You fail to answer your own point – none of the passages you quoted says anything about homosexuality.

I’m not even christian, so what right do you have telling me “how” to love god?

Based on the sort of shrill you’ve been posting anyway, it’ll be a waste to bother with you because your dogma is stuck too far up up your own ass for you to realize just how much it stinks.

I’d like to see the research on this wild claim. There is documented evidence of rampant attraction to the same sex in the animal kingdom, and yet the species that practice same-sex pleasures are still going strong.

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_gay_animal_kingdom/

Maybe you should do more research before you claim silly things.

“NOT ALL IDEAS ARE CREATED EQUAL.”

You’re quite right.

That’s why we have the scientific method, to sift through the tripe that religions offer and come up with a modicum of the “truth” as it pertains to the reality we find ourselves in.

You’re assuming that a god exists first, and that this should impact our lives in any meaningful way. Any decent human being should be free to think for themselves and not kowtow to the dictator in the sky.

“and have gay and lesbian supporters actually forgotten that HOMOSEXUALITY implies a lifestyle largely driven by animalic urges to do the deed with someone of similar orientation?”

And heterosexuality is any different? Sex is rather “animalic” by itself, we as a species just tend to hide our urges “in the bedroom”.

And since we keep these kinds of things hidden from the public, why should it matter?

“AND I AGREE THAT WE DO HAVE RIGHTS BUT NO ONE IN HIS/HER RIGHT MIND WOULD USE HIS/HER FREEDOM TO PLAY THE FOOL.”

I have no idea what you are implying. Are you perhaps insinuating that gays and their supporters are fools, and those that deny equality to gays are not? What non-Biblical criteria are you basing your judgment on?

“you don’t think homosexuality hurts anyone?”

It only hurts people that are insecure about their own sexual leanings, or are allergic to “teh gay”.

“how about you care enough to pry into the lives of homosexuals who practice what they’re doing and see them through TO THE END just to check if what they did made any sense?”

“TO THE END”: would that happen to be a gay pun for entering from the rear?

I’ve known several gays in my short time at LSU, and they acted just like any other male: crude, thinking with their crotches, and in-between their sex-obsessed jokes they were indistinguishable from almost any straight man on campus. They swung through and went steady on relationships; the fact that it was with other men made no difference. It might just be my small sample size, but they tended to not go through as many one-night-stands or failed relationships as my straight friends.

“but of course you wouldn’t do that since your favorite credo is ‘let him be’ and ‘do your own thing’.”

And just what is wrong with letting something private, that affects only two–or more, just in case, and this goes for both teams–consenting adults? Would you also pry into the private lives of straight people as well?

As far as I am concerned, the maxim is “do as you will, but harm none”. Pretty fair if you ask me.

“Why are you against letting people be free to be themselves if they’re not hurting ME? in other words, so long as what they’re doing does not affect YOUR VERY OWN LIFE AND YOUR CONVICTIONS, WHY INDEED WOULD YOU CARE?”

We already get that you’re totally against equality in the bedroom. You’ve not yet made a convincing argument that we as humans should invade others’ private lives, and your frequent use of CAPSLOCK CRUISE CONTROL certainly doesn’t add to the weight of your weightless convictions.

Yes, if what straight people are doing in their bedrooms are not harming society, why should we care? Yes, if what gay people are doing in their bedrooms are not harming society, why should we care?

You’ve yet to elucidate what it is that is harmful about gays doing what straight people do all the time. Are they the ones that will break society’s moral boundaries? What about the many “family man” conservatives committing adultery? Or the many polygamous compounds marrying off young girls to older men? Or the many creationist institutions trying around the clock to inject non-scientific, uncritical thinking into public education? Isn’t your “gaydar” for these matters misfiring?

If you’d said you’re against gay pedophiles, we’d all be in agreement; then we could start to topple the Catholic Church for their continued mismanagement of their promiscuous priests. However, you said were against equality between consenting adults, and there we disagree.

You could probably build a better case around “promiscuous sex in general is morally degrading”, but, as we all know, straight people don’t go screwing around. That’s only gays.

@vas: what do you suppose would happen if homosexuality became mainstream? you can expect the extinction of the entire human race. in other words, you have no concern for future generations, and the ideas you now cling onto and plan to spread around are as good as dead. so aside from showing no regard for human character and dignity, you’re effectively negating your ideals just by believing that there’s nothing wrong with homosexuality. NOT ALL IDEAS ARE CREATED EQUAL. and by the way, the kind of lifestyle you just described above reeks of irresponsibility.

equal, unalienable human rights huh? since when did a lifestyle that lauds gross excesses and promiscuity become equal in value to the kind of life God has purposed for each and every human being?

since when? Um well let’s see, I’m sure it was fairly rectenly, around these parts it was within the last 30 years or so but it has become equal, sorry to be the one to have to break it to you.

and have gay and lesbian supporters actually forgotten that HOMOSEXUALITY implies a lifestyle largely driven by animalic urges to do the deed with someone of similar orientation?

I don’t think we have forgotten anything, and as a point in fact that is not what homosexuality implies at all. Now I’m not gay but I am a kinkster and that is “driven by animalic urges to do the deed with someone of similar orientation” just in my case with someone of different gender, and guess what I’m equal as well. While I’m guessing that you may be outraged by this it is a cold hard fact and I will continue to be equal under the law to you despite how offended you may be. You and/or your god don’t get to make the rules anymore, we’re done with that, it’s over, get used to it. My values are fine, it is you who needs to re-evaluate and come to grips with the fact that you are not better than the despised “others”. Calling other people fools is hardly a convincing argument.

Heterosexuality is just as much about “animal urges to do the deed” as homosexuality is. Homosexuality can also just be as much about love as heterosexuality is.