...there are a couple things that kinda bug me about most anti-gay marriage arguments that I'm hoping someone a bit more informed can help me understand a bit better.

In the States, a lot of anti-gay marriage people like using quotes from the Bible that state that "homosexuality is a sin", etc., so people fight back by stating a bunch of other ridiculous quotes from the Bible like "anyone who works on the Sabbath should be put to death", etc. The thing about this that bugs me is that all of these quotes are from the Old Testament, which is pretty much just a revised and translated version of the Jewish Torah. 

Being someone that was brought up Catholic, I've had the chance to talk to people of varying degrees of faith, including one of my favourite high school teachers who was the assistant chaplain. She gave me the impression that the New Testament was far more important in its message to Christians in where their values should lie, and that the Old Testament was merely a point of reference to what Jesus spoke of whenever he mentions "the scriptures", since it was the belief system that he grew up with. 

I'm under the impression that any Christian who uses anything from the Old Testament (and weird translations, at that) as ammo to support their anti-gay marriage status is clearly trying to hide some sort of underlying homophobic issue.
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The fact that anti-gay marriage people use Old Testament quotes to buttress their argument makes me think they must be hiding some sort of underlying homophobic issue.
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...there are a couple things that kinda bug me about most anti-gay marriage arguments that I'm hoping someone a bit more informed can help me understand a bit better.

In the States, a lot of anti-gay marriage people like using quotes from the Bible that state that "homosexuality is a sin", etc., so people fight back by stating a bunch of other ridiculous quotes from the Bible like "anyone who works on the Sabbath should be put to death", etc. The thing about this that bugs me is that all of these quotes are from the Old Testament, which is pretty much just a revised and translated version of the Jewish Torah. 

Being someone that was brought up Catholic, I've had the chance to talk to people of varying degrees of faith, including one of my favourite high school teachers who was the assistant chaplain. She gave me the impression that the New Testament was far more important in its message to Christians in where their values should lie, and that the Old Testament was merely a point of reference to what Jesus spoke of whenever he mentions "the scriptures", since it was the belief system that he grew up with. 

I'm under the impression that any Christian who uses anything from the Old Testament (and weird translations, at that) as ammo to support their anti-gay marriage status is clearly trying to hide some sort of underlying homophobic issue.
user
I don't like the way anti-gay marriage people use the Old Testament as an argument, but I don't know how to tell the difference between something that is trying to hide something to make it look more pro-gay marriage or something
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