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I only consider bigots those that make hateful and insulting remarks about homosexuals, what other reason would there be.Good morning, everyone.
I'd like to share with you some of my views regarding the topic of homosexuality. So, here goes.
You must be a hateful bigot. No. Just because I don't accept or agree with everything homosexuality doesn't make me a hateful bigot. That is intellectually lazy, not to mention very partisan. Since when does I don't support gay marriage, agree with people being born gay, or think it's moral the same as I hate you for being gay. There is so much difference there. Disagreeing isn't automatically hating. You may not believe it, but there are Christians out there who believe homosexuality is a sin and hate it, but don't hate the actual person.
I'm not going to address all of your positions...and I'm just giving my opinion, sometimes I agree with you, other times, not.
It's never okay to insult and mock anyone, and especially for Christians. Jesus commanded that we "love" our neighbor and he didn't put specifics on it. If you believe homosexuality is a sin, then don't participate, but nowhere in the Bible are we told to mock and ridicule anyone. Adultery, greed, etc., are sins too, yet those sins are not denounced as the presumed sin of homosexuality....it's OK to insult and mock homosexuals? Sure, you can do that, if you want to be a completely incredulous jerk. That's especially bad when in the same breath you're calling homosexuality a sin. You give homosexuals justified ammo to call you hateful when you deliberately insult and mock them. Do you think Christians should mock and insult people with vile slurs like faggot? No. Those who don't support homosexuality can certainly be civil and respectful in their disagreement.
Pedophiles exist among heterosexual people, too, so to make that claim is utterly ignorant.But wait, homosexuals are pedophiles!!! Oh, god, be quiet. Homosexuality is when two people of the same sex have sexual attraction towards one another, which typically leads to them having sex. That ain't pedophilia. Being a pedophile is when you have sexual attraction towards a child. Gay, straight, and bisexual pedophiles exist. If you really want to poison the discussion, keep calling homosexuals pedophiles and see what happens. They are two completely different things.
Portrayal and reality regarding homosexuality. For some reason people have made it seem like homosexuals are happy, carefree, fabulous people. And they even took our rainbow and put it in their background. Now, the rainbow, a beautiful and natural phenomenon, has become a symbol of something that's not quite natural or beautiful. The reality is that gay men penetrate the anuses of other men with their genitalia. That means part of their body is going to have feces on it. Does that sound beautiful? No. Saying it like it is isn't a bad thing. Perhaps the fabulous imagery some homosexuals enshroud themselves in is compensation for the disgusting nature of their sex. As for lesbians, I've heard one puts on a modified strap that resembles male genitalia. I don't quite understand that. Do more expensive models warm up? Why a woman would prefer another woman with some modified contraption to a living, breathing man merits its own pile of questions. I don't believe in sacred cows, so I have no problem discussing any unsavory detail so long as it's done in a civil manner.
Do you realize that some heterosexual participate in that same type of sexual behavior? I didn't realize how many people are "swingers", also "masochists", "pedophiles" and heavens know how many other types of sexual activities people participate in. I don't believe there is anything in the Bible that dictates that we need to investigate each and every sexual activity and then make it our life's mission to extinguish it.....
Considering how many heterosexuals abuse their children, even kill them, to make such a statement defies all logic.Homosexuals can't be good parents. I don't believe that for a minute. While in my view it'd be better if a child has both a mommy and a daddy for balance, I don't think gay couples are inherently bad parents, or people, at all. Two men or two women can definitely love, cherish, and care for children. It just isn't the same as one mama and one papa. For thousands of years it's been normal for offspring to have one mother and one father. Child's going to be confused, in my opinion. That imbalance doesn't mean homosexual people can't be loving parents. There are two issues here: 1) The imbalance two male or two female parents can bring and 2) Assuming homosexual couples are automatically bad, unfit parents. On the 2nd, no, that assumption is really wrong. On the 1st, I do favor how the yin and yang of man and woman together can bring a balance of two vastly different worlds and perspectives together. I wish my fellow conservatives would stop making that cruel assumption.
That is a tactic used to anger someone into agreeing with one's own beliefs....usually doesn't work.If you disagree, you must be gay. That's just juvenile. Seriously. You're not a teenager.
You really have no proof that everyone is born straight. I honestly can't fathom anyone just wanting to be gay for whatever reason. Everyone knows they are persecuted, ridiculed, criticized and cheated out of some rights, so why on earth would anyone choose to be gay?Don't you know people are born gay? According to who? How so, and why? Like I say to religious folk: show me your scientific evidence. In my opinion, people are born straight, because nature has it so that both man and woman have what they need to mate and procreate. I don't understand why homosexual people have their homosexual feelings/attractions. I may be wrong about everything; who knows? It could very well be due to a chemical imbalance in the brain. At the very least keep that possibility in your mind for the sake of unbiased, scientific research explanation. Instead of flying into a furor when some try to research and better understand the science behind homosexuality without a progressive slant, let everyone research the issue. Knowledge is power, and nothing should be beyond the scope of scientific inquiry. I wonder what research would unearth if the intelligentsia weren't of an incredibly liberal---or conservative---slant.
And, there is evidence that animals display homosexual tendencies, geez, wonder where they learned that?
The only place in the Bible that alludes to homosexuality being a sin is the Old Testament. Christians don't go by the Old Testament, otherwise they would be stoning their children when they disobey, or killing their wives when they commit adultery. Jesus never mentioned homosexuality, but for those who feel it is a sin, so is the sin of judgement.Homosexuals are evil and deserve Hellfire. Boy, this one is tough. I was raised in an Apostolic-Pentecostal home. Now, I'm a nonreligious conservative. Do I believe the traditional Bibles consider it a sin in spite of what revisionist liberals say? Yes. Do I believe in the Bible? Currently, no. That's a whole 'nother discussion. Are homosexuals inherently evil? Absolutely not. All have sinned in the eyes of God... ...assuming a god even exists, and the one in question at that. Some liberal Christians say we shouldn't judge homosexuals as sinning, but I could just as easily turn the tables by taking the dusty old book and ask them why they absolutely won't acknowledge homosexuality as a sin, unlike other sins they do. If homosexuality is sinful, OK. Now how about greed, lust, and any other conceivable sin out there the Bible mentions? I think it would be wise for liberal Christians to stop ignoring what the Bible mentions about homosexuality, say alright, and then point out every other sin that all people so casually do. And I do completely acknowledge how supremely hypocritical some religious people can be.
So, as Christians, we don't try to make everyone sinless, that is the job of Jesus, our job is just to show them that "following" Christ is the right thing to do and Christ never killed or mocked anyone, not even an adulteress and never a homosexual.