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From: djhawley@watmath.UUCP (David John Hawley)
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Subject: Re: homosexuality and sin
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Date: Thu, 24-Nov-83 17:16:04 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 24 17:16:04 1983
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For clarification of my previous article, and Steve's response :

  1) I am a Protestant, and my "religious" background/thinking
     is garnered from that position
  2) I don't see how proscribing contraception is a necessary
     outcome of the principles I claim are biblical. I can see
     why masturbation might be ( narcissistic sex? ). Homosexuality
     seems a more obvious contradiction of the biblical imagery.

  I wholeheartedly agree that saying "X is sin because ..." is
valuing my reason above God's revelation; my thoughts on the subject
are ?"thinking God's thoughts after him"?, not corrective, normative,
or supplementary. For similar reasons, I don't see that appealing
to "real-life" is normative either, although our experiences force
us to reevaluate our dogma. I think that our moral stances evolve
from a number of sources, weighed by the authority we cede to each
source, and by our evaluation of how well we understand what each
source tells us. I trust my understanding of certain things in the
bible more than I do my understanding of certain "real-life"
situations.

     Sorry I ran on so long,
        David Hawley