Like in this short:
Did they add "homosexual" to the Bible?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XVX_s_Bq4h8
The lady quoted was in fact right in the part she was quoted in. She may have meant sth else in which she was not quoted, in which she could be wrong, but in the words quoted, she was right.
Heterosexual males could:
- go to male prostitutes in the absence of female ones available
- or be male prostitutes for money, usually in case of poverty.
They would certainly fall under the category written about by Moses or St. Paul, but they would not be homosexual in the psychological sense of the word.
Remember, the word is actually psychological jargon. Substituting "homosexual" in 1 Corinthians 6:10 is as bad as substituting "cleptomaniacs" for the very next item.
A lier with mankind is a man who has on some occasion lied down in a bed with another man to do certain things. A thief is someone who on some occasion has stolen. Both terms speak of acts.
The words "homosexual" and "cleptomaniac" speak of what are supposed to be innate and deep rooted psychological "identities" so that these could both exist and also be identified even if never getting to the act.
And the danger of that is, partly, as with AA, identifying oneself with a sin, partly, you can guess and make up someone is homosexual and cleptomaniac, when it comes to lying with mankind or stealing, you actually need somewhat harder evidence.
Cyrus Pym and Michael Moon in a very brilliant novel by Chesterton:
“Most murder,”[Cyrus] had said, “is a variation of homicidal mania, and in the same way most theft is a version of kleptomania. I cannot entertain any doubt that my learned friends opposite adequately con-ceive how this must involve a scheme of punishment more tol’rant and humane than the cruel methods of ancient codes. They will doubtless exhibit consciousness of a chasm so eminently yawning, so thought-arresting, so—” It was here that he paused and indulged in the delicate gesture to which allusion has been made; and Michael could bear it no longer.
“Yes, yes,” he said impatiently, “we admit the chasm. The old cruel codes accuse a man of theft and send him to prison for ten years. The tolerant and humane ticket accuses him of nothing and sends him to prison for ever. We pass the chasm.”
[She's sometimes very right too, like here:
How Christians should view politics
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PidSdpWqG9Y]
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