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Frequently Asked Questions
Who will be involved in our portrait?
Stu is the main photographer, Kirsty is the assistant and if you have requested makeup there will be Gilly or Hayley are our make up artists.
What makes us different from other photographers?
Well, we like the client to control how they want the portrait and in what style and How they want the images presenting, after all its your images so why should we tell you what you can and can't do? We like to offer a very flexible and personal service. We offer discret service and are members of the BIPP (British Institue of Professional Photography), The SWPP ( The Society of wedding and portrait photographers) and RPS ( the Royal Photographic society) all of which we have to adhere to their rule and regulations.
What variety of portrait packages do you offer and at what price?
Our packages range from £30 to £350, but we prefer you to drop in for a chat, this way we can tailor make a package that suits your budget and your needs.
Are there any hidden extras?
NO! – Simple as that!
When and how do we pay?
You can either pay by cheque or cash; you can pay for the shoot on arrival, and pay for your prints before they are ordered.
How long will it take?
Usually a studio shoot will be an hour unless you have booked a specific package.
How will I be able to view my proofs and when?
We can show you your images straight after your shoot or we offer a private online gallery for you with a specific web address of your own too. These are usually up 48 hours after your shoot.
How long do I have to make my selection?
We give you 30 days to choose your images.
Can we order re prints? If so how much?
Yes you can order as many as you want, please see our Print Prices.
How long will it take for our final image to be delivered?
Depending on how long it takes you to choose your images it will be around 2/3 weeks.
Do you have public liability and indemnity insurance?
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CAIRO — The judge in Hosni Mubarak's retrial recused himself at the start of the first session on Saturday, citing a conflict of interest as the former Egyptian president appeared in court for the first time in 10 months grinning and waving to supporters.
The recusal threw the case deeper into disarray after an appeals court in January overturned a life sentence for Mubarak on a conviction for failing to prevent the killings of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ousted him.
The appeals court granted Mubarak a retrial after ruling that in the first trial, the prosecution's case lacked concrete evidence and failed to prove that protesters were killed by the police during the bloodiest days of the revolt. Some 900 people were killed in the 18-day uprising, most of them in the initial days.
Hoda Nasrallah, a rights lawyer representing 65 victims' families in the case, said there is no certainty that the prosecution will provide new evidence this time around to back up the charges.
The judge in the first trial criticized the prosecution for failing to provide evidence that police killed protesters. Protesters accused attorney general's office of shoddy work in collecting evidence. The attorney general at the time was a Mubarak-appointee who has since been replaced.
"The investigations took place in just one month, which is not enough time to review all the cases of killings across Egypt," Nasrallah said. "There are reports in the media that there will be new evidence submitted, but we're waiting to see if that is true."
Mubarak's first trial took place in a charged atmosphere that eclipsed the legal nuances of the case and led to what many saw as a politically motivated verdict aimed at calming a public outcry for justice after nearly 30 years of authoritarian rule.
Rumors had swirled several times in the past year that Mubarak was near death. However, the 84-year-old appeared upbeat in his first court appearance since his conviction in June 2012.
After being wheeled into the courtroom on a hospital gurney, he sat upright and grinned and waved to his supporters from inside the metal defendant's cage. His eyes were shaded behind brown-tinted glasses.
Mubarak's two sons, Alaa and Gamal, and his former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly were in the cage with him. They are currently imprisoned in separate cases. El-Adly, who was in charge of police during the uprising, was convicted of the same charges as Mubarak in his first trial and also sentenced to life in prison. His sentence was also overturned by the appeals court.
Mubarak was airlifted by a military helicopter to the court while his two sons and el-Adly were driven from Tora prison in the outskirts of Cairo.
The session lasted only a few minutes, ending after Judge Mostafa Hassan recused himself and referred the case to an appeals court to appoint another judge. He did not explain the conflict of interest behind the decision.
As he took the bench, some lawyers shouted, demanding that he remove himself from the case.
"Sit until you hear what the court's decision is," the judge responded.
Immediately after, he announced that the case would be sent to an appeals court. Some lawyers began chanting: "The people demand the execution of the ousted president!"
Local media reports had suggested Hassan might transfer the case to another judge. In October, he caused an uproar among political activists when he acquitted 25 Mubarak loyalists accused of organizing a deadly Camel Battle attack during the uprising. In the attack, assailants on horses and camels stormed downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the protests.
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Microsoft is getting into the aftermarket car business. No, not really but engineers from the Redmond-based software giant did recently team up with West Coast Customs to customize a 2012 Ford Mustang chassis complimented with a replica 1967 fastback body into what could be arguably called the coolest Microsoft "device" on the planet today.
According to Wired, the brains of the muscle car include some pretty interesting feats of technology integration:
"It starts with a Lumia 800 running Windows Phone 7 and Viper's SmartStart app, which allows the user to locate, lock, unlock and start the car remotely. Once inside, a fully digital instrument cluster provides a choice of eight different "skins," including replicas of the 1967 and 2012 Mustang's IP, along with a Metro-style design. Above that is a heads-up display that provides everything from telemetry to navigation data, complete with Bing Maps integration, turn-by-turn directions and point-of-interest icons showing nearby restaurants, gas stations and shopping centers."
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Posted by Donna on 09/03/2013
I wanted to let them know how disappointed I was. I ordered scrambled eggs in puff pastry with asparagus & mushrooms for $19. There were maybe 6 small pieces of asparagus but a reasonable amout of mushrooms. No sauce, no seasoning & the puff pastry's bottom was so tough I ended up using a steak knife to try to cut it. Nothing about this dish was special. Plus our guests steak (steak frittes one) was too tough to finish. It was embarrassing to have brought our French friends here. The staff was very nice.
Posted by Swithin on 01/04/2013
I hadn't been to Balthazar for years and went back recently. I found it noisy, overpriced, and mediocre. I had a pretty good soup. The main course -- Coulibiac (generally a dish I love) -- was disappointing. I had Pavlova for dessert. I had never met a Pavlova I didn't like -- until Balthazar. There were many people there with babies in carriages, so it seems a good option if that's important to you. There's an attendant in the men's room, I don't understand why. The room is too small for that, and I don't know (I could be wrong) that's it's traditional in French bistros! The wait staff was very pleasant.
Posted by anonymous on 12/09/2011
Excellent food, healthy, and baked items are fabulous! But $7 for a small cup of french onion soup that is not knock-your-socks off different from any other french onion I have tasted is a bit irritating. Salads are a bit small, but VERY good. But, $45 for an apple sponge cake is absurd. Ironically though, single serving baked items are reasonably priced however. Odd pricing. Good food.
Posted by codyBlue on 08/01/2011
We go here quite often and have always loved it for years. Great food and about the most attentive service to be found in the city....runs like a clock.....from appetizer to desert....there seems to be a server/runner for each item and all arrive in perfect timing....a great feat in itself given the size of Balthazar....hats off to Keith and his entire staff I say.....and oh yea, the folks that moan about a lackluster steak should kick up a few more bucks for the Steak AuPoivre.....it's about the best in the city.
Posted by Jen on 03/08/2011
We had breakfast at Balthazar twice, and just wanted to say thanks to the wait staff for being so friendly and helpful with our 2 year old daughter. I highly recommend Balthazar for breakfast with a toddler - the food is great - a treat for mom and dad, plus lots of egg/toast options good for kids. The place has a great buzz to it which means noise is no problem, plus I think it opens at 7:30am, so perfect for those early risers. Definitely a nice way to get a bit of NYC but still toddler friendly. Enjoy!
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One man prospers while another man starves, not because we need to, but because we as a society want to and have agreed to.
Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money, the more there is of any resource, the less you can charge for it. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money.
This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance and sustainability are the enemies of our economic structure, for they are inverse to the mechanics required to perpetuate consumption.
This is profoundly critical to understand, for once you put this together, you begin to see that the one billion people currently starving on this planet, the endless slums of the poor and all the horrors of a culture due to poverty and depravity, are not natural phenomenon due to some natural human order or lack of earthly resources. They are products of the creation, perpetuation, and preservation of artificial scarcity and inefficiency.
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Located in the heart of Hamilton, Ontario, the Scottish Rite Club is the perfect setting for your next special event. Whether you are planning for a group of 8 or 350 it is our attention to the details that makes the difference. The expert staff at the Scottish Rite Club pays attention to your needs and, together we'll take your event from special to exceptional.


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When you first start dating someone, do you think about how far you would eventually like to go with him/her? Statistically, men say no. Surprisingly, the men don't see themselves as the one with the sexual power. They figure that the woman will call the shots (and the men are almost always ready to comply!) One may choose to refer to this as "Walking-Penis Syndrome". On the other hand, women (statistically) generally know about how far they are willing to go with the person they are dating. They have a line drawn in their head and, if thinking rationally, don't cross it. (Always subject to change in the heat of the moment or when drunk.)
But then we come to the point where communication is the key.
Take this situation for example: A man and a woman are seeing each other. (They really like each other in fact!) Ok, so they're making out or hooking up or however you want to put it and they proceed to have oral sex. At this point, most men assume that they will be getting laid tonight. . .it's only natural. Oral sex is the gateway to intercourse, right? Not so fast, killer. . .don't start making assumptions. Let's flip to the woman's point of view. . . Oral sex may be the pre-existing limit in her mind. I think there is a huge difference in the way that women and men view oral sex vs sex. Maybe to a man, coming is coming, any sex is sex. . .I don't know, I'm not a man. But there seems to be a greater emotional link (by women) to actual intercourse, and a far greater physical link to oral sex. (duh!) Anyway, the point is that oral sex does not mean that intercourse is the next acceptable thing. Of course it can be!, but don't assume that yes to one thing means yes to the other.
I find this fine line very interesting. . .Even though the man may have every intention of letting the woman call the shots, he may just assume that consensual oral sex means that she gave the big OK.
It's apples and oranges
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OF THE 3rd ANNUAL BRYAN BICKELL CHARITY GOLF CLASSIC
Friday August 23, 2013
Black Diamond Golf Club
The Bryan Bickell Charity Classic Golf tournament was started in the summer of 2011 by Bryan and his fiance Amanda. The goal of this event is to help create awareness and raise funds for various charities and causes within the local community. Bryan credits his hometown of Orono, Ontario with helping with his professional success and this is his way of giving back.
The first two annual events were a huge success as golfers, volunteers and sponsors helped raise over $40,000 for local charities within the community. Recipients of the proceeds have included Big Brothers and Sisters, Orono Minor Hockey, Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul, Bewdley, Clarington East Food Banks and Defeat the Label anti-bullying.
We look forward to making this years event even more successful, with the help of all of our friends within the community.


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Archive for January, 2008
Toilets and the Web
Posted by mcgelligot in Uncategorized on January 31, 2008
It seems that the web continues its breakneck pace forward. I have been building websites for about 10 years. I have primarily concentrated on content to build my little internet empire. I have never been too excited about letting people comment on my webpages. This is because there are so many morons who post meaningless messages on your website. It is rather like a neighbor who lets their dog run loose in your backyard. The dog leaves behind little messes, and you spend your time unprofitably scooping them up and discarding them. You can see the quality of the average comment on articles or videos if you visit any well-viewed video on YouTube. In fact, mcgelligot.com is the only website on which I own the domain that I allow readers to contribute to the content.
But there is a trend I see that cannot be denied. I believe that it is video. So I am sticking my little toes in the water. I have acquired video equipment and an editing program. During the month of January I put six videos on YouTube. I actually enjoy the medium. It is fun making little films. But it is time consuming. I can easily write two or three articles in the space of time it takes to make a decent video. Even so, I can see the advantages of communicating in a medium that is so vivid and effective.
I have decided that it is time to start integrating video with at least my new websites. My first effort is my newest website Toilet How To. On this website, I am trying to create a comprehensive presentation that includes text, diagrams, drawings, photos, and video. I have completed most of the website, but am still working on the videos, which I intend to back-fill later. Two are complete, but only one is as yet online.
I thought toilets would be a good place to start with videos. There is considerable room for humor, imagination, and explanation even within the confines of a small room. It is kind of like making a movie and choosing the script from a play. You are sure of not needing too travel to too many locations. My favorite movie based on a play is Rope. You know…James Steward stars, Alfred Hitchcock directs.
I believe that video integration is the wave of the future.
By the way. I am sticking pretty well to my organization plan. I think it is helping me to get more done.
The Life of a Writer
Posted by mcgelligot in Uncategorized on January 24, 2008
In the impressionable days of my long past youth, I believed that the life of a writer was the best of all possible worlds. It seemed to me that the ideal thing would be to sit for hours at a desk pecking away at a typewriter, balling up papers, and tossing them at trash cans.
Such luxury! Today, typewriters are antiques. Tossing paper is so politically incorrect that it is morally equivalent to holding a hostage at gunpoint, and trash cans? Can't we all just recycle? Truthfully, I don't think that this was ever what writing was all about. It was just the glamorized version we saw in the movies, or flowing from the pen of Michener ("The Fires of Spring") or Dickens ("David Copperfield"). Writing is really about expressing ideas clearly and then promoting them with all your heart and soul.
It is really the promotion that counts. Any monkey with a little bit of organized time can produce a 50,000 word novel. I know, I have produced a few myself, some of which I now cringe to read. With a good editor and a good publicist, nearly anything could be considered a "modern classic".
The truth is, any idea that can be expressed in a novel can be condensed into about 47 words. "War and Peace" – It is the aggregate will of the participants that determines historic events. Leaders are mere puppets of history. Pierre is an idealist. Andre an elitist. Natasha vivacious. Sonya under-appreciate. Nikolai instinctive. Maria soulful. Altogether they make up the vital force of the Russian nation. One of the great huge tomes of literature summarized (with three words to spare unless you count the title).
All of the plot exposition and character studies are really the beginnings of the marketing campaign for the idea embedded in the work. Then comes the promotion. Getting others to even read the book is a chore. Reading anything takes a commitment of that precious resource, time. This is where the real promotion comes into play. Today, it is done on the internet with everyone crying out for attention. There are blogs, and forums. There is email. There are directories, search engines, lenses, hubs, youtube, google, yahoo, stumble, technorati, digg, lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my.
Weaving through this mass of social media is where the action is. And so the promotion of an idea begins with a tiny blog entry in a massive sea of other blog entries craving, vying, whining for attention.
Eugenol as a Lotion
Posted by mcgelligot in Uncategorized on January 23, 2008
Sure eugenol seems like an obscure thing to write about. Yet, it is a topic that has fascinated me for some time. I first got a whiff of eugenol when I was searching for a solution to a skin problem I once had, eczema. Well, I tried several lotions, but nothing seemed to control it. I was especially disappointed by hydrocortozone which I found largely ineffective. Then I ran across Zim's Crack Creme (the original formulation), actually quite by accident. My wife bought it for me thinking it was something else. In spite of the hokey name the stuff solved my problem in a matter of weeks. Now I just use it after every shower wherever I feel a bit itchy. This sounds like a selfish plug, and in a way it is. I am not making any money on this endorsement. I just want as many people as possible to use it so that Zim keeps making the stuff, because I would hate to have to start over looking for a solution for my skin problem.
Well, there is a very distinct smell of cloves in Zim's Crack Creme. It seemed pretty obvious to me that one of the ingredients of this stuff is clove oil, even though it is not listed on the package. Although it does mention Mercia Oil. In any case, A couple of months ago I put a series of sites on InDepthInfo about different spices. One of those spices happened to be about cloves. It was here that I discovered that the essential oil in cloves is called eugenol and, indeed, this oil is sometimes used in lotions. Then I found out that this oil is an anti-oxidant and in other spices. All this led me to dig deeper, until I ended up producing an article for InDepthInfo on the many facets of Eugenol.
I have trouble writing about topics that do not interest me, so I hammer away at topics that do. Sometimes they tend to be obscure. But on the whole I hope they add to my knowledge of the universe, if no one elses. I tend to think of InDepthInfo as a kind of repository of stuff that I find interesting. This, I hope, keeps the writing fresh, and gives me the drive to research the topics to a depth that justifies the name I picked for the website way back in the last century.
Time and Organization
Posted by mcgelligot in Uncategorized on January 22, 2008
One of the hardest things to do is organize our daily activities within the time-frame we are given. Time, I am absolutely obsessed with it. I have written any number of sites and webpages dedicated to it. One of the first things I did for InDepthInfo was a series of articles on the Days of the Week. Then I wrote the Month's of the Year. And just recently I produced How Clocks Work.
In spite of 35 years of failure to be perfect in my quest for self-organization. I realize that the constant attempt to do so has kept me productive. I guess the attempts should continue. In this vein I am trying out a new system that harkens back to my Navy days, when every officer was issued a "wheel book". I am going to begin the day with a blank index card and write down everything I plan to do that day. At the end of the day, I will assess my success or failure. No doubt there will be items that will fall into the next day.
It is interesting that my 12 year old daughter and I have been having conversations about this very subject, prompted by herself and not me. She tells me that she never gets done everything that she sets her mind to for the day. I did not tell her that this is the very nature of human existence. The constant struggle is what makes us better people. I had a boss who once told me that if you get only half of what you plan to do accomplished, you can do great things.
A Late Night
Posted by mcgelligot in Uncategorized on January 21, 2008
Well, I swore that I was not going to stay up late again. But here I am at 12:21 in the A.M. on a Sunday. I just installed Word Press. May as well give them a link as this program was relatively easy to install. It looks pretty user friendly as well.


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The European Parliament and the Hungarian National Assembly, Országgyűlés, organized a JPM in Brussels on 13 and 14 April 2011. The meeting focused on "Western Balkans - towards a more integrated Europe" and the discussion was held in plenary and in two working groups.
The first working group on "Co-operation in the area of freedom, security and justice" focused on questions related to borders, visa and migration issues, as well as judicial and police cooperation. The second working group, entitled "Integration of Citizens", highlighted the interrelated issues of cultural diversity and the progress of the integration process, as well as educational aspects of the integration of the Western Balkans into the EU.
The JPM was co-chaired by the President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, and the President of the Hungarian National Assembly, László Kövér.


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Christianity and "Biblical" Hatefulness
We Christians are good at a lot of things. Helping others. Dressing up on Sunday. Quoting scripture. Pot luck meals. Taking care of church members. Weddings. Funerals. Worship. But perhaps the thing at which we are the most persistently exceptional is misinterpreting the Bible then running amuck in the world because of it. Honestly, mad skills. And history backs me up on this one.
We have used the Bible to support, promote and act upon some pretty un-Christian things: slavery, holocaust, segregation, subjugation of women, apartheid, the Spanish Inquisition (which, no one ever expects), domestic violence, all sorts of exploitation and the list could go on and on. Oddly, if you ask theologians to pick one biblical theme to rule them all, most of them would say "love"... well, love and grace. Okay, love, grace and forgiveness. Fine. They probably would not specifically agree on a single term, but they would most likely name something that is, in every way, the opposite of the oppression, belittlement, hatred and marginalization represented by the numerous atrocities committed by the Christian Church.
More times than not, these atrocities are the result of trying to play God, pretending as if one group of people has complete knowledge of God's will and is more blessed or chosen by God. Not surprisingly, the people who see the world this way are always exactly the people who also happen to belong in the group they believe to be the uber-blessed. Lucky them.
Time and time again, Jesus made it clear that we should not put ourselves in the place of playing God and that, unlike far too many humans, God welcomes and loves us all equally. Period.
But we keep doing it. We keep doing it even though each time after we argue, name-call, suppress others and fight for centuries, falsely playing the role of heavenly judge and jury, we slowly realize that we got it wrong. We realize that, in fact, Paul was not promoting slavery. We learn to contextualize his statements and letters. We become more skilled at interpreting the original Greek and, over time, we decide to stop quoting the Bible to support slavery (or the subjugation of women, or racism, etc.) because we finally come around to realizing that, as Rob Bell's book points out, biblically love wins. Always.
And so we find ourselves here again. Doing the thing we do best: misinterpreting the Bible and ruining lives with it. We are, once again, ignoring the biblical bias for those who are marginalized, abused, belittled and negatively judged. Ignoring the biblical directive to show all the children of God love (and grace... and forgiveness).
Hate By Any Other Name
Oh sure, this time around we have "softened" our approach, saying things like "hate the sin, love the sinner," but we fail to recognize that what we are calling a "sin" and the person we are calling a "sinner" are one and the same. A person whose sexual orientation is homosexual, or bi-sexual, or queer can no more separate themselves from their sexuality than a heterosexual person can. It's like saying "hate the toppings, love the pizza." It's just not the pizza without the toppings. We just aren't loving the person if we don't love the whole person.
I suspect the "softening" of the language we use has everything to do with making us feel better and very little with making LGBTQ folk feel better, because it certainly doesn't make them feel any better. As a matter of fact, the love/hate (emphasis on hate) relationship that the Church continues to push on this group of people only serves to push them into closets and into even darker places, which sometimes leads to suicide. The Church and its approach to this issue are at fault for most of the hurt, anguish, self-doubt, abuse and death associated with being LGBTQ. Not very loving. Not very grace filled. But it certainly leaves us in need of forgiveness.
Many Christians have lost their way in this twisty, turny maze of how to practice our faith. We would much rather reinforce the things we want to believe than believe the sometimes difficult teachings of Jesus. Who, on a side note, never said a word about homosexuality but did tell us to gouge out our lustful eyes. Which seems to me is more likely to leave us all blind than the "eye for and eye" thing.
The Bible As A Sex Manual
So, as others have pointed out before, we use the Bible as if it is a sex manual, telling us what is and isn't acceptable in the eyes of the Lord your God. Thereby delineating out those whom it is okay for us to judge, and toward whom it is okay to direct all kinds of nastiness and holier-than-thouisms.
The reality is that the Bible is not a sex manual. I know, shocker. Right? Actually, it's a good thing (depending on your particular level of sexual prudishness – personally, compared to the Bible, mine is pretty high). You see, the Bible not only promotes marriage between a man and a woman, but it insists that that marriage be within the same faith. Not only should a wife be subordinate (Ephesians 5:22), but she should also prove her virginity... lest she be stoned (Deuteronomy 22:20-21). Oh, and the whole thing would probably be much better if it were arranged (Genesis 24:37-38). And that's just the warm up act.
According to the Bible, if a woman's husband dies and she hasn't had a son, she must marry his brother and have intercourse with him until she has a son (Mark 12:18-27). Sometimes, biblically wives are good, but concubines are better. Many of the "men of God" were not only married, but at least three of them had more than one concubine (Abraham, Caleb, Solomon) and they remained "men of God." But like I said, "biblically wives are good" and there's no such thing as too much of a good thing. Right? So, why not have many wives? God frequently blessed polygamists (Esau, Jacob, Gideon, David, Solomon, Belshazzar).
As far as sexuality and the Bible's perspective on woman as property and as slaves... well, as you can imagine, it does not get any better.
Making Choices
The point is this: most of us have matured enough theologically to recognize that we need to contextualize the writings of the Bible, and because of it we have moved passed using these examples as the end-all-be-all on acceptable practices of sexuality. However, somehow, we have not managed to apply the very same understanding to the Bible verses that have become known as the "clobber verses" in the Bible. "Clobber" because they are the verses most used to clobber people who are gay or who support gay rights.
That is really interesting when you consider that, of all the topics I just mentioned, sexual orientation is the only one that is not a choice. Polygamy, concubines, marrying your brother's widow? All choices, and we have decided to "get over" the biblical directives for them. Sexual orientation? Not a choice. (There are those who still argue otherwise, but the science is clear, so I'm not even having that discussion). So many Christians just aren't able to get past that one. Equally interesting to consider: it is actually more of a choice to judge and marginalize people over being homosexual, or, bi-sexual, or queer; than it is a choice to be homosexual, or, bi-sexual, or queer. Yet we judge them and not ourselves.
Since we clearly have a difficult time letting go of the clobber verses, let's take them one by one and very briefly consider what is really going on in them. It should help us arrive at a clearer picture of what the writers of these scriptures were trying to tell us. What we will find is this: as we get caught up in judging others over what we want the verses to say, we miss the opportunity to understand how to be the people God is calling us to be.
As we get started, we all need to be on the same page on one thing. When the Bible was written, the earth was flat, the sun orbited the earth and the idea of a person having a sexual 'orientation' was completely foreign. There is some debate about who actually kick-started the understanding of sexual orientation (Heinrich Hoessli or Karl Heinrich Ulrich - personally, I am on Team Heinrich), but it is clear that the concept of people having a sexual orientation was first introduced in the 1800's making it a thoroughly modern construct.
Clearly, there are a few Bible verses that involve same-sex acts (and of those, almost all of them are male-male sex), but given the modern advent of recognizing the existence of sexual orientation, we must accept the reality that the writers of those verses were in no way trying to, let alone capable of, acknowledging, understanding and addressing homosexual orientation. What then, might they have been trying to tell us in the clobber verses? Let's take a look.
The Clobber Verses
Let me just say right off the top, three of the verses that are sometimes considered clobber verses have nothing to do with the question of homosexuality. Putting Genesis 2:21-25, Deuteronomy 23:17 and Jude 1:6-7 in the category of anti-gay verses is nothing more than an attempt to beef up the number of verses that are supposedly "against" homosexuality. They have nothing to do with it. So, I am simply going to ignore them. If someone attempts to use them as proof of the "abomination" of homosexuality, I suggest you simply ignore them as well.
The great thing about defending the Bible against people who want to use Genesis 19:1-11 to gay bash is that you really don't have to do any work. The Bible does it for you. For better or for worse, this is also the verse with which the general population is probably most familiar in terms of what they think of as verses about homosexuality. Even the term "sodomy" is linked to this Bible passage.
It is the story of two travelers (messengers from God) being given shelter by Lot and his family. Hospitality was a very big deal in those days. In this story, the men of Sodom decided to approach Lot's home and to make less than hospitable demands on him and his guest. To get a sense of how important hospitality was, when the men of the town say they want to force themselves (most likely sexually) on Lot's guest, Lot actually offers up his daughters instead. Despicable, deplorable, a great way to permanently damage your relationship with your daughters and the rest of your family (to say the least), but a sure sign that hospitality was a big deal.
In the end, the men of the town did not get what they wanted. They wanted to exert their dominance of the guests. They wanted to humiliate them, as warriors after conquering a foe might do in those days, sexually putting another male into the position of a woman (who after all was thought of as property, as weak, and as soft and therefore less than a man).
Even though the men never actually exerted their power over Lot's guests in a male-male sex act, people still insist on using this text as proof that homosexuality is an "abomination." Well, like I said, "the great thing about defending the Bible against people who want to use Genesis 19:1-5 to gay bash is that you really don't have to do any work. The Bible does it for you."
Sodom is referenced multiple times in the Bible as an example of great sinning. And what might that sin be?
In Isaiah 1:10-17 it is thought to be injustice, not rescuing the oppressed, defending the orphan, pleading for the widow. In Jeremiah 23:14 it is adultery. In Ezekiel 16:48-49 it is the sin of not aiding the "poor and needy." In Zephaniah 2:8-11 the sin is bullying, boasting and pride. In the Wisdom of Solomon it is "the bitter hatred of strangers."
The sin is not about being gay. It is not about non-straight sexual orientation. The sin of Sodom was lacking hospitality, not being just, bullying, hating strangers, not caring for those marginalized. Funny, they are all things Churches (and individuals for that matter) sorely need to keep in mind and be better at practicing when it comes to how we do or do not welcome LGBTQ folk into our lives. After all, in today's society, who is more marginalized, more bullied, more treated like a "stranger," than them? Come to think of it, not so funny.
If someone were to canonize a buzz-kill, it would look remarkably, and uncomfortably, like the book of Leviticus. Honestly, this three-thousand plus year old holiness code is not exactly a big ball of fun. For starters, just try reading it. On second thought, I like you, so don't. Fortunately for you, I've done it for you. (I know, nice. Right? I'm just that kind of guy).
Among the jewels you'll find in it are a mandate to kill disobedient children, a dietary restriction to not eat shellfish (God Hates Shrimp!), a law that would prevent bowl-cuts (or "rounding off the side-growth of your heads" – and to think I liked the Beatles), direction to not touch or eat the flesh of a pig (no bacon and cheddar soup for you!), and a prohibition on the rhythm method of birth control (you know who you are!). Oh, and presumably, gay sex (which, of course, is why I bring it up).
The section of Leviticus where we find the clobber verses is often called the Purity Code. "Purity" was mostly about two things. First, it was about keeping things the way they "should" be. "Should" is in quotes because the guidelines they used for what should and shouldn't be were mostly made up. Said differently, they arrived at their conclusions in a time that didn't have any science or at least not science like we have today. Which is to say, they didn't have any science.
What they had was mostly superstition based on observation. A big part of this purity code was the idea that the world is consistent or follows particular preset rules. For the Israelites this meant things like: all fish have fins, animals with divided hooves chew cud, and male sperm contains the whole of life (women provided the incubation chamber). When things didn't adhere to this particular three-thousand year old way of understanding the world, they were considered an abomination or more precisely impure.
The second thing the purity code did was define the Israelites as purely not Canaanites. That is, much like many Christians receive the mark of a cross on their forehead on Ash Wednesday or give something up for Lent, the codes in Leviticus helped define the people of Israel as the people of Israel. For the Israelites it was particularly meant to define them as not Canaanites. Basically, it's a way of showing "we are not them."
It is true that there are other reasons for many of the laws (just like there are many other reasons to give something up for Lent), but these are two of the larger ones, and they are ones that most directly apply to these clobber verses.
So what do we, presumably enlightened Christians of a scientific age, do with this code? Clearly shrimp are good to eat (for most of us). For that matter, as far as I'm concerned, to borrow from an old Benjamin Franklin quote, they are proof that God loves us* – that's just how darned delicious they are.
What we do is recognize Leviticus for what it was: a good thing for the people of God based on how they understood the world some three-thousand years ago. Interestingly enough, when it comes to things like shellfish, eating and touching pigs, cutting our sideburns and beards, and stoning children who mouth off to their parents, we have already managed to do exactly that. Why? Because we understand that they are just flat out silly laws. Not all "fish" have fins. Some come in the shape of pink commas and are delicious with a nice Riesling. Because not all split hooved animals chew cud. Some roll around in the mud and make breakfast just that much better. For that matter, wrap them around a shrimp, throw them on the grill. I promise you, God will not smite you and once you bite into them you'll agree, they are not an abomination (they might, however taste slightly "impure" if you do not devein them well).
What many people have not been able to do is extend that simple understanding to these clobber verses. We have already established that it would have been impossible for these texts, or any biblical text, to be about sexual orientation. However, they do clearly describe a male-male sex act (sorry ladies, this one's just for the guys). But what we have to begin to understand is that the issues which these specific laws presumed to address within their society, much like the other laws I've mentioned here, are no longer recognized as true.
Scholars have pointed to various reasons for ancient Israel's seeing male-male sex as taboo in Leviticus. It may be the same reason the rhythm method was thought to be wrong in the eyes of God, which presumably is that, as I have mentioned, they thought sperm contained the whole of life (how typically male-dominated-society of them). Therefore, in their way of seeing it, "Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is great. If a sperm gets wasted, God gets quite irate." On the other hand, it may be that they thought it was taboo because it went against their understanding that mixing of kinds, just like the mixing of two kinds of cloth was taboo. Male-male sexual relationships, in that way of seeing things, mixes up their understanding of gender roles.
Whatever the reason, the perspective in these clobber verses were based on an understanding of sex and sexuality that was just as misinformed as their understanding of the earth in relationship to the sun, of fish, of pork and of reasons for stoning children. In our scientific age, it is time to let go of archaic perspectives and start recognizing the things that are truly an abomination in the eyes of God: lacking in compassion and love, exercising judgment against others, and practicing and encouraging hate.
(*The actual quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin is, "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Sadly, while Ben most probably enjoyed a mug of beer from time to time, the actual quote is, "Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy." In a happy coincidence, the same rains nourish the barley and hops that are changed into beer. In an even happier coincidence, wine and beer both pair exceptionally well with shrimp. God is good).
Good news ladies! Up until now, all of this clobbering has been about the guys. In Romans, you get to join in. Lucky you.
Romans is the one place the Bible speaks specifically about a female-female sex act. If you listen to Bible Thumpin' Gay Bashers, you'd be surprised to learn that, while the counts vary on how many places the Bible directly address heterosexual relationships, it is a lot. Then again, compared to the precisely one verse the Bible has about female-female sex, even two is one hundred percent more.
The number of heterosexually oriented verses isn't exactly clear. One thing is really clear, there's plenty of them and, much like the Levitical purity code, we've managed to ignore many of them. So, if you aren't also denouncing the divorced, then get off your lesbian judging high-horse, because otherwise you are just picking and choosing who to judge out of your own accord, and then quoting the one Bible verse that seems to support your choice. And even then, as we will see, it doesn't actually support your argument. It actually does just the opposite.
In Romans, we have the most extensive discussion of same-sex intercourse in the Bible, a whole two seemingly specific verses – astounding.
There are plenty of approaches to understanding what Paul is trying to teach us in these texts. Any good exegesis ultimately points to the reality that what Paul is talking about and what people who use these verses as clobber verses want Paul to be talking about aren't the same thing. That is, this is not about homosexual people having consenting homosexual relationships.
One convincing analysis of these texts looks at the fact that one of the most prevalent forms of same-sex sex in the Greco-Roman world was male prostitution which frequently involved boys. In that analysis, the texts become a condemnation of pederasty and prostitution, things of which most Christians (conservative to liberal) disapprove even today. There is also the perspective that Paul's pointing to same sex intercourse as being idolatrous could be referring to the practices of priests and priestesses of Mediterranean fertility gods who regularly practiced that type of prostitution but elevated it, within a religious context, to the state of idolatry. Those approaches are valid and mostly convincing perspectives, but they do require a small leap of logic to arrive at their conclusions. Much less of a leap of logic, mind you, than believing that these texts are about something of which people at that time had absolutely no comprehension, but slight conjecture all the same.
The analysis that I find the most convincing concerns itself with the word "natural." It is the word that has led many to speak of LGBTQ behavior as "unnatural" acts even though they occur throughout nature (in one study they were found in more than fifteen-hundred species).
As it turns out, the word is actually not "natural." Not surprisingly, Paul did not speak English. While Paul performed a number of miraculous things, speaking English (which wasn't around even in its earliest Prehistoric Old English form yet) was not one of them. Not to bore you too much, but the word Paul used was the Greek word, physikos. (Now that didn't hurt too much, did it?).
It's important to know the word in Greek because when it is translated into English, it loses a little of its original meaning. Without even knowing it, Lady GaGa has provided a better modern and contextual translation of physikos than the frequently used translation of "normal." We will get to that in a minute. It doesn't mean "natural" or "nature" so much as it means "produced by nature." Those who use these verses as clobber verses tend to understand "natural" to mean something closer to "normal" than "produced by nature." Not surprisingly, they also then define what is and isn't "normal" based on their personal biases rather than on science or the reality of the world around them (e.g.: "I think gay people make me feel creepy, so I henceforth do hereby dub it as an act of not-natural.").
In reality, physikos has more to do with how things naturally occur in God's Creation. At this point, you may have begun to guess that physikos is based on the same root word from which we get the word "physics" which is, of course, the study of the realities of nature. Conveniently, the way Paul uses physikos here in Romans, it also means something very similar to "the realities of nature." It is concerned with what is of our nature and not with what is defined as acceptable. That is to say, Paul is concerned with how God created something or someone to be. He is concerned with people going against their nature or in the words of Lady GaGa herself, if they are "born that way" he's concerned with them behaving as if they were not.
That is the sin here in Romans, acting against the very nature of who God created you to be. In this case he seems to be addressing the idea of a same-sex sex act in which at least one of the two are not attracted to someone of the same sex; they just are not born that way.
Understood this way, it would be equally sinful for someone who is only attracted to someone of the same sex to have sex with someone of the opposite sex. It goes against their nature; they just weren't born that way. Ironically, those telling LGBTQ folk that these verses mean they have to stop being LGBTQ folk are actually telling them to commit the very sin against which these verses warn, going against their nature. God has a wicked sense of humor.
Because these texts have been used so much to address homosexuality, it was important to address the issue directly, but the worst thing we could do is to think it is primarily about homosexuality. It is not.
Immediately following verse 28, Paul provides an extensive list of sins. It is so extensive that we all fall into at least one of the categories. "So there you have it," says Paul, "we all sin. Don't try to deny it." And let's face it, we all go against who we know we were created to be. How many times have you done something, felt guilt or shame, and then said, "I shouldn't have done that. That's not who I am."?
As Paul says in the very next chapter, "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." As he also says to start that chapter, "Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things."
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 & 1 Timothy 1:9-10
So, remember back a few paragraphs ago when we talked about a Greek word? And remember how it didn't even hurt one little bit? Good. We are going to do it again.
I have put the 1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy clobber verses together because they both use a particular Greek word in a particularly similar way. The word is arsenokoitēs and it means "male prostitute." (Behold the Greek scholarship. See that it is good and rejoice). Actually, it could also mean "the customer of a male prostitute," or "boy molester" or "someone who abuses themselves with a man" or "using sexual manipulation to acquire money" or … (eh hem, "Behold the great and powerful Greek Interpretation!" <insert flashing light and crashing thunder>).
So, the word in these two verses, that is frequently interpreted as "homosexual" (which is absurd because, in Greek, it is clearly only a word referring to men) or "sodomite" (which is absurd, among other reasons, because that was not the sin of Sodom, as we have already discussed), is really difficult to translate. Why? In part, because it is only found in these two places and also, in part, because it is entirely possible that it is a made up word. It is very likely that Greek speaking Jews created this word to port a Hebrew word to Greek and over time the meaning has been lost. So, it is just hard to translate. So difficult, in fact, that scholars can't agree on a single best translation. What most biblical Greek scholars can agree on is that it is not meant to be a blanket statement about a male-male sex act. Moving on.
There is another word used in 1 Corinthians 6:9: malakos. The good news about this word is that it is found in lots of literature, so there are plenty of references about its typical intended meaning. It literally means "soft." Some say it means "soft" as in "effeminate, but not in terms of sexual orientation." Others, say it is connected with being wasteful of sexual and financial resources. Still others convincingly point to it singling out a particular type of male prostitution involving young boys. Also in the list of contenders: sexual perverts, sodomites, weaklings, the self-indulgent. ("Behold the great and powerful Greek Interpretation!" <insert flashing light and crashing thunder>). Like with arsenokoitēs there really is no expert consensus on this.
Malakos was a word that could be used to refer to things as diverse as men who were weak in battle (or who were "soft"), to men who lived extravagant and pampered lives (or who were... well, "soft"). It was not specifically about sexual relationships. If Paul was actually trying to describe something about a submissive male in a male-male relationship (which is still not the same as homosexuality as we understand it today), it's very likely that he would have used kinaedos, which was frequently used to describe that very relationship. But he didn't. So, stop acting like he was.
In summary of my look at the Christian Church's use of the clobber verses, if you want to call homosexuality a sin, go ahead. But you are going to have to admit that it is not biblically a sin. Which means you are also going to have to admit that you are calling it a sin simply because that's what you want to do. Because of that, you are going to have to admit that you are a sinner for using God's name for false pretenses (it's a little thing we like to call using God's name in vain). And then, Paul has something to tell you, "...you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things." (Romans 2:1).
Author's Note: This is a bit long for a blog post, but some may find it to be a helpful resource. I wrote the piece for another project and it just wasn't a good fit. Honestly, if you are well read on the issue of the Bible and its take on homosexuality (or lack thereof), there is little new in here. For you, I hope this can be a quick reference. If you are not well read on such things, this may be a bit of a bumpy ride, but bumpy rides can be a lot of fun. Either way, I hope I was able to take what is sometimes thick reading, albeit important reading, and make it at least bearable and mostly straight forward.
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I like what you have to say in your Genesis and Leviticus sections. As a gay author I have undertaken a journey reading the Bible for the first time and documenting my thoughts on my blog: BibleProjectBlog.com. If you have a chance, check it out. I would curious to hear what someone more learned in this area has to say about my content.
Hi Mark,
I'm sure you've thought of this but you didn't mention it in your article. If you read what the Old Testament has to say on sexuality and marriage, you will find that every single instruction or prohibition had the same ultimate goal: the continued existence and growth of an ethnically pure Israelite nation, in a world where ethnicity was inextricably tied to culture and RELIGION.
For example:
The rule that a child of an Israelite woman was an Israelite regardless of the father's ethnicity, while the child of an Israelite father and foreign mother was not: you can be absolutely sure who the mommy is, but you can't guarantee who is the daddy. The child of an Israelite mother is at least half Israelite.
Marrying the childless widow off to her brother-in-law: doesn't just provide her dead husband with an heir and give her a child to care for her in her old age. It also prevents a fertile female from going to waste since a non-virgin was unlikely to be desired in marriage otherwise.
Prohibition on rhythm method: birth control prevents babies. Babies continue to increase the population.
Prohibition on homosexual relationships: pretty unlikely to result in a baby.
Each of these examples can have other justifications as well, such as those you discuss above. I just think it's interesting that each regulation of sexual behavior will result in population growth if it is adhered to. In a world where famine and war were common and entire cultures could be wiped out because of them, it seems that rules which encourage population growth are useful. Especially when you consider that they were the only nation which worshipped their one God and they were constantly battling infiltration of other-god worship from their neighbors, a set of regulations encouraging the continued growth of an ethnically pure population seems astute.
Today Christians have discarded biblical rules about haircuts and selling our daughters because we recognize them as irrelevant. In a world where we face overpopulation rather than extinction, and our religion is based on choice rather than ethnicity, doesn't it make sense that we can also discard rules designed to increase the population of those who obey them?
And this no more makes us bad Christians than wearing clothing made from mixed fibers (and I know we are ALL missing out on heaven if that's a sin).
Thank you for this thought-provoking article. Thank you for taking the time to put this out there.
Speaking as someone who has been on the gay side of this preferable fence since I was 7 yrs old, I think I have the right to speak my peace. I was saved about 8 yrs ago and without anyone telling me I knew in my heart having sex with another man was a sin. I find it heartbreaking that people have started saying things like, "Let's go back and take another look at the Scripture again because it doesn't say what we want it to say. Oh and it was written by regular men and they made mistakes in their writings and put their own belief system in there!" The Scripture is clear that it was written by Holy men moved on by the Holy Ghost! I find it astounding that people actually believe the lies that the Bible is flawed. Do you believe that God wanted the Bible written? Do you believe that that same God made the entire universe? Do you believe that His only Son Jesus the Christ died and was resurrected and is sitting at the right hand of God? If you do then please explain to me how an All Powerful Almighty God was too weak not to make sure that the Bible was not perfect? The book He wanted for us to have learn how to live a Christian life. Do you really think that this God could not make the men writing it put in it just what He wanted said? Would you want to serve a God who wasn't in complete control of what was put in His most precious book (His own words and teachings) and He was powerless to stop these men from just ignoring Him and writing what they wanted? If that is what happened then that would mean that men were more powerful than God, and that is a sobering thought! Praise God that is not true and He is still the Almighty! His word is perfect and needs no changes.
You stated that we have learned how to better understand Greek. The men that wrote in Greek lived in the time when Greek was a commonly spoken language. They had a better grasp of it than we can ever have!
I don't know what bible you are reading out of but this is all wrong. This article will lead people astray. Homosexuality is in fact a sin, It says so in the old testament. God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve. Opposites attract, man and woman were made to pro-create, you can't make a baby with two of the same sex for a reason. That's not part of gods plan, that's not what god wants, and that's not what God intended. You can't find one verse in the bible at all that so much as hints at homosexuality being okay, not one. But you can find one that says God is against it. You really need to study the word more before you start filling the minds of people who look for guidance and instruction in others who have studied the word and are sent to preach what God has shown them. This is in no way spiritual or biblical. You are meant to hate sin and not the sinner that's what is in the bible. But you sir are twisting it to your own ends. If you were to look up sin and sinner you would clearly see that yes there is a huge difference between the two words. A sinner is the person who is committing the act of sin as for sin is the act in itself. We are to hate the act but love the the person committing the act because that person is obviously led astray be the devils lies and deceit and therefore doesn't know better. When you are sinning it becomes a habit. Its like a drug, the more you do it the harder it is to stop.
People need to start including Deuteronomy 22:5. Why don't they? It's quite frequently leveled against we who are transgender. We get clobbered by the bible too, and we need to be empowered with counterarguments. I've not seen it listed as a clobber verse yet. Let's change that.


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This is what spring looks like in March in South Carolina! The lawns are still hibernating, but the trees are bursting out in popcorn all over! It is so pretty when you drive through town, even the busy business streets, the trees are all covered in white.
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