Ricki Lake and gay kids

[lorddragonwolf]

I really don't have words for this site. I was raised and still am Roman Catholic and I am very involved in the teenagers youth group and I am amazed to see that they are telling all the teens all of this stuff. If i remember a few weeks ago at a meeting they said to use condoms is a sin now I know they meant that in a absence only kind of way but I don't think the kids understood that to well. Times are changing so fast and our youth needs to be taught acceptance of all people like I was told as a child. Don't you remember you mother ever telling you to be nice to the chubby kid? Or the learning disabled kid? Isn’t this the same type of thing?

i was raised to accept people for who and what they are. no matter what. so what if they are homosexual? i guess my mother being lesbian means i will burn in hell. thats according to there site.

 

[jadestar]

Okay, someone who's more fluent in the Bible than I can correct me if I'm wrong (which I may be, it's been a while since I read through it) but...

The two passages most often quoted as being "against homosexuality" are Sodom and Gomorrah and the two passages in Leviticus (thou shall not lie with mankind as with womankind).

Wasn't Sodom and Gomorrah also (and mainly) about inhospitality?

And the passages in Leviticus...those are in the section called The Holiness Codes. They also state that you can't wear clothes made of two types of thread, or plant two different kinds of crops in the same field.

As a sidenote, where is it in the Bible that it tells you how many pieces of silver you can sell your daughter for?

 

[DirkPryde]

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[alli_cat]

Okay, someone who's more fluent in the Bible than I can correct me if I'm wrong (which I may be, it's been a while since I read through it) but...

The two passages most often quoted as being "against homosexuality" are Sodom and Gomorrah and the two passages in Leviticus (thou shall not lie with mankind as with womankind).

Wasn't Sodom and Gomorrah also (and mainly) about inhospitality?

And the passages in Leviticus...those are in the section called The Holiness Codes. They also state that you can't wear clothes made of two types of thread, or plant two different kinds of crops in the same field.

As a sidenote, where is it in the Bible that it tells you how many pieces of silver you can sell your daughter for?

Well, I'm still using these painful online bibles (I'm at work!), but I'll do my best...

Genesis 19 has the story of Sodom. The basic gist of the story is that two angels are staying with Lot, and all the men of the city surround the house and demand that the angels be sent out to them, as they want to have sex with them. Lot offers his two virgin daughters to them instead, but they are not interested. The town and all its inhabitants are destroyed. Lot and his family (minus the curious wife of course) are saved from the town's destruction because of his righteousness in stopping the townsfolk from 'sodomising' the strangers.

Leviticus 18:22 is in the chapter where it tells you which family members you are not allowed to sleep with (!). It is written as one of the abominations that defiles the land. I do however find it interesting that the chapters prior to this also state (among other things) that ejaculating outside of intercourse makes a man unclean (Leviticus 15:16-17) and that a woman is unclean when she is menstruating (as is any one who touches her, touches her sheets or clothing, sits on anything that she has sat on, and particularly a man who has intercourse with her during her unclean days! Lev 15:19 - 24) *shrug* I find the Old Testament a bit disturbing at the best of times...
That wool/crops thing is from Deuteronomy 22.

I'm sorry, but I don't know how much silver a daughter is worth, couldn't find anything about it...