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Qualified in the journey: a response to 'Adam and Steve' — ADvindicate

Sat, 14 Mar 2015 17:21:33 GMT

yonder
Sat, 14 Mar 2015 17:21:33 GMT

It's the same for all of us Wayne. I am a 68 year-old non-specific. The real problem is in gender specific sin. When I was a teen in an Adventist school it was gender specific boys vs girls. Boys and girls were not allowed to communicate as that would be a sin. Boys had their own work and girls had theirs, boys had their own side at the table with their backs to the girls, boys sat on one side at worship and girls at the other, boys had their dorm and girls had theirs. The bible--if a man looks on a woman to lust after her he has already committed adultery,.. If a boy was "caught" with a girl there were harsh repercussions, perhaps even expulsion. It was easier to be queer in those days, the 150 years of silence worked both ways. in both dorms homosexuality was freely though quietly practiced even among those who wanted and preferred the opposite sex that was unavailable just like it is in all the prisons in this country; easier than being in love with someone you could never be with, touch, or even talk to without serious punishment and ostracism.

Doug Yowell
Fri, 20 Mar 2015 02:23:49 GMT

Boarding schools were a different breed. I'm a little younger than 68 but the above post was a little overstated and a little under stated from my experience at boarding school.

Daniel R Shannon
Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:45:19 GMT

I am 66 years old, about to be 67 and I attended one of our boarding schools back when. I do NOT remember any such problem with homosexuality in the dorm! yonder's comments above do NOT reflect the norm at all!

DaisyJ
Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:56:57 GMT

Agree Daniel R Shannon. I attended a boarding school in another country when I was in first year collage and never had any of such problems and never heard of homosexuality at that time.

John Howells
Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:04:10 GMT

Yonder's comments are truly unfounded! I always am skeptical of comments made by people who are apparently unwilling to identify themselves (perhaps a Spectrum troll). I am also skeptical of those who sexualize everything. If a diligent search found even a few sad circumstances where events were actually as Yonder describes, they would still be outlying points on a scatter graph. It would be irrational to view our entire educational system like this. It certainly wasn't my experience. My experience was that teachers and leaders were, and are, far too lenient. The atmosphere in the past and present lacks much needed spirituality.

John Howells
Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:05:43 GMT

BTW, what exactly is a "non-specific"?... never mind, I'm sure I don't want to know...

DaisyJ
Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:58:07 GMT

John Howells: "The atmosphere in the past and present lacks much needed spirituality" Agree the students should be taught to follow Jesus Christ to prepare His second coming and I do not see this kind of spirituality. "Those teachers who have not a progressive religious experience, who are not learning daily lessons in the school of Christ, that they may be ensamples to the flock, but who accept their wages as the main thing, are not fit for the solemn, awfully solemn, position they occupy. For this scripture is appropriate to all our schools established as God designed they should be, after the order or example of the schools of the prophets, imparting a higher class of knowledge—mingling not dross with the silver, and wine with water—which is a representation of precious principles" (Fundamentals of Christian Education, Page 223).