I mean that is the basis against homosexuality, we can't go out and populate the planet, right? We're just having sex for the sake of having sex. Why is it alright for straight people to have sex, especially if they aren't intent on having a child? I'm pretty sure the Kama Sutra isn't a guide on how to get pregnant. Somebody clear this up for me.
2006-09-30 04:51:18 · 17 answers · asked by Andrew H 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Sex for procreation alone is mostly an idea promoted by the Catholic church.
It should be obvious to most thinking people that God didn't make sex just to have children. He DID make sex as an incentive of the survival drive in order to ensure mankinds' propogation on Planet Earth. But because of God's loving and creative personality I believe He also created it as an amazing means of:
1) Showing love and tenderness to another human being
2) Offering ourselves completely to someone that we love
3) Finding fulfillment in what some would call otherwise meaningless lives
4) Reaching a peak of spiritual one-ness with another human being
5) Stress relief
6) Continually "cementing" an on-going relationship in order to glue a marriage together, thereby providing a stable environment for children to be safely raised in
2006-09-30 05:02:34 · answer #1 · answered by LL 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That's the issue isn't it? It goes back to the marriage issue too, if you can't have kids or decide not to have kids you shouldn't be able to marry, right? The fact that some are straight shouldn't matter at all if the whole sex for procreation only argument is used.
Good Job of pointing out the hypocrisy.
2006-09-30 04:59:25 · answer #2 · answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have never said sex was a sin, mankind has decided this by taking my word and using it to its own advantage in the various power stuggles that have occured throughout the history of religion. I have given you the anatomy to use as you see fit, and if I see joy reflected in all that you do then it can only ever bring me pleasure!. Sex is not a sin, God has spoken!
2006-09-30 05:27:33 · answer #3 · answered by God 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you are talking Roman Catholic doctrine, then any 'spilling of seed' except in the attempt to make a woman pregnant is a sin, and must be accounted for in confession if you want to get to heaven.
If you are talking about Leviticus and the religious nazis who use the Bible as a weapon to try to persecute homosexuals, then their main contention is that homosexuality is a sin because of the story of Sodom. Actually, most biblical scholars believe this is a story about being punished for not being hospitable to strangers visiting the town, and has nothing to do with homosexuality (oddly, in this story, Lot offers his daughter to the strangers, which is unlikely to be useful to homosexuals!).
Anyway, you'd have to (a) believe in a mythological god, and (b) the equally unlikely option that god chose the pope, to be worried about this.
2006-09-30 05:03:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
its true they say that gays can't repopulate, and so many women are on birth control and they don't want to get pregnant, and the kama sutra was made from the asians and they brought it here cause they are sexually more free and less oppressed unlike americans, its a double standard what can I say
2006-09-30 06:55:03 · answer #5 · answered by Danielle 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catholics and Christians alike use that argument as a basis to counter attack gays, but there are married straight couple who CAN'T have kids, but they have sex so technically they are in sin. And for some who says that AIDS and std's are consequences of dirty unmarried people, well, there are married people who also dirty and got their own std's.
Peace!
2006-09-30 07:26:28 · answer #6 · answered by apernett 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Andrew H,
If you stop having sex, you will still be a sinner. I expect that you are referring to a Christian reference? If not, then forgive me, I assumed.
Our goal as a Christian is not to become sinless, for we cannot do that. Rather our goal is to trust and love God. We trust Him to fulfill His promises. Salvation being the greatest and first to seek, and all the other promises that God made, those are the ones we pick and hang our body on, as the Psalm says, from faith to faith.
2006-09-30 07:29:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You're asking for a logical explanation when dealing with the Bible, a 2000 year old book written by Bronze Age fishermen and shepherds.
Why does what they thought matter in this day and age at all?
2006-09-30 04:53:22 · answer #8 · answered by Michael 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
That is why I think That the Christian regime need to rethink who they call sinners...
Those who live in glass houses shouldnt throw boomerangs!!!! they just might come back to knock your own windows out!!!
2006-09-30 05:23:39 · answer #9 · answered by RiahWillow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are talking about rules that apply to some religions. If you don't practice those religions, those rules don't apply to you. No matter what they say.
2006-09-30 07:42:52 · answer #10 · answered by tjnstlouismo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋