Is it Politics, Religion or Just Hate?

You all know what "it" is.  "It" is homosexuality.  And, so, is the lack of equality therein related to politics, religion or hate?  Many stand by the politics.  Left-Wing liberals want equality for all.  Right-Wing conservatives want no equality.  Many stand by religion.

A Danish vicar refused to perform a funeral for a dead 74 year old lesbian because he wouldn't perform weddings, and would "not therefore perform other church services for gays."  (PinkNews.co.uk)

But, perhaps the religious is all wrong.  Maybe the religious basis has been misunderstood and/or mistranslated.  Daniel A. Helminiak, who was ordained a priest in Rome, is a theologian, psychotherapist and author.  He definitely thinks that all these people just didn't understand exactly what the bible was saying.  He thinks "the Bible is ho-hum on homosexuality." (CNN.com)

Even in the sin of Sodom, it isn't actually homosexuality that the bible is pointing out.  It is more: "pride, lack of concern for the poor and needy (Ezekiel 16:48-49); hatred of strangers and cruelty to guests (Wisdom 19:13); arrogance (Sirach/Ecclesiaticus 16:8); evildoing, injustice, oppression of the widow and orphan (Isaiah 1:17); adultery (in those days, the use of another man’s property), and lying (Jeremiah 23:12)."

Then in Romans 1:26-27: "Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another."  In the Greek text, the phrase that was used was para physin.  This was translated to mean "unnatural," but "it should read atypical or unusual."

In another section, Romans 11:24, Paul used the para physin to describe what God did when he "grafted the Gentiles into the Jewish people," inserting a bad plant into the cultivated vine.  It was an unusual thing to do, not standard practice.  Paul wasn't calling God unnatural.  He was saying this was atypical.

The religious calling homosexuality sinful and unnatural because the bible tells them so, is wrong.  So, if it ain't religion, that leaves politics...

or just hate.