Jamal, if you and James would register you could partake of the balance of this forum where you will see that I do specifically say that the perversions ever-straights assign to gay men are also practiced by straights.
As to who homosexuality harms, it harms themselves, their families, friends, children, etc. but so does divorce and adultery. Do you think Troy Perry's wife and children danced with joy when he deserted them ran off to Los Angeles and started the UFMCC? How does homosexuality harm those in the life? Homosexual men live an average of 40 years, compared to the general male standard of 70+. Lesbian life expectancy is 45 years, compared to a heterosexual woman’s 76 years. (CDC)
AIDS is contagious almost exclusively through behavior, and modification of that behavior can reduce future AIDS cases virtually to zero without another penny spent on research and without a single medical breakthrough, which would save this nation and other nations trillions of dollars. So immoral sexual practices, gay and straight hurt the moral individual who pays through the nose for medical coverage and taxes because of gross immorality.
The CDC has found that gay men contract diseases more frequently than straight men by the following exponents:
- Syphilis – 14 times
- Gonorrhea – 3 times
- Genital warts – 3 times
- Hepititus B – 8 times
- Scabies – 5 times
- Penile infections – 30 times
- Anal infection – 100 times
- AIDS – 5000 times
When James appealed to Romans 13 I simply used his verse to show that Lev 18:22 violates "love your neighbor". As to Jesus not seeing homosexuality in Judea that is ludicrous since Judea was a Roman province with Roman Temples, soldiers, and Roman citizens and homosexuality has existed in Asia, Europe, and Africa for millennia. Jesus addressed specific questions, which leads us to His discussions of human sexuality where He affirms that a life-long marriage is one man with one woman as God’s design for human sexuality.
As to AIDS, that is one subject James did not bring up, however if you want to discuss AIDS, it origins, and transmission I started an AIDS thread in the registered users forum.
Yes, I did threaten to close this thread if James continued with his infantile attacks. And you like James have chosen to deal in personalities and personal opinions.
2 Peter 1:20-21
20 But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, 21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. NAS
2 Timothy 3:1-8
1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; and avoid such men as these. 6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 And just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected as regards the faith. NAS
2 Peter 3:1-7
1 This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, 2 that you should remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your apostles. 3 Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, 4 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation." 5 For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, 6 through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. 7 But the present heavens and earth by His word are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. NAS
The gay political and religious movement we see today is a comparatively new movement since it has only been in the last 150 years that the inerrancy of the Scriptures have been questioned by men and only 30 years since the APA removed homosexuality from the DSM III, an action not supported by the majority of the APA’s membership.
So what is love?
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
4 Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. NAS
Whose truth, God’s or man’s? If we can agree that it is God's truth then where do we find God's truth?