# homosexuality is condemed by God **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 5, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644 "2004-07-05T15:06:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/61 "2004-07-06T07:24:49Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#): > > personally, I was chilled to the bone by the op’s anecdotal “cure” . > > I live in fear that my 100,000 (give or take) gay neighbors will wake up some morning and decide to sashay their buffed, manicured, color-coordinated tasteful & tight asses over to North Beach and start competing with me for pussy. With all the strays, there are more than enough cats to go around. Or are you a feline hoarder, you Mrs. Slocumbe imitator? ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/62 "2004-07-06T13:31:55Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > It’s enough to make you wish **FriendofGod** would stop back by! 😉 Truth be told, Poly. There’s nothing that would make we wish **FoG** would stop by. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/63 "2004-07-06T17:31:00Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > ::Crickets chirp:: ::warm breeze sighs in the acacia, rustling the thorns with a sound like the softly rattling bones of something long-dead:: ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/64 "2004-07-06T17:49:38Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#): > > personally, I was chilled to the bone by the op’s anecdotal “cure” . > > I live in fear that my 100,000 (give or take) gay neighbors will wake up some morning and decide to sashay their buffed, manicured, color-coordinated tasteful & tight asses over to North Beach and start competing with me for pussy. Now, you’re just not thinking this through. If all the gay _guys_ switch sides, so will the gay _women!_ Duh. There’ll be plenty of ex-lesbians around once this happens. ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/65 "2004-07-07T03:24:26Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#): > > personally, I was chilled to the bone by the op’s anecdotal “cure” . > > I live in fear that my 100,000 (give or take) gay neighbors will wake up some morning and decide to sashay their buffed, manicured, color-coordinated tasteful & tight asses over to North Beach and start competing with me for pussy. 😃 The women I know in North Beach have no trouble sorting out what they want. If we wanted the fellas from the Castro, that’s where we’d hang out. (not that it would do a bit of good…) So, where in the Beach shall I look for you? ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/66 "2004-07-07T03:28:22Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > ::warm breeze sighs in the acacia, rustling the thorns with a sound like the softly rattling bones of something long-dead:: _Claps with one hand_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/67 "2004-07-07T03:39:04Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > Ephesians 2:8 > > **For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God** Gotta like that ! ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/68 "2004-07-07T03:40:41Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > _Claps with one hand_ thats how he sins, too… ---
**Author:** ![Survivor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@Survivor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survivor)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/69 "2004-07-07T05:05:14Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#): > > personally, I was chilled to the bone by the op’s anecdotal “cure” . > > I live in fear that my 100,000 (give or take) gay neighbors will wake up some morning and decide to sashay their buffed, manicured, color-coordinated tasteful & tight asses over to North Beach and start competing with me for pussy. I don’t THINK so dear… There’s NO way we’re going to North Beach unless it’s to drag our visiting families to Beach Blanket Babylon… Geez, now I’m afraid to go to sleep tonight… you just scared me to death too! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/70 "2004-07-07T05:54:34Z")
> [@Leviticus 11:13-19](#): > > These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, and the kite and the falcon in its kind, every raven in its kind, and the ostrich and the owl and the sea gull and the hawk in its kind, and the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl, and the white owl and the pelican and the carrion vulture, and the stork, the heron in its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat. Now, did you hear that? _Stop that hoopoe-eating!_ You stop it right now, mister! ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/71 "2004-07-07T05:57:50Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Now, did you hear that? _Stop that hoopoe-eating!_ You stop it right now, mister! I’m already busy with my Bald Eagle kabob. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/72 "2004-07-07T06:24:00Z")
I never understood that list. ‘Yea, ye shall not eat the following birds-most of which are difficult to catch, or don’t have much meat, or both, and most of which are not generally eaten by any other people for those reasons’ I know of only one place where bats are regularly eaten, and then only because the local species is the flying fox (wingspan aprox 3 feet). The scene in Three Amigos comes to mind. And the ban on eating Raven just brings up a lot of Teen Titans jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/73 "2004-07-07T06:34:06Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I never understood that list. ‘Yea, ye shall not eat the following birds-most of which are difficult to catch, or don’t have much meat, or both, and most of which are not generally eaten by any other people for those reasons’ > > I know of only one place where bats are regularly eaten, and then only because the local species is the flying fox (wingspan aprox 3 feet). > > The scene in Three Amigos comes to mind. > > And the ban on eating Raven just brings up a lot of Teen Titans jokes. Kid Flash was never the same after that. ---
**Author:** ![alaricthegoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/74 "2004-07-07T18:40:35Z")
> [@Survivor](#): > > I don’t THINK so dear… There’s NO way we’re going to North Beach unless it’s to drag our visiting families to Beach Blanket Babylon… > > Geez, now I’m afraid to go to sleep tonight… you just scared me to death too! > > :eek: Well, I am vastly relieved. Can I get that on paper? (and what about your friends–will they all take the oath?) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/75 "2004-07-07T18:52:43Z")
> [@Mockingbird](#): > > I’m already busy with my Bald Eagle kabob. I’d be worried, bro – notice what’s not on the list of prohibited birds? ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/76 "2004-07-07T18:58:22Z")
I see that **Brewster2** joined this month as a guest. Let’s just hope his IP address has been logged and his free membership runs out as quick as possible. I found a very appropriate word for a person like him/her: [CHRISTARD.](http://thewaronfaith.com/banners-4.htm) ---
**Author:** ![alaricthegoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/77 "2004-07-07T18:58:37Z")
> [@Sassy](#): > > 😃 The women I know in North Beach have no trouble sorting out what they want. If we wanted the fellas from the Castro, that’s where we’d hang out. (not that it would do a bit of good…) So, where in the Beach shall I look for you? Can you dance? ---
**Author:** ![alaricthegoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/78 "2004-07-07T19:07:14Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Now, you’re just not thinking this through. If all the gay _guys_ switch sides, so will the gay _women!_ Duh. There’ll be plenty of ex-lesbians around once this happens. Not necessarily. The great tragedy that stalks the lives of gay men and straight women is that they are both doomed to choose men for life partners. Men, as we know, are dogs. Ergo, even if gay men were to suddenly experience a biochemical epiphany as described, there’s no guarantee that lesbians would suddently prefer my puny eleven and a half inches of flesh can over fifteen inches of lucite that turns through two and a half corkscrews (and a half-gainer), bending in ways that I simply cannot. It is fortunate that so many women are, apparently against their own long term best interests, addicted to real dick. Otherwise we’d be in serious trouble. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/79 "2004-07-07T19:39:51Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Well, since there’s nothing else to talk about… Eve, those are some long legs you got there! 😃 _sniff_…_sniff, sniff_…uhoh…heads up **brewster2** , the smell of potential fornication is in the air!! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644/80 "2004-07-07T19:56:12Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > _sniff_…_sniff, sniff_…uhoh…heads up **brewster2** , the smell of potential fornication is in the air!! Nah—and I’m still miffed no one appreciated my “Colossus of Rhoda” joke. I was very proud of that one . . . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-is-condemed-by-god/253644.md?page=5)