Senate passes repeal of DADT with 65 votes

[bullmoose88]

wow

obviously, no one could be that mad at BushOK.  Rather the true target of this outburst is the bible.

People usually don't get mad at books (like the Bible or Koran), rather, they get mad at how extremists interpret them.

At times yes, but one doesn't have to be an extremist to get the message from passages like this (Leviticus 18:22 (KJV)):

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My view tends to be the passages (whether put there by God or by man) like this are there for a very practical purpose (not so much per se, a moral mandate)...God's chosen people need to multiply etc...sodomy tends not to aid in that effort.  Therefore, since it doesn't...its wrong...

Now that's all well and erm...good? But perhaps...just perhaps...as eras change, as circumstances change, what's practical changes...and perhaps certain rules become...obsolete?  Maybe?  Just maybe?

[bullmoose88]

You do have to be an extremist to place an emphasis on that, though. Not only because hardly any Christians actually follow those laws* (and, indeed, most Churches would argue that Christians do not have to), but also because that particular proscription is not noticeably more severe than that for other sexual transgressions (so to speak).

*That is, the mass of them in that particular part of the OT.

Emphasis sure...to make it a crusade...you'd have to be pretty extreme...but to merely demarcate what's acceptable and not acceptable you don't have to be an extremist.  Do you?

I generally agree with you on the emphasis and place of those laws.

[bullmoose88]

Jmfcst (sp?) is making arguments that can easily be refuted (any commentary against Augustine should do -- Google is one's friend), but not by anyone posting on the Atlas Forum. In fact, it's the responses to him that make me cringe the most.

Well, if you have the magic bullet...then fire away.