Originally posted by bgm1969
If I didn't know better and was more cynical, I would think this thread was started just to bash folks. In any case, a team like this is a cool idea. Unfortunately, this thread is but a small taste of the e-hate and real hate a team like that would encounter. Gads, people full of hate make me sad...
And, while we have touched on the Bible, I find it incredibly convenient that those who take it literally to support their condemnation of homosexuality decide that the portions of it that decree what should be eaten, or what punishments should be applied to various crimes, or that a man's brother should marry his brother's widow are archaic. The decree against homosexuality was made at a time when the Jewish population was weak and depleted after their enslavement in Egypt and mgnified by their desire to not intermarry with local tribes. It was important at that time to repopulate (a problem we are not experiencing at this time) and maintain their orthodoxy in order to survive as a group. Or so they believed. To try and extrapolate that out of its historical context is an exercise in inaccuracy.
It's a great book with great lessons to be learned from it, but following it as a life-guide with no regard for how the second half of it culminates in a message of love toward all is slavishly simple-minded.
[rant off]
Read the new Testament--while not as violent, homosexuality is still considered a sin