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  • Essay / Understanding homophobia: impact of gender socialization

    “Does the Bible hate homosexuals? » Religion has been a big issue in judging homosexuals. Some Christians believe that the Bible speaks with one clear voice in condemning homosexuality. Many anti-gay Christian groups view homosexuality as a sin. Using the Bible to justify their hatred of anything they don't understand. According to the Bible, the Lord God formed from the earth all the wild animals and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever name man gave to each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to all the wild animals. But for Adam[f], no suitable help was found. Then the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he slept, he took one of the man's ribs and closed the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib that he had taken from the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she will be called “woman,” because she was taken from man. Therefore a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they become one flesh. Both Adam and his wife were naked, and they felt no shame. (Genesis 2: