Balance

I remember reading this story (Gay Iranian Teenagers Hanged) a while back, although it was indeed reported under (Two child rapists publicly hanged In Iran). The truth as far as the charges go is probably somewhere inbetween the two ways of framing the story. One could report a statutory rape as a love story between a young man and a younger but mature woman or tell the story as that of a "child rapist." Although it is valid to have laws about child abuse and so on there are some people that will always get caught up in such laws unjustly. On the other hand, there are some laws that are just unjust.

E.g.,
As far as the law of "death to homosexuals," I suppose a theonomist would argue that is biblical Law and so valid for the State. I would note that the law of Moses was given for the Jewish nation. One cannot just discard the ethics and principles of the law of Moses whenever one feels like it with some vague handwaving about "That was only for ancient Jews." because of the current "cult"ure one lives in, i.e. just to go along with the current cult. Removing the "Jewish influence" from Christianity was a tenet of Nazism for such a reason, it was out of anti-Semitism yet also to enable people to go along with the pagan cult of the culture. That is no reason. Yet the implementation or enforcement of principles by the State cannot simply be enforced exactly as it was for the Jews so that we have a State of the Law of Moses and so on. It is not as if we are a wandering tribe that may die off of odd diseases if we don't kill all men who have sex with men or do things that are in other ways "unclean." It's not as if the Law itself was to be venerated, it had and has purpose, spirit and meaning. It's the same with circumcision. It may not be a symbol of anything but we still do some things just to keep clean, clean.

Often both the ethical and ritual laws given to the Jews fit into Nature and there is not even much distinction between the ethical and the symbolic.

I would note the simplicity of much of the law written on the heart and the logic of the Jewish prophet wandering the wilderness and coming back to speak the Logos/Word: "IF you keep dancing around the high places all day engaging in the hedonism of the pagans THEN you will be overtaken by another nation."

There is basic natural revelation to be had by those who want to seek and find, logically enough.

(I meant to make this post about balance and the way that much of Islam is essentially all masculinity, all the time and existentially it is just about nothing. It always gets a little long if its about religion. Perhaps I will do that some other time, after a post on Hitler's guilt complex and the revenge of Conscience. It seems that the Word will have vengeance.)