Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: lang@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Raymond Lang) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: I AM DISGUSTED! Message-ID: Date: 19 May 91 02:59:48 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: C.S. Dept, Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA Lines: 31 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In jmcg0401@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph Michael Corey) writes: >2000 years of regulation has not ended homosexual practice, no. Neither >has it ended murder, lying, cursing one's parents, self-hate, >self-aggrandisement (sp?), telling part of the truth, murder, >persecution, adultery, etc. 2000 years has also not put a stop to hypocritical self-righteousness, "the yeast of the Pharisees," and close-minded hate of people who live their lives a little differently from the mainstream. > I suggest, that if you want >more info on what "The Christians" say we believe, that you >consult a New International Version of the New Testament. Yes, and make sure you get that version, too; and not some other version that might put a different gloss on the passages about homosexuality. Heaven forbid you should read something in a footnote that doesn't fit in with the close-minded view that lumps homosexuality in with murder. The phenomenon referred to as homosexuality in the New Testament was, by and large, either something on the Greek model where an older man, usually already married and with a family, would take young teenaged boys, i.e., an extra-marital act; or it was ritual homosexuality, i.e., part of a pagan practice. The case of two people of the same sex sharing their lives in a loving, monogamous, long-term relationship did not exist then. Paul had nothing to say about this phenomenon. Ray lang@rex.cs.tulane.edu