Rev. Oliver Thomas says the following is an announcement from religious leaders that we will never read: Correction: Despite what you might have read, heard or been taught throughout your churchgoing life, homosexuality is, in fact, determined at birth and is not to be condemned by God's followers. Many a preacher's interpretation of Scripture remains impervious to results of scientific investigation and will not admit that homosexuality is anything other than a moral failing. After all, if a homosexual identity can no more be chosen than one can choose his parents, how could the Bible prohibit it?
Those who subscribe to a religious tradition that condemns homosexuality as a violation of Divine intentions would say it is better to discriminate against gays and lesbians than to discriminate against God. But if they take Leviticus 18 as inerrant, perhaps they should flip a few pages back to Leviticus 11 and put down that ham sandwich, take off that lobster bib, and start buying their steak at the kosher market.
