To: SusanD
The homosexual lobby commits the same fallacy in interpreting the masculine relationships in other literary works such as those of Shakespeare. They seem incapable of distinguishing between the different types of love. As Christians believe in 'romantic' love between man and woman and of a 'divine' love expressed by the term agape, western civilization has had other clearly defined types of love. Chief among these is the love between friends. When it is between two men, it is best termed as a type of camaraderie, or esprit de corps. It is a male bonding where men are best friends and dependent upon one another for survival against enemies.
Shakespeare, in his sonnets, was free to praise the beauty of one of his best friends whom he 'loved' and was trying to persuade to marry and procreate. But there was nothing homosexual about it.
I believe contemporary psychologists classify the type of fallacy the homosexual lobby commits in falsely identifying certain types of love as homosexual as 'projection.'
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe; longtermmemmory
>The homosexual lobby commits the same fallacy in interpreting the masculine relationships in other literary works ...
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Genesis 19:4-5 --
Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally."
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The past is murky,
but it seems clear some places
had a lot of gays . . .
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