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From: wagner@karazm.math.uh.edu (David Wagner)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Homosexuality
Message-ID: <Jul.8.00.26.57.1990.6031@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 8 Jul 90 04:26:59 GMT
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In article <Jul.5.01.03.07.1990.29931@athos.rutgers.edu> hagerp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Paul Hager) writes:
>Given that there is growing evidence that homosexuality
>has a biological basis similar to imprinting, isn't all
>of this focusing on "sin" passe?  In other words, if
>it is the case that homosexuality is not a matter of 
>choice then why not accept that Paul's admonitions are
>cultural relics of little more than historical interest?
>
Suppose I accept the notion that homosexuality 'has a biological basis'
-- although I am inclined to reject it -- , does that contradict what
scripture says about sin?  David says, in Psalm 51:

	"Surely I have been a sinner from birth,
	sinful from the time my mother conceived me."

If homosexuality is really from birth, doesn't that confirm the doctrine
of inherited, or 'original' sin (which, BTW, we all have, not just 
homosexuals)?

David H. Wagner
a confessional Lutheran		"All mankind fell in Adam's fall,
				One common sin infects us all;
				From sire to son the bane descends,
				And over all the curse impends.

				Thro' all man's pow'rs corruption creeps
				And him in dreadful bondage keeps;
				In guilt he draws his infant breath
				And reaps its fruits of woe and death.

				But Christ, the second Adam, came
				To bear our sin and woe and shame,
				To be our Life, our Light, our Way,
				Our only Hope, our only Stay."

My opinions and beliefs are not likely to coincide with any held by
The University of Houston.