[How would you handle this:] Religion & Homosexuality

Not trying to be ignorant or anything, and i am totally serious on this,

I have never been able to understand bi-sexuality

I understand homosexuality, people who find the same sex attractive, but been bi means you dont really know what you like right?

How is that even possible? Are bi-sexuals just homo sexuals who are too afraid to openly admit that they are 100% gay?

 

Look at history, it is cultural......

Romans and Greeks were bi-sexual....it seems...or it was an accepted practice.

DD

 

I think true bi-s are just attracted to persons of either sex; it's not that they just don't know.

 

... but it is my understanding that most of that "classical" male/male homosexuality was Man/Boy.

 

Chalk up another vote for let it go.

 

I don't want to derail the thread and I am interested in an open discussion on the subject to hear a range of opinions so I'm going to start a second thread in the D & D on the matter if you don't mind posting a response there. Let me know if you do and I will email you separately.

 

I think this might be another D & D subject but my understanding is that human sexuality isn't an either or thing and that most humans run a gamut ranging from strictly heterosexual to strictly homosexual sort of like people are left handed or right handed to varying degrees.

It seems like bi-sexuality is more prevalent in women than men but I'm wondering if that may have to do with culture more than biology.

 

let go and let god, lynus. God, forbid someone with an opinion other than our own... right? (no... not right). if you've done without having him as a friend for this long, then surely you go a tad bit longer.

 

Tell him you consider his anti gay opinions the opposite of Christ like. And that when God warms his heart to the truth that you will revisit the subject with him.

But that you forgive him and will pray for him.

They HATE that.

 

when is the last time you had sex with him

 

If its possible for a man to be attracted to a woman, and it's possible for a man to be attracted to another man ... why wouldn't it be possible for a man to be attracted to both to varying degrees? I never heard that there's some sort of on/off switch in the brain that makes someone straight or gay. People aren't computers.

 

That's pretty good.

 

try to seduce him

and then when he succumbs to it, say "GOTCHA b****"

 

This made me laugh and would probably work.

I think the key to your post was that you hadn't talked to him in 8 or 9 years. History.

 

Ditto... my sentiments exactly. Once a person is that brainwashed into thinking one way, its very hard to communicate with them on any level that is different than their own.

You aren't going to be enriched by knowing and talking to him any more, I'd say drop him.

 

My god not to derail this thread or anything but i think this is the first time I've seen DD post without ending his post with DD.

 

I think you may be projecting and assuming too much about what the guy thinks and the psychological motivations for his behaviors. You seem to have very entrenched positions about religion and homosexuality -- probably as entrenched as your "brainwashed" friend seems to you -- that may be getting in the way of understanding where your friend is coming from. (Of course, it may simply strike me that way because I don't agree with your positions.) If you're interested in keeping the friend, I'd suggest talking to him more about the subject just to listen to and understand his position without trying to argue with him about it. Being friends with many brainwashed nuts myself, I recognize the outlines of the philosophy the guy seems to espouse, but you seem to see it as outsiders do. I'd also point out that it is hard to immediately talk a common language on a complicated subject with a guy you haven't known for a decade.

Of course, it's also fine to just drop it.

 

Judge Not Lest Ye be Judged = Mind your own ****ing business.

 

Move along.... Time changes people, and if you are taking the friendship angle and wanting to "help" him, remember that people have to want help before they are willing to accept it. Regardless, as someone else said, move on, and maybe down the road your paths will cross again in a more amiable situation.

 

out of curiosity, since it was a baptist university in abilene, would it have been hardin simmons university? if so, you cannot understate the degree of christian crazy running around that place.