heehee...this'll drive the homophobes apoplectic

[McKenzie]

this article is a gay analysis of scripture and it is both witty and incisive. Here's a wee snippet to bait your fav homophobe >>>

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Leviticus? Arbitrary and antiquated. And anyhow, what we moderns think of as homosexuality is not at all what the authors of the Good Book had in mind. Any queer thinker worth his salt will tell you that the term "homosexual" is a 19th-century European invention. Prior to that, people who had gay sex were not identified as a distinct class. In the ancient world, queer theologians argue, sexuality was not only much more fluid than it is today, but sex itself was highly political: It involved power, class, and social rank.

It was not necessarily tied to love; rather, it was a way of codifying the social order. Even so, the bulk of biblical references to same-gender sex occur in the Old Testament. Homosexuality is mentioned explicitly only a few times in the New Testament. And even then, it is Paul, not Jesus, who weighs in on the matter. While inveighing against the Gentile idolaters in his letter to the Romans, Paul writes: "God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another." Later, in his letters to both Timothy and the Corinthians, Paul mentions the people of Sodom while rattling off a list of miscreants who won't be attending the afterlife.

Paul's meaning may be fairly clear to conservative members of the church, but queer theologians argue that he had something else in mind. "One of the problems that those people run into and that they try to ignore is the very first part of the verse, where it says: And they 'exchanged natural relations for unnatural,'" said Tolbert of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, describing an argument commonly put forth by queer Christians. "The 'exchanged' indicates that they had some other options. ... The only people Paul was talking about were heterosexuals who became involved in homosexual relationships."

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http://www.globalgayz.com/christianityhomosex-news.html

heehee...still laughing.

[Lenape85]

1. So, what I gather is, being in the closet is a greater sin than homosexual

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