Was it necessary to repeal DADT?

[*AQuietPlace*]

Originally Posted by JTULLOCK

Not all the people in the "darkest jungles" figure it out. You can disagree if you want because it is only my opinion versus your opinion.

ARGH, I wish I didn't need sleep!

You seriously think that the only way people know that male/female is the natural order is because someone tells them so?

[Tim Rutledge]

if all sin is sin and its all the same.. why would going to a queer wedding and trying to win them to the Lord be any different then visiting a pedophile and watching what he does when he does his sin.. you know we must show love and try to win the pedophile too.. we cant judge the different levels of sin. ohhh.. no answer.. delete the post. AFF hasn't changed much. if you don't or cant come up with an answer it must be an idiotic statement and I must have a mean legalistic spirit.

People are so afraid of offending people they have offended God.

[*AQuietPlace*]

Originally Posted by Mr. Smith

But you can't deny that your opinions have been, at least, partially shaped by the Christian culture, can you? It seems hard to say what we would have done if we had been raised in a completely different way.

Even in non-Christians cultures, homosexuality is not the norm.

[Mr. Smith]

Originally Posted by Tim Rutledge

what was your response in a nutshell..before its deleted.

I said I was amazed by your brilliant point.

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by Mr. Smith

But you can't deny that your opinions have been, at least, partially shaped by the Christian culture, can you? It seems hard to say what we would have done if we had been raised in a completely different way.

See this was the point I was trying to make. No one can say what they would believe if they believed differently because everything they have learned made them who they are now and to try and flip that around you can't because you still would be using what you were taught.

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*

ARGH, I wish I didn't need sleep!

You seriously think that the only way people know that male/female is the natural order is because someone tells them so?

Simply...yes.

[*AQuietPlace*]

Are y'all seriously going to try to argue that throughout history, Christian or non-Christian, mankind has not known that heterosexuality is the norm?? Homosexuality has always existed, but it's always been known as going against the norm.

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by Tim Rutledge

if all sin is sin and its all the same.. why would going to a queer wedding and trying to win them to the Lord be any different then visiting a pedophile and watching what he does when he does his sin.. you know we must show love and try to win the pedophile too.. we cant judge the different levels of sin. ohhh.. no answer.. delete the post. AFF hasn't changed much. if you don't or cant come up with an answer it must be an idiotic statement and I must have a mean legalistic spirit.

People are so afraid of offending people they have offended God.

Asked and answered....

[Mr. Smith]

Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*

Unnatural

That's my main concern.

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*

Even in non-Christians cultures, homosexuality is not the norm.

I am not arguing that homosexuality is the norm anywhere. I am saying that the norms as we know them are framed by what we are taught. Period.