I think you might be forgetting the United States and Canada
My point was that these were examples of countries where the rule is that Christian religious arguments
do not form law and policy for the most part, like the UK and Europe (though it's to a greater extent there.) Couple that with the fact that a minority of the world's Christians live in these states, and it becomes apparent why it's unfair to allow the US and Canada to be exemplars of Christianity but only backwards African states to be exemplars of Islam.
but the point is that Christianity itself does not demand criminal punishments for sexual perversion, no matter how many Old Testament passages you dig up.
Funny, so Christianity is what you say it is no matter what its religious texts say? I find it strange that it's so easy to dismiss the persecution of homosexuals, jews, and heretical Christian that literally
no Christian government ever, in any period noticed were prohibited by the Bible. It's simply preposterous to claim that Christianity cannot support these things when the vast majority of Christian societies have had exactly these rules, and considered them to be the rules required by the Faith.
And what motivates heterosexist violence in Mexico? Is it Christianity, or is it macho culture? Or is this intolerance yet another pagan influence smuggled into Central American Christianity, along with other odd survivals of native lore? And who's dong the persecuting? Is it the Catholics, the Protestants, the up-start charismatic groups? Or maybe you have asked these questions? Are you trying to point out that not everything done in a culture can be blamed on the dominant religion in that culture?
Pagan influence? Macho culture? Why can't these be the explanations for any problems with Islam as well?
Almost all Mexicans are Catholic, so yeah, mostly Catholics. And of course, Catholicism is by far the largest Christian sect...so good luck writing that all off as "not representative of real Christianity."
I am trying to point out that blaming everything done in a culture on that culture's religion is absurd. Which is why I took issue with the OP, and why I point out that Christianity has a long, proven track record of religiously inspired violence against gay people that continues to this day. It doesn't mean you personally have to believe it, or that Gewehr or anyone else in America is bad for being Christian...but it does mean you have to take a second look at your condemnations of Islam when Muslims do these things.
If we apply the same standards you're applying to the Muslims in the OP, then we'd have to conclude that Christianity, based on its long history of Christian laws requiring that gays be executed, and the continuing violence against gays in many Christian nations, is the same as Islam on this point.
