tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post863641846572684333..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-19249973316872801652007-01-30T21:55:00.000-05:002007-01-30T21:55:00.000-05:00Maybe I'm completely wrong here, but in a LEGAL sense, doesn't the word "construed" simply mean "interpreted" (as in interpreted by a judicial body)?<br /><br />Not that it matters much though- the passage of this is as inevitable as the sun rising :(Matt Briddellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04407918246043084737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-35439764228888629672007-01-30T09:56:00.000-05:002007-01-30T09:56:00.000-05:00Our anonymous writer is unaware that the majority of religious scholars today do not believe that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is a condemnation of homosexuality or of two people of the same sex living in a loving, committed relationship. If the same logic used to condemn homosexuality is applied to the story of the city of Gibeah and the Benjaminites (Judges 19 and 20), then heterosexuality would also have to be condemned.<br /><br />Stop using Biblical teachings to justify discrimination and your bigotry!<br /><br />Dan Funk<br />Executive Director<br />Interfaith Coalition on NondiscriminationDan Funkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05684347187619245194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-62685657602362041972007-01-30T09:08:00.000-05:002007-01-30T09:08:00.000-05:00Anon at 10:21<br />I would like to make 3 points:<br />1. The Bible refers to this event a few times and each time it does not say Sodom was destroyed because of homosexuality but for not taking care of the poor. (Ignoring the poor is wrong.)<br /><br />2. In Judges a similar event takes place only a concubine is sent out and is raped until death. All kinds of destruction then results. Is the sin in this case heterosexuality? (Rape is wrong no matter the gender of the people involved.)<br /><br />3. Having read accounts of racial lynchings, those accounts seem very similiar to the reading in Genesis 19 not sexual lust. (Mob rule is wrong no matter how it is done.)<br /><br />To Anonymous at 10:22<br />I beleive that God does bless people when they make and keep commitments to each other but I would remind you that humans have changed the definition and expectation of marriage many times. And to be honest to the historical context of the Bible, marriage was the transfer of property--one man's daughter being transferred to another man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-25441312045309186302007-01-30T08:56:00.000-05:002007-01-30T08:56:00.000-05:00That is so true Jay. The pick and choose from the bible to support their bigoted agenda.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-11789748012918584892007-01-30T08:53:00.000-05:002007-01-30T08:53:00.000-05:00Anyone who watches the Super Bowl is burning, too, since you know you can't handle any pork products. Also, if your Super Bowl host serves shrimp, you'd better remind them that they are going to hell, as well.<br /><br />http://www.godhatesshrimp.com/<br /><br />Strange how these so-called Christians always forget Christ. I guess the verses on love and compassion aren't any fun.<br />Too bad they don't realize they sound exactly like terrorists in the Middle East.Jay C. Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08752297349651092753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-6716237957466382912007-01-30T06:04:00.000-05:002007-01-30T06:04:00.000-05:00Bil hit a home run.<br /><br />Take copies of that with you to the Senate hearing, Bil.<br /><br />You're gonna need it, I'm afraid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-8883509617020402322007-01-29T23:13:00.000-05:002007-01-29T23:13:00.000-05:00I get those occasionally too, Gary. At least they could quote the interesting parts of Genesis 19. Just a clip from right before and right after the quote from Anon. Cuz we want to base our society on the life and times of Lot. He whose wife died by turning into salt so he he got drunk and slept with his daughters. Oh, those family values types...<br /><br />Gen 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.<br />---<br />Gen 19:31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father [is] old, and [there is] not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:<br /><br />32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.<br /><br />33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.<br /><br />34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, [and] lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.<br /><br />35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.<br /><br />36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-3223759736863043632007-01-29T22:54:00.000-05:002007-01-29T22:54:00.000-05:00Twould be interesting to see if the 2 ChristoFascists commenting here anonymously use the same IP addresses of some of your faithful and frequent GOP self-appointed spokespeople...Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/06987859307032067229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-17886682793081165852007-01-29T22:50:00.000-05:002007-01-29T22:50:00.000-05:00Save your preaching for the sponsor of SJR-7--Sen. Brandt Hershman. It's funny that the people who like to take Bible verses out of context to suit their own ends are the first to disobey them.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-85250805650544022082007-01-29T22:22:00.000-05:002007-01-29T22:22:00.000-05:00Marriage is an institution created and blessed by God. Do not try to destroy what God has blessed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-4926283306724318442007-01-29T22:21:00.000-05:002007-01-29T22:21:00.000-05:00Genesis 19 recalls that God destroyed Sodom for the abominable sin. <br /><br />Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD. 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace. <br /><br /> 29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com