I just saw a story about a hockey player in trouble because some pictures of him "touching tongues" with another man showed up on the internet, suggesting that he might be gay. WHO CARES??? I mean, really, what business is it of mine, or yours, or anybody else, what anyone else does sexually? Unless they are molesting children or small animals, or something, why does anyone have the right to try to control anyone else's private affairs?
I know, the fundamentalist fanatics who are hijacking our values and using them for political gain say that being gay is a sin and "God hates fags," but like I've said before, I challenge any of them to point to any scripture to defend their position. Jesus never said one word about gays. In fact, he would have to have known that the Roman soldiery at large engaged in homosexual sex routinely but he healed the servant of a Roman centurion anyway. And it's interesting to note that by "servant" we should read "body servant" which presupposed that that servant be available for sex among his other duties. Being a man of his times and aware of the proclivities of the Romans who ruled his world at the times he would had to have known that the servant he was healing was, per force, gay, but he healed the man anyway, because of the centurion's faith in Him. So what does that say about his views on homosexuality? Along the same line, abortion existed in his culture as well, but he never said anything about that, either, did he?
As for gays in the military, the most feared military force ever known (the Spartans) were culturally gay--men and women were almost entirely segregated. They were all required to marry but they did not live together. The men would visit their wives in order to produce children to feed the war machine. In fact, older men were required to select a boy in training and mentor him in all things Spartan, which included sex.
And look at how many of these so-called Religious Right nuts waging their campaigns of hate and fear are turning out to be gay, themselves (Foley, comes to mind right away). Kind of reminds me of J. Edgar Hoover, spouting off about gays being such a threat to our national security, while he was spending weekends as a cross-dresser. Why do you listen to such hypocrites? Why do you care what goes on in anyone else's private life? Maybe you have so much time to be so concerned for my soul because you aren't spending enough time working on your own?
I know, the fundamentalist fanatics who are hijacking our values and using them for political gain say that being gay is a sin and "God hates fags," but like I've said before, I challenge any of them to point to any scripture to defend their position. Jesus never said one word about gays. In fact, he would have to have known that the Roman soldiery at large engaged in homosexual sex routinely but he healed the servant of a Roman centurion anyway. And it's interesting to note that by "servant" we should read "body servant" which presupposed that that servant be available for sex among his other duties. Being a man of his times and aware of the proclivities of the Romans who ruled his world at the times he would had to have known that the servant he was healing was, per force, gay, but he healed the man anyway, because of the centurion's faith in Him. So what does that say about his views on homosexuality? Along the same line, abortion existed in his culture as well, but he never said anything about that, either, did he?
As for gays in the military, the most feared military force ever known (the Spartans) were culturally gay--men and women were almost entirely segregated. They were all required to marry but they did not live together. The men would visit their wives in order to produce children to feed the war machine. In fact, older men were required to select a boy in training and mentor him in all things Spartan, which included sex.
And look at how many of these so-called Religious Right nuts waging their campaigns of hate and fear are turning out to be gay, themselves (Foley, comes to mind right away). Kind of reminds me of J. Edgar Hoover, spouting off about gays being such a threat to our national security, while he was spending weekends as a cross-dresser. Why do you listen to such hypocrites? Why do you care what goes on in anyone else's private life? Maybe you have so much time to be so concerned for my soul because you aren't spending enough time working on your own?
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