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Simon Atkins is on a personal journey for BBC Three exploring different religious attitudes to being gay. He wants to fi | dG1fcDIzNTZQMS13MTQ
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00:01My name is Simon Atkins and I'm Catholic.
00:05I was raised in the west of Ireland on a diet of communion, confession and chastity.
00:16That was until I realised I was gay and could never get married in the eyes of God.
00:23I'm a celibate man, a single man.
00:25Just because you are not married does not mean that you have a life without love.
00:30But I want sex and marriage with the love.
00:33Being Catholic doesn't seem relevant to my life anymore.
00:40Then I met this guy, Matthew.
00:43He's Jewish and I realised there might be a better option for me.
00:47Every human being is a Christian in the image of God.
00:49Male, female, Jew, non-Jew, gay, straight.
00:52Nobody should ever be treated as a thing.
00:54We weren't a bald human being.
00:56To find out if Judaism is more tolerant of gay men, I'm travelling to the Middle East and its birthplace, Israel.
01:06I love the fact that I can go free here.
01:09The whole city is a gay club.
01:11Bye.
01:12But as I delve deeper, I uncover another side to Judaism.
01:18Just camera down.
01:20A man who sleeps with another man, most he must. Die who shall die.
01:26It's an abomination, that's all. And that's all I have to say.
01:30Where being gay can be a matter of life or death.
01:33We put out a knife and started running and stabbing.
01:40It's a challenge, it's a challenge.
01:42It's a challenge, it's a challenge.
01:44It angers me that that is the way that I think, that I need to be cured.
01:49At least that's what we've yours.
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