You have the wrong perception of the clergy. They don't make the rules, except some in the Catholic religion, they are spiritual leaders, people that spend years learning the Scriptures.

not true. you have to have faith. even of things you can't understand.

Yes, the word "normal" means average and indeed hetero is the behavior which falls in the average range. Homosexual behavior would fall on the negative side of the bell curve as it has no procreative result.

It's been my observation that one needs to be a philosophically minded person to understand the bible. The number of such people is very small, again, from my experience. So, I'd wouldn't be inclined to trust a member of the clergy unless they could really realy give a global interpretation of their religion, and do so repeatedly.

To many normal means the way things are meant to be, anything else is an aberration.

Normal means naturally occurring. It is "normal" for a small percentage of people to be gay. They may be on the edge of the bell curve, but they are there nonetheless. Indeed, it would be abnormal for the bell curve -- or an actual bell -- not to have a rim or edge.

No... for everything to be the way it was "meant" to be up to an ideal, is utopian. The extreme opposite of which is a dystopia. Life for most people happens to exist somewhere between these two points.

Utopias are actually extremely individualistic. How many of you would enjoy living in the late Jerry Falwell's perfect world as he envisioned it in his pre-humus pea-sized brain?

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WHYY pays their CEO $750,000 a year. So WHYY should I renew my membership? Seems they have no problems finding money and spending it unwisely.


And this is why you should donate to PACCA, not PETA:

In September, PETA made headlines in Vermont and across the nation for asking Ben & Jerry's ice cream to use human breast milk in their ice cream, instead of cow milk

Yes, that doesn't mean those edges are good, especially that left side. Intelligence falls on such a curve and on the left you have people people less bright than a dog.

They occur naturally or due to random events, but most people would rather they didn't. Homosexuality is not quite the same tragedy but it still falls into the negative.

While its "normal" to have gay in society, that doesn't validate gay as being normal.

I think you have just created an oxymoron. Congrats.