Buddha1 said:
There is documented proof that Jesus slept with naked young men! There are other important evidences that show that Jesus liked men. Now if God's son could do it, what is so wrong for others to do it!
I have never met such a text in the Bible. Therefore, the documented proof must come outside of religion, which makes it highly unlikely that it has a solid basis. The reason I am saying this is because I have realized how "proofs" such as these are constructed in order to serve certain agentas.
Personally, I despise homosexuality, although I once had a homosexual friend. But I recognize it as something natural.
I despise homosexuality simply because it breaks down my mental model of the order of the universe. Men are supposed to be strong, proud, warriors. Homosexuals do not seem to have those qualities, and therefore they "prove" that my mental model is wrong.
But I recognize that my mental model of the order of the universe is something that I have made up in my mind, in order to make me feel more secure. I see that, in nature, most animals have a male and a female sex. But there are animals with both genders! I see that people can be beautiful, but ugly as well. I see that nature is wonderful, but there are poisonous snakes in it...so there is not really an order, it is just something I have made up myself.
Once upon a time, at the age of 18, when I moved to the college campus, I made a homosexual friend. We were close friends for six months, until he made a move on me. Then we stopped being friends, because I could not stand the thought of having a relationship with another guy. Which is a shame really, because he was a good person, very intelligent, always smiling with a good sense of humour, generous, and very little self-centered. Beneath that smile though, there was big disappoinment, big frustration, big anger, towards what he has become. He almost hated himself, and he was close to being depressed. I remember he always expressed fears for the future, especially for things that required himself to live close to other males (army service, for example).
Isn't it a shame that these people feel that way? it is almost a crime. Let them be what they want. They are the masters of their own existence. We have no right whatsoever to judge them, and if God exists, it is his job to judge them, not ours. What they do does not harm us or anyone else.
Personally I feel that homosexuality is a physical state. After lots of thinking, reading, discussing and observing others, I have come to the conclusion that homosexuals are built that way: their appearance is almost male, but their inner workings are mostly female. Homosexuals are a "failure" of nature to "honour" the order of the universe I said earlier... I have come to tell homosexuals from the first encounter. I bet that their inner workings, the way they receive and process signals, are closer to a female than to a male...in other words, it is a construction problem, which affects them totally from top to bottom and from inside to outside, and thus it can not be avoided or changed.