After watching the last video in class it opened up my eyes a lot to homophobia and religion. People who are scared of the so called normal will find anything stable and widely popular to back up their views of a subject. With this being said, what is one of the most popular and also controversial things? The most obvious answer is The Bible. The Bible is a book you can read over and over again and each time gain a different perspective from even just reading the same scripture more than once. I'm Methodist but I am also from a very small town. In our church everybody knows each other or know other families very well. Our preacher tries to stay away from the subject of homosexuality because there are members of our church who many suspect to be homosexual and he does not want to offend anyone for fear of losing members. We are a very small church and the more people we lose the harder it is to pay off the bills for the church.
However, if one was to ask around to older members of our church they would all say homosexuality is a sin. They do not place is as the "all-mighty" sin like others and they do not call it an "abomination." They do not see being homosexual as wrong per say but they do not favor the idea either. Different people in the church have different views.
Some believe that you have a choice, but families like mine believe there are instances when you do not have a choice. My family is very open with the idea of homosexuality because we do have them in our family, and they are always the life of the party. Families that are not like mine though, will use The Bible and religion as an excuse to show homosexuality to be wrong because they do not like the idea and because of the way they interpret the readings.
I never realized how much of The Bible has been changed through different time periods because of the change of human views and ideals of that time period until the movie we watched in class. I, myself, have not sat down and read the entire Bible. I also do not go through and pick and choose verses to match a preference of mine when it takes away from the scripture as a whole. Seeing how at one point, eating shrimp was an abomination amazes me at how people can completely look over that because it is something so common. I do not agree with those practices and neither does my church. They always look at things from all angles, which is something many more people should do.