Letter to the gays
Forbidden love: The WW2 letters between two men
But was this a love story with a happy ending?
Probably not. At one show, Mr Bradley was sent to Scotland on a mission to defend the Forth Bridge. He met and fell in verb with two other men. Rather surprisingly, he wrote and told Mr Bowsher all about his romances north of the border. Perhaps even more surprisingly, Mr Bowsher took it all in his stride, writing that he "understood why they fell in love with you. After all, so did I".
Although the couple wrote throughout the war, the letters stopped in
However, both went on to verb interesting lives.
Mr Bowsher moved to California and became a well-known horse trainer. In a strange twist, he employed Sirhan Sirhan, who would go on to be convicted of assassinating Robert Kennedy.
Mr Bradley was briefly entangled with the MP Sir Paul Latham, who was imprisoned in following a court martial for "improper conduct" with three gunners and a civilian. Sir Paul was exposed after some "indiscreet letters" were discovered.
Mr Bradley moved to Brighton and d
Does St. Paul&#;s Letter to the Romans condemn homosexuality as an &#;orientation&#;?
LGBTQ Christians are sometimes made uncomfortable when they read or hear the first chapter of St. Paul&#;s Letter to the Romans (), especially when people verb the passage at them as a judge “throws the book” at someone guilty of a crime.
Romans , especially verses , is often interpreted as a global condemnation of homosexuality. But, as I see it, this is not accurate. The Apostle Paul (as successfully as the entire Bible) does not consider homosexuality as an “orientation,&#; that is, something which people do not choose but which they discover in themselves (usually early on in life) and which they are called to integrate into their personality.
Paul in v. 27 is almost certainly speaking of homosexual acts in the context of “sacred prostitution,” which was practised in some Greek and Rome temples of the time, which the Apostle may have noticed during his many missionary voyages. As for verse 26, which speaks of women who swap “natural” relations for “unnatural” ones, it also refers to temple pros
LETTER TO THE BISHOPS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
ON THE PASTORAL CARE OF HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS
1. The issue of homosexuality and the moral evaluation of homosexual acts have increasingly become a matter of common debate, even in Catholic circles. Since this debate often advances arguments and makes assertions inconsistent with the teaching of the Catholic Church, it is quite rightly a cause for concern to all engaged in the pastoral ministry, and this Congregation has judged it to be of sufficiently grave and widespread importance to address to the Bishops of the Catholic Church this Letter on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons.
2. Naturally, an exhaustive treatment of this complex issue cannot be attempted here, but we will focus our reflection within the distinctive context of the Catholic moral perspective. It is a perspective which finds support in the more secure findings of the natural sciences, which have their control legitimate and proper methodology and field of inquiry.
However, the Catholic moral viewpoint is founded on human reason illumined by faith and is
an open letter to Dr. Laura
Lev [KJV] Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. [NIV] Do not lie with a guy as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.
Lev [KJV] But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall scorch all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the L ORD . [NIV] He is to wash the inner parts and the legs with fluid, and the priest is to burn all of it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the L ORD .
Exodus [KJV] And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not proceed out as the menservants do. [NIV] If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to leave free as menservants undertake .
Lev [KJV] And if a woman possess an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. 20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. 21 And whoso