Put very simply, I follow my heart. My heart tells me that everyone is equal, and everyone should be treated equal, regardless. I don't need the Bible to fall back on, I use it to strengthen my faith by interpreting its meaning for myself - what my heart tells me is right. You'll find that the more you let your brain run your actions, the more you hurt others. Because your brain has its own interests, survival. And it can be easily illustrated: Injure someone to the point of inducing shock, and watch as the brain shuts down organ after organ, in a bid to save itself. Until only the brain remains, and by then, no other organs exist to sustain it.
My heart tells me that homosexuals, bisexuals, transgenders, transvestites, blacks, women, everyone deserves fair treatment. One of the biggest mistakes people of western religions make, is to completely make themselves hypocrites - treat others how you would want others to treat you. Jesus taught this thoroughly by socialising, healing, and what not with harlots, outsiders, pagans, the poor, etc. And yet by discriminating against homosexuals, westeners slander everything he has taught. And more and more people are seeing this hypocrisy, by opening their minds and listening to their hearts. I preach, people, cast out the demons that plague your minds, listen to what God has instilled with you all, your soul.
Apart from my tongue in cheek preaching, I'd just like to point out that women are still oppressed by Catholicism. It's an interesting fact, too, that in early Christian times, women were not barred from being priests, and priests did not have to practice celibacy. Certainly something for you to think about.
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