Letter to the editor

[joe_canadian]

[One-Eye]

[joe_canadian]

Aerin, there's a couple of people I would very much like for you to meet and educate.

[Galaxia]

[joe_canadian]

[One-Eye]

Josh's right. You have a right to your beliefs, Galaxia, however much I may disagree. However, you don't have a right, as an American, or as a <i>human being</i> to impose your beliefs on anyone other than yourself.

Freedom is what keeps us from turning into the Taliban.

[joe_canadian]

I concede that you didn't imply you would force your beliefs on anyone Galaxia, this is just a very very sore subject with me right now.

[happening fish]

[Galaxia]

[joe_canadian]

[happening fish]

[joe_canadian]

[happening fish]

[joe_canadian]

[happening fish]

heh so now the tune changes! heh, just alexin' ya, joshy

[Galaxia]

[joe_canadian]

[One-Eye]

Perhaps I took your comment the wrong way, Galaxia. Like Josh said, it's a touchy subject. I apologize for overreacting and assuming.

I've always wondered, though, why homosexuality is frowned upon by Christians. I know it says as much in the Bible, but the Bible says a lot of other things that aren't practiced today (Leviticus is my favorite book - chock full of when and how it is appropriate to stone people to death, why one shouldn't eat pork, and how much one should ask when selling his daughter into slavery). The most "reasonable" answer I could get out of my high school religion teacher (a nun) was that homosexuality itself isn't sinful (because people don't choose what they desire), but that homosexual sex was sinful, since it couldn't produce babies, and sex, apparently, exists only for baby-production.

However, when I asked why it wasn't then sinful for a knowingly infertile heterosexual couple to have sex, she had no answer. Seems like pretty much the damn same thing to me.

Besides, why would God create desires in people that it was sinful to act upon, while in other people, similar desires are a-okay? Why would he preordain people to be miserable and unfulfilled because they couldn't act on what he created them to be - gay? And furthermore, if I believed such things, why would I want to worship such a cruel god?

[happening fish]

of course honey, i was only teasing like i said, i prolly hate those kids more than you, because they're bringing shit down on the name of something that i respect.

[Galaxia]