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Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 CHOOSING BETWEEN LOVE & TRADITION

What we decided to do.

Why we made this decision.

History repeats itself.

Did tradition get it wrong?

Where are we headed?

Chapter 2 RULES & PRINCIPLES: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE

Let’s do an experiment.

Who would volunteer to be hated?

Yes, homo-naturality does involve a choice.

Rules and Principles: About Morality?

Conclusion.

Chapter 3 A WORD TOO NARROW

Understanding the past.

The problem with translations.

A word too narrow.

We have two choices.

Chapter 4 WELCOME TO THE TABLE —(A belated invitation to estranged church-goers who happen to be homo-natural)

You’ve been missed.

Whose table is it?

What’s being served?

What time does it start?

Do you need a ticket?

Food for thought.

Chapter 5 TWENTY QUESTIONS

The Problem.

The Solution.

A New Problem.

The Final Question.

Chapter 6 HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO PET A SNAKE? Ever wanted to rub the tummy of a giant boa constrictor? Or cradle a python in your arms like a baby?

Fear often over-rides reason.

Salvation, not science.

Reason usually has an uphill struggle.

Chapter 7 HOW TRADITIONALISTS VIEW HOMO-NATURALITY

Hanging up our weapons.

A Parable.

Chapter 8 E. L. P. S.

Step One: Acknowledging One Another.

Step Two: Neutralizing the Rhetoric.

Step Three: How Do People Relate?

Chapter 9 WHAT IF YOU HAD LIVED BACK THEN?

You would not have known then what you know now.

What would have it taken for you to be questioning?

Now come back to the present.

Chapter 10 ANCIENT UNDERSTANDING OF SLAVERY & DIVORCE

Why doesn't the Bible condemn slavery?

Jesus condemns divorce.

Sorting it out.

Homo-naturality is comparable.

Bible interpretation often conforms to popular practice.

Chapter 11 STEREOTYPING BY THE CHURCH?

Almost all of us are ‘gentiles’.

Think about the effort it took to accept gentiles.

Did Paul ever perpetuate a stereotype?

Conclusion.

Chapter 12 WAS FILTHINESS EVER NEXT TO GODLINESS?

Use your imagination.

Where the church once stood.

What does this mean for us?

Chapter 13 THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN IS A DEAD INDIAN *

Making a comparison.

‘All’ is not the same as ‘some’.

Interpreting scripture through clouded glasses.

Getting it ‘straight’.

Chapter 14 WHAT DO HOMO-NATURALS REALLY WANT?

Chapter 15 WHAT TO SAY TO MISINFORMATION BY CRITICS

1. We’re all sinners.

2. The Bible plainly teaches that homo-naturality is a sin.

3. Love the sinner, but hate the sin.

4. The Bible doesn’t recognize sexual orientation.

5. Threat to marriage and family values.

6. What message does homo-naturality send to our young people?

7. Marriage has always been between one man and one woman.

8. The homo-natural lifestyle is all about promiscuity.

9. Homosexuality is not natural.

10. Marriage is reserved for bearing children.

11. The Gay Agenda.

Chapter 16 THREAT TO MARRIAGE? PROVE IT!!

The real threat to marriage and family values.

Chapter 17 FAMILY VALUES

Is “Family Values” being used as a weapon?

Sexuality is the most recent frontier.

Chapter 18 LET'S JUST AGREE TO DISAGREE A Tongue-in-Cheek Confession

We are also guilty of stereo-typing.

You don’t deserve to be ridiculed.

Questions I have to ask myself.

A possible solution.

Chapter 19 HOW CAN I PERSUADE YOU?

The Problem.

The Solution.

My Reasoning.

Chapter 20 IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE BOTH GAY AND CHRISTIAN?

True Or False?

How many arguments are there in our critics’ arsenal?

What is the homo-natural’s most effective way of coping with opposition?

Chapter 21 THOUGHT READER

Here is how one brief speech by a preacher appeared to Jezeriah

Here are the same words Jezeriah heard from a homeless man

Chapter 22 GOBBLE-D-GUCK — A Story of Misinformation & Tolerance

Chapter 23 THE SCRIBE AND THE PHARISEE

Chapter 24 ADAM AND STEVE

Chapter 25 PLAIN TALK ABOUT A FUZZY IDEA (Summing it all up, one last time.)

What’s the big deal?

Concerning Truth and Tradition.

So what’s really the problem?

The only change that’s really possible.

Where do we go from here?

About the Author

THE END

For We Know in Part

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