Hey, I have more things on my mind based on open mind towards homosexuality, but also the religion ( I know that none of you didn't really much care for religion, again sorry if I offend you all by saying it).

One thing that have been on my mind was due to a religion (in other words, my friend's words had been on my mind). Apparently, one of my friends who I know, used to be a Baptist... Why is he 'USED' to be a Baptist? Well, it's because he had converted to Islam (that, well may be tend to be sticky issue due to 9/11 attacks and war on terrorism for me). He converted to Islam for various reasons (but they seems personal so I will not mention them here on blog). He believes that homosexuality is abomination... Apparently, most of you may know that Torah (Jewish Bible) is the first religion to mention that homosexuality is abomination in the Old Testament. Then, when Christianity came, they adopted Old Testament to the Bible along with New Testament and other books, and that is how Christianity came to believe that homosexual is abomination. Then, for Islam, Qur'an also said same thing. But Islam is the last Abrahamic religion, so it's a possibly that Islam also adopted thebelief that homosexuality is abomination from Judaism and Christianity. BUT, I am still quite doubtful if Christianity and Islam said that homosexuality is abomination just becaue Torah said that, beause there may be other reasons why Christianity and Islam said that homosexuality is abomination. But, if homosexuality is abomination...There are a lot of other abdomination that straight people yet do it. I mean people break the rules and didn't seems to be concern about it. I mean, look at everyone. People eat pork and shellfish, while it is an abomination to eat them. People had cursed at others while cussing is an abomination. People watch porn, which is an abomination (in Torah, Bible and Qur'an, it said something similar about that porn is abomination). You know that fornication is an abomination... A lot of people (not only gay or lesbian, but straight people as well) are doing fornication. Lust is also an abomination, and many people still lust for things. SO, WHY do people STILL keep going against homosexuality and KEEP saying that it's an abomination, while they didn't riled up on the people who eat pork or shellfish or letting people watch porn or do fornication or lust for things?? It's probably because that a lot of people keep focus on Leviticus 18:22 (the one about homosexuality is an abomination in the Old Testament), and have turned into their entire basis for saying that God hates homosexuality. One of my friends who is agnostic said that the Bible is written by a man, because there are somethings that are very unclear and some parts are missing (when comparing Torah and the Bible). This is part of the reason why I hope that churches, mosques and temples can be open minded towards homosexualiy and can accept it. I wonder if as of now, churches, mosques and temples are slowly progressing to be an open mind towards homosexuality. Do they?

P.S. I am still Catholic, but I don't dwell on abominations when reading the Bible. I keep my faith in God, which is good for me. I still believe in Him. I am not devout or strong Catholic. I am just a Catholic who believes in God.

Another thing is that some countries are very completely closed mind towards homosexuality. I think you all know which few countries I'm talking about. The countries in Middle East, North & East Africa, India, and mostly Islamic countries. For your information, I know that India had uplifted the rule about punishment for homosexuality, but still, India is a very conservative country and they didn't accept homosexuality. I wonder... Will these countries will start to progressing to be open mind towards homosexuality? Will America be open mind towards homosexuality? I've seen America is slowly becoming open mind...But, will churches, mosques, and temple here in America will start to progress to be open mind towards homosexuality?

In all, homosexuality isn't only thing that people is being discrimination about. There are a lot of different type of discriminations, such as disability, race, gender, and religion. So far, I have noticed movements on race or disability or gender or religion are starting to progress slowly to help other people to be open mind. Do ya agree me on this one? Additionally, my girlfriend was being discriminated before just because of her deafness. When my girlfriend was in 5th grade, she was having a difficulty time with her math skills, and the chairperson of special education suggest that she should be in special education math class just because she is deaf and doesn't really understand about math. At that time, my girlfriend didn't have a teacher for the deaf (no, it is not the same as sign language interpreter. Basically the teacher for the deaf is a person who go to classes, sit in the backkof the classroom, take notes and review the concepts, and work on schoolworks or homeworks with my girlfriend during her resource room period. In other words, teacher for the deaf is like a special kind of teacher for deaf students only, in order to help them to be successful in the mainstream schools). Her mom disagree and think that teacher of the deaf is one way to help my girlfriend to do well in mainstream school, and it lead to a war-like. Turns out that this chairperson of special education is so biased and refused to understand the purpose of the teacher for the deaf, and think that deaf people needs some special education. Wow, but luckily my girlfriend wasn't in special education math class...She had the teacher for the deaf from 6th grade to 12th grade. I am really proud of her, she works so hard.. You see, not a lot of people understand about deaf discrimination... And, it's time to bring the awareness about the deaf discrimination, but it's small step by step to bring the awareness to the people. Like I said before, it's a slow progress. To end with this blog, all I can say is that I hope that soon or slowly in later years, I hope that American, especially churches, mosques and temple can be open mind towards homosexuality and accept it.