether a religion would be viable, I made it so you could give suggestion about what said religion should be like.  

[[OMFG NARKI]]

For the love of Legato... it already IS illegal to discriminate people for any reason according to federal US law (this includes discrimination based on sex, ethnicity, religion AND sexuality) and discrimination is still rife against each of those groups. Your little speech about people slowly stopping due to the threat of being sued is totally ridicolous; better to build up tolerance and starting your own false fraud of a religion won't solve a thing and would most likely only increase hostility and intolerance in both camps, assuming you even get anywhere with it.
What part of that is so hard for you to understand? I'm not even going to suggest what it'd be like... You've already explained it too well yourself, a religion without faith or sound and solid foundations. It's purely laughable and no one in their right mind would take such a thing seriously.

As for your speech on homophobia and - ehem - "pro-homosexuality" - you really, really need a reality check.  

[For-Chan Cookie]

Ok...so let me get this straight. You want to make a farcical "gay" religion, with no actual religion or faith behind it. It is merely to be used as some sort of shield against the evil oppressors. Because obviously this fake religion will automatically get people off their back? How the hell does that even make sense? Seriously! What kind of logic (if any) does that follow?  

[[OMFG NARKI]]

I think all the contridictory statements he has made and the continual refusal to listen to people's opinions regarding the matter speaks for itself, For-Chan.  

[eduardo galpaleano]

I think if you break it off from another religion (Catholism or Christianity being the ideal... although I am not either) and then only really change the rules that are anti-homosexuality, it could be considered an eligible religion, as you suggested earlier.

Of course, the main problem would be there is no ideal religion if you are a homosexual Jew, Muslim, etc...

I personally, am an athiest, which isn't even really a religion. It's more of a "To each their own" religion...  

[Dante_Giovanni]

I think all this gay religion thing isn't a good idea. I mean, yeah, I can see why gays would want to come together to help one and an other, but a religon is a religon because it has something to do with "How life began" and how you should life your life. Basing a religion only on being gay will not do. Gay is what gender you like, it is not how you should live a life. And if being gay could be a religion, don't you think it would be done before now?  

[ritsukaxsoubix3]

I think it's a good idea...but do you REALLY think you're going to be able to make a religion like that? Especially with freaking Bush as our president. I'd say do it once he leaves. lol  

[Kami Llama]

Wow. A lot of unnecessary hostily in this thread. Cool your jets, guys.

Someone brought up a very good point. Most Christians today don't abide by Leviticus anymore. Some parts of it, anyway. This is what annoys me about most Christians today; they pick and choose what they want to believe from their own religious texts. Leviticus states that homosexuality is wrong, and people rally behind that sacred word without a second thought. But if they... say... tried to sell their daughter into slavery and used Leviticus as a justification, they'd be ridiculed even by their fellow Christians. It's pure madness.

If you wanted to start a religion, I'd say have some solid backing in faith. Homosexuals are already protect from discrimination by law, but that doesn't stop the victims of hate crimes from being ignored by the legal system. Forming a religion to protect them would change nothing, and would probably just make things worse in the long run.

It's funny. n.n; My fiance and I were joking earlier that we should start a religion based on the teachings of Jesus rather than the Bible. Because Jesus, he was a ********' cool guy.