JimRob - just bringing your attention to this gem.
Oh, Pete - I am a Hindu. And neither Hindus nor Christians nor Jews nor Buddhists nor Jains nor Sikhs accept homosexuality as natural and normal, nor do any of them advocate stoning anyone for adultery.
PS - you’re a nutcase.
Thank you both for replying to my post.
Anybody can draw a line in the sand. Getting many people to draw it in the same place is a little harder.
I focus on 2nd Amd, 1st Amd, defense, taxes and government size & spending. The gay issue is way down on my list when I’m out to rally support for a candidate.
I guess I can live with myself, even it I’m not pure enough for the two of you.
Actually, when one objectively looks at the laws given to ancient Israel, then they should see the superiority of them. While the penalties seem severe to us in the West with its libertarian licentiousness, very rarely do we see them enacted, as they were designed and did work to reduce the loss of life and promoted a healthy and enduring society, versus one based upon gratification of the glands, etc.
And a capital penalty (se http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/TheDeathPenalty.html or them) for a act(s) does have a deterrent effect for those who value life (and if they basically do not, they are worthy of death), and the advocation of condoms by the homosexual community shows some agree with that principal. Capital punishment also required 2 or 3 eye witnesses, with a false witness being punished with that which their lying incurred upon the innocent. That would make prosecutors more careful today!
The oft-invoked example of slavery as being an example of bad laws is not valid, as it was part of a whole system which prevented long term debt, as well as the loss of culture to a deleterious one. That even life-time slaves were not to be returned to their master and were to set free for the loss of a tooth indicates mistreatment was not encouraged.