Comments | csberry: Talking about homosexuality with Calvin

csberry

Talking about homosexuality with Calvin

May 29, 2013 23:18

Tonight at the troop meeting, the Scoutmaster gave a very vague and general update about the vote last week about the policy change for homosexual boys. He mentioned the vote had to do with membership criteria, but each boy should talk to his parents about it since the subject was not something he felt he should address ( Read more... )

kids, scouts, sex

Comments 5

dudeitsawesome May 30 2013, 11:01:52 UTC

Yes, thank you. I think I was about seven when my mom explained homosexuality to me (in 1985...), and I certainly don't recall any conversation about buttsex, or any other type of sex.

howlin_wolf_66 May 30 2013, 12:54:31 UTC

Yeah, you can give him an overview without getting into the minute details… You did a good job. :-)

anonymous May 30 2013, 13:56:18 UTC

Well done. Suggest you find the UMC's statement on homosexuality and how we welcome homosexuals in our church, as we do all sinners (including me!). I think it's very well put. There's a difference between accepting people and condoning their behavior. If we are going to not allow the scouts to meet, then we should not allow divorced people, people with abuse problems, wives who nag their husbands, children who disobey their parents, etc. etc. to come or meet at our churches.

Also those you might review Romans 1, which not only reiterates homosexuality as a sin, but implicates that those who give "hearty assent" are also guilty. I get a bit frustrated when people(not you, just in general) excuse this as an OT issue only, or because only Paul wrote about it also doesn't apply.

Where I am right now on homosexuality and the Bible csberry May 30 2013, 21:50:09 UTC

You are correct that the OT doesn't have a monopoly on condemning homosexuality. It gets quoted most of the time, so I painted with a broad brush with Calvin ( ... )

Re: Where I am right now on homosexuality and the Bible anonymous May 31 2013, 02:53:10 UTC

Nicely put. This is Lesley. Too much typing for an iPad, but generally I think that the BIble is infallible: if my God is big enuf to create, save, and sustain the world, He can, did, and does, create, save, and sustain His revelation. And if you start picking and choosing what is true, it can get u in trouble. We already pick and choose what to follow and that doesnt work so well. Literalistic qualities depend. And sex and marriage are absolutely bound together in the Bible, and since marriage is the earthly portrayal of Christ and the church, there's a mystical and spiritual quality to marriage and therefore sex is missing a huge piece of that outside of marriage ( ... )