Much of the protest against same-sex marriages is from religious groups stating that marriage is a religious experience and that God sees homosexuality as a sin. ... This world is sick and corrupt, I would spend my life making sure they saw that so they would not be blinded by it." * Some see is as an "ordinary" sin, in the same leagues as all other incorrect behavior like, lying, cheating, or stealing. Others consider it such a serious sin that it will prevent gays and lesbians from attaining heaven after death, even id they have been previously saved. ... Just as it's happened in the pa...

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In the past, religious leaders supported the dominant culture's ignorance about homosexuality by calling it a 'sin'. Strong believers in the biblical translation concur that man to man or woman to woman intimate relationships are grave sins. ...

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Foucald states that it was only in the nineteenth century that a 'homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history and a childhood' (Foucalt, 1978, p.43) so it is apparent that prior to this a taste for male/male sexual intercourse did not define one's identity. ... The nearest terms that can be found that identify with our understanding of homosexuality is that of 'bugger' and 'sodomite' and these terms are more general in that they include those "sins" as described above and these were temptations 'to which all, in principle at least, were subjec...

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