Consider this to be a little follow-on from my previous blog, Who does it harm?

So, Christians, let's discuss crime and let's see how you feel how people should be dealt with when they commit various crimes:

1. Murder - Arrested and charged? Agreed.

2. Theft - Arrested and charged? Agreed.

3. Child Abuse - Arrested and charged? Agreed.

4. Homosexuality - Arrested and charged?

If you said 'agreed' to the last one, just check for a moment the laws of your country. Homosexuality is legal in all the western democracies I can think of, and that's a lot of countries. So in your country, the country in which you live and work and, if you're a Christian, in which you pray, there is no penalty at all for the so-called (at least by Christians) 'crime' of homosexuality.

Why is that? Might it be because the majority of societies have no problem at all with homosexuality? Could be, could be. But surely in the Bible God specifically calls homosexuality an abomination:

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 18:22

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 20:13

Whereas he doesn't mention child abuse at all and yet we all know that's a crime.

So we have these things:

• God sets out rules defining what he thinks are crimes and we ignore them
• We know certain things are crimes, even though God never said they are
• Coveting your neighbour's wife is apparently far worse than raping her (coveting is in the 10 Commandments, rape is not)
• This is all arbitrary and modern laws do not reflect the Bible in any way at all
• This is because the legal system is in no way related to Christianity
• ...because Christianity makes no sense

And yet despite this, despite the fact that, in law, 'gay is okay', we still have gay-bashing Christians. Go figure. However my point is this: if homosexuality is an abomination against God (and that would be a really bad thing, right?), why is it legal? And why are the vast majority of Christians (rather than the usual few fundie fucktards) not voting for it to be outlawed? If Christians really do believe that homosexuality is wrong, why is it not banned in every country where Christians are in a majority? Why no bills passing through the UK Parliament or the US Senate?

The answer (and again I refer you to my previous blog) is this: homosexuality hurts no-one. When someone steals, there is a victim. When someone is murdered, there is a victim. When someone has gay sex... there is NO victim.

No victim = no crime. So despite what the fundamentalists may lead you to believe, the majority of Christians seem to be okay with homosexuality not being a crime. This would be encouraging, but for the extremely vocal minority who whip up the homophobia into a creamy, frothy, hateful frenzy. And let's not forget Muslims, who nearly ALL hate gays - in ALL Muslims countries homosexuality really is illegal.

It seems we all have more work to do.