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HaloHope

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Phinehas its completely pointless us responding to each other as we clearly speak totally different languages.
 
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Dear Halohope,

Phinehas its completely pointless us responding to each other as we clearly speak totally different languages.
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Well they aren’t totally different languages or we wouldn’t be able to communicate at all, rather I think we have two different worldviews. However a sexual relationship must be a relationship that is sexual, somehow you seem to be claiming it doesn’t have to be. I am perfectly willing to support what I have said by quoting the dictionary definitions if you wish.
But you mixed ‘same-sex couples’ with ‘heterosexual couples’ Why didn’t you use ‘same-sex couples’ and ‘opposite sex couples’, or homosexual couples and heterosexual couples?
I personally would use same or opposite sex as the description because heterosexual and homosexual are the same as gay and straight and describe not the sex of the couple but the sexual attraction of the couple.

http://www.wordreference.com/definition/heterosexual
heterosexual, noun heterosexual person, straight person, straight
a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
heterosexual adj
sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
 
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Originally Posted by Polycarp1

I think this is the point that many of the "gay=sin" faction completely miss. There is a member here (presently not too active in DoH; name withheld because it's not my place to give out personal facts about him) who is part of a long-term gay "marriage" -- "marriage" in quotes not because I have any desire to disparage it; I respect them highly for it, but rather because it's not recognized as such by law, only in their hearts and in God's eyes. For some years now health has precluded their having an active sex life, but they remain as committed to each other, as deeply in love, as ever. Another example might be the Rev. Canon Jeffrey John of the Church of England and his partner, in the news a couple of years back. They remain together in a celibate marital union.

If the people trying to reduce gay couples' marriages to nothing but sex feel about their own partners the way they imagine the gays to feel, I have nothing but pity for those poor misused "spouses" who really deserve to be in a true loving supportive marriage instead of being their partner's sexual gratification tools.

Too, some people cannot seem to grasp the idea of a loving sexual relationship, and equate it to perverse use of animals or small children for sexual gratification. I hesitate to form any opinion on what their lives must be like.

I get very irritated about those whose mantra seems to be "The Bible is God's Own Rule Book for convicting humanity of its crimes, and *I* am the ultimate authority on what the Bible really says." We Anglicans told the Pope to go pound salt nearly five centuries ago for pulling that; it ill behooves us to begin doing it to others now.

No you didn't. Henry the 8th started the Church of England because he wanted to divorce his wives if he wanted to.
 
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