"RastafarI speaks life. You are speaking death. Go away with your deadly ways."
Unfortunately, you have it backward.
From ancient days, many women have been barren. Yes or no?
From the Mosaic law was abortion okay in order to save the mother?
From the law weren't many sinners commanded to be stoned instead of washing themselves clean and repenting?
From the OT weren't there many wars?
You assume that a one-size-fits-all approach is the right approach. But different people are different people. Everyone isn't right handed. Everyone isn't six feet tall. Everyone doesn't have the same allergies or the same hair or the same skin color.
What I'm saying is that you cannot force a person to create life. Everyone doesn't need to be a parent. Too many people are parents to children they didn't want.
The idea isn't to have an every growing population but rather to live in harmony with the Earth. That's nature. Nature doesn't just create. Nature also destroys. Hurricanes, volcanoes, tornadoes, tsunamis, hail, etc. You cannot look at one side of nature and not the other.
Why do people prune plants?
Why do people kill weeds?
death is the other side of life. BOTH are natural. And without death, there would be no room for new life.
Animals hunt and kill each other. The hunter has to get faster because the prey gets faster. They each get faster in order to survive and the ones who survive get to breed and so their future generations get stronger.
It's not speaking death to say that those who don't wish to participate in growing the population, don't have to and shouldn't be discriminated against, ostricized, exiled, or murdered. When Cain was asked about his brother, would it have been justified if he could say his brother was gay?
1 John 3 says
10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
Loving one another doesn't come with extra conditions. The parable of the good Samaritan shows us that. If two women love each other and they want to adopt a child that doesn't have a family then good for them all. There are plenty of children who have been abandoned and who need homes with parents who will love them. If everyone is only concerned with a man and woman falling in love and having babies then all these other scenarios don't get the care and attention they need.
By saying we don't really need MORE people (more than 8 billion) on this planet, I'm not speaking death because I'm not talking about killing anyone. I'm simply saying the more people have to compete for survival the more actual death and starvation and killing there will be.
And even in ancient times, even THEY thought there were too many people. And they decreased the population by fighting each other over land and resources. And their lifespans were relatively short because of disease and other things. Because we're living longer and fighting less, there's more overlap between generations and more opportunities for a single person to have more offspring. This isn't the ancient world. If we don't have any limits the population will implode by other means.
Again, I'm not saying homosexuality is ideal. But I believe it's natural, just like certain animals species.
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