God Is Not a Homophobe: An Unbiased Look at Homosexuality in the Bible
By Philo Thelos
... In 1 Cor. 6:9 malaikos is used in the metaphoric sense. Here it refers to persons who are 'soft.' The rendering "effeminate" (malaikos) designates the passive partner of a homosexual relationship, and "abusers of themselves with mankind." (malaikos and arsenokoites, [727]) denotes both the passive and active homosexual partners."
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‘Race’, Culture, Power, Sex, Desire, Love: Writing in ‘Men who have Sex with Men’
Andil Gosine IDS Bulletin Vol 37 No 5 2006
A 1990s study of several thousand Indian men led Shivananda Khan to conclude: ‘there are no heterosexuals in India’; local patterns of sex between men were not the exclusive practice of a few ‘homosexual’ men, his research showed, but were a part and parcel of general sexual practices, thus denying the characterisation of men engaged in homosexual acts as a minority, and of exclusive heterosexuality as “normal” (Khan 1998: 5). In many countries across the Third World, the introduction of western conceptualisations of sexuality have had the effect of marking practices that were previously tolerated as deviant and dangerous. For example, Oliver Phillips credits the famously homophobic leader, Robert Mugabe, as the one who:
… has not only been responsible for producing a conception of homosexuality in the Zimbabwean context, but also that of heterosexuality. All those Zimbabweans who have previously not even considered this notion of a ‘sexuality’ suddenly find themselves blessed with one – by designating others as ‘homosexual’ you automatically designate the norm as ‘heterosexual’. Many Zimbabweans suddenly came to see themselves as ‘heterosexual’, where they had no such consciousness before.
(Phillips 2000: 30)
Caribbean feminist M. Jacqui Alexander also points out that the criminalisation of homosexuality in most of the developing world only came about as a consequence of colonialism, and contemporary laws forbidding homosexual acts and relationships are revisions of preceding colonial texts (Alexander 2005: 21–65).No heterosexuals in nineteenth century England
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| Llew Llaw Gyffes  Join Date: 1 Nov 2000 Location: Milky Way Galaxy, Sol, Planet Three , North America, United States, Montana Posts: 11,255 | Weird show on the BBC... I've seen a couple parts of some newer TV show called "Tipping the Velvet" on BBC America, and as near as I can tell, the basic premise of the show is that there wereabsolutely noheterosexuals in nineteenth century Britain. Not a one.  __________________ Today I put on a terrible strength. invoking the Trinity, confessing the Three, with faith in the One as I face my Maker. |
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| Registered  Join Date: 22 Dec 2000 Posts: 542 | Is that what this is. Im here freakin waitin for "the office" and "manchild"!!!  arg! __________________ what do you tell a (insert hated SF here) fanboy with two black eyes? (beat) Nothing you haven't told him twice already. ...Ba Da Bum  |
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| Llew Llaw Gyffes  Join Date: 1 Nov 2000 Location: Milky Way Galaxy, Sol, Planet Three , North America, United States, Montana Posts: 11,255 | Quote:
Don't bother - they're showing nothing but that show all night. __________________ Today I put on a terrible strength. invoking the Trinity, confessing the Three, with faith in the One as I face my Maker. | |
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| Registered  Join Date: 22 Dec 2000 Posts: 542 | Dammit!! __________________ what do you tell a (insert hated SF here) fanboy with two black eyes? (beat) Nothing you haven't told him twice already. ...Ba Da Bum | |
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| Llew Llaw Gyffes  Join Date: 1 Nov 2000 Location: Milky Way Galaxy, Sol, Planet Three , North America, United States, Montana Posts: 11,255 | I know. No one in America wants to see that crap. __________________ Today I put on a terrible strength. invoking the Trinity, confessing the Three, with faith in the One as I face my Maker. |
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| Registered  Join Date: 7 Jan 2000 Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Posts: 3,190 | Think of it as pay back for Queer as Folk  __________________SUBLIMINAL SATANIC MESSAGE!!  | |
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| God Emperor of Earth  Join Date: 30 Aug 2001 Location: Imperium Australis Posts: 37,455 | Quote:
Well why do you think Australia was settled?, all the straight men had to escape the clutches of gaydom so the straight men set it up so they could get to Australia leaving all the gays behind in gay old England __________________"Man has killed man from the beginning of time, and each new frontier has brought new ways and new places to die. Why should the future be different?"- Col. Corazon Santiago."No Conqueror has ever suffered one pang of remorse over a surplus of victory"- Xenophon. Last edited by Es Arkajae; May 26th 2003 at 6:15am. | |
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Then why was it called a penal colony? __________________ "I think we should all eat rocks and air and water like the original Native Americans did for thousands of years. That should solve any enviromental problems. I also do crack." -LT Ryguy | |
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| God Emperor of Earth  Join Date: 30 Aug 2001 Location: Imperium Australis Posts: 37,455 | Quote:
Yes because all the good looking women had to move here aswell to get some __________________"Man has killed man from the beginning of time, and each new frontier has brought new ways and new places to die. Why should the future be different?"- Col. Corazon Santiago."No Conqueror has ever suffered one pang of remorse over a surplus of victory"- Xenophon. | |
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I only recently started seeing Manchild. It's not bad, plus it has Giles.  __________________ LORD WOODLOUSE AND GWEN ARE GOING TO WIN THE LONDON OLYMPICS FOR MALE AND FEMALE EVENTS RESPECTIVELY!! "And here I prophesy: this brawl today, Grown to this faction in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the Red Rose and the White, A thousand souls to death and deadly night." Warwick, Henry VI, Part One | |
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| Drunk Klingon  Join Date: 31 Mar 2003 Posts: 628 | Yeah... Sydney is a boiling cauldron of straightness [/rolleyes] | |
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| Registered  Join Date: 22 Dec 2000 Posts: 542 | Manchild is just what old Ripper does when he takes his breaks from the Scoobies __________________ what do you tell a (insert hated SF here) fanboy with two black eyes? (beat) Nothing you haven't told him twice already. ...Ba Da Bum |
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| Transistor Girl!  Join Date: 17 Aug 2002 Location: U.K Posts: 154 | Tipping the Velvet wasn't THAT bad. I mean, I'm no lesbian, but I enjoyed it. Then again, I do have a thing for period costume. __________________ Oscilations, Oscillations, electronic evocations of sound's reality! KORG. |
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| May 26th 2003, 3:46pm | ||
| Registered Join Date: 22 Dec 2000 Posts: 542 | It probably was good. I just hate having my weekly scheuled program interrupted.  Go screw with Parkinson Starburst and let me watch Manchild! __________________ what do you tell a (insert hated SF here) fanboy with two black eyes? (beat) Nothing you haven't told him twice already. ...Ba Da Bum | |
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| Retired Join Date: 19 Aug 1999 Location: In front of Satan. Watford. Inglande. Posts: 29,949 | Quote:
I'm slightly surprised it translates, culturally, into American. __________________ LORD WOODLOUSE AND GWEN ARE GOING TO WIN THE LONDON OLYMPICS FOR MALE AND FEMALE EVENTS RESPECTIVELY!! "And here I prophesy: this brawl today, Grown to this faction in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the Red Rose and the White, A thousand souls to death and deadly night." Warwick, Henry VI, Part One | |
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| Llew Llaw Gyffes Join Date: 1 Nov 2000 Location: Milky Way Galaxy, Sol, Planet Three , North America, United States, Montana Posts: 11,255 | Quote:
Perhaps it's a cultural or even a gender thing but I didn't care for a story of Britain evidently populated solely by communist lesbians. __________________ Today I put on a terrible strength. invoking the Trinity, confessing the Three, with faith in the One as I face my Maker. | |
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| Llew Llaw Gyffes Join Date: 1 Nov 2000 Location: Milky Way Galaxy, Sol, Planet Three , North America, United States, Montana Posts: 11,255 | Quote:
The people who run HBO are not Americans in any way that matters. __________________ Today I put on a terrible strength. invoking the Trinity, confessing the Three, with faith in the One as I face my Maker. | |
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| God Emperor of Earth Join Date: 30 Aug 2001 Location: Imperium Australis Posts: 37,455 | Quote:
Well we had to put the ones that got through somewhere , anyway ask Valdemar apparently it makes Sydney more creative__________________"Man has killed man from the beginning of time, and each new frontier has brought new ways and new places to die. Why should the future be different?"- Col. Corazon Santiago."No Conqueror has ever suffered one pang of remorse over a surplus of victory"- Xenophon. | |
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| Registered  Join Date: 12 Nov 2001 Location: The Court of Versailles. Posts: 3,285 | Quote:
I don't care for a story of Britain populated solely by communist lesbians, either! *crooked grin* __________________In 1966 the Soviets find something on the dark side of the Moon. In 2104 they come back. -- Red Banner / White Star, a nBSG continuation story. Updated to Podshort 2.1 | |
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| Llew Llaw Gyffes Join Date: 1 Nov 2000 Location: Milky Way Galaxy, Sol, Planet Three , North America, United States, Montana Posts: 11,255 | Quote:
Yes, I had a feeling you'd put your bit in on that. What the story was trying to do, I guess, was paint a picture of a 19th century British lesbian subculture, but it came off as a tale of vaudeville debauchery with lesbianism as it's gimmick. And then near the end they added in a communist political element which seemed to envision a glorious movement of heterosexual men and lesbian women united against the evils of capitalism. __________________ Today I put on a terrible strength. invoking the Trinity, confessing the Three, with faith in the One as I face my Maker. | |
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| May 27th 2003, 1:32am | ||
| Registered  Join Date: 12 Nov 2001 Location: The Court of Versailles. Posts: 3,285 | Quote:
That's actually pretty coherent for modern television. __________________In 1966 the Soviets find something on the dark side of the Moon. In 2104 they come back. -- Red Banner / White Star, a nBSG continuation story. Updated to Podshort 2.1 | |
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| Registered  Join Date: 25 Jun 2000 Posts: 26,393 | ROFL @ Marina. | |
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