..... this strange thing they refer to as 'orientation'.

Christian news in maine.com ^ | 7 February, 2005 | Mrs. Linda Kimball

[newsgatherer]

"But I'm not a serpent, I tell you!" said Alice......."Well! What are you?" said the Pigeon, "I can see you're trying to invent something!"
----Advice From A Caterpillar

Noah Webster defined 'orient' and its' derivative 'orientation' thusly:

"orient: the east; East Asia; to cause to face the east; to set as a map; to adjust to a particular situation.

"orientation: oriented; recognition of and adaptation to a situation or environment."

Primarily then, orientation speaks to direction and/or adjusting or adapting to a situation or environment. Implicit in this definition is 'choice,' as one must make a decision as to whether one will choose to adjust and/or adapt or choose not to do either thing. And finally, it speaks of free will, because where there is 'choice' there is always free will.

We are humankind and we have but two genders, male and female. History tells us that without exception, we have always been this way....

[newsgatherer]

I like that: We are humankind and we have but two genders, male and female.
...
So what is this mysterious 'orientation'? We have eliminated skin, hair, body type, and eye coloration along with genital differences, so that leaves us with one other thing.....'behavior.' Sexual behavior, to be exact. They engage in sexual behavior that deviates from what is normal for our kind and they've 'adjusted and/or adapted' to it. Now in this way, by understanding it as a 'behavior' we can finally make sense out of this thing they call 'orientation' although we must suspend belief in all that is normal and natural in order to accept it as true.

I love common sense and common semse writers.

[Zeppelin]

I know my orientation. When I see a pretty woman, my compass points North.

[anniegetyourgun]

Nothing new here. God said it, and He can't lie.....His Word is truth.

"Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE..." Matt. 19:4

[newsgatherer]

As it should.

[newsgatherer]

I do believe that is Linda's point.

[Osage Orange]

I've heard of Iron Maiden...

[newsgatherer]

By the way, I like your screen name. We are looking for a report done by a man with Prudential Insurance back in the 90's, it was an in-house report on woman, rape and guns. The report, if I remember correctly, stated that of the woman who had been raped, not one of them, including and off duty state police woman, was armed. Every last one of the woman interviewed stated that had they been armed and known how to use the gun, not one of them would have been raped. It went on to state that X number of them and I don't remember what that number was, said they had or were in the process of getting a gun. When asked they said something to the effect that they were never going to be raped again.

When we find the article we will put it up on Christian-news-in-maine.com first and then here on FR.

[anniegetyourgun]

I'm always sorry to hear about women who learn their need to be trained and armed AFTER the fact.

[anniegetyourgun]

Yep. I just like to make sure the Word of God is recorded here in black and white - so that no one can say they didn't realize He has spoken.

[newsgatherer]

The Lord Jesus, the Christ bless you.