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Author Topic:   Is It Bigoted To Have A Supported Opinion?
xongsmith
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Message 47 of 175 (698173)
05-03-2013 2:26 PM
Reply to: Message 6 by nwr
05-02-2013 2:35 PM


nwr comments:
tldr
to which i reply:
tsh2g

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xongsmith
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Message 51 of 175 (698311)
05-05-2013 12:15 PM
Reply to: Message 31 by New Cat's Eye
05-03-2013 10:47 AM


Re: What and Whom Does The Bible Support?
CS puts forth:
I'll bust it out. I think Jesus accepted the gays.
Even more, CS - the evidence in the Bible seems to indicate that Jesus, himself, was gay. He traveled around with these 12 apostles, all men. This big arm-wrestle over Mary Magdalene's sexual relationship with Jesus. The whole "turn the other cheek" thing. The "love your brother as you would love yourself" - what? what about your sister?? Connect the dots.
Clever, that Bible.
Never mind, an obvious SNARK from me.

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Message 59 of 175 (698395)
05-06-2013 3:43 PM
Reply to: Message 58 by PaulK
05-06-2013 2:17 PM


Re: purpose?
PaulK writes:
Well I'd think that if there's a purpose to same-sex sexual attraction then it probably involves same-sex sexual activity - either as a part of the purpose or as a part of working out that purpose. It would be a little odd to intentionally motivate someone to engage in any activity without the intent that they should engage in that activity.
There may be an evolutionary advantage to having the %homosexuality rise under population pressure. This won't necessarily translate to those sub-populations with the highest pressure having the highest %, but overall there may be a correlation. When a species is selected to prevail to the next generation, the ability to respond to its own population demographics may give it a slight advantage.
But actually, in the case of homo sapiens, I think the % has been fairly uniform over the last 2 million or so years.
It also could be a residual archaic genetic attraction to all members of the species from the earlier non-hetero ancestor species that has faded and leveled off to its current % today.
It certainly is natural.

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