The Black Vault

greeney2 wrote:So nobody but you decides what response should be given, to your engineered question?

greeney2 wrote:You try making an premise by pitting several things in the Bible against each other for some far fetched analogy, and expect everyone should see it the way you are twisting. But in actual practice in our society, these things are not clouded in our laws.

frrostedman wrote:The simple answer is, homosexuality is condemned in the New Testament.

Of the ten Commandments, only three have any parallels in American law

Finally, it must be kept in mind that constitutional protections of religious liberty are written in a manner that are practically designed to break several Commandments. Thus, far from reflecting the Ten Commandments, it is arguable that the principles of American law are set up to break several of them and ignore most of the rest.

DIss0n80r wrote:He seems to want to know why so many Christians get worked up over that one part (homosexuality) and emphasize it so much, yet usually ignore those other parts and basically shrug it off when asked about them.

Kinda like you're doing.

It's a fair question.

By the way, we don't have a christian government.

DIss0n80r wrote:Also, slightly off-topic, but I'd like to point out that the Ten Commandments as a whole is not a valid legal document. Much of it is plainly unconstitutional.

http://atheism.about.com/od/tencommandm ... nlaw_2.htm

Of the ten Commandments, only three have any parallels in American law

Finally, it must be kept in mind that constitutional protections of religious liberty are written in a manner that are practically designed to break several Commandments. Thus, far from reflecting the Ten Commandments, it is arguable that the principles of American law are set up to break several of them and ignore most of the rest.

greeney2 wrote:Stop derailing Humphreys thread for crying out loud!

Gay and bisexual men — referred to in CDC surveillance systems as men who have sex with men (MSM)1 — of all races continue to be the risk group most severely affected by HIV. CDC’s most recent data show that between 2006 and 2009, the number of new infections that occur each year increased among young MSM — driven by an alarming 48 percent increase among young, black MSM 13 to 29 years old. These data clearly show the urgent need to expand access to proven HIV prevention programs for gay and bisexual men, and to develop new approaches to fight HIV in this population.

An important point to make from the outset is that Jewish law does not teach that it is forbidden to be a homosexual. On the contrary, Jewish law is concerned not with the source of a person’s erotic urges nor with inner feelings, but with acts. The Torah forbids the homosexual act, known as mishkav zakhar, but has nothing to say about homosexuality as a state of being or a personal inclination.

In other words, traditionally, a person with a homosexual inclination can be an entirely observant Jew as long as he or she does not act out that inclination.