Originally Posted by Lukas-vonderPfalz

Leviticus 18:22 : Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Originally Posted by Lukas-vonderPfalz

Leviticus 20:13 : If a man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Originally Posted by Lukas-vonderPfalz

I justify their inclusion in that category on two fronts: One, the Pentagon legally considers homosexuality a mental illness

Originally Posted by A Voice of Sanity

But the Pentagon is mentally deranged. They're hardly in a position to judge.

Originally Posted by IsGuavaADonut?

Hello kettle... this is pot... YOU'RE BLACK!

Originally Posted by A Voice of Sanity

You seem confused. This is the same Pentagon that bought $800 hammers.

Remember those famous Pentagon hammers and toilet seats that cost nearly $1,000? One would think the federal government would have learned its lesson: government agencies, especially huge ones like the Pentagon, need close monitoring lest they flush the taxpayers' money down their very expensive toilets.

Now we find that the Pentagon has outdone its scandal-ridden self. In recent years it has issued 1.8 million credit cards to its workers, who have racked up some 10 million purchases valued at $5.5 billion in 2000 alone. The problem is that many of those purchases might be fraudulent and the Pentagon is not stepping forward to make good on those debts.

Originally Posted by Guy Fawkes

He had children with his daughters

Originally Posted by Makedde

Originally Posted by ForceoftheTruth

I am a Christian. I also support gay marriage and gay adoption, though I think that, until and unless homosexuality is proven to be inborn, gay rights issues must be left to the states. If that is proven (which it probably will be at some point), gay marriage and adoption become 14th Amendment issues of equality and must be legal in all states. Now, I am not a Scriptural literalist, so I reject some parts of the Bible, including sexist passages and the ones that seem to condemn homosexuality so strongly. But for those who don't reject the passages about sodomy, it occurred to me, as it has, no doubt, to others, that the condemnation of sodomy in both the Old and the New Testament may have been in place to prevent bisexuals from committing adultery with other men. After all, adultery, in those days, was probably thought of as something that a man and a woman committed, and in many ancient cultures, homosexual relationships were considered fundamentally different from heterosexual ones in nearly every respect. Accordingly, although the Ten Commandments forbid adultery, the Bible's early readers may not have understood this as forbidding married men from having homosexual affairs- hence the warnings about sodomy. It may also have been that nearly all men married- even homosexuals, so it was thought necessary to condemn all homosexuality. As such, it may be the case that the Bible in no way condemns monogamous homosexual relationships. I appreciate all replies. Thank you very much.