You are correct. Aparently god told us to spread our seed over the world and spread the word. So since its a choice to be gay, its a choice to not spread our seeds and thats against god.

But on a side note you most will find intersting. Did you know that its bad if a man laid with another man, but its ok for a women to do it if its with another man? Since back in the time men where able to have multyple wifes, as long as they where with a man they could be lesbians. So it seems like in most religions, that men can get away with their fantasys if your straight, and women even if they where not gay they still had to do stuff to please their man back in the day, so then it was ok in the eyes of god.

I like to consider my self a god loving and understanding man, but I will not belive or spread the false opresive and loose morals found in the bible. I think most of it is good, but there are just a few storys and rules that are ovbious to me that dont belong in the bible and are causing the world to see this relion in a bad way even if most dont aplly to their lives the teachings of a 3000+ year old book(parts at least are).

Forgive my ignorance, then. I had no idea people actually do that.

Homosexuality is specifically condemned in the Bible, pretty clearly, on more than one occasion. However, in the Bible noone is ever commanded to hate gays, or treat them poorly. The activity is comdemned (like fornication, lying, etc) but  people who go beyond that and show hatred to gays aren't acting in a christian manner. Now as far as interracial marriages, they weren't comdemned in the Bible. People were warned, on occasion, against marrying foreigners, but this was on the basis of marrying someone of a different faith, not race. 

So in short, racial problems are due to people being awful to one another, not religion. Through all eras, those who truly embraced Christian morals would not have looked down on other races. 

Remember that lust is one of the seven deadly sins, so from my point of view, Christianity disagrees with any activity solely for the pursuit of sexual desire, heterosexual or not.

I'm sure a religion that teaches that "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" would not want people to hate anyone for any reason.

Also, some of the problems people have this older religious writings can be attributed to the fact that they were written thousands of years ago. Please consider these writings in the context of their times.

Procreation is your answer.

Genesis 9:7

And it's not a choice to be gay.

1 group can reproduce and the other cannot. Thats the main difference. Interracial was never really an issue in the Bible (as far as I can remember) except certain groups didnt marry others because some believed in gods like Baal etc. But theres a part of the Bible that says not to sleep with another man.
While it is looked down upon it doesnt really say anywhere to hate them, which some religious people tend to forget.

But shouldn't the actual rulers of those old religions be the first to put those old writings in context, not us?

The images of Jesus as white is simply because the artists drawing them were white.  Most people who create something like that are going to draw them similiar to themselves, just as if you were to create a character for a story or movie, they would most likely be the same race and sex as you, it's just easier to relate to.  I don't think there was any intention of misleading people, and it doesn't and shoudn't matter what Jesus looked like anyway, I think the message of Him is what we are to take away from His presence.  

I've been to churches and have seen plenty of images of Jesus more closely as he would have appeared.  It's not a grand conspiracy, the Catholic church is in Rome and many of the famous artists in the early days were in Italy and of course having never met the man and not being familiar with the area and it's people, they drew him similiar to themselves, we are talking about pictures from hundreds of years ago where people weren't well traveled or knew much about other cultures.  

True to that~

You keep coming up with some fascinating threads, spurge..