Oh I fully understand that there are huge disparities between different groups of Christians. I don't know where you live or what context you are coming from, but in North America (where there is are huge numbers of Christians versus Europe) the majority of Christians believe exactly what I wrote (again, you say you haven't read it).

I doesn't matter if you're Baptist, Evangelical, Reformed, Pentecostal, Catholic, Orthodox. The leadership for these types of Christianity, by and large, do NOT support homosexuality and YES, believe that if you don't repent from the "horrors" of being gay, that you're going straight to hell.

I'm not going to say it is intellectually dishonest to not go by everything in religion because it is either all or nothing. I grew up in a Reformed household. The Bible was left to a variety of interpretations that still confuse me to this day, but I do understand that it is largely contextualized. A mistake many atheists make in stating that Christian groups don't agree with homosexuality is because of a text in Leviticus which most Christians explain away with "Christ fulfilled the law" so Leviticus thus does not apply. Paul also comes out against gays and therefore Christians groups base their disapproval of gay lifestyles based on Paul's disapproval and not from Leviticus (New Testament disapproval).

I can also agree that these vast and different groups of Christians have different responses in how to address these issues, but by and large, all of these groups believe that if you do not repent and believe (any sin, not only gays), you are going to hell. Some present this up front, some prefer to try to convince the "sinner" of the error of their ways so they never have to bring up the nasty of what they actually believe.

A few progressive Christians do exist out there. I assure you, there aren't many. When it comes to the nitty gritty, they really do believe that you're going to hell if you don't repent from your sins (as defined in general by the Bible) and believe on Jesus Christ. I've met some Christians who are progressive and it's quite refreshing, but there aren't enough of them out there.

My point was . . . not about the number of people who believe in something so backwards, but it was addressing the ignorance of "converting" the gay. So if you do take the time to read what I had to say, maybe you can look past the whole "most Christians" and understand that the point I was trying to make was not about that.