The Gay Shibboleth
As a member of the United Methodist Judicial Council, physician James Holsinger voted with the majority to affirm Methodist teaching that bans practicing homosexuals from ordination. Holsinger also wrote a white paper for the denomination 16 years ago on the health hazards of gay sex and on the biological complementarity of the human sexes.
Should that bar him from serving (as President Bush desires) as U.S. surgeon general? It's not surprising that homosexual-activist groups like Human Rights Campaign think so. But most of the major Democratic presidential candidates agree. John Edwards was particularly harsh: "In a profession dedicated to healing and compassion, it cannot be hard to find a qualified candidate for surgeon general who sees all human beings as equals. … Holsinger's anti-gay writings and beliefs suggest that he will undermine, not advance, the cause of equality and fairness in health care."
The Boston Globe called for Bush to withdraw his nomination, since "no one should go into the job with a record of discriminating against people because of their sexual orientation." A Washington Post editorial called Holsinger's white paper "bigotry masquerad[ing] as science" and mocked him for this sentence: "In fact, the logical complementarity of the human sexes has been so recognized in our culture that it has entered our vocabulary in the form of naming various pipe fittings either the male fitting or the female fitting depending upon which one interlocks within the other."
"Is he a doctor or the Ace Hardware man?" asked the Post. Satirist Stephen Colbert went further: "For years, we have tolerated smoking just like we currently tolerate homosexuality. But the surgeon general alerted us to the dangers of smoking ...
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Rgordon
It's disingenuous for religious leaders to fret that the big, bad gay agenda is limiting religious "freedom." The enormity of the discrimination that gays and lesbians have faced--and still face--must be very difficult to imagine for somebody born as a heterosexual into a majority religion. If you were that concerned about personal liberty, where was your outrage when Matthew Shepherd was murdered? Or Harvey Milk? Or when scores of gays in "Christianized" African nations are tortured and imprisoned for no other "crime" than that of being gay? No, I have a hard time crying over the terrible social barriers that must be endured by Christians in America.
JIM COONS
So, now homosexuality is finally "normal" and those that disdain such behavior are "abnormal." The folks from NAMBLA must be very excited about their prospects. The decline is accelerating as “every man does what is right in his own eyes.”
Xeno77777
The Greek Philosophers, living in a Pagan Society where Homosexuality was very prevalent, declared Homosexuality to be a Bad Habit! Meaning like Drug Addiction, Drunkeness, being addicted to Gambling, Pedophilia. Anal Intercourse spreads sexually transmitted diseases far more rapidly than normal intercourse. In Kenya, there are prostitutes who have been servicing customers for years, many customers have HIV/AIDS, yet these women remain free of HIV/AIDS. Often, young boys are raped by older male in Homosexual Recruitment Rites. Anal Intercourse is so dangerous, that no under age male is mature enough to rightfully consent, no matter what the Supreme court Says. Congress men and women, are simply being too cowardly, in not gearing up for a try at impeaching Supreme Court Justices who say or rule otherwise. Christians must withdraw their support from cowardly congress persons.