God and the Bible cannot be used as an excuse to justify bigotry. It cannot be used as an excuse to violate a practice that has been in place long before the Bible was ever conceptualized. The Bible cannot be used to even defame homosexuality as a whole, because there is no historical or societal evidence that shows the authors of the Bible would have had any intention of having it apply to concentual gay/lesbian couples - something that was very rare in that day and age.
As the adage goes, Times change.
What's the old quote? "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
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