"Love your neighbor as yourself"

I thought I'd post something about random poetry generators, but that's not therapeutic enough. I'm cranky and fevered and sore-throated, and I wanna write about the Biblical prohibitions against homosexuality, not Markov chains. ( Here's why. )

ObDisclaimer: Much of the following information can be found in an article by the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, but it's mixed with unsourced tidbits picked up in my erratic career as a liberal Quaker. None of it is invented, but the scholarly work of others. ( That said, here's why the Bible doesn't ban homosexuality. )

As an aside, how can anyone read the prologue to the Parable of the Good Samaritan and not conclude that Jesus really intended to say all theology and ritual aside from those two commandments are superfluous? And read the parable and not conclude that by neighbor he meant everyone?

---L.