On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 11:22 AM, Bill Shanks wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:17:58 -0600, Erik Vistica
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Legalized sex with animals will be next (it may take another 20 years
>> but wait for it). Does this sound repugnant, it should. Interesting
>> that
>> these two verses are right next to each other...
>>
>>
>> Leviticus 18
>> 22   Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is
>> abomination.
>> 23   Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself
>> therewith:
>> neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it
>> is
>> confusion.
>>
>> Romans 1
>> 26   For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even
>> their women did change the natural use into that which is against
>> nature:
>> 27   And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman,
>> burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that
>> which
>> is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their
>> error
>> which was meet.
>>
>>
>> And for those that may or may not believe God.
>>
>> Psalm 14
>> 1   The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
>>
>> Psalm 53
>> 1   The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
>>
>>
>> James 2
>> 19   Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils
>> also believe, and tremble.
>
> Thanks for the Biblical references.  Live your life according to the
> values
> you choose, and I will live my life according to the values I choose,
> which
> do not include the Bible, for many reasons that I will not share here.
> Your references may make me a fool, but only if I choose to agree with
> them.  Notice the word "choose"?  It's really important.  My biggest
> beef
> with the extreme right is their propensity to try and make choices for
> me,
> or to take choices away.  Something like oppression.
>
> I'll take you up on the 20 years thing.  It's sad that many opposed to
> gay
> marriage try to to associate gays and lesbians with pedophilia and
> bestiality and worse.  This is hogwash, pure and simple.  We're talking
> consenting adults here.

It's their way (scare tactics, not logic) to try to win an argument.

FW

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
atrocities. - Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

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