I met a Lesbian once. He couldn’t speak English, but with the smattering of Greek I knew, sign language, and so on, we were able to communicate passably. 
On a more serious note, some weeks ago lissener, Lauralee, and I got into a little contretemps on the subject of homosexuality and religion – and while I think things are reasonably well smoothed over, I would like to put forth the question of gay people’s attitudes regarding the idea that gay sexual activity is sinful.
In the particular case at hand, Lauralee was quite explicit that in her mind it was a sin, that she was not judging lissener but, the subject of homosexuality and Christianity having come up, she felt it appropriate to state her religious views, which were that it was sinful. While I and many liberal Christians don’t find it necessarily so, as you (Esprix) and most regulars are aware, I defended her right to hold her views as regards her own behavior. And I (and most others, including Lauralee, heard and sympathized with the pain lissener expressed in the amount of judgmentalism held against him by people who took an attitude, not that they would live by their religious principles, but that their beliefs gave them license to stand in judgment over other people’s lives. And, given the tension in that thread, lissener got very offended at what he perceived as Lauralee’s judgmentalism, even though she tried to make it clear that she was not, but merely defending her own right to believe what she did in fact believe, and act accordingly herself.
It’s a tough issue, and avoiding standing in judgment is never easy – though it’s one of my basic principles not to, I’ve done it more than once on these boards – and lived to regret it.
So let me throw that question open for the assembled gay-i-tude: what’s your stance on the traditional religious beliefs? And why? Note that it ought to be pretty obvious to everyone what you think when the Jerry Falwells of the world start condemning gays – and decent Christians should be standing by you, not him, IMHO. But how about the day-to-day situations? Are you offended that people say, “I think it’s wrong, but I believe in live and let live” or words to that effect? Does that seem like a sort of disguised judgmentalism? Or do you accept it as something right for them, not for you? Or what?
