The interesting thing about religion is the church is trying to claim they speak the words of God. If you ask them how they know the words of God they'll tell you it's written in the Bible. But the Bible is just one big interpretation written by men who passed tales down to their children and, most often, written down years after the actual events occurred. The author's own biases obviously changing the message to suit their own needs.

It's one of the reasons I'm an anti-theist. Following the religion of others is just following someone else's interpretation of a message passed down through many people before finally being written down. It was translated and re-translated. Who's to say what the actual message was? In my opinion, any god that doesn't love all their creations is not worthy of respect or love themselves.

Still this is a sticky subject to comment on. I was raised by an atheist/anti-theist and an agnostic. So I was lucky enough to escape all religious dogma. I lived in blissful ignorance about homophobia until I was in grade 11 when a fellow classmate said "it's disgusting and unnatural". I mean I knew it was around at that age I just didn't expect to hear that from someone living in my town. Being the argumentative type I had to argue with them. Needless to say they just backed in to the typical argument you hear of those types of people. It went something like: "nah nah nah I can't hear you over my faith!"