Bad calls and religious static

"Can you hear me now?"\nGod: the benevolent caller. The omnipotent dialer. The man with the world's largest phonebook and, consequently, the world's largest phone bill. \nIt's easy to think of God as a spiritual phone operator. In times of crisis, he's an "emergency contact" number. In times of confusion, he's "information." In fact, many Christians refer to their spiritual conversions as "receiving the call."\nWhat happens, though, when some people get a bad connection, when their mental "reception" of Christianity has little, or no, bars? \nMisunderstandings, that's what.\nAnd now, in a world with such loud religious static, it has become increasingly difficult to hear God clearly. As a result, the unification of homosexuality and Christianity has been disconnected. \nThis disconnection has spawned a strong anti-gay movement in some churches, wherein homosexuals are excommunicated and forced to place an "out of order" sign around their spirituality. \nHence, homophobic "Christians" have now constructed a subculture of "gaytheists," homosexuals who are so scared of religion as a collective institution that they detach themselves from it all together. They are pressured to discard God, thus becoming "gaytheist," or at very least, "fagnostic."\nI myself am a questionably incidental "gaytheist," which seems strange. My family is predominantly Christian. My best friend is Levi Comstock -- a minister's son. I recognize the power of Christianity, the beauty of its spiritual essence but have not embraced it. Unfortunately, I will never know if I am a true non-Christian or if I was merely conditioned against it. \nI am now Pavlov's God.\nRather than spawning from a malconstructed power line, this disconnection has primarily spawned from a questionably malconstructed Biblical line, one from Leviticus 18:22: "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."\nWhereas many Bible verses "condemning homosexuality" are somewhat ooey-gooey, or religiously amorphous, this line seems very clear. \nSuperficially. \nAlthough it's easy to hug this phrase as an anti-gay justification, this is educationally shallow. One should consider context more deeply: when it was written and who wrote it. \nThe Bible was written during a time when homosexuality was considered taboo. Survival and community power depended on prolific procreation. Therefore, at that time, the acceptance of hardcore carpet cleaners would have been Darwinian suicide. \nFurthermore, the Bible is the word of God as transcribed through man. And although God might be perfect, men definitely are not. We are inherently biased. Therefore, is it so far-fetched to say that the Bible might have similar bias? Should we be so naïve as to believe that transcription through "religious telephone" is indefinitely perfect? \nIt's difficult to hear someone calling from a different dorm. How difficult must it be to hear someone calling from a different spiritual plane?\nIt is a fact that Jesus himself never preached against homosexuality. True, he also never spoke out against murders, rape or terrorism, but murders, rape and terrorism are all based on hate. What's the harm in spreading love? \nPlease, try and argue that. Make my day. \nUntil God himself puts a text message in the sky that says, "I H8T U GAYS," we have just as much right as anyone to embrace Christianity. \nMy hope is that one day, these homophobic "disconnects" will switch their service from heartless to wireless and finally, after years of bad service and bad servility, be able to hear God clearly. \n"Can you hear him now?"\nGood.