Persecute Homosexuals? It's in The Bible, Right?

Here are some other verses that you might want to act on... so that we can make this a Christian country again by following every word in the Bible exactly! No exceptions! No mercy!

Deuteronomy 22:13-21

If a bride is found not to be a virgin, the Bible demands that she be executed on the spot by stoning.

Deuteronomy 22:22

If a married person has sex with someone else’s husband or wife, the Bible commands that both adulterers be stoned to death.

Mark 10:1-12

Divorce is strictly forbidden by the Bible in both testaments as is remarriage by divorcees.

Leviticus 18:19

The Bible forbids a married couple from having sexual intercourse during a woman’s period. If they disobey, both man and wife shall be executed.

Mark 12:18-27

When a man died childless, his widow is ordered by Biblical law to have intercourse with each of his brothers in turn until she bears her deceased husband a male heir.

Deuteronomy 25:
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If a man gets into a fight with another man and his wife intervenes to rescue her husband by grabbing the enemy’s genitals, her hand shall be cut off and no pity shall be shown her.

On a related note:

The Roman Catholic Church is facing a new crisis: it is estimated that up to half of its clergy are homosexual, a development which is causing problems in seminaries and colleges where young men train to be priests. This film takes the lid off the "gay crisis" in the Catholic Church. The revelations are presented by journalist and former Dominican friar, Mark Dowd, himself gay. The gay crisis has been smouldering for years inside the Church and until now, has been a safely guarded secret. It is an embarrassing development for the Roman Catholic Church which teaches that homosexuality is "an orientation towards an intrinsic moral evil," and that the condition is "objectively disordered."

Mark Dowd manages to access a special gay clergy website and chatroom to "meet" many gay priests who were agonising over how to reconcile their sexuality with the official teaching of the Church. As well as this two former students of the English College in Rome (where present Catholic leader, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, was previously in charge), blow the cover on what life in seminary was often like with so many gay men in residence. "There were a lot of students there who I would identify as gay men," says Denis Caulfield who trained there from 1996 to 1999. "There were a smaller proportion of students who were going to clubs, going to parks, where it was known that other gay men met at night."

His fellow student and lover, Chris Higgins, who was ordained two years ago before subsequently leaving the priesthood says: "I realised pretty soon on joining the seminary that I was not the only gay man." He reveals that many of his fellow students had some peculiar definitions of celibacy which allowed them to be sexually active and keep their vows intact. They simply redefined celibacy as "not falling in love with another human being". This effectively gave the green light to one-night-stands.

Vatican leaders are now so worried by the revelations of the fact of so many gay men entering the priesthood that they have broken their traditional silence. Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, the Secretary to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has recently said that "men with a homosexual orientation should not be admitted to seminary life." However, given the estimates of gay men in priesthood, it is questionable whether the Church would be viable at all without the large numbers of homosexuals who are in the priesthood.

Notre Dame nun, Sister Jeannine Gramick, who has refused to obey a silencing edict from the Vatican on the issue of homosexuality, tells the programme: "Homosexuality is a timebomb ticking in the Church. And it's going to go off and I fear it may go off very soon."