"Homosexuality is not God's best" according to Pastor Joel Osteen

He likes gays,  but he knows they are "not god's best".  So Andrew Sullivan,  with all his Oxford education,  handsomeness,  eloquence,  creativity, and literary and political brilliance,  is one OK guy;  but because he is gay,   he is just "not God's best",  say,  the way a trucker from Alabama is.  It is SO obvious that this is a man who would like to side with the gays,  but is terrified of losing half his audience. 

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IT is the pair-bond that the conservative thinkers are concerned with. Their concern is perhaps realer than you gay rights activists would allow.

When Plato and Socrates, the Buddhists and the Judeo-Christians came out against male homosexuality and who instituted the taboo, we could surmise that it was against the bi-sexual acting out that the cultural and spiritual leaders had taken aim.

Why? Because male otherwise-heterosexuals using other men as the feminine partner, while recapitulating our evolutionary behavior as  primate males, undermines the evolved  pair-bond, the very thing that allowed us to move forward in an evolutionary sense, with more care and protection of the young.

Male to male sexuality  promotes a certain degree of male narcissism. I mean if you love women and the feminine so much, why not be with a woman?

Seeing the promiscuity and narcissism of male homosexuality may have been the basis of the taboo, which is world wide in all religions in a major way.

It is this tendency of male otherwise-heterosexuals to act out that is the basis of the fear that more conservative people have about being permissive about homosexuality.

The differentiation of sexual identity gets very complicated when the poles are changed often and regularly and what most conservatives aim for is the setting up of stable pair bonds to have stable family units and a stable society.

The extremely unfair treatment of real homosexual men comes from heterosexual men's fear of their own still existent homosexual potential, a projection.

But, gay rights activists want to maintain what has never been proven true: that homosexuality is never a choice, and that only real homosexuals participate in this and that this does not complicate future relations with a woman you may marry.

I know the gay rights activists don't like this sort of thinking, but I am a man and I know what and who has come onto me over the years, and I know that there is a lot of truth to this.

I just bet that the God who created all of us, if you believe that, is not ashamed of any of it. In fact, diversity among us is the basis for learning tolerance and respect. Self-knowledge leads to self-respect, and self-respect is the basis for self-control, I think.

Having been raised in a family of diverse religions and background, I have always been instructed to love everyone equally, and to appreciate our differences.

The place that harbors the greatest contradiction to these values turned out to be more the church than anywhere else. After considerable study over a lifetime, I have concluded that developing a high value for individual freedom and liberty trumps everything else.

I tracked my DNA, R1a1 for 60,000 years and discovered that aside from starting the treck to the present from Ethiopia, my kind wandered to Israel and from there to India and onto Iran. From there they traveled northward through Russia and into what is today the Czcech Republic before donning horns and head gear and landing in Wales. We were allegedly a part of the lost tribe and along the way invented and participated in a host of beliefs and customs.

My avatar shows me standing by an ancient Celtic cross at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Home sweet home.

If you believe in an almighty, how can you believe that that almighty has a "second-best"? That doesn't make sense to me.

["you" in the general sense]

I am sure the great spaghetti monster in the sky that ominous all knowing super duper being actual is amused by his never ending mistakes. lol

Being gay is defiantly not a sin its a part of nature in fact one of our far relatives actual changes sex at a whim, the oyster. 

I don't believe that is the whole truth only part of it. Many men do not want to proposition by a gay person some do not want to be mistaken as being gay. 

:) I feel sorry for God and all he/she/it has to listen to and put up with. I am certain that if there is a god he or she or it may regret creating Humanity by now.

Do not despair or be jealous of other peoples deeds, wheher they be right or wrong. For the most part the bible shpuld be read and understood in a literal way. Some times the text is not literal and has teaching to it. It is true today as much as it was a long time ago. No one is forcing anyone to go to church, just as no one forces anyone to breath. My sins are my business and Gods. If the problem is that you disagree with the bible over this issue, then write one for yourself and make all the rules you want. Otherwise, anyone is allowed in most churches. No pastor, Bishop or anyone has the right to deny a person a place in worship. The same is true of any person who is gay, It is you, you want that, fine. The bible does not, neither does God, accept that behavior, by choice, by spirit or by deed. It does however offer unlimited forgiveness, hope and mercy. Assuming the person is willing to learn, all will be revealed to you in time. That is the word of God... . God does not Jump on you and force you to change or force you at all. If anyone changes the bible for any reason, they are so condemned, beyond help. If a gay person accepts me, I accept them also. they can talk about it and I will talk about whatever. People are people and we all have things we do, right and wrong. But god does not makes mistakes, neither does he make one better and the other worst. Shame on Joel Osteem. Gold digger.

I still love what Dolly Parton said when asked about "god's best" on The Joy Behar Show. She said that if this guy was really a Christian then he wouldn't be judging anyone to begin with. So many Christians overlook the part about not judging others and not throwing the first stone but love to throw out one or two very obscure passages to promote their own homophobia.