Posted on 11/04/2009 7:56:21 AM PST by musicbymuzak
this happened on facebook...
You want to counter that type of hysteria with reason? Fuggidaboutit. Just sit back and enjoy.
I deal with this a lot with my friends on Facebook. About half are liberal and pretty damn crazy. I’ve seen that the divide is very clear between libs and conservatives. There really aren’t many people in the middle. Those who are in the middle usually don’t care about politics so they just blow with the wind.
This was a status update from one of my friends, “thinks that those who vote against gay marriage should call or email all their homosexual family, friends and coworkers and explain why you think they are less of a person than you. If you don’t feel this way, you shouldn’t vote to limit a person’s right to equality and happiness. But really, the point is you shouldn’t feel this way...”
Like most libs, his argument is based on nothing but knee-jerk emotion followed by the obligatory telling me how I should live directly following a statement telling me not to tell others how to live.
In short, don’t discuss politics on Facebook. You can’t win with liberals because they have no logical thought process, and you just end up leaving a bitter taste with all of your friends.
or did you mean that 31 states have VOTED ON gay marriage?
Thank you. Thank you very much.
And another thing . . . . . How is it that the pro-homos always act as if they are so much smarter than us? They are the ones who can’t figure out something as blindingly obvious as what the various orifices are used for.
So what if the Bible was written nearly 2000 years ago? It is the Word of God (‘Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost..’). HIS Word is timeless, and it is a treasure.
Just because it wasn’t written by some literary pygmy of the “21st Century” we’re to ignore it? One of God’s greatest gifts (amongst Grace, Salvation, and HIS Son) is HIS Word – and you’re saying we should ignore it because it is ‘old’? … This is the advice of a fool…
Now you talk about “love”, and “hate”. Christians are ‘haters’. They deny the right of two people who “love” each other to marry… So what exactly is this love and hate you speak of?
Let’s take the case of a heroin addict. Hopelessly addicted to his disease. Always looking for his next ‘fix’. The ‘hater’ comes by and tells the addict that he needs to stop shooting himself up. It is wrong. He is going to kill himself. The ‘hater’ offers to help the addict ‘kick’ his evil habit. But the ‘hater’ does call this ‘habit’ evil. Very judgmental. Quite the ‘hater’…
The ‘loving’ fellow comes by and tells the addict: ‘shoot up. If it feels good, do it. I am not one to judge. I love you – I affirm your right to live as you may…’ Who loves the addict, and who hates him?
If someone is ensnared in the sin of homosexuality it is no favor to tell them that ‘all is well’. We are all sinners – and thank God Jesus came to save sinners. But if we really believe in Jesus as our LORD (and that IS the only way to be saved) – there must be a repentance of sin. While we are in the flesh it is a long battle. Some ups, some downs. But there is a repentance. To tell someone trapped in sin that what they are doing is ‘OK’ is cruel. There is one destination for the unrepentant sinner – eternal hellfire where the worm dieth not… To claim otherwise, is to deny the Word of God. And to pretend that the Word of God is like a carton of milk with an expiration date is delusional.
You speak of two same sex individuals who “love” one another. If you truly love someone do you want them to go to hell? Or, are you like the individuals in Romans 1:32 “…Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them”. …; That is they know what they are doing is wrong, but they take pleasure in taking others down to hell with them… If a person has such sinful inclinations (and since the Fall we are all cursed with sinful inclinations of some kind – heterosexual adulterous lusts are no ‘cleaner’ than homosexual lusts; drunkenness, etc … we all have our sinful ‘spots’) he needs to repent and pray for the Spirit’s help to overcome the sin – not seek others to engage in the same sins.
“It all depends on what you mean by “persecution.” I, personally, take pains to reinforce the “yuck” factor in my kids and grandkids.”
I totally agree. By “persecution” I mean we don’t invade their homes and arrest them. I have every right to say a homo is to me like a wierdo that plukes sheep.
You can’t argue, reason, or even discuss these matters with someone like that.
They have none of the tolerance and love that they demand everyone else demonstrate towards them.
None.
They are not interested in discussion at all, just trying to pic a fight.
You might be able to marginalize their attacks with some humor.
Or you might just take satisfaction in mocking them and really getting them PO’d enough to self destruct on line.
Save yourself the time and effort of even attempting to engage in meaningfull discussion. It won’t happen.
I like the way you said it better than how I did.
Gays are entitled to their beliefs and you are entitled to your beleifs. You were attacked by someone who hates you because of your religion; no different than a neo nazi attacking a Jew, etc. The response to that kind of trash is “get lost you ignorant, intolerant bigot.” When someone is so filled with hate, you don’t mess with them - you don’t feed it or try to rationalize with that kind of deep, burning hatred.
To me the act of Gay sex has nothing to do with the question of whether or not society should permit Gays to social engineer heterosexual marriage and family to serve themselves when it does not socially serve the well being of men, women and children in society. The sex loons have already weakened the relationships between men and women. IN that, they harmed the trust and loyalty of marriage and of raising and protecting children. We need to repair that; not make it worse in the name of the radical Left’s “progress.”
His dismissal of the “slippery slope to poligamy” is disingenuous. Polygamous marriages exist in the entire Muslim world. Polygamy WOULD be the next thing demanded once we loosen things up, and it would be demanded under “religious discrimination”.
awesome
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