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Posted on 12/11/2001 7:08:01 PM PST by FoundationAndEmpire
This kind of talk misses the point. Sexual orientation(s) are usually shaped in a life by thousands of little choices, each of which reinforces or weakens a trend towards one proclivity or another. For mose people, a lot of this happens during childhood before there is any awareness of overt sexuality (and the urgency of adolescent hormones). It's a bit like choosing the station you want to play on your radio while it plays at whisper level, then suddenly having the volume turned way up. Almost any gay can learn, over time, at least some straightness, but it may not happen overnight and it requires conscious choices. This is because it involves fighting one of the most powerful addictions known to man.
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...and it would seem you are bound and determined that it will follow that course with or without the cooperation of religious posters. It seems to have escaped your attention that you are the only one here voicing the "Fundie" line after almost 150 posts.
Can you say "strawman?"
Good to know you make good choices.
Yes,the world is upside down isn't it? The Boy Scouts and Salvation Army are now under attack. Everything good must be destroyed - good things are a reminder to the depraved sodomites that they are wallowing in filth - they don't want to be reminded. Fasten your seat belt....you have now entered....The Twilight Zone (music please).
Woe to them who call evil good and good evil; that exchange light for darkness and darkness for light. Is. 5:20
Not even if "they" start at a very early age? Like 5 or 6?
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Point of order. The battle against evolution is nowhere near lost. In fact, plenty of evidence has been discovered in recent years that points away from the evolution of humans from apes. Evolution within a species to develop characteristics that will increase the odds of its survival is pretty commonly accepted. However, there is no conclusive evidence that a species can be transformed into another.
I'll agree that the Church has picked some pretty ridiculous battles in the past, but the Church's credibility hasn't been destroyed to the point that its positions always run afoul of the truth, which is what I believe you meant to imply.
Talibans wither and die.
That was totally unnecessary.
Maybe because it knows you'd starting shooting?
Am I? Have you read Geroge Orwell's "Politics and the English Language"? You can find it on the web.
Oh, I'm so scared of an anonymous threat from someone 1,000 miles from an ability to have to carry out such threats. ha ha ha. You are the typical Internet coward.
No, there is a small fundamentalist industry involved in making that claim, but no one in the real sciences now doubts the evolutionary theory. The upsurge in the fundy "research" is merely out of desperation. They were quite happy to sit on their interpretation of the Bible until well beyond the point of absurdity. Now that they have been laughed out of court, suddenly the decided to do a little "investigating" in the physical world. Too late. They come in with an outcome in mind and use selective evidence to get there. They aren't convincing anyone but themselves and fellow true believers.
Evolution was discovered -- it wasn't a religious mandate. Evolution persists because the evidence for it is overwhelming. The ONLY people who disagree do so because they are instructed to do so by their Bible. Pure and simple.
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