So the catcher is gay and the pitcher is not?? Interesting.

wow, the faces on the other people in your class would have been priceless. depending on how you feel about them, it might have been worth it. ;)

Ummmm, cultural perspective???? I have no clue what that is? Whose culture? Is there "a" cultural perspective out there I didn't know about?

Also if I may....The romans are not a good example for GLBT issues. Romans were not necessarily gay in the way we think of the practice today. Instead they simply worshipped the male form and attributes to such an extreme that no other union seemed natural. Men had to be socialized to be with women and even then sex was about procreation and little else. Gay is a much more modern term with lots of cultural connotations that did not exist for the Romans.

JULY 21st!!! you may nott be as excited as me. But I thought I would pass on the information.

On GLBT. Maybe an approach is to dispell common myths the "church community" is being fed to alienate GLBT(s). Like the spreading of diseases, where everyone knows that hetero- sex spreads more diseases than homo-sexual sex. That a hetero- family does not equate a functional family . . . Or how a trans gender operation logically is not much different than plastic surgery. Why can Sally get a boob job and not me? Okay I Confess I really want Boobies for my birthday.

And I dont know if I'm completely off base, but that the goal of sin is to seperate us from a life with God (church included). Before, church communities made issues about race and economics (obiviously still an issue), and now sexuality seems to be the focus (even politically). It's sin of the church community that divides. I just think that no matter what our predisposition (sexuality) or circumstances (economics) that the church has a responsibility to create a place for us all if thats what we want. And not have seperate tables like the story of Peter and Paul but that we can commune together in community.

San Diego is German for a whale's vagina. . . . . . . . agree to disagree.

hope school is going well. Say Hi to the hubby and the baby and tell the baby "NOSE!"

That sounds like it could be an interesting discussion, strange comments from classmates aside. I don't think I would have been able to not make a face at the comment your classmate said. I might (might) be able to not laugh until I was alone though.

Sounds like you've got some interesting classmates...

Amazing!

You definitely have a few gems in that class, although as a classics minor in college, he is only partly right. They never considered gay vs straight. It was a power thing. The 'giver' was always the older, more senior, respected powerful man and the 'recipient' was usually the younger student in the relationship. The only time the Greeks thought of homosexuality was when it was female/female.