Holy Kiss?

I turned on the car radio the other day, just in time to hear some SRN or FOX anchoress/reporteress proudly beller out with obvious feminist allegiance that "P" Obama had signed a bill "preventing veterans from committing suicide" and before she continued with what probably was the rest of her rant I switched her off to avoid being further irritated with the sexist sound of her female-in-charge voice.

Then I thought: "Wow, now he's done it: Making a law impossible to break, or at least severe punishment in store from the Obama administration to and against the newly deceased for violating this ultimate executive order from the unfit-to-command Kenyan-not-Hawaiian-born liar-in-chief."

Before you laugh yourself off your seat, onto the linoleum or hardwood floor, and hurt yourself (as I will also struggle to non-hypocritically likewise not do onto my floor-rug carpet), there admittedly is a very strange prediction in verse 6 of the Scripture below which puzzles me:

Revelation 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth; and to him was given the key to The Abyss.
9:2 And he opened The Abyss, and there arose smoke out of The Pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the Sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of The Pit.
9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon Earth; and to them was given power, as the scorpions of Earth have power.
9:4 And it was commanded to them that they should not hurt the grass of Earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those humans who had not the seal of God on their foreheads.
9:5 And to the locusts it was given that they should not kill them, but torment them five months; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
9:6 And in those days shall humans seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads were, as it were, crowns of gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
9:8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9:9 And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots with many horses running to battle.
9:10 And they had tails like scorpions, and there were stingers in their tails; and their power was to hurt humans five months.
9:11 And they had a king over them, the angel of The Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek the name is Apollyon.

Weird, but ominous, prophecy - to be sure.

Typically, before and especially after, but sometimes even during church services, a lot a handshaking transpires (in corporate congregational response to the pastor's imperative: "Now let's greet one another").

What is meant by that "handshaking" is not shaking one's hands in whatever imaginable ways in front of other people, but instead grasping (usually by the right and not left hand) their right (and usually not left) hand as a friendship greeting.

Often, women questionably extend their hand to men they are not presently married to for an expected return friendship grasp and brief handshake....and men (sometimes hesitantly and reluctantly but because of courtesy and importunity), do the same to certain women who they might not be currently married to and rather not shake the hand of, although sometimes would like to not simply give a hearty handshake and definitive forehead or cheek kiss to some cute young single woman (without a wedding band or purity ring on the 4th finger of her left hand), but (in sensuous addition) continue on with an extended-duration tight hug with passionate lips-sucking/tongues-inside-mouths french kissing.

Sometimes, a quick and light-pressure hug is substituted for a heterosexual male-with-female or female-with-male kiss....and the honest inner effect of so doing for either the man or the woman or both, is (again, quite honestly) at least slight non-admitted erotic pleasure and gratification.

Men kissing men on the cheek (Judas-Iscariot-style) might be the thing to do for Europeans, Russians, and/or arabs - but clannish Scandinavians are usually not so disposed. And same-gender lips kissing obviously smacks of sickening and disgusting homosexual lust, which thankfully is rarely if ever seen among the non-depraved civilized.

A simple thumbs-up with a big smile would suffice in most cases of church-fellowship greetings (especially if contagious diseases are known to reside in the vicinity), without even a high-five of palms struck together in mid-air. Apt finger selection and positioning is crucial, with the thumb (and not 3rd finger of either hand) pointed upwards.

The other day I and the wife attended a bluegrass festival, again encountering and confronting the pre-666 mandatory wristband-for-entrance imposed on ourselves (similar to the noxious requirement of getting hand-stamped for exit privileges and on-the-grounds identification before entering the State Fair and other outdoor expositions). We've already grown accustomed to showing a Driver's License to cashiers when presenting checks for payment at checkout counters (although many businesses no longer accept checks). All this is morphing everyone into the upcoming 42-month Great Tribulation involving the infamous Mark of the Beast before Christ Jesus returns to victoriously conquer at Armageddon.

Be that as it is and not may, we live in a time when more and more younger women have pierced themselves, or had themselves pierced, in sundry strange places on their bodies, and increasing numbers of them are showing off all sorts of hideous and detractive tattoos wherever on their carcasses, not to mention weird hair colorings and needless bizarre fingernail polishes. One can easily ascertain how such worldly-arrogant barbarians, irreligiously proud of their self-defacings and ugly bodily graffiti, pitifully neutralizing and abrogating the normal sexual beauty of their natural female bodies, will have no problem getting branded with the insidious commerce-regulating Mark of 666 when the Antichrist Beasts come on the scene as predictively prophesied in the New-Testament book of Revelation (chapters 13-19).

At the bluegrass fest, after the instrumental musicians strummed their guitars, banjos, bass fiddles, and violin fiddles, the wife and I went downstairs to see the square dancing accompanied by some bluegrass band.

The participating random-visitor dancers from the audience were a motley mixture of little kids and adults of both males and mostly females, some of which inferior gender were mopheaded (flaunting loose long hair) plus a few gals here and there improperly misclad with arms-bared sleeveslessness and legs-bared shortened skirts, plus one totally barefooted tween girl.

After going to the restroom to get some toilet paper which I moistened at the sink faucet to insert into my ears as earplugs to dampen the loud noise of the female caller and ears-deafening music back in the dance room, I returned only to eventually close my eyes as the sight of the accumulated quasi-indecently-exposed female dancers prancing around in rather-organized square-dance choreography eventually got to me.

Fortunately, no guy or gal asked the wife to get up and dance as I sat there in relaxed and peaceful blindness, even though she sort of wanted to, but restrained herself on account of her mild MS which would have caused her balance problems on the dance floor. Besides, I had told her that I was not going to engage in the virtually low-powered fornication of opposite-gender body swapping which was copiously occurring during the square dances.

I had told her that if there was a male instead of a female caller organizing the square dances, and if that caller had asked only guys out on the dance floor to dance for at least one of the square dances, I would have gone out and danced myself. My male partner would have been called Partner #1 and myself Partner #2 (instead of the caller mis-terming us: "ladies and gents"). After that, a group of only female dancers could have been called out on the dance floor. But, lamentably, the female caller had no moral discretion regarding that, but instead wanted only subtle heterosexual quasi-orgies of male-with-female partner swapping regardless of who belonged to who in marriage.

Now I understand why conservative Baptists shun heterosexual square dancing of random mixed-gender partners. "It is well for a man to not touch a woman" said the Holy Spirit through St Paul in First Corinthians chapter 7. Indeed. Experiencing tinges of erotic orgasm and covertly secreting down under during heterosexual promenading hand-in-hand and arm-in-arm with heterosexual bumps of hugging back-to-back or front-to-front and heterosexually slapping hands together in midair as mixed-gender bodies gyrate in sensuous movements should make it quite evident that erotic awakening and arousal have been committed and not performed, and thus "love has been awakened before its time by the little foxes spoiling the vineyards," as described in the Song of Solomon.

I did do one slow-waltz dance with the wife when the brief opportunity came.

Had a strange female come up to me, asking me to dance with her, I could have replied: "I cannot" - and to her query as to why, I might have said: "I'm gay" (even though I am not homogay, but at least that would have been one probably-ill-advised excuse to use to put her off), and if she persisted, saying: "Can't you do it anyway just this once?" my reply would again have been: "I cannot." No female dances with me unless they have first filled out a MateCert declaring themselves to be my very own permanent Christian concubine, and they are wearing a marriage/purity ring on the fourth finger of their left hand given to them by me.

Admittedly, meager heterosexual pleasure from such repeatedly-momentary public body contact or by a quick heterosexual peck-on-the-cheek kiss is certainly not as intensely stimulating as when a man would wash the attractive bare feet of some nice-looking young woman (be she teenaged or even pre-puberty tween) in twisted pseudo-fulfillment of the foot-washing command of Jesus Christ:

John 13:14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

Apparently, it is not as much of a titillating thrill when a woman washes a man's feet, and then (to boot) dries them with her restricted-to-lie-on-the-floor mopheadedness as long as she is down there:

Luke 7:44 Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house, you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
John 11:2 It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.
John 12:3 Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

First Timothy 5:10 ...and she must be well attested for her good works, as one who has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, relieved the afflicted, and devoted herself to doing good in every way.

That ritual involving the baring of a woman's feet, particularly the beautiful, callous-and-corns-free, clean-and-shapely sexy feet of some young-adult teen or somewhat-older attractive woman, would certainly come into conflict against verse 25 of the following KJV and RSV enlightenment:

Jeremiah 2:20 "For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds; and you said, 'I will not serve.' Yes, upon every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down as a harlot.
2:21 Yet I planted you a choice vine, completely of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?
2:22 Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me," says the Lord GOD.
2:23 "How can you say, 'I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals'? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done: a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,
2:24 a wild ahss used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.
2:25 Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is hopeless, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.'"

Even the related and correctly-translated statement of Song of Solomon 7:1-2 is not:

Song of Solomon 7:1 How graceful are your feet in sandals, royal maiden! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.
Song of Solomon 7:2 Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.

...but instead:

Song of Solomon 7:1 How graceful are your footsteps in sandals, royal maiden! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.
Song of Solomon 7:2 Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.

Years ago, it was not unusual for a male shoe salesman in a shoe store to service female customers by sizing their feet with his big metal gauge to find out what shoes would fit them best. It sometimes happened that he engaged in both viewing and quasi-fondling the bare feet of some rather attractive young-adult female customers.

That, nowadays, has generally faded out of the picture, in that most places where shoes can be purchased are large shopping-center megastores where customers themselves can search for the style and size of shoes they desire, and try them on by themselves without the assistance of opposite-gender feet perusers and handlers.

Indeed, proper and modestly-decent protocol to prevent illicit sexual arousal relating to the female-feet-alluded-to admonition of Song of Solomon 7:1 plus KJV's and RSV's Jeremiah 2:25 prohibiting public female feet-baring with no shoes nor socks on, is verse one of KJV's and RSV's and NASV's:

First Corinthians 7:1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch [and the accurately-translated Greek Text, contrary to the aberrant NIV/TEV/etc. misrendition, does not instead state: "marry"!] a woman.
7:2 But because of the temptation to fornication, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
7:3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
7:4 For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does.
7:5 Do not refuse one another except perhaps by agreement for a season, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, lest Satan tempt you through lack of self-control.

Public heterosexual footwashing happening, even between and of an already-married couple, might likely be reprimanded or ridiculed with a negative retort of:

"Take it home." Or: "Get a room." - with the obvious intention of one not wanting to see such explicit and graphic hetero-contract in general public view.

Understandable....but would it be considered narrow-mindedly prudish for a naysayer to also condemn the non-homosexual sight of a husband heterosexually holding his wife's or concubine's hand, or him escorting her, arm-in-arm....as something horrendously gross and obscene?

Helping the handicapped is one thing. Putting on a subtle and low-powered sex show is quite another, to many.

At my wedding, I (with the wife's approval), arranged it so that right after vows were exchanged, there was no sex-show lips kiss displayed to the congregation before she and I marched down the aisle and out of the sanctuary.

Nor anything like that afterwards during the wedding reception down in the church basement, despite muffled clamor for it by clattering plastic utensils on paper plates and cups.

Sort of like using the old "cookie-in-each-hand-and-one-in-the-mouth" technique to shut the kid up.

That happened over twenty years ago, and when I gratefully tell people that "it's been over twenty years of wedded bliss," the wife grins as she responds with the word: "work."

Uh huh. She's a sweetie - and knows full well that I so consider her, with captivated appreciation mere words cannot adequately describe.

I advised to her to add, when asked: "Living the dream."

Bathing the bare feet of one's own wife or concubine in secluded private view with her should not raise any eyebrows, as verse 26 below infers:

Ephesians 5:21 Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.
5:22 Wives, be [obediently and happily] subject to your husbands, as to the Lord.
5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, and is himself her Savior.
5:24 As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything [including performing fellatio] to their husbands.
5:25 Husbands, love your wives [including lip-servicing her pussy?], as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
5:26 that He might sanctify "it," having cleansed "it" by the washing of water with the word,
5:27 that He might present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that "it" might be holy and without blemish.
5:28 Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
5:29 For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,
5:30 because we are members of His body.
5:31 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
5:32 This mystery is a profound [and kinky?] one, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church;
5:33 however, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Certain slight sexplay of a husband with his wife (or concubine) married to each other does not necessarily seem to always be private, in view of the following:

Song of Solomon 8:1 Oh that you were like a brother to me, that nursed at my mother's breast! If I met you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me.

...as a follow-up or continuation of:

Song of Solomon 1:2 Oh that you would kiss me with the kisses of your mouth! For your love is better than wine...

But, is such Song 1:2 only merely to be considered a sung-or-read spiritualized allegory or symbol of Christ with His Bride, the Church . . . something embarrassingly glanced at occasionally by frigid prudes once in a while in church but who afterwards and outside-of-church indulge erotically as amourous sinning-then-repenting congregationalists, as semi-whoring adulterers and adulteresses desiring a lot more than chagrined mouth kissies from their sexy jealous Savior?

Hosea 2:2 "Plead with your mother, plead - because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband - that she put away her harlotry from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;
2:3 lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a parched land, and slay her with thirst.
2:4 Upon her children also I will have no pity, because they are children of harlotry.
2:5 For their mother has played the harlot; she that conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'
2:6 Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns; and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.
2:7 She shall pursue her lovers, but not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, 'I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.'
2:8 And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished upon her silver and gold which they used for Baal.
2:9 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season; and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.
2:10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
2:11 And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.
2:12 And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, 'These are my hire, which my lovers have given me.' I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
2:13 And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned incense to them and decked herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers, and forgot me," says the LORD.
2:14 "Therefore, hey, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
2:15 And there I will give her her vineyards, and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt."
2:16 "And in that day," says the LORD, "you will call me, 'My husband,' and no longer will you call me, 'My Baal.'
2:17 For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more.
2:18 And I will make for you a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make you lie down in safety.
2:19 And I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in continual love, and in mercy.
2:20 I will betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the LORD."

Perhaps Pharaoh could readily relate to that scenario, as recorded in the following passage:

Genesis 12:10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to travel there, because the famine was severe in the land.
12:11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "I know that you are a woman beautiful to see and consider;
12:12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife'; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
12:13 Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared because of you."
12:14 When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
12:15 And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
12:16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male dunkeys/burros/ahsses/mules, menservants, maidservants, female dunkeys/burros/ahsses/mules, and camels.
12:17 But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
12:18 So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
12:19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone."
12:20 And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that he had.

Son Isaac did similarly:

Genesis 26:6 So Isaac lived in Gerar.
26:7 When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister"; for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me for the sake of Rebekah"; because she was fair to look upon.
26:8 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac fondling Rebekah his wife.
26:9 So Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Hey, she is your wife; how then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
26:10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."
26:11 So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall be put to death."

Notice that the command of Abimelech was quite detailed and not vague, in that not even a quick gentle hug, handshake, or light kiss on the cheek or forehead of Rebekah was allowed for anyone but Isaac by Abimelech.

It, under those conditions and circumstances, would have been quite life-sustaining to take the "touching" word from Abimelech very seriously.

I remember my own dad was quite disturbed (as I, his son would also me) when some relative in our extended family took it upon himself to try to waltz with my mother as dad looked on with jealous anger:

Proverbs 6:32 He who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.
6:33 Wounds and dishonor will he get, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
6:34 For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
6:35 He will accept no compensation, nor be appeased though you multiply gifts.

Even worse when my mom alleged that some visiting Muehlenberg-Pennsylvania theology professor had assaultively stripped and mouthed mom's privy forest in a camp north of Alexandria Minnesota.

Such jealousy by my dad was not unjustified, concordant with:

Joshua 24:19 But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve the LORD; for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will [with purported "unconditional love"] not forgive your transgressions nor your sins."

Esther 7:8 And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was; and the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?" As the words left the mouth of the king, they covered [the-understandably-to-thereafter-be-hung] Haman's face.

Proverbs 5:15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
5:16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
5:17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
5:18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
5:19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love.
5:20 Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?
5:21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he watches all his paths.
5:22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the labor of his sin.
5:23 He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is lost.

Nahum 1:2 The LORD is a jealous God and avenging, the LORD is avenging and wrathful; the LORD takes vengeance on His adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.

Zephaniah 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on The Day of the wrath of the LORD. In the fire of His jealous wrath, all Earth shall be consumed; for a full, yes, sudden end He will make of all the inhabitants of Earth.
Zephaniah 3:8 "Therefore wait for me," says the LORD, "for The [Final Judgment] Day (see Revelation 20:11-15) when I arise as a witness. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all the heat of my anger; for in the fire of my jealous wrath all Earth shall be consumed (see Second Peter 3:10-12).

Zechariah 1:14 So the angel who talked with me said to me, "Shout out: 'Thus says the LORD of hosts:' I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion" [hear that - all you antisemitic Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah, ISIS, Iranian, and Al Qaeda "palestinians" out there?].
Zechariah 8:2 Thus says the LORD of hosts: "I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath."

First Corinthians 10:18 Consider the people of Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?
10:19 What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything [worthy of worship]?
10:20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.
10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
10:22 Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
10:23 All things are lawful, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful, but not all things build up.
10:24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
10:25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
10:29 But for the sake of his weak conscience (not yours) do not eat it. For why should my liberty be determined by another man's scruples?
10:30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?
10:31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
10:32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
10:33 just as I try to please all humans in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

To women who wrongly presume that some gal wearing non-tight slacks is a lesbian-intentioned transvestite violating:

Deuteronomy 22:5 A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.

.....it should be pointed out that [non-transvestite] men wore robes and girdles in the Old and New Testaments, which garments and the wearing of such by men was not condemned by God. No mention of the guys bearing bras, even for use as slingshots.

Also what must be taken into consideration is when feminine skirts of women are not as long as they should be, or are slitted, so that bare-naked female legs are shamefully exposed -- which obviously gets into the realm of not ceremonial law or "adiaphora" but instead transgression against moral Law:

Isaiah 47:1 Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
Isaiah 47:2 Take the millstones and grind meal, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
Isaiah 47:3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no person.

The same is true concerning nude sleevesless arms of female humans in general public view:

Second Samuel 13:18 [RSV/NASV, not KJV nor NIV] Now [Tamar] was wearing a full-length skirt with long sleeves [no mention of being "multi-colored" in the Hebrew Text!]; for thus were the virgin daughters of the king traditionally clad....

A man's wife flaunting arms-or-legs nakedness in front of other men she is not currently married to as her husband spitefully looks on is a recipe for anti-marriage disaster, sooner or later:

Second Corinthians 11:2 I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to Christ to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.

Incidentally, the "jealousy" referred to below:

First Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful....

....should be understood as selfish greed-based envy -- and not in the other sense of the word: "jealousy."

We go back to the subject of strong-conscience Christians partaking where and in what weak-conscience Christians cannot, which leads us to ponder in puzzlement what seems peculiar internally-contradictory statements Saint Paul wrote, but which the Holy Spirit let Paul pen and put into canonical Holy Writ:

Romans 14:2 One believes he may eat anything, while the weak man eats only vegetables.
Romans 14:21 it is right not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother stumble [when he is around to watch?].
First Corinthians 8:13 Therefore, if food is a cause of my brother's falling, I will never eat meat [when he is around to watch?], lest I cause my brother to fall.
First Corinthians 10:30 If I partake [ingesting meat away from vegetarians] with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?

After all, 'Beef gives strength' - unless it is eaten medium-rare bloody:

Leviticus 7:27 Whoever eats [drinks?] any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people." [sorry, Dracula, and all vampires]
Leviticus 17:10 If any man/woman of the house of Israel or of the strangers who travel among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him/her off from among his (or her) people.

"Cook it well-done, yet juicy, please -- but not as tough as shoe leather."

"And forget the blood sausage, all you Germans and Swedes."

Is there some advantage to the pseudo-"screwy" postulations which the Holy Spirit allowed Paul pen and put into canonical Holy Writ?

Could the same premises or thoughts have been worded in a better and less confusing way?

Such questions cannot be answered, nor contemplated for long, because the Bible has already been written with the proverbially "etched-in-stone" exact words it has been irrevocably written, and no would-be revisionist is going to successfully succeed in changing it in any way. Adjustment to it must first be made, and afterwards reasonable explanations expounding upon it have to suffice, with overview of the entire Text of the complete Bible using cross-referenced verses that contextually balance each other out, and qualify what should be qualified, to not myopic one-sidedness nor becoming heretically hung up with or off on some "ever-learning-and-never-coming-to-the-knowledge-of-the-truth" apostate tangent.

Second Peter 3:15 And consider the forbearance of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,
3:16 speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
3:17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, beware lest you be carried away with the error of lawless humans and lose your own stability.
3:18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

It thus behooves the sane and sensible to "interpret" plus "divide" and "handle" allegedly-"contradictory" Scripture pronouncements appropriately:

Second Corinthians 4:2 We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's Word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to every person's conscience in the sight of God.

Second Timothy 2:15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling The Word of Truth.

And what should a Supreme-Court judge respond to Obama's pro-homosexuals-dissertating Solicitor General Verelli, concerning his suggestion that heterosexual-only marriage makes homosexuals second-class citizens?

Who said that homoeffeminate and homosodomites are "citizens?" What they are, according to the Scripture which founding-fathers America was and yet is based upon, are perverted dogs - not "citizens" - and not even worthy of "second-class" categorization.

The verdict against Verelli, his pro-homosexual pseudo-"president" Obama, and their militantly-activist ilk, should be negative on logical natural grounds that homosexuals, their supporters and tolerators, are antisocial deviates (as are anti-Divine-morality evolutionists, sexually-dissipating pornographers, and baby-murdering abortionists, plus those promoting misnamed "birth" "control" pregnancy preventers - be they condoms or pills) advocating interference against and cessation of sexually reproducing offspring, and thus all of them are essentially treasonous and traitors conspiring and striving for extinction against the entire humankind species.

The plight of feminist-besieged men and boys is understood and thoroughly sympathized with concerning consequential male-human reaction against such non-solicited and imposed satanic feminist sexism, but deliberately choosing to become and be homosexual in non-declared and non-admitted retaliation is clearly not the proper Biblically-based response nor antidote against such godless and despicable feminist chauvinism.

Not only that, but the small but vocal minority of homosexuals throughout the United States are indeed "second-class" inhabitants (not having the honor and distinction of being termed: "citizens") infesting and trespassing against the overwhelming majority of American who have a normal and healthy first-class attitude of and for heterosexuality and against disgusting homosexuality, and should be given DOMA precedence rather than being harassed, spammed, defiled, and polluted by homoqueer and homofaggot dikes and lesbos.