[MarMema]

Except they just passed a bill calling for the death penalty for some gays. Life imprisonment for most others. Prison time if you know someone is gay and don't report it within 24 hours. And more fun stuff.

Killing them for being gay doesn't work for me, and I am pretty sure Christ would be unhappy about it as well.

[hecticskeptic]

Killing them for being gay doesn't work for me,...

There is no such thing as 'being gay'....there is only the physical act of sex which can be referred to as homosexual sex if it is engaged in by two members of the same sex. For that matter, there is also no such thing that can be proven to be homosexuality as identified as pertaining to some sort of natural condition or state of the human mind...there is only human sexuality which is a characteristic that all mankind has been given.... however, sexuality can manifest itself as Godly approved sexual behaviour or perverted sexual behaviour abhored by God.

[Dr. Sivana]

Killing them for being gay doesn't work for me, and I am pretty sure Christ would be unhappy about it as well.

If country X had a 25% AIDS rate coming solely from, say, carnal acts involving very tall people, and the folks who engage in such acts insist that they are interested in very tall people, and lots if them, and might also engage in normal relations with an unknowing or bullied spuse. You might put a restriction with such a penalty in your land, unless you really wanted half your population sick and dying.

Uganda had the highest rate of AIDS in all of Africa, which had the highest in the world. Needles are not the problem, buggery (of all combinations) is the problem. It is easiest to legislate against the homosexual type.

[BwanaNdege]

“Killing them for being gay doesn’t work for me, and I am pretty sure Christ would be unhappy about it as well.”

Leviticus 20:13
If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Romans 1:26-27
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

However, there is forgiveness after repentance and rejection of homosexuality.