i_killed_mufasa: Please give us a link to your Oxford source.
Please also provide links regarding what exactly it is anal sex does to your immune system. I didn’t spend a lot of time looking, but here are a couple of links for you to peruse.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/sex/qa/anal_sex_fetish.shtml
http://www.sexhealth.org/bettersex/anal.shtml
Neither of which seem to stress any such health risks.
Now before any of you health experts start posting, let us bear in mind the spirit of the O.P. I am not saying there are NO added risks to anal sex.
I’m sure there are some. But any such risk whos end result would be the disfranchisement of a large number of citizens should be very serious indeed.
CC: I agree with your first paragraph, but must take issue with your second. I think peoples views of homosexuality fall into two general categories:
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It is something a person chooses, something they can change;
it is something a person does.
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It is an alternate, normal, unchangeable sexual orientation for a minority of humans. It is something that a person is.
My view, and what I read (partly) to be your view, was that of number 2.
It’s convenient to say ‘I accept homosexuals, but not the physical act of homosexuality’. Thats quite an equivocation, and doesn’t help anyone much in the real world. If the desire to have sex is accepted, why shouldn’t the act itself be?
I also disagree with your representation of homosexuality in the bible.
Lev 18:22
“You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.”
But that is the act, you say - God still loves the person, if the person loves God!
Corinthians 6:9-11
“Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
I think it’s clear God doesn’t distinguish between Homosexuals and their lifestyle, why should you?
To close:
Matt 7:21-23
"Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.
"Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’
"And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’
As to the pulling of men out of the pool, I’m with ya Bro!
~cheers