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I think people who follow BYU law school consider Hafen to have been no Rex Lee.
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I don't really know anything, the more I ponder the issue about anybody's sexuality other than my own. But in discussing whether people are granular, binary, or trinary, straight, gay or bi, with a friend, she explained it, that perhaps it's more like this, as gayness among women appears to differ than it does among men.
She argued women often seek emotional connection and if they can get it from another woman, that's fine and if they get it from a man that's fine, and then it translates into a sexual connection. Not certain how true that is, but it was an angle I hadn't considered previously.
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"It's complicated" is the new "we don't know why they banned blacks."
Why do they think the fact it's complicated supports their bigotry? I'd respect them more if they just said gay sex is sinful, they don't care about the psysiology or psychology.
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Well I'm related to him by marriage and have been to his house on several occasions, and I think he is an idiot.
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I have a hunch he was not well respected by the faculty. It's just a feeling.
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*shrug* Okay.
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Laws in Science are disproven by exceptions.
However, a not-completely-correct law can still be useful. That is, in most cases, its predictions will be correct, or correct enough. Relgious law faces the same problem. It has a hard time with the exceptions. Gender is an eternal feature of every person, that was present in the premortal existence? Ok. What about intersex individuals? What do we do about them in the here and now? There is no unifying LDS religious theory that allows us to understand why gays exist. Sure, I know people like Tex have their theories, which they think are obviously correct--that it is a sinful choice not much different than an urge to steal, kill or rape. So we have people like this GA that weigh in, in the absence of a unifying theory, and it really just muddles things. On the other hand, as tempting as it might be to have a unifying theory, it is probably better that there is not one. Because there is a very good chance, in my opinion, that the theory would neither be accurate nor helpful. Let us each work out our salvation with fear and trembling. And about gays, treat them with love and dignity, invite them into our lives, bring them into our church family as far as they are "legally" allowed, and let God work it out. |
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