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RE: Just wanted to clarify something re: homosexuality
March 17, 2014 at 1:01 pm
(March 17, 2014 at 12:28 pm)xpastor Wrote: I think the guys who wrote the Old Testament were just clueless schmucks who didn't pay any attention to what was going on in the women's quarters.
Or maybe their women were hotter!
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RE: Just wanted to clarify something re: homosexuality
March 17, 2014 at 2:26 pm
(March 17, 2014 at 12:02 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: Maybe they were all high, hey now. I could buy the story then. 
Allegedly, Revelation was written by John from the island of Patmos. Patmos was an island known for its psychedelic mushrooms.
That's pretty much all we need to know in order to fully understand the Book of Revelation.
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RE: Just wanted to clarify something re: homosexuality
March 17, 2014 at 3:23 pm
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Jesus never spoke about homosexuality.
The incidence of domestic violence among homosexual couples (at least in men) is more than twice as high as that of traditional marriage which people use to enforce the idea that homosexuality in men is disordered.
Many homosexual men never had a Farther figure to go hunting, fishing, play baseball and football with etc. to affirm them in their masculinity at a young age.
Unhealthy Childhood Relationships With Females, mothers, sisters, extended family members, teachers, babysitters, and others—can wound a boy in a frightening variety of ways,
Distorted Concepts of Gender, Problems In Relationships With Other Males
During childhood, some boys disconnect from other males due to negative experiences with males, negative stereotypes about males, and fear of being seen as strange. This leaves their normal needs for same-sex connection and bonding unmet, resulting in longings and cravings for male closeness.
Repeated association of a certain stimuli with sexual arousal is also the cause in some cases (sexual Conditioning).
( in the cause of my disordered Heterosexuality it had been the repeated associating of murder and death with sexual arousal.)
An enourmous amount of homosexuals have suffered sexual abuse.
Issues with ones physique can also lead to wanting what other people of the same gender have and coveting those qualities eventually leads to sexual attraction.
Hence, many studies admit inconclusiveness but that there is evidence that Homosexuality is a disorder and unatural.
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RE: Just wanted to clarify something re: homosexuality
March 17, 2014 at 4:23 pm
Many PEOPLE have not had a father figure... and likewise, an enormous amount of PEOPLE have suffered from abuse. It has nothing to do with homosexuality.
