re: #2 Destro

That’s ridiculous. Pretty much everyone before Judaism and Christianity would have gay sex (in the ancient classical world for example) and heterosexual sex - i.e. they were mostly bi-sexual.

Because Asian cultures, Native American cultures and the Aboriginal Australians are just like the Greeks? Go look and see if it was ever easy to be a gay Mongol for instance.

You have so many axes to grind that you frequently drop them on your feet. The fact is that there are very, very few truly 50/50 bisexuals out there - particularly amongst men.

I certainly didn’t choose to be straight. There was no free will involved. One day girls went from icky to fascinating. It was quite clearly pre-programmed in me. It seems utterly obvious that it could have gotten programmed another way. This is also supported by the fact that all of my gay friends just knew they were gay from puberty.

Now it is also supported by actual genetic markers - which most scientifically minded folks had assumed had to be there for some time.

It is also obvious to me that given my pre-programming, it would be the most awful thing in the world for me to have to change it. I would really hate to be told I was awful for liking women. Because of this, I am very sympathetic to any gay person who is told by someone that they need to be other than who they are.

And just on another note about your axes… Under actual biblical law, homosexuality that is a natural compulsion would fall under a wholly other category than homosexuality that was just a choice… i.e. all the awful stuff you would gleefully drag out in poor translation without the benefit of the oral law would not apply as you would gleefully hope it would.