But this is the rhetoric that is working within the churches these days. Supporting the “it’s not a choice” perspective from the outside might be inappropriate “appeasement” while sort of letting it happen and not going off on it when it happens inside (i.e., not derailing a relatively positive argument because we don’t like some important details) is probably not a bad thing.

This is an excellent area to explore the whole appeasement and framing discussion.

Greater people than me have said this better, but if it doesn’t cause any harm, then what’s the problem?

Tutu is Bantu and is one of five individuals from Khoisan and Bantus lineages to have their complete genomes sequenced. This is relevant for African Americans as well as all population groups to better understand variance that may lead to disease.

What is unusual about Tutu is his willingness to be public (not anonymous)about their part in the study. It is very interesting research that correlates language and location of origin in the Y chromosome.

Take a look at the article titled “Complete Khoisan and Bantu genomes from southern Africa” at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7283/full/nature08795.html

Makes you wonder why people still bother to include the OT and Paul’s epistles in the Bible. Probably because they’d end up with a rather unimpressive booklet that would no longer support many cherished beliefs.

Ever since I reading that book, I have realized the so self-defined apostle Paul was a johnny come lately glorifying himself using the burgeoning groups of Jesus’ followers. It was Paul who introduced the Greek, Roman and Zoroastrian messianic iconery onto Jesus’ life and teachings to get the ‘Christianity’ of today which the early followers of Jesus rejected and is the reason for all the letters of Paul trying to persuade and force his views into the groups. Once the Roman government adopted it then the different councils went about purging and rooting out groups having alternative understanding of Jesus’ teachings.

IMHO, The idea of modern homosexuality as being evil was constructed out of OLD TESTAMENT Jewish religious documents mostly for tribal directives like food and clothing to separate tribe’s identification from surrounding arab tribes and to keep the tribe’s population insular and strong. God commanding or declaring anything gay=evil is fantasy fabrications. Sodom and Gomorrah of townspeople attacking Lot wanting ‘to KNOW’ his visitors or who they were, my interpretation, had more to do with perversion represented by social gossip and paranoia into other people’s business. The normal opening of one’s house or tent to travelers in hospitality taken to nearly kidnapping like non-consentual levels. The ‘knowing of strangers’ wasn’t homosexuality but if it was licentiousness sexual akin to forced non-consensual sex was being the required for travelers/visitors to accept to be polite.

If they were destroyed by natural disasters we all know God would have nothing to do with it. If anything like Rome and many ancient towns. people were unsafe with fire, bedding, inflammable and such and probably a mass fire or some outside group purposely caused the fires and then chalked it up to God.