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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (73704)	8/30/2003 6:39:04 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

My instinctive response is sympathy for the homosexuals caught between two conflicting options. But on reflection, I look at the sacrifices millions of people have made, and do make, to be true to their faith, and also simply to survive their lives in other contexts, and my second response is for them to accept that they have a difficult choice to make, make it, and move forward with their lives in whatever direction they decide to go. Priests (if they are faithful and aren't pedophiles) give up their sexuality entirely; this has been going on for centuries, and can be done today if people want to. As to the issue in the first five centuries, I haven't heard that, but I wouldn't be completely surprised. Christianity in those early centuries was struggling for its very survival, and had little time or attention to pay to issues not essential to their survival. Also, during those years there was no centralization of doctrine, no ositions one could call mainstream Christian, so it may well have been something which different churches handled differently, as indeed is the case today.