First off, how old are you? Second, what is your educational background? Why do I ask these things of you?

First, your usage of the term ‘faggots’, and your failure to grasp simple grammar indicate the lack of a proper education, by either choice or educational grade level.

Secondly, the USSR does not exist today. It existed between 1922 and 1991. Russians do have rights, but are of mixed acceptance, depending on the rights involved: civil liberties, economic rights, and rights of the person. While they may share different views on these right than do other nations, they do have rights.

With so many educational weaknesses, how is anyone to take you seriously?

When you enter high school or maybe even college, come back an try again. Until then, share your opinions on the playground during recess with those of equal intellectual immaturity.

The people back then also had a differnet culture then we do know today. They may not have eaten raw fish like we do, but they hit thier children when they did bad. I dont know anywhere in the bible thier are children’s rights like this, so why is it outlawed today? No one gets hurt because of it, unless they come from a curropt family. I also think that because people don’t hit thier children and so, our children are so messed up today, tell me if im wrong.

I love how you progressives say you are supporting human rights, but really when you see a completely left government, such as the USSR do you see the russians having any rights? I don’t, because they dont!

About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”

“Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”

The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.

No mention of shellfish here. Only land and air creatures have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus. So Christians should take note: If you eat shrimp, crawfish or lobsters, you are going to burn in a pool of fire forever.

Corinthians does have this word of warning for women, however:

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.

Therefore women who speak in church are going into the eternal fondue pot, right along with the rest of us. (Look, there’s Joyce Meyer!)

Misogyny and homophobia were acceptable when these letters were supposedly written 1,900 years ago, as was slavery. (Ephesians 6:5-9: “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ.”)

Despite its biblical seal of approval, slavery is no longer acceptable. Increasingly so, neither are misogyny and homophobia.

Besides which, Paul, the purported author of the letters to the Christians in Corinth, was even more damning of extramarital sex than he was about homosexuality — which means that all you adulterers and sexually active unmarried couples are going into the broiler with the rest of us. Forever.

Look, using the biblical proscription against gay sex as an excuse to restrict the rights of gay people is a bunch of hooey. Christians of a certain ilk reflexively exaggerate the importance of these Biblical injunctions, making it seem like anti-gay edicts are a central theme of the Bible. They are not. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of other sins that are as grievous or worse.

When the day comes that these Christians start advocating restricting the civil rights of these other sinners — adulterers, fornicators, liars, people who eat shrimp and who work on Sundays — then I’ll believe their use of Scripture to justify restricting my rights is sincere. It will still be wrong and irrelevant since we live under a civil government, not a theocracy — but at least it will be sincere.

Otherwise, I believe people who use Bible verses to excuse their obsessive hatred toward gay people are lying to themselves. They need to look in their own hearts and ask themselves what they are truly afraid of.

The Bible is a Rorsach Test. What people see in it reflects who they are, which speaks well of you, btw. When homophobes use the Bible to attack gay people, they pick and choose the bits that bolster their personal prejudices.

I see the Bible as an ancient collection of stories filled with magical acts and universal truisms. It has no relevance beyond that to me or, in my opinion, modern life.

i sincerely hope i go to hell.

i want to put as much distance as possible between me and some of you folks here!