Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgendered individuals often face harassment at the hands of religious bigots, but the tactics of such people have changed over the centuries. Because burning gays and lesbians (and for that matter witches and the occasional left-handed person) at the stake is no longer fashionable, the new tactic is to try to change what they are. Reparative therapy is not the focus here, authors such as the one responsible for this article do nothing more than justify their own intolerance.
The Gays and Lesbians area may be one of the least active on Socyberty, at least as far as the people who write for it go, but this article should have been placed elsewhere by the editors. The GLBT community is often pushed away from a religious and spiritual life by bigots who can only appeal to a two thousand year old book. Not only did this post about the Word of God not belong in the gays and lesbian section, we can see that many people feel vindicated in their intolerance using religion to keep gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender folks from a relationship with God. We can not blame Socyberty's editors for this. Socyberty exists to make money and controversy is a good way to do that..
But if such people wonder why many people in the GLBT community are anti-religious, they need only to look at the mirror and their own attitudes. Even such people raised in a religious environment are often told they are sinful because they are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered. Many will throw off the shackles of this thought pattern, but such people will also throw out spirituality or religion altogether.
Sadly, the bigots who are in many cases a far cry from the people at the Westboro Baptist Church drive more people to the Hell they fear (should such a place exist) than they would by simply accepting people for who they are. Even the most conservative of denominations, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) acknowledge that gender identity and sexual orientation are part of an individual's make-up, and much like handedness cannot and should not be changed. The existence of groups like Evergreen and Exodus confuses the matter, but Exodus leader now encourages people to act on it.
Unfortunately, the idea that pushes many in the GLBT community away from religion as a whole is that something is wrong with those who do not identify with what others believe is normal. Sadly, as seems to be the case, sexual orientation and gender orientation is part of who these people are. It cannot be changed merely because some Christian dislikes gay lesbian, bisexual or transgendered people worshipping along side them.
Sadly these Christians are denying members of the GLBT community the very thing that they say makes life worth living in the first place, a relationship with the divine. Sadly, helping Christians who want to bring the GLBT brothers and sisters into the fold (or any religious group for that matte) will take more than one article, and this is only the start. Sadly, the bigot from the “What the Word of God Says about Homosexuality Article” forced this project of mine a while back to the front of my mind.
As for your thoughts that we Christians that you call "bigots" "drive people to the hell they fear" you are wrong, a cold unrepentant heart is what puts people in hell.
Jesus Christ came to seek and save the Lost, but he can only work in a tender heart that wants to repent.