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- From: gordons@coopsol.com (Gordon Storga)
- Subject: Re: SLAMMING HOMOSEXUALS AND PROLIFERS IS BIGOTED
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.222703.18543@coopsol.com>
- Organization: Stay Awake Software
- References: <1992Jul9.155124.24608@wam.umd.edu> <1992Jul24.184422.16939@coopsol.com> <1992Jul27.171037.6455@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 22:27:03 GMT
- Lines: 58
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- <1992Jul27.171037.6455@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> fusco@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew Fusco) said:
- >gordons@coopsol.com (Gordon Storga) writes:
- >><1992Jul9.155124.24608@wam.umd.edu> aap@wam.umd.edu (Alberto Adolfo Pinkas) said:
- >>>><1992Jul7.192300.11581@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- >>>>jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II) writes:
- >>>So, if you are religious, and you find out that you are homosexual/bisexual,
- >>>you can be part of a GBL organization, be vocal for GBL rights, even be
- >>>attacted to a person of your same sex. However, you should marry someone
- >>>of the opposite sex and have sex with your wife/husband only. Then, you are
- >>>saved. Right???
- >
- >>What strikes me as being extremely hypocritical of these religious folks
- >>is that their "savior" told them that even thinking sinful thoughts is the
- >>same as committing them (see Sermon on the Mount). Yet they say it's ok
- >>to have homosexual thoughts, just don't act on them.
- >
- >>The stench of hypocrisy gets stronger everyday.
- >
- >I'll explain what the Church teaches regarding the sinfulness of a person's
- >thoughts.
-
- First, why should the Church tell you what is right and wrong?
- Second, why does what the Church teach differ from what Jesus taught?
- Third, given this inconsistency, which do you believe and follow: Jesus or
- the Church?
-
- > The Church understands that there is a distinction between thoughts
- >which a person does and does not approve of. If the action someone
- >is thinking of is sinful, but that person derives no pleasure in it, and
- >struggles to reject it, then no sin is committed.
-
- Jesus didn't say this. This sounds like heresy to me.
-
- > The Church has always
- >taught that such temptation is to be avoided, but is not in itself sinful.
-
- Then they are at odds with Jesus.
-
- >When the individual consents to the sinful idea in his head, and derives
- >pleasure in thinking about it, then he has committed the sin that Jesus
- >spoke of when saying that "the man who lusts in his heart has already
- >committed adultery."
-
- In the Churches liberal interpretation.
-
- > If someone is pleased with homosexual thoughts, then
- >that person has most certainly committed sin. If he does not accept them,
- >then they remain a temptation with which that person must struggle. There
- >is no hypocrisy to be found here.
-
- You might want to reread the Sermon on the Mount *yourself*.
-
-
- Gordon
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