From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 18:57:00 EDT
In a message dated 7/29/03 4:43:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gmurphy@raex.com
writes:
> The whole discussion of homosexuality on this list has focused on the
> question
> of whether or not homosexual activity can, to some extent, be accepted
> within the
> Christian church. At least that's what everybody else has been talking
> about, though
> with your obsession about Judaism maybe you haven't been. It's hard to
> tell. Anyway,
> that's the context in which my argument was presented. If Christians cannot
> use OT
> ideas of extermination of populations because they encourage reproductive
> success then
> they can't use the OT prohibition of homosexuality _on such grounds_.
>
> That's it, pure & simple. If your argument has in fact been, as it
> seems, that
> Christians cannot accept homosexuality on those grounds then it has in fact
> been blown
> out of the water. If that is not your argument then you need to be a lot
> clearer in
> what you say.
>
>
Let's get out of communal religion. Let's stop talking reproduction.
Homosexuality is not religious. The ideal Jesus taught us was self discipline. There
is a reason for heterosexual couples to mate and that is procreation. To
fulfill our destinies in the manner God intended. Homosexuality is an ALTERNATE life
style, TANGENTIAL to the most basic of human imperatives - the only reason to
be homoseuxal is because you like it - it has no function other than pleasure
- harldy an exemplar of self discipline. hardly religious
rich
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