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From: alan@jts.com (alan sinclair)
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Subject: Re: homosexuality
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Date: 16 Jul 90 07:01:06 GMT
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>What is objectionable is trying to call vice virtue.
>
>Joe Buehler

And vice, or sin, seems to be such a subtle subject.  I prefer to
think (realizing that I may be way off target) that the problem
with homosexuality is not primarily concerned with the physical
sexual aspect, as revolting as it is for heterosexuals.

Of significance is the fact, to quote a cliche, that when Adam
was incomplete God created Eve, not Steve.  Implied in that
story is that God made humans in two complimentary natures:
masculine and feminine.  And that masculine/feminine
complimentation is MUCH more than physical.  The complimentary
union of masculine and feminine is God's building block for
the family, society, the church, ...

God designed masculine and feminine to fit together.  In
the marital sense, masculine and masculine do not fit
together.  Trying to fit them together can only lead to
frustration, as God never meant this to happen.  Is this vice?

At the risk of starting a fire storm, it seems to me that
homosexuals realize this.  Is it not true that in homosexual
couples one assumes the masculine role and the other the
feminine?  All the homosexual men who are effeminate - the
"obvious" ones - are they not just those men who assume
the feminine role in the couple?

Whatever we do, if we are not meant to do it, we will pay the price,
now and later.  God never intended homosexuality, but neither did
He intend a lot of other things.  It is just as pitiful when in a
heterosexual relationship the man assumes a feminine role and the
woman reacts by moving into the masculine role, the "wearing the
pants" syndrome.

May we, by God's grace, do what we are meant to do, and bring
pleasure to God.

Alan