The bible and homosexuality: Round 3

JF,Why do you pick and choose? The anti-gay verses are next to other absurd admonitions. Things like laws on how to treat your slaves, how to sell your daughter into slavery, when its good to stone a woman. i.e. if a girl should be raped and dosn't screem she gets stoned to death. If a woman is having her period she is sequesterd for seven days. If a woman has sex out of wedlock you gotta stone her to death.Those are all in the same books you quoted, so ok, God hates gays, but if your gonna belive that, God hates women too.Or, maybe he hates the fact that their gay, ok, so he hates the fact that we are female.You can't have it both ways bud, sorry.This message has been edited by Yaro, 11-08-2004 02:39 PMThis message has been edited by Yaro, 11-08-2004 02:41 PM

It was addressed to JF, but I think it's a relevant question for everyone.

Ahemm...http://EvC Forum: The bible and homosexuality: Round 3 -->EvC Forum: The bible and homosexuality: Round 3still no takers?Quite telling isn't it. That so far everyone has avoided replying to this.

I could rant on each point you made, most of them are VERY rant worthy, but I wont.Instead I would like to guide you back on topic, and back tword the point of my origional post.You seem to be supporting the OT, rape and all, by simply saying "things were different back then so it was ok". Since that is the case, why can't I simply say "Things are different now, so homosexuality is ok"?You still not adress the main thrust of my argument, basicaly that you are cherry picking which rules we follow, and which rules we don't. Why do we keep the rules on homosexuality and yet don't stone women in the street?You can't have it both ways, and no where in the bible are eithr of these rules expressley abolished. So riVeRrat, you up for stonning every teenaged girl who is sexually active? Heck, I know plenty of women my age who are sexualy active and aren't married, wanna stone them too?So then riVeRrat, what criteria do we use to say which laws we keep and which we dont?An Aside:A woman may not call out when she is being raped simply because she has been knocked unconcious by her rapist. Held down under threat of death with a gun or a knife, or for many other reasons. I don't think you thought your statement thrugh, because if you did you would have noted that the OTs criteria for judgement is ultimetly stupid on this issue.Furthermore your comment about women being "stinky" at that time of the month... is just insulting.