"I might be misunderstanding your comment so I have decided that it is better to ask. What do you mean by this comment, please? This is not in any way negative nor is it any type of challenge - I'm just a little confused by your comment. Thank-you."

"That is not a simple difference of translation, such as the difference between "He hath spoken to them" or "He spoke to them"... it is focusing exclusively on the Hebrew words concerning the type of 'love' they felt for each other using Strong's lexicon which theologians across the world use. My not being Christian does not change the implications of that. It is the translation that all churches who have abandoned the mistranslations of the past, and who fully welcome gays into their congregations are using. As to 'minding my own business'... I and any other gay person have had a lifetime's worth of certain 'Christians' and certain congregations not minding their business and attempting to deny us both our humanity and our freedom. The time has come to reverse that trend."

"Your not being Christian in my view speaks to your authority to say that some Christian churches espouse a theologically correct doctrine and some espouse a theologically incorrect doctrine, that some use the correct Bible and some use the incorrect Bible. I really don't see much justification for that. I say pick your Bible, be happy with it, and let everyone else be happy with theirs. The idea that some religions are better than others is I think a dangerous view. But if you don't like certain Christians using their Bible for social activism, why don't you just focus on defeating them on the secular battlefield?"

"It's not anything mysterious, especially since same-sex warrior relationships were not only common at the time, but revered throughout many cultures. I suggest reading the epic 'Gilgamesh' which was known by every civilization in the Middle East at the time, including the Israelites... it simply boils down to common sense: "For those who will bend over backwards in an attempt to say it was only a 'friendship', I'd like them to share how many well-known examples they can provide of heterosexual male 'friends' making 3 sacred covenants of 'love' and devotion to each other... disrobing completely and giving their clothes, weapons, and heart to their friend... having the father of one friend trying to kill his son's friend solely because they were 'friends', while also stating to the other friend that his love for him "surpasses the love of any woman."

By their reasoning... there should be hundreds of similar detailed, explicit, and well-known heterosexual examples readily available for them to contribute.








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