I dunno. The Bible was written thousands of years ago, and it sort of has homosexuality listed as another category apart from heterosexuality. Homosexuality in the Bible, is not seen as being the, or “a,” norm of human sexuality.

I do not claim to be an authority on the New Testament, but in the Torah—i.e., the Five Books of Moses which are the center of what Christians refer to as the Old Testament, and what Jews refer to as the Tanach—there is no such thing as “homosexuality” and there is no “separate category” which puts homosexual acts “apart,” nor is there any claptrap about homosexual acts not being “a norm,” whatever that is supposed to mean.

Too many people make the mistake of confusing the “immoral” with the “unnatural,” not realizing that the entire purpose of morality is to curb and circumscribe natural desires. G-d did not forbid engaging in homosexual acts because they are “unnatural,” but because they are “natural.”

Hey CloudyDay. I am sure that you also do not eat (1) cheeseburgers, (2) bacon, (3) shrimp, oysters, lobster, (4) steak with bernaise sauce, (5) icecream after dinner (usually prohibited, but depends on the meal).

I am always a bit surprised when someone singles out two passages (nearly identicial) in Leviticus (Vayikra) but pays no attention to the restrictions elsewhere in that book.

I’m back, Cloudy, in case you revisit this. Know what you mean about putting it off, which can result in missed days ^ Neglecting the body and eating badly are probably the sins I’m sternest and most sanctimonious about

Sorry, I was addressing #242’s claim that that the US system is not based on recognizing classes of people.

Oh, okay.:)

270, Moe

I’m just speaking in terms of people’s right to choose.

I guess people have a “right to choose,” but I can’t say I always agree with their choices.

Have a good work out at the gym, Moe!

I need to get off here in a moment and go jogging myself. (I have an elliptical machine I jog on five days a week.)

I should’ve gone jogging a few hours ago, but I usually dread it and so I sometimes put it off ’til late in the day.

I keep lists of links to various news stories precisely for times like these.

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic

This exhibition demonstrates that many of the colonies that in 1776 became the United States of America were settled by men and women of deep religious convictions who in the seventeenth century crossed the Atlantic Ocean to practice their faith freely.

Religion and the Congress of the Confederation, 1774-89