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Common sense
Those bombs weren't exploding in Baghdad before 2003, though bombs were falling on that country from the air with some regularity. Iraqi Christians were free to do their own thing under the country's secular government, and anyone who had a problem with it risked a long talk with the Mukhabarat if they tried to act on it.
Why does your faith matter when hard science and common sense show it to be wrong, repeatedly? Religion has a remarkable ability to shut down common sense and critical thinking (in people where these things existed to begin with.) Why would someone choose to be gay? Because they want to get bullied? Even if they did choose this, how does it hurt anyone?