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That is your opinion and I guess for you personally a fact. But your personal belief is just that, a believe built on the opinions of people from centuries ago and that those people thought like that is one thing, but people today should/ought to know better.
Being gay is not a sin, you can think living a gay style is sinful but the "being gay" is not sinful, it is natural for those people and normal for those people. Gays have been persecuted for centuries, even though the people who judged them are doing this against the thoughts of the man the claim to be following (Christ) who spoke of not judging others.
There are several comments about judging but I feel that most self described Christians love to judge the faults of others in a way that I do not think corresponds with the message that god is love and to 'love thigh neighbor'. Isn't the only real judge god himself? I doubt he wants his minions to do the judging and the punishing and persecuting for him.
Also, just because you have your faith does not make you god all mighty. People who are gay may not see it as a sin at all, not everybody lives according to your religion and your laws of life.
Only things that are a crime are wrong, that is a quantifiable fact. And even though you think that being gay is wrong and sinful, does not make it so for many others.
And for them celebrating? Why not, they have been hiding themselves out of fear for the persecutors, judges among men and the executioners/violence perpetrators among men for centuries and centuries. Even now the sick and twisted anti-gay forces spread their vile evil and their disgusting twisted morality, luring gay men to then be exposed online and tortured in the process, all in the name of religion. So I have no problem with them (from time to time) celebrating their "freedom".
And anti-gay sentiments and opinions is exactly why we need to defend them, because if god truly made all human beings then he also made gay human being (if you believe that god made all of mankind), or if you believe as me (non-religious) that evolution made us humans what we are and part of that humanity is gays, and they are just as normal as every other person on this planet..
Thigh, what was I thinking. Please forgive my stupid sleep muddled head. It should be "love thy neighbor". Well all I can say is :3oops::slapme::blushing2