Whether one believes, or a small group or society believes, in a god, gods, a prophet or prophets: all good.
Telling those outside your belief group they’re wrong, attempting conversion or shunning them for not believing: all very, very bad
I find it interesting that homosexuality is mentioned in a handful of sentences in religious texts, possibly less, and it is the most intensely debated topic in this nation across the four decades of my lifetime parallel to war.
This article appears in Aug 12-18, 2010.