3 posts tagged “homosexual”

The argument for gay Jesus

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Judging by the anger among many Christians toward the Da Vinci Code book and movie, some find it difficult to wrap their minds around the concept of Jesus having been sexually active. The thoughts that he might have been gay are even more difficult to handle.

"J Richards" suggested that Mark 7:14-16 shows that Jesus approves of homosexual acts. The critical phrase reads: "There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him..." Richards suggests that Jesus gave great emphasis to this teaching, directing it to everyone. Richards suggests that the sentence refers to dietary laws and also extends to  "blood transfusions, medication, organ transplants, and artificial insemination" and to homosexual acts as well.

Bush wants Supreme Court to bar torture victims from describing torture.  "Alternative interrogation techniques" are now our nation's most important secret weapon, the argument goes, and people who have been subjected to these "techniques" are privy to top secret information.  Thus, they should not be allowed to describe what happened to the public, because then terrorists might be able to create training programs to help terrorists deal with the "alternative interrogation techniques."

The revolution has come... to New Hampshire!  Libertarians make up 1% of the U.S. population.  But if several thousand of them would just move to New Hampshire, they just might achieve political significance.

Canada will probably raise age of consent to 16.  Only two openly gay MPs objected at the bill's second reading in Parliament, and it will become law if it is accepted at the third reading.  Though the bill is not worded in a way that targets homosexuals, in actual practice morality laws are used by police to target homosexuals and other sexual minorities to a much greater extent than heterosexuals.  Oh, and did I mention the term "age of consent" will be changed to "age of protection?"  Because you just gotta protect those children....

Cold virus eats your brain.  Picornaviruses, which can also cause diarrhea and polio, can damage brain cells related to memory, leading to forgetfulness and, over the long term, chronic memory deficits.

Scientists give AIDS... AIDS.  Scientists gutted and reversed the HIV virus into an "antisense" HIV virus, which was then injected into CD4 T-cells, which were infused into five HIV sufferers who were beginning to fail normal treatment.  When HIV viruses attacked the T-cells, which normally turns them into little HIV-spewing factories, they instead released sterile, nonparthogenic particles.  The test was meant only to demonstrate that the procedure was safe, but three years later, none of the patients show any ill effects, the virus remains suppressed, and four of the five have had their immune systems partially restored.  Phase two trials on patients who have the disease well-controlled by drugs are now underway.  The scientists have hope that the antisense viruses may someday be part of a vaccine, although that isn't a certainty at this point.

UK scientists seek permission to create chimera embryos.  Human eggs for stem cell research are in short supply.  Scientists have a plan to use cow eggs infused with human DNA to create 99.9% human embryos, which they would destroy after six days of research.  Opponents are sure this will threaten human rights and human dignity somehow, but exactly how this would encourage gay marriage remains unclear at this time.

Yahoo! is trying to patent interestingness. 

Customer service departments are getting "emotion detection" software.  NICE systems is selling software to Fortune 500 companies that will automatically detect when a caller becomes angry.  This information will surely be used altruistically, to benefit all mankind.

Animal bordellos are coming!  Some U.S. zoos offer "sex tours" around Valentine's Day for people, primarily couples, interested in seeing the mating habits of animals.  Do not delude yourself into thinking that's what we're talking about here.  Denmark has "animal bordellos," which purportedly attract a largely Norwegian clientele.  Since neither Denmark nor Norway have laws against sex with animals, provided that the animal is not harmed in the process, it is considered likely that the bordellos will soon spread to Norway.

Naked man arrested for concealing weapon.  Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyup.

Reichen Lehmkuhl wants his boyfriend to be a hot new slang term.  The boyfriend of 'N Sync idol Lance Bass was recently interviewed by AP Radio News.  He insisted that when someone in the media forces a celebrity to come out to the public, "They're calling it a 'lancing.'  It's to be 'lanced.'"  Apparently, just everyone is saying that now.

Russia will save the Earth if we just ask nicely.  Viktor Remishevsky, deputy head of the Russian space agency, claims Russia's rocket-making complex is fully capable of stopping asteroids on collision courses with Earth, but only if telescopes and other space research stations will share information about threatening asteroids.

No-swipe credit cards easily hacked with cheap Radio Shack equipment.  A U-Mass cumputer science professor and graduate student cobbled together a scanner the size of two paperback books with $150 in parts from Radio Shack; it allowed them to read a credit card which had never been removed from its mailing envelope and purchase some electronic equipment with it.  Professor Fu and Mr. Heydt-Benjamin said they could make the device the size of a pack of gum with just $50 in parts.  Although credit card companies claim they are currently using the highest legal encryption in the USA, the card scanned was transmitting the cardholder's name, card number, and expiration date without any encryption at all.  Even if the data had been encrypted, it could've been recorded and decrypted later.  A person with one of the devices could just carry it around a store, waving it near people's wallets, or stuck it into mailboxes to swipe new credit cards while appearing to insert flyers.  Credit card companies dismissed the evidence, saying that the small sample size doesn't provide any reliable data and that an experiment in a lab setting didn't prove that the device would work in the real world.

Smokers in UK dropped frm surgery waiting lists.  Norfolk Primary Care Trust is dropping all smokers from non-essential surgery (such as hip replacements and hernia operations) waiting lists.  They are instead being referred to a smoking cessation clinic.  The change is considered fair and necessary by the health chiefs because smokers take longer to heal and are more prone to infection than nonsmokers; thus their surgery tends to cost more.

New copy protection simply prohibits fair use.  A new form of DVD copy protection prevents illegal copies from being made by simply preventing the disc from being played in the first place.  The non-standard file system used on the discs causes Windows Media Player or any player based on DirectShow to believe the disc's IFO file is zero bytes in size, rendering the disc unplayable.  The customer can't play the disc, so the customer can't copy the disc.  Fortunately, the encryption has already been hacked.

Weblog documents companies ripping off artists' art for profit.  Anyone who has seen stolen art can get an account and blog about it here.

Bully video game becomes even more controversial.  Jimmy Hopkins, the hero in Bully, can apparently be played as a bisexual or even homosexual character.  At least five other boys in the game are now known to enthusiastically kiss Jimmy, which restores his health.

We are delicious.  A robot, originally designed to taste wine, identified a reporter who placed his hand on the sensor as prosciutto.  A cameraman was described as bacon.

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Dog licks toads.  A pet dog discovered the hallucinogenic properties of the toads in its backyard pond.  It binged nightly last year, then had to stop completely when the toads entered hibernation for the winter.  It started again this spring when the toads returned, but now only sucks them "on weekends."

WoW de-gays the Blood Elf.  The World of Warcraft forums revealed that they had bowed to pressure to make the Blood Elf character appear less feminine.  The article includes shocking "before" and "after" pix.