To: Grainne who wrote (18096 ) 3/12/1998 4:49:00 AM From: Dwight E. Karlsen Respond to
Christine, I just read your post listing the various people who want to believe that homosexuality is not wrong. For now, let me say for starters about this: >Too many realize that their sexual orientation is unchangeable, and that they cannot go through life as someone that they have been taught to hate [huh? Christians haven't been taught to hate anyone]; they commit suicide. (About 30% of teen suicides are due to this cause; one of the costs of <society not being comfortable with homosexuality? Do non-Christians all have a built-in comfort and acceptance for homosexuality? Seems to me that Christians are taking an awful lot of the blame for incidents of hate crimes based on homophobia. A little hypocrisy here? Perhaps society has a little bit of a guilty conscience here, and wants to blame its sins on Christians?Jesus concentrated on a person's interactions with God and his fellow humans. He did tell the woman who committed adultery to go and sin no more. But that was the only time he is known to have commented on sexual morality. Ruth 1:16 and 2:10-11 describe a deeply intimate relationship between Ruth and Naomi which may or may not have had a sexual component. But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly. Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. ....I will not destroy it for ten's (rightous) sake.
