Heterosexuality and the heterosexual lifestyle.

[MrFun]

The quotes that homophobes and willfully ignorant like to use -- over and over again, ad nauseum -- are usually from Leviticus, Tiamat.

And even with the ones that speak more directly about sex between people of the same gender, there are others who interpret those passages differently from the homophobes and willfully ignorant.

[Alexander's Horse]

Leviticus also says you can't eat shellfish.

[MrFun]

you also cannot wear clothes of mixed fabric

[Alexander's Horse]

Oh well there goes Queer Eye.....

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by MrFun
The quotes that homophobes and willfully ignorant like to use -- over and over again, ad nauseum -- are usually from Leviticus, Tiamat.

And even with the ones that speak more directly about sex between people of the same gender, there are others who interpret those passages differently from the homophobes and willfully ignorant.

But doesn't it stand to reason....and I"m out on a limb here but it seems to me that if God created us and we are created in his image and likeness that would also include gay people to.

[Tiamat]

Gay people go to church, they have gay churches I've gone to one with my brother. They all seem to be happy in their salvation and they worship God just like we all do in the same way so why all the decention.

[Thorn]

It is easy to explain really... Ben Kenobi is not worshiping god, he worshiping a peverted satanic form of god, and it binds his will and makes him bitter towards those that would otherwise be left alone.

BEN YOU WORSHIP SATAN, GIVE IT UP, SAVE YOU SOUL IF YOU EVEN HAVE ONE.

[Tiamat]

Evan don't be like that....you can't just poo poo everyone's opinions. He's entitled to his why don't you make a constructive argument against his point.

[Thorn]

The god of the old testiment is Urison, or in otherwords Satan, that is why he shows no mercy, and pits evil upon mankind. The old testiment should be thrown out, it's evil seeps the world thanks to the council of Nicea, and that god damn evil encarnate Constantine.

[Flinx]

If you are looking for a good book

Copied from http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp12132003.html
I always say, and if you want to talk about homosexual unions in recorded history you should do some study first. First I recommend you read John Boswell's fine book Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (University of Chicago Press, 1980), in which he documents legally recognized homosexual marriage in ancient Rome extending into the Christian period, and his Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe (Villard Books, 1994), in which he discusses Church-blessed same-sex unions and even an ancient Christian same-sex nuptial liturgy. Then check out my Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan (University of California Press, 1995) in which I describe the "brotherhood-bonds" between samurai males, involving written contracts and sometimes severe punishments for infidelity, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Check out the literature on the Azande of the southern Sudan, where for centuries warriors bonded, in all legitimacy, with "boy-wives." Or read Marjorie Topley's study of lesbian marriages in Guangdong, China into the early twentieth century. Check out Yale law professor William Eskridge's The Case for Same-Sex Marriage (1996), and other of this scholar's works, replete with many historical examples.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Tiamat
Evan don't be like that....you can't just poo poo everyone's opinions. He's entitled to his why don't you make a constructive argument against his point.

I try to have respectful discussion but it's hard for me to do that when someone is willfully ignorant about sexual orientation and the issues that go with it.

[Tiamat]

I understand it's a bit like having the dentist poke your cavity with that little sharp stick! That's why when I ask questions regarding something this touchy I'm always very careful. I hope I offended no one.

[MrFun]

You didn't offend me in this thread.

[Japher]

I try to have respectful discussion but it's hard for me to do that when someone is willfully ignorant about sexual orientation and the issues that go with it.

If anyone is confussed about sexual orientation, than it is you, MrFun

[MrFun]

Oh -- that was a joke. Ok -- ha, ha.