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Author Topic:   I want one good reason that being gay is ok
Coragyps
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Message 5 of 510 (121209)
07-02-2004 1:08 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by riVeRraT
07-02-2004 7:52 AM


"I was born this way." I refuse to believe this one also. Its a choice to be gay period, just like its a choice to be a thief.
You can refuse to believe anything you want to without affecting reality all that much. Evidence keeps mounting up that many gay people are, in fact, "born that way." It doesn't appear to be a "choice" to be attracted to people of the same sex. Of course, it is (most of the time, we hope) a choice to have sex with another person. But that's also a heterosexual choice that the apostle Paul, at least, seemed to think was not the best option - "better to marry than to burn with desire" or words to that effect.

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Coragyps
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Message 14 of 510 (121354)
07-02-2004 10:16 PM
Reply to: Message 13 by Buzsaw
07-02-2004 10:06 PM


Bullshit, Buz. And unsupported bullshit at that.

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Coragyps
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Message 316 of 510 (122933)
07-08-2004 10:41 AM
Reply to: Message 313 by riVeRraT
07-08-2004 10:33 AM


Being straight, and having straight sex are different.
The first one you cannot help, the second you can.
Actually the first one you can help, with the help of God.
Right?

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Coragyps
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Message 325 of 510 (122943)
07-08-2004 10:49 AM
Reply to: Message 321 by riVeRraT
07-08-2004 10:45 AM


Atheism has no place in government.
That's what he just told you, Riverrat!

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Coragyps
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Message 414 of 510 (124010)
07-12-2004 4:10 PM
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07-12-2004 4:05 PM


I need to explain the difference to you?
I guess you do. You haven't addressed it in 400+ posts now.

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Coragyps
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Message 477 of 510 (126069)
07-20-2004 8:28 PM
Reply to: Message 476 by purpledawn
07-20-2004 8:09 PM


Re: everyone suck toes with moral purpose!
It's an extrapolation from the story of Onan in Genesis 38. He was told by Judah to go impregnate his dead (smitten by JHWH) brother, but instead he "spilled his seed upon the ground." So he, too, was smitten plumb to death.
The passage reads like Onan was practicing coitus interruptus and his failure to fertilize his sister-in-law was what irritated the Big Guy, but preachers of 100+ years ago claimed that any sort of spillage was smitable. (Usually, you just went blind and grew hair on your palms for whackin' it in the 1800's - getting smote had somehow become diluted.)

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