Actually I didn’t even think of that until you said it. At first I thought that there was a lot of good that came with the idea. Rights and protections like employment and housing as you mention, marriage, ability to congregate and practice “the faith” on private property, and of course potential to derail many opposition arguments. Are you “born” or “made” homosexual? Neither. You simply hear the call of a higher power and heed it. Hard for pseudo science to argue against divinity without trying to disprove or invalidate all of religion. Is it a “sin”? No more than being any other faith besides your own if that’s part of your beliefs. It would officially lump people in with antisemites and other hate groups. However....
I then realized that without more modern and inclusive laws, a religion can’t practice illegal things, and in many places up until or even recently, being gay was literally illegal, many acts considered homosexual as well. I know that as a “work around” many people, both hetero and homo sexual would likely not like it. And I also think that instead of undermining debate as a religion it would open more debate and criticism and the like as well as invite more right wing conservative religious scrutiny.
Nobody ever talks about this, but did you know that many male inmates get a "No Homo" tramp stamp so they don't have to worry about remembering to say it all the time?
If you remember to say "no homo" right before you croak it washes all the gay away. It has to be the very last thing you say though cuz saying something after a
"deathbed no homo" is... well... gay.
"deathbed no homo" is... well... gay.