[TheRaisin]

Nepharski, do you suggest that homosexuals give in to their sexual desires and cannot know true love? I highly doubt it. I would be interested to see what the divorce rate is among homosexuals compared to that of heterosexuals. (There have been many homosexual couples married, right? In California?)

I wouldn't go so far as to say lust is immoral. Like I've said, we are animals. It's instinct to want to have sex with attractive members of the opposite sex. I definitely don't support giving in to lust, but I would say it's more of a weakness on the part of he or she who lusts than a disregard for morals. And forgive the generalization, but if you've never experienced lust at all, you either have a practically inhuman degree of control, or a practically inhuman lack of sexual desire.

If someone tells me a seemingly believable scientific fact, and they are a respected source, I believe them. The same goes for gossip and announcements and basically any normal human-to-human message. But God has a different degree of importance. I will never believe anyone claiming to have been spoken to by God. This is another reason for my general dislike of most organized religions: God apparently speaks only to certain people who then pass on messages to regular folk and expect to be met with complete faith. If God ever has something really important to say to me, he/she/it can say it directly to me and cut out the middle-man. I'll be listening.