Hello Bob,   
      
    LL>>             ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE,   
    LL>>  ALL OF MANKIND OF DESCENDED FROM 1 MAN AND 1 WOMAN ...   
    LL>>               WHO HAD TWO SONS.   
      
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   BB>And who did the sons mate with?   
      
   Themselves.  Until Cain decided he no longer needed Abel.   
      
   BB>Seems to me the chain would end there? Yet here we are.   
      
   You do realize there are five sexes of man -   
   * male   
   * female   
   * pseudo hermaphrodites   
   * true hermaphrodites   
   * eunuchs   
      
   Each of these different sexes has his/her/its own sexual orientation -   
   * heterosexual   
   * homosexual   
   * bisexual   
      
   Although there are five sexes of man, each of those five different   
   sexes look at themselves as being either male or female.  Never both,   
   or neither.   
      
   Most homosexuals are bisexual, married with children.  Lesbians   
   might not like penises, but they have been known to bear children.   
   Gays might not like vaginas, but they have been known to adopt   
   children.   
      
   Keep in mind that sexes are not the same thing as sexual orientation.   
   What confuses people is that gender and sexes are two different things.   
   And I'm not even getting into transgendered folks ...   
      
   "I'm just a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania."   
   - Dr. Frank 'N' Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show)   
      
   In years past, gays and lesbians have had to use the cover of being   
   married to someone of the opposite sex, rather than to someone they   
   truly love.  Gays could not live together in a community as doing   
   so would be flaunting the rules of society.  Kind of like blacks   
   living in a white community in the South.  Or a black/white   
   couple living in a white community.  That would be asking for it.   
   Which is why it was illegal for whites to marry blacks and vice   
   versa in the South.   
      
   Thank God for Martin Luther King, Jr.  He set us straight on that.   
   Imagine what he would say today had he not been assassinated 45 years   
   ago?  What would The Good Doctor recommend as a remedy for today's   
   evils?  Did he not love black women?  Did he not love white women?   
   Did he not love brown women?  Did he not love yellow women?  Just   
   like Jesus, he loved them all.   
      
   "Love one another, as I have loved you." - Jesus   
      
   That is the new commandment that Jesus gave to his followers.   
   The one and only new commandment he ever gave.   
      
   Challenge to preachers everywhere -   
      
   Show me where Jesus condemns gays and lesbians for loving each other.   
      
   Remember that woman who was about to get stoned by an angry mob?   
   What was her offense?  The angry mob said she was guilty of adultery.   
   But Jesus turned them away.  Without ever saying a word.  How did he   
   do it?  By drawing figures in the sand.  What kind of picture did he   
   depict, that proved his point?  Jesus drew a picture of two women.   
   Most of the crowd dispersed when they saw that picture, but a handful   
   of stragglers remained.  So what did Jesus do?  He made the picture   
   more clear for them to see, showing the two women holding hands.   
   With that, the stragglers went away.  In the gospel account, it is   
   made clear that the woman had an affair with another woman, as she   
   had told Jesus she had been "with no man."   
      
   Jesus was big on two things.  He was strongly in favor of marriage,   
   and he was strongly against adultery.  But nowhere in his teachings   
   does Jesus condemn marriage between two men, or marriage hetween   
   two women.  Or even sex outside of marriage.  His point seems to be   
   "Love the one you are with."  Whether that is male/male, female/female,   
   or male/female, the same applies to all.   
      
   Jesus did not approve of the mob's action, which is why he stood   
   up to them.  Quite unlike what today's preachers would have done   
   in today's world.   
      
   Back to the main topic -   
      
   It could be that Cain was a true hermaphrodite.  In fact, it would   
   seem to be, as Cain offed Abel before giving Adam and Eve a bunch of   
   grandkids ...   
      
   --Lee   
      
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