Sounds like a dare to me! Even if you didn't have the balls to say it! It's good to see, BTW, that you've acknowledged by your silence that most boys who are sexually abused are victims of straight people. Maybe we're getting somewhere!

There are six passages often cited by people like you, let's knock 'em down:

• The story of Sodom and Gomorrah - Ezekiel makes clear that the sin of Sodom was cruelty, specifically how they treated the poor. Yet you'll take a single word - "know" - and twist that into homosexuality being the reason for the city's demise. In other words, you make the story mean what you want it to mean, but what you say it means isn't actually in the text and is in fact contradicted elsewhere.

• Leviticus 18:21 and 20:13 - These are provisions of the Levitical Law. Christians are not bound by the Levitical Law. It is of no effect. If you take these passages seriously, you had better stop eating pork and shellfish too.

That leaves three passages in the New Testament, all found in the Epistles of Paul. Interestingly, in 2 Corinthians, Paul clarifies that every word of God shall be established by two or three witnesses. Yet he's the only NT author that says anything at all about homosexuality. Where are the other witnesses? Where is Jesus weaving that tHe GheYs ArE bAd into the Sermon on the Mount if it matters so much to him? Anyhow, if you're taking Paul seriously then you better make sure your woman doesn't speak up in church.

Anyway, we have:

• Romans 1:21-31 - When read in context, Paul is not condemning homosexuality. He's condemning Paganism and the accompanying debauchery.

• 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and 1 Timothy 1:9-10 - These passages originally used the word "arsenokoitais." This is an interesting word because it doesn't really appear in other Greek literature. It appears to have been period slang. So the translators were free to make it say whatever they wanted. They went with a condemnation of homosexuality. But if you actually break the word into its etymology, it translates literally to "man of many beds." This is not an injunction against homosexuality; it is a condemnation of promiscuity. And if Paul wanted to say what you think he said, he was a Roman citizen writing in Greek. He had plenty of words available if he wanted to be clear about his views on homosexuality.

So, yeah, the Bible does not condemn homosexuality. Adultery, fornication, promiscuity? Sure. But there is no applicable passage regarding homosexuality. It's nothing but Christian dogma based off the presumed opinion of a guy named Paul.

"One thing you can be absolutely 100% certain of is that if you asked God what to do about your perverse tendancies, and the answer was, "practice them," IT WAS NOT GOD WHO ANSWERED YOU." And there it is: your insufferable self-righteousness. Never mind that I am chaste as I look for a good man who will share my commitment. Everybody must see God as you do. Everybody must obey him the same way you do. If not then it's "perverse tendencies" all the way down! Makes me wonder what kind of beam is sticking out of your eye, you hypocrite.

Simply put: God made me gay. I assume my soul agreed to it before being born, but God was in charge of the development of my brain structure. What I do with that is between him and me, but I can tell you God isn't going to condemn ME for something HE did.

Reply or not, I don't care and won't read it. You're ignorant but think you're wise. You're as bad as any NPC I've ever met and I'm over it. Take care.

Sounds like a dare to me! Even if you didn't have the balls to say it! It's good to see, BTW, that you've acknowledged by your silence that most boys who are sexually abused are victims of straight people. Maybe we're getting somewhere!

There are six passages often cited by people like you, let's knock 'em down:

• The story of Sodom and Gomorrah - Ezekiel makes clear that the sin of Sodom was cruelty, specifically how they treated the poor. Yet you'll take a single word - "know" - and twist that into homosexuality being the reason for the city's demise. In other words, you make the story mean what you want it to mean, but what you say it means isn't actually in the text and is in fact contradicted elsewhere.

• Leviticus 18:21 and 20:13 - These are provisions of the Levitical Law. Christians are not bound by the Levitical Law. It is of no effect. If you take these passages seriously, you had better stop eating pork and shellfish too.

That leaves three passages in the New Testament, all found in the Epistles of Paul. Interestingly, in 2 Corinthians, Paul clarifies that every word of God shall be established by two or three witnesses. Yet he's the only NT author that says anything at all about homosexuality. Where are the other witnesses? Where is Jesus weaving that tHe GheYs ArE bAd into the Sermon on the Mount if it matters so much to him? Anyhow, if you're taking Paul seriously then you better make sure your woman doesn't speak up in church.

Anyway, we have:

• Romans 1:21-31 - When read in context, Paul is not condemning homosexuality. He's condemning Paganism and the accompanying debauchery.

• 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and 1 Timothy 1:9-10 - These passages originally used the word "arsenokoitais." This is an interesting word because it doesn't really appear in other Greek literature. It appears to have been period slang. So the translators were free to make it say whatever they wanted. They went with a condemnation of homosexuality. But if you actually break the word into its etymology, it translates literally to "man of many beds." This is not an injunction against homosexuality; it is a condemnation of promiscuity. And if Paul wanted to say what you think he said, he was a Roman citizen writing in Greek. He had plenty of words available if he wanted to be clear about his views on homosexuality.

So, yeah, the Bible does not condemn homosexuality. Adultery, fornication, promiscuity? Sure. But there is no applicable passage regarding homosexuality. It's nothing but Christian dogma based off the opinion of a guy named Paul.

"One thing you can be absolutely 100% certain of is that if you asked God what to do about your perverse tendancies, and the answer was, "practice them," IT WAS NOT GOD WHO ANSWERED YOU." And there it is: your insufferable self-righteousness. Never mind that I am chaste as I look for a good man who will share my commitment. Everybody must see God as you do. Everybody must obey him the same way you do. If not then it's "perverse tendencies" all the way down! Makes me wonder what kind of beam is sticking out of your eye, you hypocrite.

Simply put: God made me gay. I assume my soul agreed to it before being born, but God was in charge of the development of my brain structure. What I do with that is between him and me, but I can tell you God isn't going to condemn ME for something HE did.

Reply or not, I don't care and won't read it. You're ignorant but think you're wise. You're as bad as any NPC I've ever met and I'm over it. Take care.

Sounds like a dare to me! Even if you didn't have the balls to say it!

There are six passages often cited by people like you, let's knock 'em down:

• The story of Sodom and Gomorrah - Ezekiel makes clear that the sin of Sodom was cruelty, specifically how they treated the poor. Yet you'll take a single word - "know" - and twist that into homosexuality being the reason for the city's demise. In other words, you make the story mean what you want it to mean, but what you say it means isn't actually in the text and is in fact contradicted elsewhere.

• Leviticus 18:21 and 20:13 - These are provisions of the Levitical Law. Christians are not bound by the Levitical Law. It is of no effect. If you take these passages seriously, you had better stop eating pork and shellfish too.

That leaves three passages in the New Testament, all found in the Epistles of Paul. Interestingly, in 2 Corinthians, Paul clarifies that every word of God shall be established by two or three witnesses. Yet he's the only NT author that says anything at all about homosexuality. Where are the other witnesses? Where is Jesus weaving that tHe GheYs ArE bAd into the Sermon on the Mount if it matters so much to him? Anyhow, if you're taking Paul seriously then you better make sure your woman doesn't speak up in church.

Anyway, we have:

• Romans 1:21-31 - When read in context, Paul is not condemning homosexuality. He's condemning Paganism and the accompanying debauchery.

• 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and 1 Timothy 1:9-10 - These passages originally used the word "arsenokoitais." This is an interesting word because it doesn't really appear in other Greek literature. It appears to have been period slang. So the translators were free to make it say whatever they wanted. They went with a condemnation of homosexuality. But if you actually break the word into its etymology, it translates literally to "man of many beds." This is not an injunction against homosexuality; it is a condemnation of promiscuity. And if Paul wanted to say what you think he said, he was a Roman citizen writing in Greek. He had plenty of words available if he wanted to be clear about his views on homosexuality.

So, yeah, the Bible does not condemn homosexuality. Adultery, fornication, promiscuity? Sure. But there is no applicable passage regarding homosexuality. It's nothing but Christian dogma based off the opinion of a guy named Paul.

"One thing you can be absolutely 100% certain of is that if you asked God what to do about your perverse tendancies, and the answer was, "practice them," IT WAS NOT GOD WHO ANSWERED YOU." And there it is: your insufferable self-righteousness. Never mind that I am chaste as I look for a good man who will share my commitment. Everybody must see God as you do. Everybody must obey him the same way you do. If not then it's "perverse tendencies" all the way down! Makes me wonder what kind of beam is sticking out of your eye, you hypocrite.

Simply put: God made me gay. I assume my soul agreed to it before being born, but God was in charge of the development of my brain structure. What I do with that is between him and me, but I can tell you God isn't going to condemn ME for something HE did.

Reply or not, I don't care and won't read it. You're ignorant but think you're wise. You're as bad as any NPC I've ever met and I'm over it. Take care.