Morning Thoughts...

I’ve been reading some forums in the last few days in which the participants are discussing this new California law, and for some reason I can’t stop thinking about it.

I think of myself as very tolerant about everything in life.

But maybe I’m not?

I have my own set of values, standards, beliefs, opinions. People I know have their own, and people I don’t know have their own. Whatever anyone wants to live by is fine by me. As long as we don’t step on each other’s toes regarding our values and beliefs, we’re fine, right?

Well, apparently not. There are some people who believe that their values and beliefs should be made into law so that everyone – regardless of their values and beliefs – have to abide by the values and beliefs of others, even if those values and beliefs are not their own, or even AGAINST their own values and beliefs.

This just irks me.

I’m trying to understand here. BUT – these people (the gays) are claiming “equality”. I see the “equality” issue, but I don’t see the equality issue for what I see as an abomination.

There were people quoting the Bible, even! The Bible talks about homosexuality?? I didn’t know that! **run to get all my versions of the Bible** I looked up all the citations, did research on the net. Now, this REALLY has got my interest up!

One of the most popular quotes from the Bible for Christians is about Sodom and Gomorrah (Lev 20:13). There are many quotes from the Christian side condemning homosexuality, though. Okay, I figure those can be easily found.

But what about the gay side? What about their quotes? It seems that the two books of Samuel are quoted quite frequently.

2Sam 1:26 (this one was especially quoted)
1Sam 20:30

The story of these books talks about King Saul and David’s rise to becoming king. Saul has a son named Jonathan who makes an oath to protect David from the wrath of his father.

Okay, on to the gay agenda. The gays say that Jonathan and David had a homosexual relationship.

In reading ALL the versions and footnotes in ALL my Bibles, ONLY the NIV has anything that even REMOTELY could be interpreted as homosexual between the two. AND, that has to be taken out of context of the story to be interpreted as such.

In looking at all the other Biblical citations, I find basically the same thing. The gays’ citations are all taken out of context of the story in which they were written.

Now – and this is the most important thing I discovered in looking up the quotes –
the thing that I saw that surprised me the most was the “attitude” that the gays have in interpreting Bible quotes. It gave me an “inside” look into gay attitude, you might say.

It’s ALL sexual.

Now, I don’t live my life with sex continually on my mind. I’m sure if I did I would see SO MANY things that I would consider sexual in nature. I found this very interesting, and an eye-opener for me about gays. ‘Course, I never thought much about gays before, either. So my new-found revelation is that gays think about sex a lot.

ALL of the Biblical quotes I found supporting homosexuals were interpreted from a sexual point of view. And with the quotes basically being out of context, I found the interpretations to be very perverted.

Whether or not being gay is a choice or not, is now beside the point for me. It is obvious that by trying to use the Bible as a defense for being gay is still trying to assuage any guilt or negative feelings about being gay. And whether that’s from within our current cultural context or not, I don’t know; could be. But the point is that there are many gays who are TRYING to using the Bible to defend themselves about it being okay to be gay.

And it doesn’t work.

On the matter about whether being gay is a “choice” or not: I’ve been thinking. You know how plastics (for one) put estrogens into the atmosphere? Our skin is like a sponge, soaking up everything. There are frogs, or something like that, that now have both sexes in them. Then there are the studies where it’s shown that men today don’t have as many sperm as previous generations have had (“you’re only half the man your grandfather was!”). I’m wondering, maybe being gay ISN’T a choice any more? Maybe some people’s hormones really are now so changed because of our environment, thus producing more people who are confused about their sex? Just a thought...