[USS Alaska]

“Actually he did not equate homosexuality with bestiality. He was asked to identify what sin was. Both qualify.”

That’s actually what equate means.

Nope, both are sins, but one is not the same as the other. Murder is a sin, but murder and fudge packing are not the same.

Pedophilia is a sin but using it in the same sentence as homosexuality does not equate the two equally ugly acts.

[Fuzz]

“Nope, both are sins, but one is not the same as the other. Murder is a sin, but murder and fudge packing are not the same.”

You are saying both are sins, then saying they are not the same, but you’ve established the criteria by which we are making the comparison as ‘sin’, not that the acts are identical in every other way.

When someone say Bill and Jim are both construction workers, it would not be logical to assume they are clones.

“Pedophilia is a sin but using it in the same sentence as homosexuality does not equate the two equally ugly acts.”

Under the banner of ‘sin’ or now possibly ‘ugly acts’, they are.

[RipSawyer]

Yeah, if I say that I used to feed the pigs and sing hymns on Sunday some people will say I am equating the two. Actually I am just mentioning two things I may have done on the same day when I was a teenager.