No, the Bible/Christian doctrine is not fine with lesbians. Stop saying this.
Often people, when arguing with Christians, try to make it out like the Bible is more tolerant than it really is and they are just reading it wrong, or a passage was mistranslated. A big example of this is saying that the Bible is perfectly fine with lesbians, and only condemns gay men. Even if it mattered what the Bible said (we're not Christians, why should we give a shit?), both the Bible itself and various Christians theologians have been just as against female homosexuality as male homosexuality:
Romans 1:26-27: “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.” Clearly, the Bible is homophobic against both gay men and lesbians. Hell, it actually seems to state that being a lesbian is worse, given it says "even their women", the phrasing of which seems to imply that things are especially bad when women are gay.
And even if we ignored that, Christianity is still just as harsh to lesbians as it is to gay men. Honestly, probably worse, given that lesbians are both gay and women. Both are subject to abuse from parents, both are forced to undergo conversion therapy in unaccepting areas, both were prevented from being married until fairly recently, and so on.
So no, Christianity is not fine with lesbians, and it really irks me when people say that it is.
Posted Apr 25, 2025, 11:57 PM UTC