[Gay athiest]

It might surprise you to learn that a large percentage of cross-dressers are actually heterosexual. And yes, it seems that many gays do indeed try to look and act as much like the opposite sex as possible, but these are a small minority of the gay population. The problem is one of visibility. You encounter gays every day who look and act just like your average heterosexual of the same gender, but you just aren’t aware they’re gay.

But this doesn’t really answer the question. For that I think you need to look beyond the neat little categories we tend to place people in. Human sexuality is not a collection of discrete orientations, but is more on a continuum. There are at least as many gay men who are attracted to super-macho construction workers or bodybuilders as there are attracted to effeminate men – not to mention everything in between. The same is true for lesbians.

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Name : Gay athiest, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Gay, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 37, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Occupation : engineer, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

[Gay athiest]

I think a more interesting question would be why people stay with the faith into which they were born rather than exploring other faiths and finding one that works for them. As a homosexual, I find plenty of aspects of almost every religion which might cause disillusionment. With the possible exceptions of the Methodist and Episcopal churches, every Christian sect is less than accepting of the ‘homosexual lifestyle’, whatever that is. When your church teaches that you are a sinner and less than human because of physical attractions over which you have no control, is it any wonder that some people might take offense and start to question the tenets of their faith? The notion of ‘hate the sin, love the sinner’ sounds good, but one wonders why the church opposes measures to protect gays from bashers. And then there’s people like the Reverend Phelps who actually pickets the funerals of homosexuals. How Christian is this? All this aside, my reasons for abandoning faith and becoming an athiest are quite different. My parents started out raising their kids to be Catholic. I made my first communion, but we had already not been regular church-goers for a few years. As I grew up, I attended catechism classes and sometimes went to Bible school in the summer. The bible school, it turns out, was a pretty fundamentalist group. I can look back and remember how they taught that Genesis is the last word on how the Universe came to be, and that fossils are the work of Satan. Well, Satan is quite the practical joker then, isn’t he? Closer examination of the Bible reveals numerous, glaring contratictions. For instance, Genesis chapter 2 contradicts the order of creation as laid out in Genesis 1. So the notion of the Bible as the literal truth and the infallable word of the Almighty gets tossed out the window. As I got older, and my attention turned to philosophy and science, I discovered that the notion of God itself doesn’t pass logical scrutiny. And that is why I am an athiest.

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Name : Gay athiest, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Gay, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 37, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Occupation : engineer, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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