RE: Church stance on gay marriage "for good of society", says Bishop Michael Nazi
April 25, 2012 at 11:30 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2012 at 11:41 am by The Grand Nudger.)
There are no passages which speak to homosexuality as a sin. It is often expressed that homosexuality comes along with sinful practices (such as those you mentioned above). Context Nazis might have a shitfit with their favorite passage in this regard, about the unlawfulness of a man that lay with a man as he lay with a woman. It is the domination and subjugation of another man that is at issue in this passage. These people valued their masculinity greatly. They didn't like "flaming" homosexuals, or lady-boys. If two hirsute men wanted to ream each other in the manliest possible way, no harm no foul. The anti-gay stance, Tea, would be revisionism. It was assumed to keep christianity relevant. The cultures which spread christianity had a decidedly anti-homosexual bent that we do not see present in the faiths or cultures of the ANE. This is actually the case over large swaths of the world. We seem to be far less tolerant of such relationships today than we were in the distant past. You don't have to go very far searching for a myth structure that extolls the virtues of homosexual love.
Our sexual hangups are not the sexual hangups of the ANE.
(we had an amusing thread about this awhile back)
Our sexual hangups are not the sexual hangups of the ANE.
(we had an amusing thread about this awhile back)
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