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Every direct reference to homosexuality in the Bible is a reference to rape. Dannymac Send a noteboard - 12/05/2011 04:12:43 PM
In the Old Testament, the objection was to the tradition of raping foreigners in order to establish dominance over them that was actually fairly widespread. Paul's words on "taking a man as if he were a woman" referred to the Greek tradition of wealthy men buying slaveboys to dominate.

Needless to say, rape remains firmly condemned.

There are no references to consensual homosexual sex between men in the Bible (unless you want to make an argument for David and Jonathan, a positive Biblical relationship) and no mentions of lesbian sex whatsoever.

Even if you ignore all of that and make the extremely tenuous argument that homosexuality is a sin, so what? If we want to make the argument that sinners can't be pastors, we won't last long.
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Your church has a constitution?! - 12/05/2011 03:36:41 AM 846 Views
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Every direct reference to homosexuality in the Bible is a reference to rape. - 12/05/2011 04:12:43 PM 862 Views
Every single word that you wrote in your response is complete bullshit. - 12/05/2011 05:50:07 PM 992 Views
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Re: Oh, is that how we're playing this, then? - 13/05/2011 07:02:35 PM 861 Views
I'm not playing. I'm pointing out some glaring errors on your part. - 13/05/2011 07:25:08 PM 782 Views
Danny will correct me if I'm wrong, but... - 13/05/2011 09:55:14 PM 983 Views
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??? the bible was harsher on homosexulaity than on rape - 12/05/2011 06:56:43 PM 843 Views
Read Judges. - 12/05/2011 07:17:29 PM 843 Views
Another example... - 12/05/2011 09:19:52 AM 774 Views
That's what people said about churches opposing slavery. - 12/05/2011 04:06:26 PM 837 Views
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Cool cool. I have a question on a semi-related note, about Protestant Gospels - 12/05/2011 05:33:49 PM 887 Views
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