The Old Testament isn't the only homophobic part of the Bible - Epistle to the Romans 1 26-27:

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

These posts always confuses me - I have no idea what they have to do with Atheism. It has a fair bit to do with LGBT rights, and there is a subreddit for that. Almost every day there is either a post about how some religious people are homophobic or about how some religious person isn't homophobic (sometimes titled 'this religious person got it right' - a weird post for a subreddit that is supposed to be dedicated to atheism) or this kind post. Incidentally Stephen Colbert is Catholic.

It isn't that I particularly mind LGBT posts. I agree that there's an argument to be made that many religious holy texts are homophobic (and racist and pro-slavery and silent on child abuse - I could go on), and therefore given the religions that most of us encounter, there is some crossover between discussions of homophobia and atheism. Therefore they are sometimes relevant to this subreddit as a critique on religion (although the above post is hardly a critique on religion)..

I also think it's nice that so many people on Reddit express solidarity with people who are so often discriminated against. Many people live in areas where not many people around them recognise LGBT rights - and therefore the internet is the one place they can go for solidarity. It's positively heartwarming.

But there's a part of me that thinks 'this belongs in /r/christianity or /r/lgbt or in /r/ainbow' (incidentally currently the top post in /r/christianity is this). I sign up for /r/atheism in order to have discussions about atheism.

And then I wonder why this takes place. I'm confused about this. Perhaps it is because it's about religion, and therefore people don't notice the 'a' in front of atheism. Maybe people think atheism is about being against religious bigots, not about questioning religion itself. But whatever it is, I can't see for the life of me how it belongs in /r/atheism .

Edit: I'd prefer discussions about atheist existentialism, secular humanism, or about the various arguments for or against the existence of god. It's not that I dislike these posts, I just think they drown out other discussion. And I just realised I'm the guy who raises a point of order about this belonging in the wrong subreddit.