NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/alt/homosexu/355

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 18:58:09 EST
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Newsgroups: alt.homosexual
Subject: Re: Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve
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As a gay man who has decided to stick with Christianity despite what many
Christians believe about homosexuals, I find the constant bickering between
those who would condemn us to Hell and thosewho would condemn religion com-
pletely quite tiresome.  The Church's interpretation of Christian morality has
been wrong before; this is why we've had things such as crusades and inquisi-
tions.  As the Church gave up any justification of slavery a century ago, the
time hascome for it to lift its ban on homosexual relationships.  I do not
believe, however, that Gods laws are changeable; it is the Churchs interpreta-
tion of them that has been wrong.

To those who view God and religion as merely some supernatural means of oppres-
sion, fundamentalist zealots are no more representative of Christians than drag
queens are of homosexuals.  In condemning God, you only increase the pain of
your gay and lesbian brothers and sisters who spent much of their lives feeling
that no matter how they expressed themselves sexually, they would always be
committing an abomination in the eyes of God.  As those who preach family val-
ues divide America, you too create an unnecessary dichotomy between a healthy
spiritual life and a healthy sex life.

Can we please stop all this useless bickering?

Doug Hayes
Penn State University