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SoCalCoug · 06-19-2008, 04:30 PM

I was thinking about this a little bit yesterday as I drove through west L.A.

I voted that the prohibition is because it contradicts the commandment to multiply and replenish the earth.

But it's not very logical, I believe, as applied to homosexuals, because the church's current position is that they should remain celibate - thus, they can't "multiply and replenish the earth" anyway. In other words, if they remain celibate, they can't multiply and replenish the earth, but they can remain in full activity. So, marrying another homosexual doesn't have any effect on their likelihood of "breaking" the multiplying and replenishing the earth commandment.

06-19-2008, 04:30 PM	#42
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	I was thinking about this a little bit yesterday as I drove through west L.A. I voted that the prohibition is because it contradicts the commandment to multiply and replenish the earth. But it's not very logical, I believe, as applied to homosexuals, because the church's current position is that they should remain celibate - thus, they can't "multiply and replenish the earth" anyway. In other words, if they remain celibate, they can't multiply and replenish the earth, but they can remain in full activity. So, marrying another homosexual doesn't have any effect on their likelihood of "breaking" the multiplying and replenishing the earth commandment. __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug