My understanding is that this refers specifically to anal sex, not to any other male-on-male action. David and Jonathan must have so restricted their love, or the Lord wouldn't have been so pro-David. That they were doing something is hard to deny, see 2 Samuel 1:26.
"If I were to say we need to dominate the Mexican government so we can have a buffer between Honduras and us, you would think I was a lunatic."
Maybe I would, but such ideas have been within mainstream US thinking on Latin America for 191 years. Just one example: President Reagan famously remarked that the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua was "only 2,000 miles from the Texas border, a clear national security threat". [Radio Address, 1987-09-12]
I agree it's bad, but I'm not dumbfounded. I'm too old (60), and seen centrist "liberals" going along with Democratic Party imperialists too many times. All the way with LBJ!
The simple fact is that, except for a few civil rights issues (e.g. gays in the military), Obama is a moderate conservative. And he is fully in support of the maintenance and extension of the US empire and national security state. And the more the wingnuts call him an Islamistic, anti-colonial Socialist, the more the mainstream Democrats think they have to cling to him.
My understanding is that this refers specifically to anal sex, not to any other male-on-male action. David and Jonathan must have so restricted their love, or the Lord wouldn't have been so pro-David. That they were doing something is hard to deny, see 2 Samuel 1:26.
"If I were to say we need to dominate the Mexican government so we can have a buffer between Honduras and us, you would think I was a lunatic."
Maybe I would, but such ideas have been within mainstream US thinking on Latin America for 191 years. Just one example: President Reagan famously remarked that the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua was "only 2,000 miles from the Texas border, a clear national security threat". [Radio Address, 1987-09-12]
I agree it's bad, but I'm not dumbfounded. I'm too old (60), and seen centrist "liberals" going along with Democratic Party imperialists too many times. All the way with LBJ!
The simple fact is that, except for a few civil rights issues (e.g. gays in the military), Obama is a moderate conservative. And he is fully in support of the maintenance and extension of the US empire and national security state. And the more the wingnuts call him an Islamistic, anti-colonial Socialist, the more the mainstream Democrats think they have to cling to him.