[USAfearsnobody]

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and thats a mighty hefty (and nice) homepage you got there my friend.

[USAfearsnobody]

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and thats a mighty hefty (and nice) homepage you got there my friend.

[USAfearsnobody]

Sorry about the double post.

[Voir Dire]

marked for later reading

[ReadyNow]

Bottom line: queer is bad.

[onedoug]

Dennis Prager BUMP!

[lightman]

Page 5 of this pdf file "Sexual Ehics" by Pr. Philip Max Johnson also states the positive case for Marriage very succinctly.

[ClearCase_guy]

My church (Methodist) is getting a new pastor shortly. Three bad things:

1) She's a woman. I've known 5 female pastors. All have been a disaster.
2) I've seen a number of her sermons. She seems obsessed with convincing people that homosexuality is not a sin.
3) She believes that people can pick and choose parts of the Bible. If one part doesn't seem "right" to you, then it isn't and you can ignore it.

Her deep-seated sexual issues have distanced her from God and she is working hard to bring others down the road to Hell with her.

[A. Pole]

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[TEXOKIE]

Wow. Long but very worthwhile article. Putting it into my favorites so I can read it later!

[Jack Black]

ping for later reading

[justshutupandtakeit]

Thanks for posting this important article. It clarifies a great deal of the damage done by this abomination.

[UnklGene]

Thanks for the good post.

[Destro]

When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world. The Torah's prohibition of non-marital sex quite simply made the creation of Western civilization possible.

So is polygamy ok again?

[QueenBee3]

Prager Alert**** Bump for later reading

[Frank_2001]

Good post!

[hinckley buzzard]

Great read. Thanks for posting.

[myt4u]

"Seven Laws of Noah,"

http://www.aish.com/wallcam/7_Noachide_Laws.asp

Do not murder.
Do not steal.
Do not worship false gods.
Do not be sexually immoral.
Do not eat the limb of an animal before it is killed.
Do not curse God.
Set up courts and bring offenders to justice.

Makes sense to me.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later carried forward by Christianity

This paragraph, the first, stopped further reading. The Chinese historically had strong family bonds. Islam puts strict constraints on sex. Yet, Christianity with a tradition of marriage is the cause of western success? That's what the lead implies.

Both China and Islamic countries are stuck in a quagmire of brute rule all the while multipling like rabbits in marital bonds. So was Christian Europe until the Renaissance. I think western success has more to do with freedom and right to property. The Romans built an Empire that ascended when farmers could own land. It fell when the government began taking too much of their property. Christianity did not save Rome. It didn't save the commoner from servitude for the next 1000 years.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Fascinating, i bookmarked it for later.

[livius]

Excellent article!

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Who is he that is not of woman borne?

[null and void]

Bump.

Long but interesting read!

[festus]

Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality

Because its queer thats why.

[MarkL]

Because it's "icky?"

Mark

[cookcounty]

long, but geat article.

[fso301]

will read later

[GOPJ]

Ahhh, a new sexual/social frame...

...the first thing Judaism did was to de-sexualize God: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” by his will, not through any sexual behavior. This was an utterly radical break with all other religions, and it alone changed human history. The gods of virtually all civilizations engaged in sexual relations. In the Near East, the Babylonian god Ishtar seduced a man, Gilgamesh, the Babylonian hero. In Egyptian religion, the god Osiris had sexual relations with his sister, the goddess Isis, and she conceived the god Horus. In Canaan, El, the chief god, had sex with Asherah. In Hindu belief, the god Krishna was sexually active, having had many wives and pursuing Radha; the god Samba, son of Krishna, seduced mortal women and men. In Greek beliefs, Zeus married Hera, chased women, abducted the beautiful young male, Ganymede, and masturbated at other times; Poseidon married Amphitrite, pursued Demeter, and raped Tantalus. In Rome, the gods sexually pursued both men and women.

[GOPJ]

Hmmmm, cause and effect or a third force affecting both? Raped Arab boy's displaced rage equals suicide bombers?

The women of Arab society, wherein male homosexuality has been widespread, remain in a notably low state in the modern world. This may be a coincidence, but common sense suggests a linkage. So, too, in traditional Chinese culture, the low state of women has been linked to widespread homosexuality. As a French physician reported from China in the nineteenth century, “Chinese women were such docile, homebound dullards that the men, like those of ancient Greece, sought courtesans and boys.”

[Paul C. Jesup]

(sarcasm) And here I though the Judeo-Christanity's ban on homosexuality was a counter-attack against the Roman culture for oppression against the Jews and later the Chirstians in the Roman Empire, which included the Holy Lands of the Middle-East.

[TonyRo76]

Because Judiasm, then Christianity, have been the vehicles for God's revelation of ultimate truth to mankind for the last 4000 years.

And prior to Abraham, homosexuality (with all other forms of sexual perversion) was still wrong. Note how God solved the problem of Adam's loneliness in Genesis 2:18-24.

[GOPJ]

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[sauropod]

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[Siobhan]

A bump for reference.

[tuesday afternoon]

By and large, it is society, not the individual, that chooses whether homosexuality will be widely practiced. A society's values, much more than individual tendencies, determine the extent of homosexuality in that society. Thus, we can have great sympathy for the exclusively homosexual individual while strongly opposing social acceptance of homosexuality. In this way we retain both our hearts and our values.

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[Nightshift]

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