Posted on 05/25/2016 12:11:55 PM PDT by NetAddicted
When Australia's most successful Olympian, Ian Thorpe, came out as gay in an interview with Sir Michael Parkinson in July 2014, he was inundated with messages of support.
At the time, some posed the question: does this even count as news? Is homosexuality today not a simple biographical detail rather than a sensational scandal?
And yet, it is significant that on the same night that Thorpe came out, Australian Rules Football commentator Brian Taylor used a homophobic slur on air, referring to Geelong player Harry Taylor as a "big poofter."
The two events accentuated perfectly why it remains the case, especially in the ultra-masculine world of sports, that a young gay athlete may feel scared to come out to themselves and their family, much less the fickle media and ambivalent public.
A culture of homophobia still permeates many sections of society. A Western Sydney University study has suggested that the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) community face higher rates of suicide and self-harm than the hetero-normative mainstream. The Growing up Queer study found that 16% of young people who identify as LGBTIQ have attempted suicide and 33% have self-harmed.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
the media always censors stories about families which are destroyed by these “coming out” idiots.
Oh, shoot! Exorcise, NOT exercise. Sigh.
Then why not make adultery, blasphemy, pornography, theft, lying and murder OK in the new politically correct Bible.
Small issue, but I believe the word meant in the headline would be “Excise” or to cut out entirely. Not Exercise.
Well, that ain’t gonna happen.
Read 2.
Actually, if you click the link ....
Eric, nevermind.
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. ~ Leviticus 20:13
This is Social Engineering 101...........
Good catch!
KYPD
...says Satan’s mouthpiece.
Why don’t homosexuals have to change for Christians? Oh that’s right, it’s homophobic to say that they should change, but not hateful at all to say that Christians should change.
What type of exercise? Squats? Deep knee bends?
Why? Is truth obsolete today?
As a Christian, I do not consider myself a homophobe.
I stand on the Word of God. The Word of God says homosexuality is a sin in both the Old and New Testaments. So I see homosexuality as a sin.
No, we can not judge homosexuals for their sin. ONLY God can. My church would welcome any gay person (as long as they aren’t there to make trouble) but my church would never tell them their homosexuality is okay in Gods eyes. They would tell them they must repent and ask for forgiveness and work to give up the sin.
I myself am guilty of other things the Word of God says is sin. I acknowledge my sin and seek forgiveness from God through Jesus Christ for my sins. I do not expect Christians to change their views towards the sins I commit to make me feel better.
I am a sinner just as every homosexual is a sinner. The difference is homosexuals want to change the Word of God to say their homosexuality is okay and they want Christians to give up their values to make them feel better in their sin.
Who is this writer?
What a load
The good news is that God has never needed a majority to do his will. Narrow is the way, etc.
Not, it doesn’t need to do any such thing, no matter what the poofters say.
Christians aren’t SCARED of homosexuals, we are saddened at their sin and DISGUSTED at their disgusting behavior.
Therefore, not homophobic.
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