-sigh-
im queer. not flaming, not even active on it, because I have a fairly traditional view of Scripture, but...queer. It happens. so...
i kinda -get- gender nonconformity, especially since i was once a 'flamer.' im not now...and i think some of it may have been physically rooted (long story), but...
its -difficult- to not fit in. very, very, very difficult. what bothers me about the widespread deconstruction of gender and sexuality is that...it probably indicates moral and overall social decay. true story. camille paglia has written about this, she's brilliant. and...
-another sight-
johndb probably has a point. i existed on the very fringes of an urban gay subculture, in my late teens. -not fun-. thankfully, i wasn't in the middle of all that...but anyway...
again, i think everyone should be treated with dignity and respect, no violence. honestly, even though i dont want gay unions in the church, im down with -secular- gay marriage, as a civil right. but...
i saw, thankfully from a distance, some of the uglier aspects of the gay world, and...its not a healthful lifestyle, much less a godly one. drugs, alcohol, varying degrees of promiscuity and overall misery...
not good. :-( a couple heterosexual acquaintances told me, way back when i was younger, that when they wanted drugs, they -always- went to the bigger gay bars. what does that tell you?
of course...ive known -of- (again, mostly from a distance...thank goodness...) divorced people who were promiscuous, people in 'open marriages' who turned bitter and angry, etc...
doesn't work. the more one deviates from God's plan--and not just with sexuality, either, I mean with anything--the worse things get.
((End sermon, LOL))