Not to be rude, you know I appreciate you PS - but really is there any indication that he was straight? Isn't it more accurate that the source is entirely mute on the subject and we get to inject our own biases onto him? Sure we can play the odds and say he was likely "straight" (as if we can apply our modern cultural definitions so broadly), but we can also interpret his body of work and say he was a Stoic aesthete who rejected sexuality from a philosophical point. Indeed, he said much more against straight sex and raising a family than qualified anti-gay statements.
Now that is brilliant void eater. I wish I could think of stuff like that! By the way...PS's response to it was quite reasonable and compelling as well. I am finding the more I read of PSacramento the more I appreciate him. I think I have been away from JWD too long.
On another note: I have always found it puzzling that many Christians (my Baptist neighbor for one) are able to seperate the "sin" of homosexuality from the "sin" of a man and woman living together and/or having sex together without marriage. Where does the Bible seperate off the "sin" of homosexuality from that sin? Yet many Christians see these two situations as being totally different!
Interestingly, my neighbor has been married 4 times (really) and divorced 3 times. His last marriage produced two sons who live in another state. He has a son with his current wife as well. Knowing this I was completely floored when he declared one day when we were talking: "homosexuals are destroying family values". I asked him how they are doing that and he didn't have an answer, other than to ask how he would explain it to his son (from his current marriage) if he saw two men walking down the street holding hands? I said: "Well, how about saying to your son, if he asks about it, that they are two men holding hands, but that you don't agree with it due to your beliefs, if that bothers you so much?" He didn't say much, other than to repeat that he still felt that homosexuals were undermining family values.
I admit I was a bit frustrated with what he was saying, so I asked him: "what undermines family values more, two men walking down the street holding hands, or three divorces and two sons who don't see their dad?" Maybe not the most subtle thing I have ever asked, but it resonated with him as he admitted that I had a point. He hasn't made a comment about homosexuality in front of me since, although I am quite sure he still feels the same way. But something to think about...
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