Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia
Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:22:00 GMT
From:         Z_STAFF_CL@SOUTHAMPTON-INSTITUTE.AC.UK
Subject:      Re: Homosexuality

Date:        Fri, 4 Sep 1992 09:11:54 CDT
From:        THERESA BLACKWELL <TBLACKWL@EARN.USMCP6>
Subject:     JASON....

> If a person is Homosexual, heterosexual, or of any other
> orientation, let's just let God handle that situation with
> that individual... and let's just PRAY for that person.
> After all, didn't the "BOOK" say "...Ye that are Spiritual
> restore such a one, and consider yourselves, lest ye also
> be tempted"....

agreed.

> I was a victim of temptation as far as pre-marital sex went...
> Not only because of my love for the man I was with, but also,
> because I let the physical needs I had overshadow what GOD
> would have wanted for me.
> Because of this fact, I can't condemn someone for having
> the same happen to them... all I can do, is pray for them,
> and hope God will help them avoid such a situation... Believe me,
> IT AIN'T A PICNIC TO SEE YOUR PARENTS HURTING BECAUSE you
> made a decision that goes against God's word....

I appreciate what you're saying... I think I follow but I am not sure
I agree.
I do not equate homosexuality just with physical desire.
I am not sure that homosexual sex in a commited long term partnership
is the same as sex before marriage.  In a way it equates to sex after
marriage (no flames please - it is the only way I can quickly describe
what I mean.)
We are debating *if* the decision is against God's word.
Are parents hurt because things go against God's word or because of their
own conditioning/prejudices ?


> NOTE: *I'm not flaming anyone... I don't intend this
>        in that way... it's taken my situation to make me
>        "grow up" and pay attention to what God says do...
>        I used to make snap judgements about persons involved
>        in the situation I was in... Ya don't know how
>        THEY feel until you can honestly and truthfully say,
>        "I KNOW... I'VE BEEN THERE!"

That comment gives you another Innings in my book.  For get the earlier
strikes !

I think one of the reasons this conversation continues is because people
are trying to understand what people are saying to them in relation to
homosexuality.

It takes guts to be Christian and gay because neither community is
prepared to accept youcan really be both yet from what I have seen,
you can be and do it with integrity because you cannot just accept the
taught version you have to work every tiny thin through with God and
yourself.

Perhaps all Christians should try restarting their faith from stratch.

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