Homosexuality, Marriage, Oh My!

[weaktwos]

This whole debate about religion, marriage, and homosexuality really makes me wish I was versed in transcribing historical records.

First of all, instinctually, it does not seem wrong to me for two people who love each other romatically to be allowed to be married. I don't see where the harm lies.

Marriage is as sacred as the two people want it to be. No more, no less.

Apparently a section in the Bible that says homosexuality is wrong is Corinthians 9-11. I pick up my King James version and it says:
9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters;for then must ye needs go out of the world.
11 But now I have written unto you not to kep company, if any man this is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

So how did "homosexuals" get in someone else's translation? And furthermore, if there's so much poetic license in biblical interpretation, how can they be a valid set of rules?

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[cotharyus.livejournal.com]

I mean the oneliner in Leviticus makes it pretty clear that God frowns on same sex relationships. And it's not right for me. For the record I am not homophobic. I have (and have had, and will have) homosexual friends. They know where I stand on it, but I don't let it stand in the way of a friendship. It's like your friend getting final jepardy wrong and you don't want to be friends with them - it wouldn't happen right? Same deal. Frankly I don't even think that being homosexual means you're going to hell - if you can be saved, you can be saved. So my observation (and that's all it is) could be wrong - I *am* human, and I have been wrong before. Which clears up a couple of things, and means you can no longer say you've never heard a guy admit to being wrong.