The bible and other religious books were based on old life and societies. Modern day society is much more sophisticated, advanced and diverse. The rules of the olden times need to be updated to fit with and around modern society as much has changed and in general we are not as reserved about certain subjects and taboos such as homosexuality.
Modern age is not how it was before where we were constantly in contact with God and seeing His works whether by miracles or prophets. In this day and age God has left us to rule ourselves and He has taken a backseat position therefore if we feel we should change the religious teachings there is nothing to stop us and also God is telling us that we shouldn’t.
Views to disagree
Religious teachings are meant to be sacred and therefore not to be changed through the times but rather enforced so that generations upon generations follow them and don’t stray from them as can be argued that the world today is becoming so bad because the majority of people do not follow the teachings of their religion.
Religious teachings such as the bible are supposed to be instructions to how we should live our lifes. What is good, allowed, bad and forbidden. Now as it was written so it must remain despite how we feel. For we don’t always obey because we want to but because we have to (e.g. A teenage child wants to stay out until certain times and the parents say no. The child will come back on time in fear of punishment although if theyhad their own way, they would stay out longer and as grow and become aware of the dangers will accept that that was the thing to do). Therefore just because we might wish homosexuality were allowed it wont change the fact that it is not.
Religious teachings should not be changed simply to please a certain group of people. No matter what the governments change their views religious beliefs should maintain because if we start changing them then soon enough the foundations and core beliefs will be lost and therefore religion will be destroyed.
It is better to keep religious teachings as they currently are and find out that we could have changed them rather than changing them and then being punished for eternity for doing so.
My own opinion
As a bible based Christian I believe that if God condemns homosexuality, then regardless of modern times, and how the government has been reformed to accept this issue, religious teachings should remain as they were written originally. This is the only way to guarantee that we are pleasing God as we are following His instructions and not disobeying him just to please our fellow human beings. It is better to follow all of God’s laws and please him, than disobey and enjoy things such as being a homosexual and then paying for it once you die. When it comes to religion not everyone is going to be pleased as there are many different religious which in themselves contradict each other, therefore I think that no matter what religion someone is in their religious teachings should not be changed but if a person feels unhappy about their religions view on a certain subject e.g. homosexuality and the individual does not want to change their ways then they should consider giving up that religion rather than trying to force it to change. If we start looking for reasons why we should change it that homosexuality is accepted in religion then what is to say that next we will not start looking for reasons to change other things that are forbidden such as abortion or murder. For example imagine the outrage and how silly it would be if some murderers started to say religion and law should change towards murderers as in this day and age there are many more murders committed and many are first time murderers and committed by everyday people so we shouldn’t act as if murderers need to be cast out of society as until the person commits a murder you happily lived next to them, you just did not know they had that tendency, and just because they do doesn’t make them much different to you, they simply have different ways of dealing with problems.