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All the scientific data everywhere (!), including pheromone studies, indicate basic sexual preference

is biologically determined, which makes God the only possible \"homosexual sinner\" in every reality equation!

It\'s all pretty well-detailed now, traced back to the moment of conception (hormone soup stuff) and beyond

(genetics). Just ask Jim Kohl about the pheromone research on homosexuality, for example. The everyday hormone

processes are also very different.

I usually shy away from discussing religion these days, after spending 14

tedious years at 2 Christian Universities (not to mention both Christian grade schools and high school), and then

teaching at a third one, but since there is nothing whatsoever in the Gospels negative toward homosexuality; and

given the theological controversies around the letters of Paul, etc.; and, since the old testament cannot

reasonably be taken literally (Given the horrendous literal things such as pillaging and plundering promoted

in certain places in the OT, we have to start with the OT as a collection of stories and histories about humans\'

relationships to God and go from there); it is more accurate to say that certain religious dogmas within

certain so-called Christian religions \"prohibit\" (ahem) homosexuality. \"Christianity\" per se is not

against being gay. There have always been many varieties of Christianity, many of which are fine with homosexuality,

and no evidence that Jesus of Nazareth was anti-gay. Some religious cultures, especially in the middle and southern

US, pridefully believe their brand of religious dogma is something like \"just real good \'ol basic

Christianity,\" when there is no such thing and never was. Christianity was originally some 200 (an educated guess

is all that\'s possible) fairly independent, loosely related sects, many with their own unique scriptures and

gospels. A good bit of variety remains (There are still active Essene or Gnostic branches, for example. And the

Orthodox religion is arguably the oldest, most traditional existing version of Christianity (not a different faith

altogether!), the religion from which the most popular branches of Christianity, including Baptists and Catholics,

all sprang).

Given the unambiguous science, it getting harder for aware Christians to deny, without

psychologically lobotomizing themselves (but never underestimate the power of denial among the religious), that

hating homosexuality is equivalent to hating the Divine gift of sexuality, which is equivalent to hating God in the

moment one has such a thought. As far as anyone can know at this time, the anti-homosexuality dogma is itself

sinful. By straightforward theological reasoning, antigay dogma violates Christianity at it\'s very center --

Jesus\' own repeated proclamation of the two \"highest\" commandments. \"Anti-gay\" is no more Christian than

Al Quaida is Muslim!

Interestingly, the clergyman who is president of the largest Christian

University in Oregon is gay as a three dollar bill (I knew him when he was a younger, more flaming unknown, and had

him as a teacher), and almost no one knows it or talks about it. It\'s hilarious to watch him running around now

trying to act macho now that he has political power.