Okay, so, while we're having a good discussion/Q&A session, there's something I've never really understood.
How is "God is All-Good/Perfect" and "God is Jealous About His Stuff" reconciled, typically? Or, rather, not typically, but reasonably?
Because I usually don't think of Jealousy as being a Good Thing; or at the very least it seems bad when connected to Wrath, which is sorta what God ends up doing. I get how it works if you decide that Good=God and any other measure is false ideals, but since debates/discussions must be made on common ground, and I don't really think that 'I was created by X, thus I should love them' is a valid reasoning, personally*, I'm not sure how to come at this.
Is it just a fundamental difference in ideals/values that leads me to these conclusions, or am I misunderstanding things?
I always thought the forbidding of homosexuality came from the fact that STDs are more easily spread via anal sex due to the tissues not being exactly well adapted for it (being Ye Olden Times and lube being rather not invented yet probably didn't help), and you need people making babies for the species to continue with the levels of death/disease and whatnot, before getting to the other stuff like 'they're different from the majority' and 'might screw around with the couples dynamic that we've been trying to get going here'.
We're having problems with too many people at this point, though, so....
Plenty of people have abusive parents, and I personally think adoptive parents are more worthy of their child's affections than parents who give up their child (not necessarily hated, either, I just think that lineage of mind has become more important than lineage of body, which is based on who raised you (more)).