That needs to be proven. I know a lot of mass murderers who were so hetero***ual they'd rape and kill young women. An unstable personality is an unstable personality, period. We've had our share of them in my company, both homo***ual and hetero***ual.Originally Posted by oldblue
You see a lot of newspaper items about homicidal gays, right? Look again... there are tons of murders, careless killings, rapes, etcetera, by non-gays. The gay ones stand out just because they are labelled as such. Same with muslim killings... newspapers never print articles stating HETERO***UAL (STRAIGHT) CHRISTIAN KILLS WIFE, now do they?
And Alexander wasn't homo***ual, he was bi-***ual. Here's your conundrum... in his relations with other men, was he the giver or the receiver? If he was the giver, then he still retained his masculinity, and used *** as a tool of dominance.
That's what marriage is in the law... a legal contract. That's why we have two marriages, the church marriage, and the civil marriage. People can do the civil without the Church, but cannot legally do the Church without the civil (it'll be binding in the eyes of God, but not in the eyes of the law...) magiging "common-law" spouses lang, less rights than a legal partner.Originally Posted by laracroft
History may lend us insight into the human condition, but is not always relevant to the present day.Originally Posted by oldblue
And God killed a lot of heteros there, too.Originally Posted by oldblue
Here's the legalistic problem... "immoral" according to who? Legality is not supposed to be determined by religious preference, although, sadly, it is.Originally Posted by ranod55
AGREE WITH YA, BRO! GO JESUS!Originally Posted by mazdamazda
Thank goodness. While Pope John Paul didn't go so far as to bend over and let gays in the clergy, at least he modernized a lot of the church's dogma. (Including its revised stance on Evolution) Sadly, there may never be another Pope as contemporary and world-wise as him.Originally Posted by M54 Powered
Your God's plan. But not everyone is a Christian, thus you can't impose your will on society. Just like Islamists trying to impose Shia law on entire countries is ethically unjust.Originally Posted by oldblue
The moral strictures in law date from a time when laws were created by heavily religious political leaders. That's why sodomy is still a crime in some parts of the US (ridiculous... it's their butts, they can do whatever they like with them). These moral strictures still have some merit in areas like prostitution (wherein many ***-workers are abused) and adultery (because infidelity on the part of the husband could lead to an abandonment of wife and children), but the artificial dismissal of homo***uality isn't fair to those who choose it.
For me, the only sin is in causing others harm or hurt. Homo***uality does neither. And if allowing legalistic union helps to provide financial and social security for the partners and any dependents, then I'm all for it.
Coming from a broken home, I can tell you that this is the part that matters most. Like I've said, gay couples I've known all have straight children, and the gay people I know are the children of straight couples. There's no transmission of any gay virus, so as long as they are compassionate and caring for them, they should have chance, under the law to become a supportive family unit.






