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Anyway, onto the debate itself- sexuality. There are many different labels of sexuality, so I'd thought I'd list them below(largely C/P to save time, if I missed any or falsely described anything let me know):

• Heterosexuality- Is the sexual attraction between members of the opposite sexes such as a man attracted to a woman and vice-versa.
  
• Homosexuality- is the sexual attraction between members of the same sexes such as man to man and woman to woman.
  
• Bisexuality- Is the sexual attraction to both the opposite and same sexes such as man to man and man to woman, woman to woman and woman to man.
  
• Asexuality- Is also known as nonsexuality which is the lack of sexual attraction and sexual interest towards others.
  
• Polysexuality- Is the sexual attraction to more than one gender but do not wish to be known as bisexual as it implies that there are only two binary sexes, do not confuse this with pansexuality ('pan' meaning all) and ('poly' meaning many).
  
• Pansexuality- Is the sexual attraction towards people regardless of gender also known as omnisexuality. Some pansexuals refer to themselves as gender blind as to them gender is insignificant in determining whether they will be sexually attracted to others.
  
• Transexualism- Is when a person identifies themselves as a certain sex different from their own biological one. For example a person may be born male, and is uncomfortable with their gender as a male and changes to a female, or vice-versa.
  

Personally I'm heterosexual, however I have no problems with other people expressing their own sexuality and being who they really are.

Feel free to comment below and be honest, then hopefully this thread can be used to maturely discuss sexuality away from the nonsense you so often see elsewhere

If they are homosexual or bisexual.

Why are you against them then, specifically?

Very religious.

Are you Christian?

I disagree. The bible is clearly homophobic, and if you deny that then you're just cherry-picking. Religion is a form of control and it breeds intolerance, that's all it's ever done and all it ever will do.

On that note I can at least respect oldmanburning for supposedly following what his holy book actually says and not just making it up as he goes along.

I look at the bible similarly to how I do a serial killer. Sure, that serial killer may have donated money to charity and made some lives better, but I'm always going to focus on the bad (s)he's done and for good reason. The same rings true of the bible. It doesn't matter if it says a few nice things if in the same vein it promotes homophobia, religiosity, irrationality, rape, slavery and more.

Some churches actually admit the Bible is out of date, and that sexualities other than straight should be more accepted. Fred Phelps and Shirley Phelps-Roper are actually banned from entering the United Kingdom for for having "engaged in unacceptable behaviour by inciting hatred against a number of communities". Six religious groups including the Baptist Union of Great Britain, Evangelical Alliance UK, Faithworks, Methodist Church of Great Britain, United Reformed Church and Bible Society-funded thinktank Theos made a joint statement on February 19, 2009 in support of the government's decision and condemning the activities of the Westboro Baptist Church saying, "We do not share Westboro's hatred of lesbian and gay people. We believe that God loves all, irrespective of sexual orientation, and we unreservedly stand against their message of hate toward those communities."

Hold on, what exactly are you doing at church if you think the bible is out of date? It's supposed to be the word of god and your source of faith...

You're wrong. Religion: "a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects: the Christian religion; the Buddhist religion." If you don't follow the specific doctrines then the beliefs are just that, beliefs. Not religious, but beliefs.

Agnosticism isn't a belief, it's a claim that you don't know whether or not a deity exists.

Atheism isn't a belief either, it's the rejection of belief in god.