Homosexuality is clearly a sin against Leviticus 18:22. But isn’t religious freedom an equal – or even greater sin as it violates God’s First Commandment?
- Leviticus 18:22 says “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.”
- The First Commandment as recorded in Exodus 20:3 says “You shall have no other gods before Me.”
Many cite Leviticus 18:22 as why they oppose all forms of homosexuality and LGBT rights. But in the same breath they defend religious freedom, as referenced in the First Amendment of the American Constitution, which suggests that everyone has the right to worship which ever god they choose, or no god at all. Isn’t denying God and worshiping a false God clearly a sin against God’s First Commandment, just as homosexuality is a sin against Leviticus 18:22?
The Catholic Church used to speak out against the sin of “religious freedom”.
The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire.
Pope Pius IX
It was once proposed that all religions persuasions should be free and their worship publicly exercised. We Catholics have rejected this article as contrary to Roman Catholic canon law.
Pope Pius VII, 1808
The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
Pope Leo XIII, “Imortale Dei”
Catholicism states quite clearly that atheism is a sin.
Since it rejects or denies the existence of God, atheism is a sin…
Catechism of The Catholic Church #2125
And since Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikh, Judiasm, etc all reject (the Christian trinitarian) God, aren’t they are also sins comparable to atheism?
Maybe 3-5 % of the world population is homosexual. But nearly 75% of the world population denies (the Christian trinitarian) God. And most of those people further compound the sin of denying God with a second sin of worshiping a false God. But strangely, we almost never hear the Christian community speaking out about sins against the First Commandment. Why is this?
How is religious freedom not a sin comparable to or even greater than sins against Leviticus 18:2