low me to very briefly use the Bible to smack these Bible thumpers, because Romans, Timothy and Corinthians â it does sound like an Italian leather bar â are not God or Jesus speaking. Those are all letters from the one and only St. Paul.
Now, Paul is a fascinating figure. Jesus is like this radical revolutionary liberal and Paul is his really conservative PR guy. Most of the sexual hang-ups of the New Testament come from Paul, who believed the world would end in his lifetime and generally thought people should be celibate like him.
Now Romans says, âFor this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another.â Slam dunk for homophobes, right?
when you read what comes before, Paulâs talking in the past tense about God punishing Romans for worshiping Roman gods. How? By giving them up unto vile affections. Theyâre not hooking up with each other to spite God â Godâs making them do it to punish them. In the fetish community, this is called âforced bi.â Or so Iâve read on Craigslist.
Whatâs more, if theyâre changing their ânatural use of the womanâ to burn in lust for each other, whereâs the gay part come in, homophobes? Theyâre not gay guys: Theyâre straight guys hooking up with other straight guys. Also very common on Craigslist, or so Iâm told.
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