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Gay people do not deserve the same rights as straight people. Their morals are compromised as their sexual orientation clearly demonstrates. We must shelter our children from their example and the scary prospect of being raised in one of their morally decrepit families. Even though we have won this last battle against liberal America, we should still all move to Iran where Mahmud Ahmadinejad has assured me there are absolutely no gay people. Death to the Great Satan. All hail the union of the penis and the vagina.

But seriously, if we want to take more cues on how to govern our country from the Bible, I suggest we start with the issues that Christ emphasized the most and work our way down towards the issues he emphasized the least. Lets deal with the poor, the weak and the suffering and then, once there are no more poor people, no more weak people, and no more suffering people, we can get to the issue he mentioned vaguely, a few times.

-- Ottavio Siani 

 


Comments

Daniela

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:30:45

Actually, I read somewhere that Jesus never addresses homosexuality at all. Can anyone who's actually read the Bible confirm this?

 

Nathan Huttner

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:01:54

I have not read the entire Bible. But none of the widely cited "clobber" passages used to attack homosexuality as a sin comes from a parable or one of the apostolic accounts of Jesus' life. Instead, four are from the Old Testament and four are from pastoral epistles in the New Testament. So I'd say homosexuality didn't even make it close to Jesus' stated agenda.

 

Ottavio Siani

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:35:19

Nathan and Daniella-
Your absolutely right. Not having read either the New or Old Testaments myself (I am currently working on reading the New Testament) I kind of assumed it was mentioned by Jesus at some point. In looking this up I came across a website (http://www.soulforce.org/) with the following stated mission: "the purpose of Soulforce is freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from religious and political oppression through the practice of relentless nonviolent resistance." The website goes over the references to homosexuality in the bible in detail.

If the religious basis is suspect then what is the actual reason? Is it just fear of the other?

 

Walter

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:57:34

Agree. Leviticus is the book in the old testament that clearly articulates the sin of "lying with mankind as with womankind" (which appears to say nothing of women marrying women) just a few chapters after enjoining us not to mix the wool of different sheep or commit the sin of eating rabbits and shell fish ("that which goes by its stomach") or harvesting in the wrong season. And of course, there is the part about the abomination of blood transfusions.

Here is a video of Oakland Prop. 8 supporters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzviy6DZ44c&feature=channel

Yes, I think perhaps a Christian would be more interested in the Beatitudes in Christ's Sermon on the Mount--not the four thousand year old, lost-in-translation scribbling of an angry agrarian despot. It seems hard to imagine that the people in this video are equally righteous about the poor ("theirs is the kingdom of heaven"), the meek ("for they shall inherit the earth"), the peacemakers ("for they are the children of God").

 



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