There is plenty to save people from, we don't need God-ordered rape, genocide, baby killing, etc. Those are the things to which I have refered. I don't think God did any of those things, do you? Do you really believe that God ordered genocide? Rape of vanquished foes wives? The kidnapping and rape of virgins as spoils of war?
As a matter of fact, I don't.
What I do know is that the hebrews during that time were incapable of separating religious imperatives with political necessities.
That is why I'm happy to be a christian rather than a jew. At least I don't need to justify the torah with my moral sensibilities.
It's kind of funny in a way that you are soooo FIXATED on homosexual ass. One might suspect that your interest wasn't entirely intellectual. Can you grasp the simple fact that I am not a homosexual? That I've never had sex with a man? No, you probably can't, oh well, some people just don't have the mental horsepower to deal with reality.
And you would rather my remark be about homosexual ass, wouldn't you? At least you can intellectually deal with what you percieve to be a homophobe.
What you cannot deal with is that I am not a homophobe, and that remark was about your
MORAL RELATIVITY.
Try dealing with that.
Do you have any education in biology? Do you know what a birth defect is? Do you know that the AMA has been treating the transsexual birth defect successfully for more than 30 years?
It always tickles me when someone announces that all it takes to be a man is to have a penis. Part of the problem in the world today is that very fallacious concept: penis=man. Nums, did you know that besides the visible sex organs, that there are other sex organs and sexual characteristics out of sight INSIDE the body? Really! One of these characteristics is the distribution of hormone receptors, that is, receptor sites throughout the body that allow estrogen or testosterone to bind and interact with the body systems. There can be a dichotomy, a division, in which the body will have testosterone receptor sites but the brain will have estrogen receptor sites, this is a birth defect caused by hormonal problems during pre-natal development. Babies born this way can have all kinds of mixed sexual characteristics, no visible sex organs, both sets of sex organs, parts of both sets of sex organs, or visible male sex organs but female sex organs inside the body (and vice versa), or any of a wide range of other problems related to sexual equipment and develpment thereof. Do you think that these birth defects are because of the baby's "inclinations"?
It took nearly 20 years for me to go through puberty, I've never had anything like normal hormone levels in my body for either sex. My body has testosterone receptors and my brain has estrogen receptors. Simple tests administered by doctors can confirm this. We can't change the brain because we don't have the technology, but we can change the body to match the brain, hence we have sexual reassignment surgery to make the body match the brain as closely as we can.
All of your less than tasteful comments about homosexuality and feces are entirely your own invention because transsexuality is not about sexual orientation, it's about gender identity. Sex is between your legs, but gender is inside your head. This is another area in which you should do your own thinking because the Catholic Church is about 200 years behind the rest of the world on this subject.
A cursory google search brought this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity_disorder
Many transgender people do not regard their own cross-gender feelings and behaviors as a disorder. People within the transgender community often question what a "normal" gender identity or "normal" gender role is supposed to be. One argument is that gender characteristics are socially constructed[citation needed] and therefore naturally unrelated to biological sex.[citation needed] This perspective often notes that other cultures, particularly historical ones, valued gender roles that would presently suggest homosexuality or transsexuality as normal behavior.[5] Some people see "transgendering" as a means for deconstructing gender. However, not all transgender people wish to deconstruct gender or feel that they are doing so.
Other transgender people object to the classification of GID as a mental disorder on the grounds that there may be a physical cause, as suggested by recent studies about the brains of transsexual people. Many of them[who?] also point out that the treatment for this disorder consists primarily of physical modifications to bring the body into harmony with one's perception of mental (psychological, emotional) gender identity, rather than vice versa.[6]
Although evidence suggests that transgender behavior has a neurological basis, critics of GID denomination say there is no scientific consensus on whether the cause of transgenderism is mental or physical.[7]
In a landmark publication in December 2002, the British Lord Chancellor's office published a Government Policy Concerning Transsexual People document that categorically states "What transsexualism is not...It is not a mental illness."[8] In May 2009 the government of France has also declared that a transsexual gender identity is not a psychiatric condition in France. [9]
Some people[10] feel that the deletion of homosexuality as a mental disorder from the DSM-III and the ensuing creation of the GID diagnosis was merely sleight of hand by psychiatrists, who changed the focus of the diagnosis from the deviant desire (of the same sex) to the subversive identity (or the belief/desire for membership of the opposite sex/gender).[11] People who believe this tend to point out that the same idea is found in both diagnoses, that the patient is not a "normal" male or female. As Kelley Winters (pen-name Katharine Wilson), an advocate for GID reform put it, "Behaviors that would be ordinary or even exemplary for gender-conforming boys and girls are presented as symptomatic of mental disorder for gender nonconforming children."[7] However, Zucker and Spitzer[12] argue that GID was included in the DSM-III (7 years after homosexuality was removed from the DSM-II) because it "met the generally accepted criteria used by the framers of DSM-III for inclusion".
The GID controversy figured prominently at the 2009 meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in San Francisco, both in presentations in the meeting and in protests outside the meeting; protesters focused on the attitude of the psychiatric community and tried to make the point that GID is not a mental disorder, as well focusing on the role of Kenneth Zucker in leading the DSM-V Task Force on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders.[13]
Notice how your opinions about homosexuality and transgender flip-flop from one side of the controversy to the other?
If you really want to discuss this more thoroughly, you should create a new thread, though -- rather than ranting catholic this, catholic that, to whatever angry and hateful feelings you are currently experiencing.
