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I’m still shaking my head in disbelief

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Ken
on July 7, 2008
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at the reaction by Signs of the Times to the (self-named) Dyke March in Boston. Maddex basically says that this small group of homosexuals in Boston is a representative sample of homosexuals everywhere and every gay and lesbian acts the same way all the time.

Maddex says:

If gays are the same as the rest of us—if their lifestyles are normal and wrongly maligned—then how do you explain the unhealthy obsession with sex and indecency that is the hallmark of their parades?

Unhealthy obsession with sex and indecency? Have you looked at the heterosexual world lately? TV ads that use sex to sell everything from deodorant to automobiles. Frat parties. Strip clubs. Pornography. Rapes. Mardi Gras. I say there’s a lot of unhealthy obsession in the heterosexual world, too. Then there’s the obsession with sex from the other side of the fence. Anti-homosexual propaganda. Hate crimes. Sex for reproduction only. Missionary position only sex. This, also, is unhealthy obsession.

One would think that if homosexuals were truly psychologically healthy individuals, they would behave like upstanding individuals rather than work themselves up into a debauched lather whenever they congregate.

But just a lather is ok as in college and professional sports, political rantings and ravings, fire and brimstone preaching, anti-_______ (fill in the blank with whatever your favorite pet peeve is) soapbox sermons. We humans act like upstanding individuals about 10% of the time, if you ask me. And for many reasons other than homosexuality.

If you want someone to accept your lifestyle, isn’t the best strategy to show how unthreatening it is?

Didn’t work for Jesus. Doesn’t work for Red Sox fans. Doesn’t work for most evangelicals who insist that we all accept their lifestyle and beliefs and threaten us with hell.

Basically it comes down to this: every single race, group, belief, denomination, faith, age, gender, or whatever, has someone you can point at and say, “Look at how awful that person is.” The problem is when we then generalize based on that person. I could write a similar post as Maddex’s decrying Baptists by citing Fred Phelps and his outrageous, hateful, cruel actions and words. We do it all the time with Muslims, Blacks, men, women, atheists, punks, people with tattoos, etc.

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Ok, ok, we get it already! Let’s move on.

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Ken
on June 14, 2007
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Kim Fabricius wrote a post on “The Real Sin of Sodom” and as you would expect got a lot of “feedback.” Kim’s stance is that Sodom was not destroyed because of homosexuality. In a quick read of the comments, “dh” is the most vocal and repetitive and holds the stance that Sodom was destroyed because of homosexuality plus a bunch of other stuff.

To quote Shakespeare, “The [commenter] doth protest too much, methinks.” But that’s neither here nor there.

What I do want to say is, “Ok, ok, we get it already! God does/doesn’t hate homosexuals and Jesus does/doesn’t hate homosexuals and Paul, Peter, Jude did/didn’t condemn all homosexual behavior and all homosexuals are/aren’t going to hell. We get it. Let’s move on to something else now.” Why is everyone condemning/defending homosexuality when it’s been done to death? Let’s agree to disagree and let the sign-in book at the pearly gates decide who the winner is. Besides, there are so many more un-maligned groups just waiting to be pounced upon. (Hopefully poor grammarians are not among them.) Let’s look at the verses touted as anti-homosexual to see who we should be condemning/defending next.

I Corinthians 6 says “… neither effeminate, nor homosexuals … will inherit the kingdom of God.” But there are a bunch of people in the ellipses that need to be straightened out. The fornicators and adulterers, for example. These two groups are actually mentioned before the homosexuals and the hermeneutic I’m using says that order is important. So let’s persecute these guys for a while now. Everyone put your “Adam & Eve not Adam & Steve” signs and posters and bumper stickers and banners and whatever into your PODS unit for a while and make up new ones that say “Abstinence is good for the soul” and “If you can’t keep it in your pants get married.” Then loiter outside singles clubs and raves where you know all kinds of unseemly acts of coitus are about to taking place. While you’re at it, start making up signs that say: “Stay married even if he beats you” because you know the divorce rate will go up because all these “kids” are getting married just to get some. We also have any Christian who goes to court. These bastards are mentioned even before the fornicators so you know it’s important.

Then, of course, there’s Leviticus 20:13: “If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death.” But we’re not doing that anymore. Let’s look around at some of the other verses from chapters 11, 12, 19, and 20. We should, instead, be persecuting anyone without a beard, anyone who eats rabbit or pork or lobster or mussels or crabs, anyone not circumcised, anyone picking up grapes that have fallen onto the ground in a vineyard, anyone wearing cotton blends, anyone having intercourse with a women while she is menstruating, and anyone harming a foreigner. That’s quite the list so we’ve got some sign-making to do. I’ll hang out by the barbershops and you take the restaurants and together we’ll whip this country back into shape.

But, if you really, really want to keep harping on the homosexuals, I’ve found a real easy way to pick them out in a crowd. Romans 1:38-32 says:

And just as they (i.e. the homosexuals, both men and women) did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

So, you see, all homosexuals (at least the ones Paul says are going straight to hell) are greedy, murdering, deceitful, malicious, slandering, parental disobeying, untrustworthy, unloving, sons of bitches who heartily approve of everyone who murders, deceives, slanders, disobeys, etc.. They shouldn’t be too hard to spot!

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Bruce says … Become Worldly for Jesus

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on January 26, 2007
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Please head over to The World According to Bruce and read It Is Time to Leave the Christian Ghetto and Become Worldly for Jesus. All I can say is, Bruce is right on!

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If you’re gonna use Leviticus to argue that homosexuality is wrong, you gotta have a beard

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Ken
on November 19, 2006
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What?

Leviticus 20:13

If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 19:27

You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads, nor harm the edges of your beard.

Leviticus 19:37

‘You shall thus observe all My statutes, and all My ordinances, and do them: I am the LORD.’ (emphasis mine)

Leviticus chapters 11 through 27 are God’s law as He dictated them to Moses. So, if you are going to hold the world accountable to God’s law about homosexuality, then you have to hold the world accountable to God’s law about beards or adultery. How can you pick and choose which of God’s laws you want to obey and which you don’t? Isn’t that a little bit like setting yourself up over God?

Plus, God doesn’t just say: “Homosexuality is wrong. Thou shalt picket and protest every chance thou havest. Thou shalt chant ‘Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve’ until thou losest thy voice and canst chant no more.” NO! God tells us to kill them!

God’s law includes consequences and punishments. So, technically, you are breaking God’s law by NOT killing the homosexuals and the adulterers and the clean shaven.

Here are a few other ways you, the reader, may be breaking God’s law without even realizing it. Watch out for flying stones from the hand of your ever-so-righteous neighbor!

  • Eating rabbit or pork (Lev 11:6,7).
  • Eating lobster, mussels, crabs, et al. (Lev 11:10-12). Bummer!
  • Having an uncircumcised pecker (Lev 12:3). Whew! At least I don’t have to worry about that one.
  • Picking up the grapes that have fallen to the ground in your vineyard (Lev 19:10).
  • Wearing cotton blends (Lev 19:19). Hold on whilst I go check all my shirts….
  • Harming a foreigner in your country (Lev 19:33). But they are Taliban!
  • Giving your kids to Molech (Lev 20:2). Who the heck is Molech?
  • Having sex with a women while she is having her period (Lev 19:18).

So, if you’re gonna use the Bible to condemn homosexuality, it’s better to stay away from Leviticus with all it’s encumbering dietary and fashion restrictions. Not to mention the sacrifices you need to make. Where the heck am I going to get a one year old lamb and a young turtledove at this time of year? There’s good stuff in the New Testament that will make your case for you but I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to find them. Yes, that means you actually have to READ the Bible! Hey, you may find some interesting stuff in there.

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