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Why do you not use my entire statement?
Here's your whole statement.
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I agree with you.
I don't have facts to back up my agreement - I just believe it. That is what I was taught decades ago by my parents and having friends who are "different" has proven to me that my parents were correct.
There are abberations in people of all stripes......but there are also wonderful human beings of all stripes. the vast majority of my homosexual friends, male and female, are right leaning conservatives, Christians, and are either in long standing monogamous relationships or are celibate. And to a one they HATE the activists who are trying to change the way the world is.
Alright, there you are. Notice that you said that the "vast majority" of your homosexual friends are "consevatives, Christians," etc. Here's the answer to that again.
"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.