I knew you weren't ;) And my comments weren't directed specifically at you - but towards those that stereotype the way "dykes" dress.
We've got a 60 year old farm house we are renovating, a barn that is even older we are trying to salvage, 2 acres of land that needs to be maintained, 1/4 acre vegetable garden that needs to be tended and an extremely active 6 year old that need to be kept occupied........if I generally look like something other than a fashion model - I don't give a rip!!!! If others care to say I dress like a dyke - that's their problem, not mine.
I've got things to do and will do it attired as comfortably as possible.
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is
abomination." (Leviticus 18:22, King James)
"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman,
both of them have committed an abomination: they shall
surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
(Leviticus 20:13, King James)
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the
kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of
themselves with mankind," (1 Corinthians 6:9, King James)
"For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for
even their women did change the natural use into that which
is against nature:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the
woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men
working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves
that recompence of their error which was meet"
(Romans 1:26-27, King James)
The NIV, in Deuteronomy 23:17, says, "No Israelite man or woman
is to become a shrine prostitute."
The KJV says in Deuteronomy 23:17, "There shall be no whore of
the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel."
"Sodomite" is a word that I haven't found in the NIV.
A feminist lesbian named Virginia Mollenkott helped to write the
NIV. Here's some info on Mollenkott.
The New International Version - 1978
http://www.revelationwebsite.co.uk/index1/kjv/mouth4.htm#niv
Let's read something else Ms. Mollenkott had to say.
{2}Virginia Mollenkott wrote, in a letter to Christian
Century (March 7, 1984, p. 252), "I am beginning to
wonder whether indeed Christianity is patriarchal to its
very core. If so, count me out. Some of us may be forced
to leave Christianity in order to participate in Jesus'
discipleship of equals."
I saw that on the following book page.
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http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/cbmw/rbmw/chapter26.html
"Charity, Clarity, and Hope: The Controversy and the Cause of
Christ"
John Piper and Wayne Grudem
"Two New Organizations: Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Christians for Biblical Equality"
(Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
A Response to Evangelical Feminism
Wayne Grudem and John Piper)
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And that's the older NIV, by the way--not the new "gender
inclusive" version.