Language is one of those mysteries — we must be able to change it to suit a wide variety of communication needs, but words have historical context, too. Present use of the word “context” appears to me to favor that which is rather than that which is perceived, hence my preference for concept or construct. Of course if there is no “is”, I can’t really being saying anything.

There are many Landmark aficionados among the UC ranks, and one was a major Forum leader close to Werner Erhard; Brett Moss.

2. The above also rebuts his denigration of classical civilisation.

3. Christianity did not consistently promote the concept of the marital/heterosexual family. The leaders of Christianity, Popes and Sovereigns, at times particularly in the Middle Ages engaged widely in extra-marital sex and homosexuality.

4. The ambiguous attitude of Christianity to the ideals of the marital/heterosexual family is shown in its promotion of monastic life in which heterosexual behaviour was forbidden and also in the insistence of celibacy for the priesthood.

5. As has recently been revealed catholic orphanages around the world have been guilty of the widespread sexual abuse of their young charges, something of which the catholic hierarchy must have been aware and which runs counter to any assertion that Christianity is always and necessarily associated with sexual probity .

6. Where the relative status of males and females in ancient societies is concerned we probably have insufficient data relating to the lower strata of society to make firm pronouncements. The occupation by females of leading positions is exemplified by the queen of Sheba who visited king Solomon, queen Dido of early Carthage, Boudicca who led an army of Celts against the Roman invaders of Britain, Cleopatra the Greek queen of Egypt and Joan of Arc who led the French to victory over an English army.

7. Prager posits that rife homosexuality in the past led to women being accorded a lower status than men. Yet this difference in status may at least in significant part be due to a lack of understanding by society of the heterosexual process. In ancient times it appears that it was believed that the male sperm carried the essence of the new life and that the female merely acted as a receptacle for its growth. It was thought that the process was analogous to a seed being planted in the soil. Hence the reference in the bible to the man`s seed as being the originator of the new life. It was not realised that a seed is a fertilised entity and not equivalent to a male sperm. The discovery that the female ovum is as necessary as male sperm to the production of new life is likely to have contributed significantly to female emancipation.

8. Further evidence The Koran abhors homosexuality as much as the Torah

5. The Torah proclaims that you should “do unto others as you would that they do to you” and this injunction is carried forward into the New Testament implying that you should not act so as to cause hurt to others. The alleged hurt caused to society by private, consensual, homosexual behaviour is not obvious in view of the need to reduce population growth so as to conserve the planet`s limited resources rather than adopt the Torah injunction for humans to “multiply”. The foregoing applies even if the Torah injunction to “multiply” is interpreted somewhat differently.