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PASSING THE LOVE OF WOMEN.’ 2 Samuel 1:26 (You go gurlz!)
    And the gals were getting on board the sexy Bible love train too. The story of Ruth and Naomi reads like an episode of
Desperate Housewives
on crack – there’s a LOT of husband swapping – but some scholars read their journey as same-sex love.
    Finally, there are various bits of the Bible that are conveniently missing – see the Gospel of Mary – so, as ever, we mustn’t wholly trust such ancient sources of information.
    3. Islam
    A little like the Bible, there’s not an awful lot in the Quran to explicitly forbid homosexual behaviour, although it also refers to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, this time with a more explicit focus on rape, not homosexuality. Well, we already know how to respond to that story, don’t we.
    The larger problem comes from the Hadith, or teachings of Muhammad. These are … erm … less ambiguous.
    â€˜WHOEVER YOU FIND COMMITTING THE SIN OF THE PEOPLE OF LUT (LOT), KILL THEM, BOTH THE ONE WHO DOES IT AND THE ONE TO WHOM IT IS DONE.’ Sunan al-Tirmidhi.
    Well, at least it doesn’t discriminate between the bottom and top.
HOW TO ARGUE WITH MUSLIMS
    The good news is that the Quran is on your side. NOWHERE in there does Allah state a punishment for homosexual behaviour. What’s more, the Quran actively encourages diversity, as Allah created that too:
    â€˜O MANKIND! WE CREATED YOU FROM A SINGLE (PAIR) OF A MALE AND A FEMALE AND MADE YOU INTO NATIONS AND TRIBES THAT YE MAY KNOW EACH OTHER (NOT THAT YE MAY DESPISE EACH OTHER). VERILY THE MOST HONOURED OF YOU IN THE SIGHT OF ALLAH IS (HE WHO IS) THE MOST RIGHTEOUS OF YOU. AND ALLAH HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE AND IS WELL ACQUAINTED (WITH ALL THINGS).’ Yusuf Ali Quran 49:13
    Regarding the Hadith, as with Leviticus, there are various rules that very few people would follow today – seduction by women is on a par with homosexual acts, so it would seem, as is drinking wine. I’m sure we wouldn’t kill people for these things. Moreover, the sharia law sets no specific punishment for homosexual behaviour – recommending the death penalty only be used for adultery, renouncing the faith and murder. Most Muslim countries don’t enforce these punishments (side eye at those who do).
    4. Judaism
    Not being funny, but these guys kinda started it. The parts of the Bible that deal with homosexuality came from the bits based on the Torah (the Pentateuch), so it’s pretty much the same story – the general negative feeling towards homosexuality comes from Sodom and Gomorrah and Leviticus, in this case called Vayiqra.
    As with Christianity, there are many branches of the Jewish faith and, unsurprisingly, the Orthodox branch tends to be the most, well, orthodox. One of the most popular forms of Judaism, Reform Judaism , is way more chilled and doesn’t prohibit gay, lesbian or bisexual couples from entering the faith. So let’s all send them a cookie.
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LUKE’S STORY
    Apparently as a boy of around 4 or 5 years old there was an occasion in which I came home in tears from school – someone had told me that God didn’t exist.
    As a child I was also known for my re-enactments of Disney films and performing Cher’s ‘Shoop Shoop Song’ for anyone that would sit around long enough to endure it; this led my parents to believe that I’d either be a Vicar or an actor (why actor and not Drag Queen I’m not sure, I’m told I played the part of Cinderella wonderfully). It turns out that I’m neither Vicar nor actor (nor Drag Queen, although I do have the legs for it) but I still retain that same faith I had 20-odd years ago.
    I grew up not in a traditionally Christian family but we began to attend Church when we moved to Sussex shortly before my 9th Birthday and it soon became a very important part of my life and my development. Much of my free time as a teenager was spent volunteering