Talk:Homosexuality and religion/Archive 1

VfD
I moved a number of external links that were in the article to a "links" section. Generally (there might be some exceptions), we're trying to write our own information here, not a web directory. So we should only very, very rarely, if ever, say "see [URL] for more information." Why not? Because we want to include that information ourselves, eventually.

On the other hand, there's nothing wrong with making an annotated list of external links.

--LMS

I removed the Wiccan views of homosexuality from this page since this page only has links to the very general religions (Christianity, Islam, Neopaganism etc.). I think that the more specific sects' (like Wicca's) views on homosexuality fit better on the specific religions' "views of homosexuality" pages as opposed to this one. The "Jewish views on homosexuality" page does this nicely and I think using that as a model works well.

?!? Richard Stallman is not a religion. He is an American citizen who happens to be a computer programmer. I doubt that he has a faith based on his teachings. (Free-softwareism?) RK


 * What? You haven't heard that the Church of Emacs canonized him as St. IGNUcius? ;-) Wesley


 * Richard Stallman's support of free software has a near-religious fervor to it, but the "Church of Emacs" is just an insider's joke. I guess you already gnu that. ;-) Ed Poor

Buddhism
Cut from article:


 * Some other religions, such as Buddhism, embrace non-heterosexuality as a valid human trait and do not believe homosexuality to be inherently sinful.

The Buddhist_views_of_homosexuality article doesn't call homosexality "a valid human trait" OR "inherently sinful". --Uncle Ed 13:17, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)