Saying that homosexual was not in Hebrew is a slightly false argument. The Hebrew describes an situation/act. Straight, gay, bi, opportunist, whatever are just modern labels that may be used in association with people who perform the act.
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think that things will ever change. The people who espouse > racism are teaching this to their children, and they will teach it to > their children as well, and on it goes. I do hope that some day we will > have not only racial equality across the board, but gender and sexual > orientation equality as well. But as long as racist parents teach their > kids to be racist, as long as men believe that women are inferior and > they teach this to their subordinates or children, as long as churches > preach their homophobic versions of the bible regarding homosexuality > (my favorites are when people quote from Corinthians or Leviticus and > use the word homosexual. They don't know that homosexual was not in the > ancient Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic languages. It was not introduced to > America until the late 1800's), nothing will change soon. Sad but true ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328952 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
