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(Continued from previous page) from Romans I what is the longest reference to homosexuality in the New Testament, which can easily be seen as having been yanked out of some larger context by anybody who bothers to notice its first eight words; "For ithis cause God gave them up unto vile affections; for even their

women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust

toward one another; men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient."

idolatry, that is, the neglecting of timeless spiritual matters in the pursuit of transitory, earthly things.

connected with idolatry, including "back-biting," being proud, being deceitful, and being

unmerciful.

Considered in context, not Falwell also does not mention only does the passage not seem that Romans is a continuous disto refer to homosexuality per se, cussion not interrupted by the it also does not seem to refer to chapter and verse 'notations. "homosexuals" at all. The pas-(Chapter and verse divisions are sage seems to be saying that certain people are engaging in homosexual acts contrary to their own usual inclinations as a sort of built-in punishment for idolatry. The idea seems to be that people who pursue earthly itless and that their activities matters exclusively become spirinevitably become empty gestures, and that ouf of jadedness and boredom, they begin dabbling in pleasures in which they have no real interest.

America! Falwell states very On pages 62 and 63 of Listen, emphatically his belief in the Fall of Man, his belief that all human pas-beings are basically corrupt and depraved and can only be saved by faith in Christ. Falwell does not explain why he regards it as being a horrible sin for some people to go against nature, when he insists that the basis of his Christian belief is the idea that every human being is by nature corrupt and depraved.

Falwell, like most anti-gay preachers who quote this sage, does not bother to discuss the obvious fact that the phrase "For this cause God gave them up unto" seems to clearly indicate that what is described here is the result of something, not the cause, the symptom and perhaps the punishment for some sin, not the nature of the sin itself.

Readers who bother to take a couple of minutes to read Chapter of Romans from beginning to end will clearly see for themselves that the quotation is from the middle of a discussion of

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Falwell, like those of his ilk, does not bother to mention that the acts described in the passage he cites from Romans are one example out of a list of about 25 examples of types of behavior

no integral part of any Biblical "text. They were added by later church leaders to make specific passages easier to refer to). Falwell discreetly refrains from telling you that the first sentence of Romans 2 says, "Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things."

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What Falwell quotes from Corinthians 6:9, 10 and Timothy 1:9 as referring to homosexuality per se are one or two phrases whose meanings in the original Greek no linguistic or Biblical scholar are entirely sure of.

As you can see for yourself, if you look up these passages, the phrases Faiweii quotes are located within lists of several different sins, and whatever the words say may actually refer to, there is absolutely no indication that the other sins are meant to be taken any less seriously.

For the sake of his own soul, Falwell owes it to himself to consider that included in the list of sins in Timothy are perjury in particular and lying in general.

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How to tell if you are dealing with a liberal or a conservativ Randomly throw rocks onto a stretch of sidewalk and go walking on with the person in question, watching to see the response when he c she falls flat on his or her face, perhaps getting a broken nose or lacerated chin.

A liberal will ask you for a subsidy for educating the rocks as t where their proper place is.

A conservative will lift up his or her chin, look straight ahead, an continue walking, after saying, "What rocks?" R.V

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