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Originally posted by tobster1911
A quick question for you, What do you use as a moral basis for your actions? What feels right? What you can get away with? Majority rule?
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I like to think that I have a fairly clear moral compass. This is based on the sum total of what I have learned and experienced in my life - and a good deal of common sense.
Live and let live. The Golden Rule. Rational, compassionate humanism. These are just phrases, but they are phrases which mean something to me and which, in shorthand, describe my personal moral compass.
I have a few gay friends who I like and respect. Their sexual proclivities interest me no more than the hetero who puts his wife in handcuffs and bonks her in a rubber suit. This is harmless stuff, and who am I to say that what I prefer in the sack is superior?
These are questions of taste and inclination - not moral absolutes - and certainly not absolutes dictated by some primitive text that can be interpreted and reinterpreted in any way you like to suit any purpose you wish - as the history of the church has amply demonstrated over the past 2000 years.
I repeat: It is extraordinary to me that rational people could seek a justification for their views about homosexuality in texts that are as primitive, racist, inherently ambiguous and of as questionable a provenance as the Old Testament and the Talmud. Think for a moment how primitive the writers of these texts were - and how primitive the societies in which they lived!
There have been more than 2000 years of science and learning and civilization - of enlightenment - since then that you are choosing to ignore for some primitive mantra.
Unbelieveable!