As I've said previously, I've known religious gay people who don't see any conflict, mainly because when you look into it (especially from the original hebrew text) the bible isn't as black and white as most people imply.
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Religion's job is to reject science.
Science says: Earth is millions of years old!
Religion: REJECTED
Science says: You can't live after death
Religion: REJECTED
Science says: Homosexually is genetic
Religion: REJECTED.
And it's that demagogic 'holier than thou' bullshit that grinds my gears. There's nothing wrong with gay people, but religion has made 'gay' into a national stoning subject open for berating, in fact the term "gay" itself is used very commonly to express something as "bad" or "stupid" (even though at this point it's become habitual with some people like myself).
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God help us all. You really are a fool if you believe any of that. Religion does not reject any of those things. Just look at what was said elsewhere about different perspectives on creation and six days, where the days may not have been literal 24-hour periods but rather six 'ages' of the world. Science has never proven that there is no life after death, simply because there is no way of disproving the metaphysical. And, what's more, religion never said that homosexuality is not genetic. All it says (depending on your interpretation) is that if you shouldn't have same-sex sex, whether you are gay or not.
As for the whole gay=bad thing; I agree with you completely that that is a terrible thing. But you can't blame religion for that. For every complaint you have you should only blame people. They're the ones who find it convenient to degrade minorities and take religion as a weapon to prove whatever they want.