Later in the article:

"There are also many interpretations that the prohibition against same-sex relationships in the Bible is actually just the result of a translation error or specific to a cultural context."

That's quite an eye-opener and one that I kick myself for not considering independently; of course there are going to be translation errors in the Bible, a tome so old and reinterpreted so many times it is disgustingly ignorant to assume each revision of it be accurate.

I get this strange sense of... optimistic dread I suppose? As to think of how many more injustices have befallen innocent people; lives taken, families, countries, cultures destroyed, all of which could've been avoided merely because their aggressors were... mislead. Hopefully one day these innaccuracies will be accepted and things may change.

This is not an excuse of those aggressors, no matter what the reason for their actions may have been they still carried them out in full consciousness (or at least as full of a conscience as can be achieved while under the maddening influence of religious rhetoric), just an interesting perspective.