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LOL Gome, I meant to say "peaked" but hey, I wouldn't mind taking a peek!!
Melody
posted by
CunningLinguist
on July 13, 2006 at 7:36 PM
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Homosexuality was acceptable in the early days....
Not too long ago, I read an article that purported homosexuality as advantageous for the survival of early human societies. That fact that the tribe males traveled far and spent a great deal of time away from the hearth to hunt, homosexual relations helped male bonding and filled in the gaps between the periods away from the females. Likewise for women, homosexual relations with the tribe women eased the separation anxieties and loneliness suffered as a result of the males being away for long periods of time. During the peek years, sexual behavior is instinctive and sometimes uncontrollable. Perhaps that is how the homosexual gene became prevalent and in some cases endured the survival of the specie. Although, I suppose with age everything diminishes and asexuality becomes the adaptive lifestyle. Melody
P.S. A comment concerning teaching history and the contributions based on sexual orientation: it is my opinion that sexual behavior or preference of the individual is not a title or relevant to the value of the person. For education purposes, I don't think it is necessary to distinguish that J. Edgar Hoover was a cross dresser or that Da Vinci and Va nGogh may have had homosexual encounters. And conversely, so what if JFK was a heterosexual.
posted by
CunningLinguist
on July 13, 2006 at 7:28 PM
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posted by
Xeno-x
on July 13, 2006 at 1:33 PM
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TVBlogger --it's all part of the game of organized religion
Where they purport to be the guardians of all that is righteous, the reality is that they are selling their philosophies just like everyone else. The truth has very little to do with this selling job, it is not self serving to tell the truth. Despite the miserable track record of organized religion in world history, if you ask 100 believers what single element will solve the world's problems, 99% of them will say more religion. It is like the man troweling his bath water to smoothen it out, it is a willful ignorance of the past, a myopic vision for the future and all wrapped up in an entrenched delusion.
posted by
gomedome
on July 13, 2006 at 1:18 PM
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I'm guessing...
that the lack of humility comes in part, from not being educated on their own history. I think a good series of Sunday school lessons would be "How we once excommunicated those who thought the world was round and who said the earth revolved around the sun." "How we once justified slavery through passages in the bible." "How we once denied women their rights because of the bible." And the last two weren't in distant history. There are some still living who remember those fiery sermons. Funny, I never saw those topics on the curriculum of my Sunday School classes. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
posted by
TVBlogger
on July 13, 2006 at 11:11 AM
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TVBlogger - yeah, no kidding
You would think that Christians would show a little more humility considering how many times they have had to accept that portions of their holy book are the redundant observations of primitive man. Instead, they put more effort into reconciling notions that cannot possibly be true with a reality that constantly refuses to comply. And we all know how they love to pick and choose whatever suits them from their holy book. I haven't as yet met a gay person who could "turn off" being gay, I haven't as yet met a gay person that could describe a time in their lives when they "decided" to be gay. Every last gay person that I have ever met in my life (appreciate that I owned a bar a few years back with a gay cliental) went through the same period in their lives at puberty that we all did. Where all of a sudden they had an interest in little Suzy sitting in the next row in class. Except in their case it was little Billy.
posted by
gomedome
on July 13, 2006 at 10:01 AM
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Choice? Oh puh-lease
In high school, my first boyfriend was gay. We all knew he was a little more effeminate and sensitive but as far as I was concerned, that made for a good first boyfriend... no pressure on me. However, I imagine he was feeling a lot of pressure. We lived in rural SD where homosexuality just didn't happen among us hard-working, red-blooded Americans. He was raised a strong Catholic as well. I'm sure he knew early on, but he felt so pressured that he married and had children before finally coming out. I often think about all those years of pain he must have felt. I think about the lives he disrupted by fighting his true feelings. And people want to say he "chose" that? Sorry, he didn't. He nature was his nature, despite his nurture. You'd think a religion that has so often used the bible to justify certain prejuidices that are later proven to be wrong, would show a little more humility.
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TVBlogger
on July 13, 2006 at 8:24 AM
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