Mr. Smart Ass
I consider your post amature and rather poorly elaborated. The connection between ADD and homosexuality is a stretch. One of the main problems with your argument is that you do not seem to have educated yourself very well on ADD/ADHD before using it as an example. So I will educate you.
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder seems to be what you are referring to when you speak of unruly children. Yes there are unruly children that do not have ADHD and probably just need to get a good smack in the head. When I was diagnosed with ADD as a pre-teen, the term used was ADD. This acronym is not used much anymore. Rather the new terminology is AD/HD in conjunction with a diagnostic level describing the symptoms. For a complete explanation go here: http://www.help4adhd.org/en/about/what/WWK1
If you go there you will find that there are 3 categories of AD/HD. A child with AD/HD is not necessarily a hyperactive or unruly child. Had this terminology been in place in the 90's I would have been considered a child with AD/HD-1. My brain just did not have the power to turn off the internal distractions and focus. My little brother is AD/HD-C. He is medicated, and I am not. He has benifitted astonomically from medication, whereas I practice (struggle with, really) daily concentration and study methods without medication. My brother and I are not this way because our parents failed to discipline us. Trust me, I had as much fear of that wooden spoon or hundred-mile-an-hour hand as the next child. And I certainly did not learn to be inattentive. My mom is a real-life wonderwoman. She has had a grade point average above and beyond perfect since the day she started school. She does a million other things and never does them poorly. AD/HD is just a part of who I am, that's all.
Do you really think that medical professionals completely disregard parenting when diagnosing a child? Poor parenting, unruly children, and AD/HD may all be a coincidence, or it may all be intertwined. But first, I would like to see your evidence of so many poorly disciplined children just having bad parents and having nothing to do with AD/HD.
Thus said, I consider your alikening of homosexuality to AD/HD a stretch, at best, and mostly just a weak link to your opinion.
It is not up to you who deserves to have children and who does not. Yes, you can have your opinion, and so can anyone else. We all know there are some people that definitely should not procreate. But it is not up to anyone else but those people. It's called democracy. You can have a child in America if you want. (yes I know not everyone arguing this topic lives in America)
One of the problems, in MY opinion, is your attitude towards other people's personal business. Once again, it is not up to you or ANYONE to decide what is the "correct" sexual orientation. Even if you do not believe in God and believe that it is God's will that we should love and respect all of his creation, you can at least understand that it is none of your high-horse business what other people are doing in the bedroom. This idea that homosexuality is a "problem" is... I'll tell you what. It's fucking annoying. If I decide I want to have a sexual experience with another girl, I'm going to do it and to hell with you if you think I would care what you have to say. I think I read in an earlier post a comment about this. So many men would just loooooove to see two girls experimenting with each other.
What do you mean we cannot explain homosexual behavior? Who asked for an explanation anyways? Animals have same-gender sex all the time. My ex-boyfriend's dogs humped every morning.
Behavior is learned, to a certain degree. I raised a kitten from week 3 until now (age 2) and he still behaves like a "normal" cat. How could he have known to attack my hamster if his mother hasn't been around to show him?
So. Come back at me with a response from real scripture that infinitely proves that God forbids homosexual love and intimacy, and I will listen to what you find. Until then, my opinion is that you have no grounds to make the exclamation that homosexuality is wrong.
Posted by anonymous at February 15, 2008 9:58 AMWell said and well written! Is that you, N?
I'm sure that Mr. Not-So-Smart-Guy can easily find passages in the Bible that support his version of reality, even if he is not really familiar with said tome. An online search will give him exactly the passages he needs to support his version of reality, so be prepared for a rebuttal.
Personally, I believe that the scriptures have some good advice in them, but c'mon---we're looking at writings from 2000 years ago, when it was parampont that couples procreate. The only way to support a family was to have children so that families had enough members to raise the livestock and crops to be self-sufficient. The infant mortality rate was much higher than it is now, and children often died from childhood diseases that have since been eradicated. This is why the Bible says, "Go forth and multiply." Well, we did that: now what? We no longer need to procreate to survive. In fact, we've procreated too darned much, to the point of overpopulation.
The laws we write today don't remain static; we change them as needed to keep up with the changes in population and society. The Constitution itself doesn't stand alone (what's left of it after the Bush administration has trampled and shredded it); it has amendments, and we continue to propose amendments to it. I'm sure that the Bible could use a few amendments, too. If the writers of the Scriptures could have seen 2000 years into the future, they would have worded things a bit differently. Of course, that is only my opinion. Anyone else is free to believe differently.
People will ignore the facts that do not support their beliefs. I notice that there was very little discussion regarding the articles I posted from National Geographic and the New York Times. When faced with the facts, close-minded, intolerant will just close their eyes and ignore them. They will cherry-pick things out of the Bible that support their beliefs, and ignore the parts that don't. The Bible is full of contradictions and ripe for cherry-picking, so be prepared for Mr. Not-So-Smart Guy to come back at you.
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Posted by: at February 16, 2008 8:01 AMYep that's me! It originally had my initial but since I posted instead it just didn't happen. Anyways. I should mention that I'm going to a private Christian school now. I have to read the bible for theology class. Trust me, there are times when I have hours on end in the library where I have nothing else to do but sit in the library and anonyblog or read the bible. I would be more than happy to find something to take up some of this time to rebuke Mr. Smart Butt.
I do think you made a good point there about updating the bible. There are things today (as far as technology) that our ancestors never even dreamt of. On one hand, sometimes the wording leaves ample space for interpretation and adaptation. On the other hand, some things are stated explicitly. Like love your neighbor.
Posted by: N at February 16, 2008 3:58 PMRoger on that one, N. There's way too little of the golden rule going around these days.
Posted by: at February 16, 2008 7:00 PMWhew! I just reread my comment (the first one) and oh, boy, what a nasty typo I made on the word "paramount." My bad.
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