A measured look at a difficult situation

See post above. I had NO reason to make it up, I just misheard it.

Why would I *want* to hear or believe that Kurschner was gay? It makes absolutely no difference to the point Pinto was making about how the education offered at Harvard Divinity School is so liberal they teach that homosexuality is biblically justified so that anyone seeking out such an education must have liberal leanings.I think it's YOU who WANTS to hear and believe that's what I would want to hear and believe. You are WAY out of line. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

Except I did no such thing as "fight to the death" about this because it did not make one scintilla of difference to anything I was saying,.

I don't recall defending it because it makes absolutely no difference to my opinion. If I did defend it that came after people were accusing me of lying or something but I don't remember, I wasn't lying so I'd defend it but otherwise it has no bearing whatever on anything I've said here, the accusations are just the usual unfounded stuff I get thrown at me.

You did accuse me of lying about it not mattering whether Kurschner is gay or not, and I certainly deny that because it DOESN'T matter, I have NO interest in whether he is gay or not*, I MERELY MISHEARD PINTO ON THAT AUDIO. But you among others have made a big false sleazy deal about nothing here.ABE: *And neither does Chris Pinto, whose ONLY point was that it's odd for a putatively conservative Christian to study textual criticism at very liberal Harvard Divinity School.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

That is enough of a sleazy accusation, why split hairs about the term "lying," it amounts to the same thing. I am not the slightest bit "inclined" to believe anything about Kurschner, that's just your sleazy imagination that wants to accuse me of something. I guess you're content with sleazy innuendoes. I don't make much of a distinction in this case. Blech. Thanks again for the supposedly-not-a-lie-big-fat-suspicious-innuendo based on nothing in my words except whatever you hallucinated there. Mistaken about my own inclination? Thanks a lot. This is all nothing but Ad Hominem, you have no right to be saying such things.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO INSIST ON WHAT SOMEONE ELSE THINKS WHEN THEY KEEP DENYING IT. I MISHEARD THE AUDIO, and there is nothing more to it. You are out of line and have been out of line for post after post trying to hang something on me out of your own crabbed imagination.I wouldn't appeal to Percy if my life depended on it.

I don't tell you that you are thinking something you claim not to be thinking.

Pinto said nothing whatever about "Kurschner's opinions on homosexuality" NOTHING WHATEVER, so I had no "mindset" that accepted any such idea. There was one and only one reason for mentioning homosexuality and that was that the liberalism of Harvard Divinity School can be demonstrated by the fact that they teach that homosexuality does not violate the Bible. There is something wrong with your thinking here that I think deserves the title "McCarthyism" against Pinto, some actual need of yours to misinterpret what he said and accuse accuse accuse. If it had been Kurschner rather than Gomes who admitted to being homosexual then that would rather neatly explain his interest in Harvard Divinity School, though that was just a casual remark I made that you decided to blow up into something huge. As it is, his interest remains something to wonder about but certainly indicative of a liberal mindset as no conservative Christian would be likely to expose themselves to that sort of textual critical teaching.You are out of line, you've been out of line and apparently that's where you like to be.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

I haven't? Isn't it obvious that if he was homosexual, which he's not, that that would explain rather directly why he's interested in a liberal school that teaches that homosexuality is justified in the Bible? Since he's not homosexual then I suppose he has a liberal view of the Bible himself. It's not difficult, NN.And what Pinto said was a very brief aside in the middle of a discussion about something else, about Kurschner because he had been accusing him, and in tone or anything else it was hardly a "rant."