Something tells us if you’re the type of guy who frequents public cruising grounds to find a little action in the bushes, you probably aren’t concerned with Leviticus 18:22. Call it a hunch.
But one group of Christian moral vigilantes are hoping to use the Bible verse, which commands that thou shall not lie with mankind as with womankind (blah blah), to reach the souls of sinners in the very den of the damned. That’s right, a gay cruising park.
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A large banner has mysteriously appeared between some trees at McKee’s Dam in County Down, Northern Ireland, a site “rumored” to see some man-on-man action when the sun goes down.
How about we take this to the next level?
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We use quotes here because police seem to be turning a blind eye to any extracurricular activities in the park, saying they’re, “not aware of any complaints in relation to this type of activity in this specific area.” A wink is assumed to have immediately followed the statement.
It didn’t take much research to discover that these Christian saviors might be onto something.
An entry for the park on Squirt.org (NSFW), a listings network for gay cruising, was created in 2002, and describes the varied types of guys who frequent the spot as “oldies, truckers, sales reps and young horned up lads.”
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They also offer detailed directions and this bit of advice: “Just have a walk around and catch someones eye and follow in the the bushes. Anywhere around the lake or dam.”
Just this month, there have been 17 user comments on the listing. Or should we say, there have been 17 user comments rumored on the listing.
Still, we don’t mind that police have placed the issue low on their list of priorities.
It seems these sign-hangers would better serve their community by feeding the poor or hitting a high C in choir practice, but what do we know?
We also suspect whoever hung the sign has also been around the dam once or twice.
Giancarlo85
Somebody spent their money and time to make that? Why don’t they mind their own business? Now as far as sex in public parks, I think it is better in the bedroom… But still, these Christians ought to mind their own business and stop trying to interfere in the lives of others (I am speaking in general).
Scott Haltom
Don’t spend the night with another guy. Does this mean everytime two men sleep in the same bed they are having sex? I think most nights men just sleep as usual. Sex is not the only thing on gay mens minds, maybe with straight men, but we find more important things to worry about than this.
Alexis Barros
Its a sign for the priests to think twice before they bed little alter boys.
Victor Barry
Yeah, and non-virgin brides need to be put to death…enough with the nonsense Bible quotes.
Dev.C
Thou will continue to lie with mankind regardless of this stupid sign.
Sweetie Pie
The banner should say
“THY SHALL NOT GET LAID IN PUBLIC PLACES FOR THEY ARE FOR EVERYBODY TO ENJOY”
Sex should be restricted to private spaces, homes, gay saunas, gay clubs, hotel rooms, private beaches and so forth
Gerald GeeLocke Panuthos
burn it!
Scott Lawrence
Who’s lying down in the bushes, you stand
Daveliam
I’m tempted to pay for a banner that says, “Thou shalt mind your own business” and put it right beside this one.
Spike
Just a means to intimidate all those priests and family men that visit the park.
GG
“Thou shall not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is abomination.”
Since I’m a gay male, I don’t lie with womankind. Therefore the passage does not apply to me.
Mark Williams
That is from The Old Testiment.
Phranc Azzhee
These religious cults need to just focus on their flock not bully other folks. Hatred is tied in with their society and that’s why most are leaving them. Hope they find love and peace soon.
Bob Pattinson
Perhaps gays should put up another quote from Leviticus (21,17ff) which lists other ‘abominations to the Lord’ – i.e., the blind; people born with facial and other disabilities or made disabled through accident or war; dwarfs; people in wheelchairs……Christian bakers could add to their list of those ‘ungodly folk’ their conscience will not let them deal with…
Robert Paige
Mysteriously lmao
AtticusBennett
it’s not “Christian” scripture as, scripturally, Christians don’t follow levitical law. this, of course, is lost on almost all right-wing Christians.
silveroracle
Give me a sign hanger and I’ll show them what to do with their candle, in the nicest possible way of course.
Ton Saeliew
The “Christians” who put it there probably know that park all too well.
Roberson Randy
GG
“Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is abomination.”
Note: No mention of sexual orientation.
Terrence Houlihan
BURN IT!!!!’
Kevin Hurst
It’s OK! They aren’t laying down anyway.. It’s in the park!!
David King
Rephrased, the punctuation leads to this:
It is an abomination to do the same thing as straight people.
Dieter Michaels
…and exactly how did this ” christian” warrior know about a gay cruising area? Hmmmmm
Alan Burnside
More for these Christians to think about!
Tommy Ogletree
It also says in Leviticus that if a woman isn’t a virgin on her wedding day then she shall be put to death. Don’t see the Christians jumping all over that do you?
Joe Eugene
I thought the sin of lying with a man as with a woman was just a lack of imagination.
Gee Rosato
Gay cruising Park what is this 1977
Gee Rosato
rextrek
..and why would any self respecting gay man be going to a park these days and having sex? WHY? Between the internet / bars / all kinds of social media… you’re gonna stoop to that mess? Come on guys!
Ogre Magi
I am sooooooooooooooo sick of christians
Shirley White
Experience is knowledge!!!
Lindy-Lou Nicholson
I am part of the LGBT community, and i also believe in God. Forgetting interpretations by organised religion and going straight to the Bible – i do think that there are verses that appear to condemn homosexuality.
However, it drives me mad when people use the verses that are contradicted a few lines later by ‘rules’ that they break themselves, most especially in the Old Testament. One could argue that NONE of the old Testament should be used as Jesus tells us that the old rules are valid, commonly breaks them himselves, and says that he brings a new covenant.
Bring me some New Testament verses, and then we can start talking about what God/Jesus might currently think.
Michael Clifford
So does this let lesbians off the hook? 🙂
Roger Grossklaus
It’s Jewish scripture. Christ wouldn’t have said it.
Jarodd Washington
Everyone is a sinner gay and strate people too
Victor Incerti
Leviticus is an abomination!!!
Alistair Corvin
Major D. Easthagen III
Ummmmmmm….hey peeps — only inanimate objects lie such as a book or lamp, animate objects like humans lay – this story follows Adam and Eve and consequently refers to telling lies as did Adam and Eve in the garden and this rule shouts out men should not lie with other men as they have selected to lie with women —– chew on that translation for a while
Bradley Farrow
It is not Christian scripture, it is from the Old Testament. Christian scripture relates to the teachings of Jesus Christ. Homosexuality is not a subject He ever spoke about. So being Christian and homophobic or anti-gay do not jive with His teachings. He was very clear about the sin of judgement.
Phil Stagg
As ‘abomination’ when the book of Leviticus was written, meant nothing more than ‘dirty’ , bring it on!!!! lol
Gardner Imasuperhero Pourcio
Gotta say, freedom of speech can be a bitch.
Gardner Imasuperhero Pourcio
What if you’re standing up?
Finrod
I’m pretty sure that many people who frequent the park for sex would view this as a dare to do it right under the banner. Maybe splash a bit of santorum up there while you’re at it.
Joel Quinones
Thou needs to tend to your own garden instead of trying to clear mine.
seasailor
Uhh so let’s see: Leviticus 19:16 “Do not go about spreading slander among your people” 19:18 “do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love thy neighbor” 19:19 “do not wear clothing woven of two types of material” 19:26 “do not eat meat with the blood still in it”. #justsayin those without sin can start picking up stones and making banners.
Patrick Crawford
Yeah right mysterious. And I’m Donald Trump’s heir.
Billysees
@Lindy-Lou Nicholson:
” Bring me some New Testament verses, and then we can start talking about what God/Jesus might currently think. ”
1. All things are allowable, all things are lawful, all things are permissible…..1 Corinthians 6:12……1 Corinthians 10:23
2. ‘Blessed’ are those who don’t feel guilty for doing or being the things they have decided is right……last part of Romans 14:22
Take special note of the word ‘Blessed’.
You can think of it this way also —
Happy is the boy or girl or man or woman who do not condemn themselves for the things they know makes them the happiest and provides the greater satisfaction.
Why condemn LGBT’s because their love and affection towards one another is frowned upon by those who are not interested in understanding the issue?
3. Man’s ways are of the Lord, ………Proverbs 20:24
Billysees
@Lindy-Lou Nicholson:
Here’s a few things you might like to know —
The Bible is most useful when it is considered an important ‘guide’ rather than turned into an ‘idol’ or made into a ‘God’.
Here’s why —
Paul, who authored most of the NT and most of the negativity about LGBT issues, says this about his own knowledge and understanding —
1. …our knowledge is partial and incomplete…
2. …we see things imperfectly…
3. All that I know now is partial and incomplete…
(1 Corinthians 13:9,12)
He may even be speaking for scripture he didn’t write.
Those are excellent examples that teach us that scripture can be too partial, incomplete and imperfect to be useful for every situation.
We therefore must reason out anything and everything in scripture ‘as necessary’. That will help us to ‘effectively’ judge and evaluate a matter or people based on all reasonable, ‘current or modern’ attitudes, experiences and knowledge.
The search for new and better ways of accepting and understanding LGBT people using scripture is a worthy effort.
The continuing and modernity inclined work of the ‘Spirit of God’ is alive and well ‘in many of us’.
Jim Cash
More going on above the bushes under the cover of night.>>>
jockjack5
Some of the hottest sex I’ve ever had was in my college library men’s room.
I went to a fairly large school and our library was a huge 7-story high-rise. The sixth-floor was comprised mainly of maps and other archival-type stuff and was seldom busy, especially on week-nights. The single men’s room on this floor was a notorious gay-cruising area.
An even cruisier location was the first-floor men’s room in Colvard Hall, the main administration building for the school of nursing. It was a huge restroom and featured either 7 or 8 stalls, separated by solid marble walls with a good 12? gap at the floor. Between the three middle stall-walls were numerous Glory Holes, impossibly carved painstakingly thru the half-inch thick marble. One of the G-holes was almost 4? in diameter! It was not unusual to find 4 or 5 college boys in this restroom at the same time, either sucking or fucking. It was super-hot!
This happened back in the 1990’s, but I still have maintained excellent gaydar when entering a men’s room at the mall or even in church.
Billysees
@GG:
” Since I’m a gay male, I don’t lie with womankind. Therefore the passage does not apply to me. ”
Interesting answer.
Billysees
@Bradley Farrow:
” Christian scripture relates to the teachings of Jesus Christ. ”
That’s more true than what’s popularly accepted.