Seinfeld26 wrote:
I don't really think homosexuality is immoral, as long as it is natural to the gay (ie. he's not just doing it to be "different"). I didn't say that I myself thought it was immoral, I was just pointing out why other Christians often perceive it as immoral. I don't really consider oral sex immoral either. I don't want to get into my views of masturbation, since it's such a difficult issue - I've seen probably every opinion left and right of it, and I've seen some pretty horrible arguments both for and against it.
My particular school didn't have gays getting picked on or being beaten up, but I also went to a Catholic school which had very strict policies against bullying and teasing. However, I know plenty of people who went to schools where gays did have to endure daily beatings and teasing.
I suppose it depends on your definition of 'immoral'. Being all krieg and STN!ist, I don't really see morals as applicable as much as ethics, which is of course totally different. Gay sex may or may not be a good idea, but that hardly makes it immoral. Ditto masturbation, self-mutilation, etc etc. I try not to cut myself with broken glass and randomly scream 'SLAYERRRRR!' at people in the streets because of my personal ethical code, which includes trying not to hurt myself and not looking like an idiot. Morals don't really come into the equation.
Call me a generalisationist, but I don't think that most Christians see homosexuality as immoral because of the spread of STDs or it can hurt if you're not relaxed or whatever. They don't like it because they've been told not to like it, that it's icky and wrong and God hates it.
Interesting that oral sex is less immoral than masturbation in your view.
Daily beatings?! Didn't those in charge - teachers - do anything? I hate to harp on, but a gay teen being beaten at a school would make national news here, whether he was beaten for being gay or because he owed someone money.