On the wall of our church office:
The bible contains 6 admonishments to homosexuals and 362 to heterosexuals. This doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals, just that they need more supervision.
Posted by Fionnaigh at March 5, 2004 11:34 AMI love it! That is brilliant - I have sent it to my very religious mother! thanks.
Posted by: Cal at March 6, 2004 03:41 AMAnd at least one of them is actually an admonishment to bisexuals. "Do not lie with a man as you would with a woman" - in other words, if you're attracted to women, don't have sex with men, and if you're not attracted to women, you _must_ have sex with any man you share a bed with.
Posted by: darthsappho at March 6, 2004 10:06 AMdarthsappho: I would guess that this was an error in the translation, and that the meaning was intended to relate to homosexuals rather than bisexuals...
Posted by: Hayley at March 7, 2004 06:49 PMNo, the translation is fine - maybe not word-for-word, but the general meaning. As for the intention, well, surely god wouldn't have provided a message that was so open to such interpretations unintentionally. But actually, I don't think it's really taking bisexuals in to account; it just means don't sleep with people of a gender that you aren't attracted to.
Posted by: darthsappho at March 7, 2004 09:06 PM