In line with many owed responses I ought to give something full and appropriate, for there is much here that in substance I agree with, yet I suspect an unhelpful spirit behind it.
However, in typical fashion I shall merely take one idle comment and demolish it. Perhaps because from maths I know that taking out the smallest details often let's the whole thing collapse. More likely because it's easier than a full reponse.
"and they are not directly harming themselves or the church, there seems to be no further responsibility to harass them into compliance with our interpretation of God's will."
True, but utterly irrelavent to the question of homosexual practice.
Incidently you should avoid double negatives, I still can't tell what the sentence
"I've read more widely on the subject, and it has not convinced me that it is not at least one of those grey areas one should not tread into unless one absolutely has to"
Is supposed to work out to. From the sentences before and afterwards I'm guessing it means 'My research has left my prior conclusion unchanged'.
Finally in my bid to put several small remarks were you being imprecise when you said the issue was "too tolerent of homosexuals"; did you in fact mean "too tolerant of homosexuality" - a subtle but very important distinction, or do you parents genuinely disaprove of love being shown to homosexuals (the final clause contains rhetoric, entirely because I couldn't be bothered to expend the effort to find a neutral form, treat it accordindly).
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Date: 2004-10-31 03:10 pm (UTC)From:However, in typical fashion I shall merely take one idle comment and demolish it. Perhaps because from maths I know that taking out the smallest details often let's the whole thing collapse. More likely because it's easier than a full reponse.
"and they are not directly harming themselves or the church, there seems to be no further responsibility to harass them into compliance with our interpretation of God's will."
True, but utterly irrelavent to the question of homosexual practice.
Incidently you should avoid double negatives, I still can't tell what the sentence
"I've read more widely on the subject, and it has not convinced me that it is not at least one of those grey areas one should not tread into unless one absolutely has to"
Is supposed to work out to. From the sentences before and afterwards I'm guessing it means 'My research has left my prior conclusion unchanged'.
Finally in my bid to put several small remarks were you being imprecise when you said the issue was "too tolerent of homosexuals"; did you in fact mean "too tolerant of homosexuality" - a subtle but very important distinction, or do you parents genuinely disaprove of love being shown to homosexuals (the final clause contains rhetoric, entirely because I couldn't be bothered to expend the effort to find a neutral form, treat it accordindly).