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Originally Posted by kerry
You've got some seriously odd ideas about the relationship between ideology and personal psychology. The fact that Paul might have thought that homosexuality was disgusting has no bearing on whether he himself was gay. I've known quite a number of guys who grew up in anti-homosexual traditions and who hated themselves because of it. In fact, Paul's own ideas about human sinfulness are better explained if he thought his own sexual inclinations were disgusting. The religious right has many self-hating gay men who live tortured lives as a result.
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And we agree.
The problem I have is that this is an argument from silence. The only argument that could be made would be that Paul was a practicing or at least self-professed homosexual. And in light of his culture and profession that argument gets shot down pretty quickly.