I think people with a vested interest in the Bible (this includes the Jewish, and their use of only the Hebrew scripture) really need to do some self examination before applying it's 'condemnations' to others.
I'm really dumbfounded as to how homosexuality is such a hot button issue to bible humpers...when there are clearly more relevant guidelines in the scriptures to thier own heterosexual capitalist lives that they ignore.
And yes...it is indeed choosing what you wish to accept/believe/enforce when you attempt to declare homosexuality is immoral while looking at porn, having unmarried sex, or not beating your slaves within established limits... None are a held as a greater sin than any other.
I think the real problem here is simply fear of differences. You cannot understand why someone might be gay, and thus hold it in a state of contempt. I think I would be less offended by legal roadblocks to homosexual equality if I saw equal effort poured into making pre-marital sex, porn, and eating meat not properly bled illegal as well.
The whole debate is completely ludicrus, and is tiring beyond words.
While I respect your 'live and let live' philosiphy on the subject, Pen...I imedately realized you're nowhere near impartial on the issue when you decided that: "If it's not OK to sleep with one's sister, or one's mother, or one's step mother, or one's aunt, or one's daughter, and I think most people will agree about that, then why is it suddenly OK for men to sleep with men" was the most rational comparison you could come up with.
That's absolute bullshit, as there are far more relevant examples of sins held on par with homosexuality that each and every one of you is guilty of day in and day out.
That's all I have to say on the subject.
