Faith and Homosexuality

Religion and Homosexuality in the United States

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Introduction

Religion-led moral crusades are not novelties in American history . The abolitionist movement , for instance , originated from religious teachings about freedom and equality among all human beings . Early education reforms and laws barring commercial business on Sundays also had similar foundations (Walzer 4 . In the early 20th century , the temperance movement agitated for a prohibition on sales of alcohol due to religious beliefs

about the evils of liquor . In the 1960s , black churches and religious leaders took the lead in the struggle for equality for African-Americans (Walzer 5

Since the late 1960s , however , conservative Christian denominations have increasingly become the voice of religion-based moral fervor in the United States . The 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v . Wade , which legalized abortion , is generally acknowledged as the root cause of this phenomenon . Many right-wing Christian organizations held the aforementioned ruling responsible for the prevalence of premarital sex easier access to birth control , decriminalized abortion , homosexuality and no-fault divorce laws . They believed that for a sound and healthy society to take place , these social evils ' must be stopped (Walzer 5

Fundamentalist Christians considered homosexuality to be the most dangerous among the above-mentioned social evils ' This is because the sexual orientation and behavior of homosexuals (clash ) with the moral and religious teachings of the Bible (Walzer 5 . Simply put homosexuals are immoral ' for the reason that their gender and lifestyle deviates...