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From: larry@cci-bdc.UUCP (Larry DeLuca)
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Subject: Re: modern Christianity's lack of responses to Boswell
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 13:38:25 EST
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> Larry,
> 
> 
> The principle of having sex-change operations is what I was referring
> to.  A person is saying that God made a mistake.  They are saying that
> they can't be satisfied with who they are but must become another sex
> to be happy.  Jesus wants us to accept ourselves the way He made us
> and the way He wants to make us.
>
though it is a bit more radical, that's like denying people the right
to dye their hair...while i have never had any transsexual urges myself,
i have a friend who is a transsexual (just about all the way there,
too).  from what she's said, she's happier now than she ever was.  
god wanted us to live as good people, but he wanted us to be happy
as well, no?
 
> Homosexuality is along the same principle.  Sure their can be love
> between the same sex, but to have it become sexual isn't love anymore
> it is lust.  Jesus offers something mor; Jesus wants to be your lover,
> to fulfill all your needs, right where you are if you will accept
> His love.
>
but that's the point!  yes, there is lust, yes, there is passion.  but
all of that grows out of an respect and love for him.  sex makes us
both happy, but it's overall a small part of everything.  i'd marry him
if i could, but the reason i don't is because the ceremony would be
perceived more as a mockery than what it truly is, a joining of two
people in love and faith.  because of that i see more harm than good
coming of it, so i choose not to.  this doesn't diminish my feeling
for him at all, it's just unfortunate.

 
> karen

					larry...


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